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Lineage Targeted MHC-II Transgenic Mice Demonstrate the Role of Dendritic Cells in Bacterial-driven Colitis

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Specialty Gastroenterology
Date 2012 May 24
PMID 22619032
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Abstract

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) pathogenesis involves an inadequately controlled immune reaction to intestinal microbiota, and CD4(+) T cells, dependent on MHC class II (MHC-II) processing and presentation by antigen-presenting cells (APC), play important roles. The role of professional APC (macrophages and dendritic cells [DCs]) and nonprofessional APC (intestinal epithelial cells [IECs]) in microbial-driven intestinal inflammation remains controversial.

Methods: We generated transgenic animals on an MHC-II(-/-) genetic background in which MHC-II is expressed on 1) DC via the CD11c promoter (CD11cTg) or 2) IEC via the fatty acid binding protein (liver) promoter (EpithTg). These mice were crossed with Rag2(-/-) mice to eliminate T and B cells (CD11cTg/Rag2(-/-) and EpithTg/Rag2(-/-)). Helicobacter bilis (Hb) infection and adoptive transfer (AT) of naïve CD4 T cells were used to trigger IBD.

Results: CD11cTg/Rag2(-/-) mice infected with Hb+AT developed severe colitis within 3 weeks post-AT, similar to disease in positive control Rag2(-/-) mice infected with Hb+AT. CD11cTg/Rag2(-/-) mice given AT alone or Hb alone had significantly less severe colitis. In contrast, EpithTg/Rag2(-/-) mice infected with Hb+AT developed mild colitis by 3 weeks and even after 16 weeks post-AT had only mild lesions.

Conclusions: MHC-II expression restricted to DCs is sufficient to induce severe colitis in the presence of T cells and a microorganism such as Hb within 3 weeks of AT. Expression of MHC-II solely on IEC in the presence of a microbial trigger and T cells was insufficient to trigger severe colitis.

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