scholarly journals Intrinsic functional defects of type 2 innate lymphoid cells impair innate allergic inflammation in promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger (PLZF)–deficient mice

2016 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
pp. 591-600.e1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Verhoef ◽  
Michael G. Constantinides ◽  
Benjamin D. McDonald ◽  
Joseph F. Urban ◽  
Anne I. Sperling ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi J Warren ◽  
Jill A Poole ◽  
Jenea M Sweeter ◽  
Jane M DeVasure ◽  
John D Dickinson ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Respiratory viral infections are one of the leading causes of need for emergency care and hospitalizations in asthmatic individuals, and airway-secreted cytokines are released within hours of viral infection to initiate these exacerbations. IL-33, specifically, contributes to these allergic exacerbations by amplifying type 2 inflammation. We hypothesized that blocking IL-33 in RSV-induced exacerbation would significantly reduce allergic inflammation. Methods: Sensitized BALB/c mice were challenged with aerosolized ovalbumin (OVA) to establish allergic inflammation, followed by RSV-A2 infection to yield four treatment groups: Saline only (Saline), RSV-infected alone (RSV), OVA alone (OVA), and OVA-treated with RSV infection (OVA-RSV). Lung outcomes included lung mRNA and protein markers of allergic inflammation, histology for mucus cell metaplasia and lung immune cell influx by cytospin and flow cytometry. Results: While thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) and IL-33 were detected 6 hours after RSV infection in the OVA-RSV mice, IL-23 protein was uniquely upregulated in RSV-infected mice alone. OVA-RSV animals varied from RSV- or OVA-treated mice as they had increased lung eosinophils, neutrophils, group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) and group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) detectable as early as 6 hours after RSV infection. Neutralized IL-33 significantly reduced ILC2 and eosinophils, and the prototypical allergic proteins, IL-5, IL-13, CCL17 and CCL22 in OVA-RSV mice. Numbers of neutrophils and ILC3 were also reduced with anti-IL-33 treatment in both RSV and OVA-RSV treated animals as well. Conclusions: Taken together, our findings indicate a broad reduction in allergic-proinflammatory events mediated by IL-33 in RSV-induced asthma exacerbation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 407-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yurina Miyajima ◽  
Kafi N Ealey ◽  
Yasutaka Motomura ◽  
Miho Mochizuki ◽  
Natsuki Takeno ◽  
...  

Abstract Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) are type 2 cytokine-producing cells that have important roles in helminth infection and allergic inflammation. ILC2s are tissue-resident cells, and their phenotypes and roles are regulated by tissue-specific environmental factors. While the role of ILC2s in the lung, intestine and bone marrow has been elucidated in many studies, their role in adipose tissues is still unclear. Here, we report on the role of ILC2-derived bone morphogenetic protein 7 (BMP7) in adipocyte differentiation and lipid accumulation. Co-culture of fat-derived ILC2s with pluripotent mesenchymal C3H10T1/2 cells and committed white preadipocyte 3T3-L1 cells resulted in their differentiation to adipocytes and induced lipid accumulation. Co-culture experiments using BMP7-deficient ILC2s revealed that BMP7, produced by ILC2s, induces differentiation into brown adipocytes. Our results demonstrate that BMP7, produced by ILC2s, affects adipocyte differentiation, particularly in brown adipocytes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 235 (2) ◽  
pp. e150
Author(s):  
G. Nordin Fredrikson ◽  
P.T. Mantani ◽  
P. Dunér ◽  
E. Bengtsson ◽  
R. Alm ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Lin ◽  
F. Dai ◽  
J.J. Wei ◽  
X.Y. Tang ◽  
Z. Chen ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi J. Warren ◽  
Jill A. Poole ◽  
Jenea M. Sweeter ◽  
Jane M. DeVasure ◽  
John D. Dickinson ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Respiratory viral infections are one of the leading causes of need for emergency care and hospitalizations in asthmatic individuals, and airway-secreted cytokines are released within hours of viral infection to initiate these exacerbations. IL-33, specifically, contributes to these allergic exacerbations by amplifying type 2 inflammation. We hypothesized that blocking IL-33 in RSV-induced exacerbation would significantly reduce allergic inflammation. Methods Sensitized BALB/c mice were challenged with aerosolized ovalbumin (OVA) to establish allergic inflammation, followed by RSV-A2 infection to yield four treatment groups: saline only (Saline), RSV-infected alone (RSV), OVA alone (OVA), and OVA-treated with RSV infection (OVA-RSV). Lung outcomes included lung mRNA and protein markers of allergic inflammation, histology for mucus cell metaplasia and lung immune cell influx by cytospin and flow cytometry. Results While thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) and IL-33 were detected 6 h after RSV infection in the OVA-RSV mice, IL-23 protein was uniquely upregulated in RSV-infected mice alone. OVA-RSV animals varied from RSV- or OVA-treated mice as they had increased lung eosinophils, neutrophils, group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) and group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) detectable as early as 6 h after RSV infection. Neutralized IL-33 significantly reduced ILC2 and eosinophils, and the prototypical allergic proteins, IL-5, IL-13, CCL17 and CCL22 in OVA-RSV mice. Numbers of neutrophils and ILC3 were also reduced with anti-IL-33 treatment in both RSV and OVA-RSV treated animals as well. Conclusions Taken together, our findings indicate a broad reduction in allergic-proinflammatory events mediated by IL-33 neutralization in RSV-induced asthma exacerbation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 942.2-942
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
Y. Qin ◽  
Z. Chen

