CD8+, CD8−, and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Generation In Vitro Using flt3 Ligand

Author(s):  
Shalin H. Naik ◽  
Meredith O’Keeffe ◽  
Anna Proietto ◽  
Hubertus Hochrein Ken Shortman ◽  
Li Wu
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Letscher ◽  
Viviane A. Agbogan ◽  
Sarantis Korniotis ◽  
Pauline Gastineau ◽  
Emmanuel Tejerina ◽  
...  

AbstractEarly innate education of hematopoietic progenitors within the bone marrow (BM) stably primes them for either trained immunity or instead immunoregulatory functions. We herein demonstrate that in vivo or in vitro activation within the BM via Toll-like receptor-9 generates a population of plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) precursors (CpG-pre-pDCs) that, unlike pDC precursors isolated from PBS-incubated BM (PBS-pre-pDCs), are endowed with the capacity to halt progression of ongoing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. CpG activation enhances the selective migration of pDC precursors to the inflamed spinal cord, induces their immediate production of TGF-β, and after migration, of enhanced levels of IL-27. CpG-pre-pDC derived TGF-β and IL-27 ensure protection at early and late phases of the disease, respectively. Spinal cords of CpG-pre-pDC-protected recipient mice display enhanced percentages of host-derived pDCs expressing TGF-β as well as an accumulation of IL-10 producing B cells and of CD11c+ CD11b+ dendritic cells. These results reveal that pDC precursors are conferred stable therapeutic properties by early innate activation within the BM. They further extend to the pDC lineage promising perspectives for cell therapy of autoimmune diseases with innate activated hematopoietic precursor cells.


Blood ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 103 (7) ◽  
pp. 2547-2553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Svetlana Antonenko ◽  
Joel M. Sederstrom ◽  
Xueqing Liang ◽  
Anissa S. H. Chan ◽  
...  

Abstract Type 1 interferon–producing cells (IPCs), also known as plasmacytoid dendritic cell (DC) precursors, represent the key effectors in antiviral innate immunity and triggers for adaptive immune responses. IPCs play important roles in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and in modulating immune responses after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Understanding IPC development from hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) may provide critical information in controlling viral infection, autoimmune SLE, and graft-versus-host disease. FLT3-ligand (FLT3-L) represents a key IPC differentiation factor from HPCs. Although hematopoietic cytokines such as interleukin-3 (IL-3), IL-7, stem cell factor (SCF), macrophage–colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), and granulocyte M-CSF (GM-CSF) promote the expansion of CD34+ HPCs in FLT3-L culture, they strongly inhibit HPC differentiation into IPCs. Here we show that thrombopoietin (TPO) cooperates with FLT3-L, inducing CD34+ HPCs to undergo a 400-fold expansion in cell numbers and to generate more than 6 × 106 IPCs per 106 CD34+ HPCs within 30 days in culture. IPCs derived from HPCs in FLT3-L/TPO cultures display blood IPC phenotype and have the capacity to produce large amounts of interferon-α (IFN-α) and to differentiate into mature DCs. This culture system, combined with the use of adult peripheral blood CD34+ HPCs purified from G-CSF–mobilized donors, permits the generation of more than 109 IPCs from a single blood donor.


