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Published online 17 September 2001. doi:10.1084/jem.194.6.863
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The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Volume 194, Number 6, September 17, 2001 863-870


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Subsets of Human Dendritic Cell Precursors Express Different Toll-like Receptors and Respond to Different Microbial Antigens

Norimitsu Kadowakia, Stephen Hoa, Svetlana Antonenkoa, Rene de Waal Malefyta, Robert A. Kasteleina, Fernando Bazana, and Yong-Jun Liua
a DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Correspondence to: Yong-Jun Liu, DNAX Research Institute, 901 California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304. Tel:650-496-1157 Fax:650-496-1200 E-mail:yong-jun.liu{at}dnax.org.

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are ancient microbial pattern recognition receptors highly conserved from Drosophila to humans. To investigate if subsets of human dendritic cell precursors (pre-DC), including monocytes (pre-DC1), plasmacytoid DC precursors (pre-DC2), and CD11c+ immature DCs (imDCs) are developed to recognize different microbes or microbial antigens, we studied their TLR expression and responses to microbial antigens. We demonstrate that whereas monocytes preferentially express TLR 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8, plasmacytoid pre-DC strongly express TLR 7 and 9. In accordance with these TLR expression profiles, monocytes respond to the known microbial ligands for TLR2 (peptidoglycan [PGN], lipoteichoic acid) and TLR4 (lipopolysaccharide), by producing tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-{alpha} and interleukin (IL)-6. In contrast, plasmacytoid pre-DCs only respond to the microbial TLR9-ligand, CpG-ODNs (oligodeoxynucleotides [ODNs] containing unmethylated CpG motifs), by producing IFN-{alpha}. CD11c+ imDCs preferentially express TLR 1, 2, and 3 and respond to TLR 2-ligand PGN by producing large amounts of TNF-{alpha}, and to viral double-stranded RNA-like molecule poly I:C, by producing IFN-{alpha} and IL-12. The expression of distinct sets of TLRs and the corresponding difference in reactivity to microbial molecules among subsets of pre-DCs and imDCs support the concept that they have developed through distinct evolutionary pathways to recognize different microbial antigens.

Key Words: immunity,, natural, bacteria, receptors, immunologic, monocytes, cytokines


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