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DNAX, Research Institute, Palo Alto, California 94304
DCs (dendritic cells) function as sentinels of the immune system. They traffic from the blood to the tissues where, while immature, they capture antigens. They then leave the tissues and move to the draining lymphoid organs where, converted into mature DC, they prime naive T cells. This suggestive link between DC traffic pattern and functions led us to investigate the chemokine responsiveness of DCs during their development and maturation. DCs were differentiated either from CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) cultured with granulocyte/macrophage colony–stimulating factor (GM-CSF) plus tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-
or from monocytes cultured with GM-CSF plus interleukin 4. Immature DCs derived from CD34+ HPCs migrate most vigorously in response to macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-3, but also to MIP-1 and RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted). Upon maturation, induced by either TNF-, lipopolysaccharide, or CD40L, DCs lose their response to these three chemokines when they acquire a sustained responsiveness to a single other chemokine, MIP-3β. CC chemokine receptor (CCR)6 and CCR7 are the only known receptors for MIP-3 and MIP-3β, respectively. The observation that CCR6 mRNA expression decreases progressively as DCs mature, whereas CCR7 mRNA expression is sharply upregulated, provides a likely explanation for the changes in chemokine responsiveness. Similarly, MIP-3β responsiveness and CCR7 expression are induced upon maturation of monocyte- derived DCs. Furthermore, the chemotactic response to MIP-3β is also acquired by CD11c+ DCs isolated from blood after spontaneous maturation. Finally, detection by in situ hybridization of MIP-3 mRNA only within inflamed epithelial crypts of tonsils, and of MIP-3β mRNA specifically in T cell–rich areas, suggests a role for MIP-3/CCR6 in recruitment of immature DCs at site of injury and for MIP-3β/CCR7 in accumulation of antigen-loaded mature DCs in T cell–rich areas.
Key Words: dendritic cells • chemokines • migration • maturation • regulation • in vivo expression
M.C. Dieu is recipient of a grant from Fondation Marcel Mérieux, Lyon, France.
M.-C. Dieu and B. Vanbervliet contributed equally to this paper.
Abbreviations used: CCR, CC chemokine receptor; DC, dendritic cell; HPC, hematopoietic progenitor cell; IDC, interdigitating cell; MCP, monocyte chemotactic protein; MIP, macrophage inflammatory protein; RANTES, regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted; rh, recombinant human; RT, reverse transcriptase.
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