Haematologica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Angelot-Delettre ◽  
A. Roggy ◽  
A. E. Frankel ◽  
B. Lamarthee ◽  
E. Seilles ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Ari Schwartz ◽  
Hongliang Zhang ◽  
Zachary Ende ◽  
Martin J. Deymier ◽  
Terry Lee ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection often arises from a single transmitted/founder (TF) viral variant among a large pool of viruses in the quasispecies in the transmitting partner. TF variants are typically nondominant in blood and genital secretions, indicating that they have unique traits. The plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) is the primary alpha interferon (IFN-α)-producing cell in response to viral infections and is rapidly recruited to the female genital tract upon exposure to HIV-1. The impact of pDCs on transmission is unknown. We investigated whether evasion of pDC responses is a trait of TF viruses. pDCs from healthy donors were stimulated in vitro with a panel of 20 HIV-1 variants, consisting of one TF variant and three nontransmitted (NT) variants each from five transmission-linked donor pairs, and secretion of IFN-α and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). No significant differences in cytokine secretion in response to TF and NT viruses were observed, despite a trend toward enhanced IFN-α and TNF-α production in response to TF viruses. NT viruses demonstrated polarization toward production of either IFN-α or TNF-α, indicating possible dysregulation. Also, for NT viruses, IFN-α secretion was associated with increased resistance of the virus to inactivation by IFN-α in vitro, suggesting in vivo evolution. Thus, TF viruses do not appear to preferentially subvert pDC activation compared to that with nontransmitted HIV-1 variants. pDCs may, however, contribute to the in vivo evolution of HIV-1. IMPORTANCE The plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) is the first cell type recruited to the site of HIV-1 exposure; however, its contribution to the viral bottleneck in HIV-1 transmission has not been explored previously. We hypothesized that transmitted/founder viruses are able to avoid the pDC response. In this study, we used previously established donor pair-linked transmitted/founder and nontransmitted (or chronic) variants of HIV-1 to stimulate pDCs. Transmitted/founder HIV-1, instead of suppressing pDC responses, induced IFN-α and TNF-α secretion to levels comparable to those induced by viruses from the transmitting partner. We noted several unique traits of chronic viruses, including polarization between IFN-α and TNF-α production as well as a strong relationship between IFN-α secretion and the resistance of the virus to neutralization. These data rule out the possibility that TF viruses preferentially suppress pDCs in comparison to the pDC response to nontransmitted HIV variants. pDCs may, however, be important drivers of viral evolution in vivo.


Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dior Kingston ◽  
Michael A. Schmid ◽  
Nobuyuki Onai ◽  
Aya Obata-Onai ◽  
Dirk Baumjohann ◽  
...  

Abstract Dendritic cell (DC) development is efficiently supported by Flt3-ligand or GM-CSF in vitro, and lymphoid-organ DC maintenance in vivo is critically dependent on Flt3-ligand. However, the relevance of GM-CSF for lymphoid-tissue DC maintenance and the importance of both cytokines for nonlymphoid organ DC homeostasis are not defined. Here, we show that, although Gm-csfr and Flt3 are both expressed in DC progenitors, Gm-csfr is expressed predominantly in monocytes, classical DCs (cDCs), and skin DCs, whereas Flt3 is expressed in both cDCs and plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs). In accordance with the respective cytokine receptor expression, DC progenitor and pDC numbers are primarily affected by Flt3-ligand deficiency, whereas both splenic and lymph node cDCs and dermal DCs are reduced in the absence of either GM-CSF or Flt3-ligand. Combined lack of GM-CSF and Flt3-ligand in newly generated double-deficient mice leads to further significant reductions of DC progenitors and dermal DCs. In line with the decrease of respective DC subsets, T-cell and antigen-specific IgG responses decline progressively, from wild-type to GM-CSF– to Flt3-ligand– to double-deficient mice, upon subcutaneous antigen delivery. These data thus show the concerted action of GM-CSF and Flt3-ligand on DC homeostasis in vivo.


Blood ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 2165-2165
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Onai ◽  
Aya Onai ◽  
Roxane Tussiwand ◽  
Antonio Lanzavecchia ◽  
Markus G. Manz

