Susceptibility to T cell-mediated injury in immune complex disease is linked to local activation of renin-angiotensin system: the role of NF-AT pathway |
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Authors: | Suzuki Yusuke Gómez-Guerrero Carmen Shirato Isao López-Franco Oscar Hernández-Vargas Purificación Sanjuán Guillermo Ruiz-Ortega Marta Sugaya Takeshi Okumura Ko Tomino Yasuhiko Ra Chisei Egido Jesús |
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Institution: | Renal and Vascular Laboratory, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Autónoma University, Avenida de los Reyes Católicos 2, 28040-Madrid, Spain. |
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Abstract: | FcR provides a critical link between ligands and effector cells in immune complex diseases. Emerging evidence reveals that angiotensin (Ang)II exerts a wide variety of cellular effects and contributes to the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. In anti-glomerular basement membrane Ab-induced glomerulonephritis (GN), we have previously noted that FcR-deficient mice (gamma(-/-)) surviving from lethal initial damage still developed mesangial proliferative GN, which was drastically prevented by an AngII type 1 receptor (AT1) blocker. We further examined the mechanisms by which renin-Ang system (RAS) participates in this immune disease. Using bone marrow chimeras between gamma(-/-) and AT1(-/-) mice, we found that glomerular injury in gamma(-/-) mice was associated with CD4(+) T cell infiltration depending on renal AT1-stimulation. Based on findings in cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity, we showed that AngII-activated renal resident cells are responsible for the recruitment of effector T cells. We next examined the chemotactic activity of AngII-stimulated mesangial cells, as potential mechanisms coupling RAS and cellular immunity. Chemotactic activity for T cells and Th1-associated chemokine (IFN-gamma-inducible protein-10 and macrophage-inflammatory protein 1alpha) expression was markedly reduced in mesangial cells from AT1(-/-) mice. Moreover, this activity was mainly through calcineurin-dependent NF-AT. Although IFN-gamma-inducible protein-10 was NF-kappaB-dependent, macrophage-inflammatory protein 1alpha was dominantly regulated by NF-AT. Furthermore, AT1-dependent NF-AT activation was observed in injured glomeruli by Southwestern histochemistry. In conclusion, our data indicate that local RAS activation, partly via the local NF-AT pathway, enhances the susceptibility to T cell-mediated injury in anti-glomerular basement membrane Ab-induced GN. This novel mechanism affords a rationale for the use of drugs interfering with RAS in immune renal diseases. |
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