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J. Exp. Med.
© The Rockefeller University Press
0022-1007/97/09/837/08 $2.00
Volume 186, Number 6, September 15, 1997 837-844

CCR6, a CC Chemokine Receptor that Interacts with Macrophage Inflammatory Protein 3alpha and Is Highly Expressed in Human Dendritic Cells

By David R. Greaves,* Wei Wang,par Daniel J. Dairaghi,§par Marie Caroline Dieu,Dagger Blandine de Saint-Vis,Dagger Karin Franz-Bacon,par Devora Rossi,par Christophe Caux,Dagger Terrill McClanahan,par Siamon Gordon,* Albert Zlotnik,par and Thomas J. Schallpar §

From the * Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, United Kingdom; Dagger  Schering-Plough Laboratory for Immunological Research, Dardilly 69571, France; § Molecular Medicine Research Institute, Mountain View, California 94043; and par  The DNAX Research Institute, Palo Alto, California 94304

Dendritic cells initiate immune responses by ferrying antigen from the tissues to the lymphoid organs for presentation to lymphocytes. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying this migratory behavior. We have identified a chemokine receptor which appears to be selectively expressed in human dendritic cells derived from CD34+ cord blood precursors, but not in dendritic cells derived from peripheral blood monocytes. When stably expressed as a recombinant protein in a variety of host cell backgrounds, the receptor shows a strong interaction with only one chemokine among 25 tested: the recently reported CC chemokine macrophage inflammatory protein 3alpha . Thus, we have designated this receptor as the CC chemokine receptor 6. The cloning and characterization of a dendritic cell CC chemokine receptor suggests a role for chemokines in the control of the migration of dendritic cells and the regulation of dendritic cell function in immunity and infection.


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