Abstract Flt3/Flt3-ligand has a non-redundant role in dendritic cell (DC) and interferon producing cell (IPC) development from hematopoietic progenitor cells. Flt3-ligand−/− mice display a severe reduction of DCs and IPCs, and both, Flt3-ligand injection and conditional over- expression of Flt3-ligand in mice leads to an increased pool size of both cellular subsets. Furthermore, DC and IPC developmental precursor activity segregates with Flt3+ progenitor populations in mouse bone marrow. We have reported that common myeloid progenitors (CMPs) and their progeny granulocyte/macrophage progenitors (GMPs) as well as common lymphoid progenitors (CLPs) and pro-T cells can give rise to DCs in vitro and in vivo. DC developmental potential was lost, however, once definitive megakaryocyte/erythrocyte or B cell commitment occurs, both steps that are accompanied by loss flt3 receptor expression. To test if DC/IPC developmental potential can be regained, we evaluated the effect of ecotropic expression of human Flt3 in lin−c-kit+Flt3−Thy1.1−IL-7Ra− cells (flt3− progenitors) and in megakaryocyte/erythrocyte progenitors (MEPs). hFlt3 was transduced into purified flt3− progenitors, MEPs, and GMPs using a retrovirus vector carrying both hFlt3 and GFP. The transduction efficiencies were 20~25%. hFlt3-transduced flt3− progenitors gave rise to functional DCs and IPCs, but not control-GFP-transduced flt3− progenitors in vitro. Similarly, hFlt3-transduced MEPs differentiated into functional DCs in Flt3L, SCF, GM-CSF, IL-4, and TNF-a supplemented cultures but not into TER119+ erythroid cells. DC developmental potential of hFlt3-transduced MEPs was comparable to GFP-transduced GMPs. Over expression of hFlt3 in GMPs resulted in augmentation of its DC developmental potential. Interestingly, both hFlt3-tarnsduced MEPs and GMPs preferentially differentiated into IPCs in Flt3L supplemented medium. RT-PCR analysis revealed that enforced Flt3 signaling in MEPs lead to up-regulation of GM- and/or DC-development affiliated genes such as G-CSF receptor, M-CSF receptor, and GM-CSF receptor, PU.1, C/EBPa and STAT3. Furthermore, hFlt3-transduced MEPs gave rise to myeloid colonies (CFU-GM/G/M) but not CFU-Mix colonies in GM-CSF, IL-3, SCF, Flt3L, Tpo, and Epo supplemented methylcellulose medium. These results show that artificial Flt3 signaling in otherwise Flt3− progenitors is sufficient to reestablish DC/IPC differentiation and GM-differentiation programs.


Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Yiming Huang ◽  
Isabelle J. Fugier-Vivier ◽  
Thomas Miller ◽  
Mary J. Elliott ◽  
Michael K. Tanner ◽  
...  

Abstract CD8+/TCR− facilitating cells (FC) enhance engraftment of purified hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) in syngeneic and allogeneic recipients. FC also induce the production of regulatory T cells (Treg) in vivo and in vitro. The B220+/CD11c+/CD11b− precursor plasmacytoid dendritic cell (p-preDC) subpopulation in FC (p-preDC FC) is critical to FC function. However, p-preDC FC are significantly less efficient in function compared to FC total. In this study, we evaluated the phenotype and function of FC from diabetes-prone nonobese diabetes (NOD) mice. We found that NOD FC contain subpopulations similar to those previously described in B6 FC, including p-preDC, CD19+, NK1.1+DX5+ and myeloid cells. P-preDC represent the major FC subpopulation in NOD mice. The CD19+, DX5+ and B220−/CD11c+/CD11b+ subpopulations were significantly decreased in NOD FC compared to those from B6 or NOR mice (Figure 1a; * = P< 0.05; ** = P< 0.007). To test the function of NOD FC, 500 HSC (c-Kit+/Sca-1+/Lin−) were sorted and transplanted with or without 30,000 FC into conditioned 950 cGy recipients. MHC-matched diabetes-resistant NOR mice were served as a control strain for NOD mice. 5 (31%) of 16 recipients of NOR HSC were engrafted and survived up to 130 days. 7 (70%) of 10 recipients of NOR HSC plus FC have long-term engraftment and survival over 130 days, indicating that the NOR FC significantly enhanced engraftment of NOR HSC compared to HSC alone. In striking contrast, NOD FC were functionally impaired and did not enhance HSC engraftment in NOD recipients as evidenced by similar engraftment of HSC with FC (31%, n = 13) compared to the HSC alone (24%, n = 17; P = 0.579). Notably, when NOD mice were treated with Flt3 ligand (FL; 10 μg/ subcutaneous/daily, 10 days), FC were expanded in peripheral blood (PB). The DX5+ and B220−/CD11c+/CD11b+ subpopulations were significantly increased (Figure 1b). The FL-PB FC significantly facilitate engraftment of allogeneic HSC in vivo in the NOD → B10 model (Figure 1c; P = 0.02). These data demonstrate that NOD FC exhibit significantly impaired function and FL plays an important role in regulation and development of FC function. We propose that the defective function of NOD FC is mechanistically due either to the abnormal activation status of the p-preDC FC population and/or the absence of collaborative subpopulations in FC such as NK FC. This hypothesis offers an attractive explanation for the mechanism of FC to enhance HSC engraftment and to induce tolerance. Studies are underway to evaluate the mechanism by which FC contribute to diabetes-pathogenesis and/or prevention. Figure Figure


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