TY - JOUR
T1 - Constitutive expression of IDO by dendritic cells of mesenteric lymph nodes
T2 - Functional involvement of the CTLA-4/B7 and CCL22/CCR4 interactions
AU - Onodera, Toshiharu
AU - Jang, Myoung Ho
AU - Guo, Zijin
AU - Yamasaki, Mikako
AU - Hirata, Takako
AU - Bai, Zhongbin
AU - Tsuji, Noriko M.
AU - Nagakubo, Daisuke
AU - Yoshie, Osamu
AU - Sakaguchi, Shimon
AU - Takikawa, Osamu
AU - Miyasaka, Masayuki
PY - 2009/11/1
Y1 - 2009/11/1
N2 - Dendritic cells (DCs) express the immunoregulatory enzyme IDO in response to certain inflammatory stimuli, but it is unclear whether DCs express this enzyme under steady-state conditions in vivo. In this study, we report that the DCs in mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs) constitutively express functional IDO, which metabolizes tryptophan to kynurenine. In line with a previous report that regulatory T cells (Tregs) can induce IDO in DCs via the CTLA-4/B7 interaction, a substantial proportion of the MLN DCs were located in juxtaposition to Tregs, whereas this tendency was not observed for splenic DCs, which do not express IDO constitutively. When CTLA-4 was selectively deleted in Tregs, the frequency of IDO-expressing DCs in MLNs decreased significantly, confirming CTLA-4's role in IDO expression by MLN DCs. We also found that the MLN DCs produced CCL22, which can attract Tregs via CCR4, and that the phagocytosis of autologous apoptotic cells induced CCL22 expression in CCL22 mRNA-negative DCs. Mice genetically deficient in the receptor for CCL22, CCR4, showed markedly reduced IDO expression in MLN-DCs, supporting the involvement of the CCL22/CCR4 axis in IDO induction. Together with our previous observation that MLN DCs contain much intracytoplasmic cellular debris in vivo, these results indicate that reciprocal interactions between the DCs and Tregs via both B7/CTLA-4 and CCL22/CCR4 lead to IDO induction in MLN DCs, which may be initiated and/or augmented by the phagocytosis of autologous apoptotic cells by intestinal DCs. Such a mechanism may help induce the specific milieu in MLNs that is required for the induction of oral tolerance.
AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) express the immunoregulatory enzyme IDO in response to certain inflammatory stimuli, but it is unclear whether DCs express this enzyme under steady-state conditions in vivo. In this study, we report that the DCs in mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs) constitutively express functional IDO, which metabolizes tryptophan to kynurenine. In line with a previous report that regulatory T cells (Tregs) can induce IDO in DCs via the CTLA-4/B7 interaction, a substantial proportion of the MLN DCs were located in juxtaposition to Tregs, whereas this tendency was not observed for splenic DCs, which do not express IDO constitutively. When CTLA-4 was selectively deleted in Tregs, the frequency of IDO-expressing DCs in MLNs decreased significantly, confirming CTLA-4's role in IDO expression by MLN DCs. We also found that the MLN DCs produced CCL22, which can attract Tregs via CCR4, and that the phagocytosis of autologous apoptotic cells induced CCL22 expression in CCL22 mRNA-negative DCs. Mice genetically deficient in the receptor for CCL22, CCR4, showed markedly reduced IDO expression in MLN-DCs, supporting the involvement of the CCL22/CCR4 axis in IDO induction. Together with our previous observation that MLN DCs contain much intracytoplasmic cellular debris in vivo, these results indicate that reciprocal interactions between the DCs and Tregs via both B7/CTLA-4 and CCL22/CCR4 lead to IDO induction in MLN DCs, which may be initiated and/or augmented by the phagocytosis of autologous apoptotic cells by intestinal DCs. Such a mechanism may help induce the specific milieu in MLNs that is required for the induction of oral tolerance.
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U2 - 10.4049/jimmunol.0804116
DO - 10.4049/jimmunol.0804116
M3 - Article
C2 - 19843945
AN - SCOPUS:77953803619
SN - 0022-1767
VL - 183
SP - 5608
EP - 5614
JO - Journal of Immunology
JF - Journal of Immunology
IS - 9
ER -