Background:Reduction and dysregulation of ILC2 was linked to delayed resolution of arthritis. The neuropeptide Neuromedin U (NMU) has been reported to rapidly activate ILC2 and initiate a Th2 type immune response through NMUR1 expressed on the surface of ILC2. However, one previous study reported that NMU promoted autoantibody-mediated arthritis.Objectives:The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of NMU on collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) mice and the potential mechanisms.Methods:CIA was induced in C57BL/6 WT and C57BL/6Nmudeficient mice on day 1. WT mice were treated i.p. daily by NMU-23 (20ug/mice) or by PBS for 10 days from day 1 to 5 and day 21 to 25. The clinical scores of CIA mice were assessed every two days from day 22 and determined on a scale of 0–4 for each paw. The proportion of ILC2 as well as Th1, Th2, Th17 and Treg in spleen, mesenteric lymph node (mLN) and joints of arthritic mice were analyzed by flow cytometry on day 42.Results:NMU-23 dramatically inhibited clinical onset and severity of arthritis in treated WT mice compared with control mice. Interestingly, NMU-deficient mice also developed significantly less severe arthritis compared with WT control (Fig 1). Flow cytometry analyses showed that the proportion of ILC2, which defined as Lin-CD45+CD127+KLRG1+ICOS+ST2+, was elevated in the joint but not in the spleen and mLN of arthritic mice treated with NMU-23. In contrast, the proportion of ILC2 was significantly lower in the spleen of NMU-deficient mice than WT control. The percentage of Th2 cells in the spleen and mLN tend to be higher in NMU-23 treated mice, but there is no statistical significance. Surprisingly, Th1 cells were increased in the mLN of NMU-23 treated and NMU-deficient mice compared with control whereas Th17 was comparable among groups. In addition, the proportion of Treg was decreased in the joint of NMU-23 treated and NMU-deficient mice compared with control mice.Conclusion:Our preliminary results show that repeated injection of NMU-23 during induction (early) and development (late) stage of CIA strongly suppressed clinical onset and severity of arthritis, which might be ascribed to activation of ILC2 in the joint. Further study is needed to explore other cellular and molecular mechanisms in the effect.References:[1] Cardoso V, Chesne J, Ribeiro H et al (2017) Neuronal regulation of type 2 innate lymphoid cells via neuromedin U. Nature 549 (7671):277-281.[2] Klose CSN, Mahlakoiv T, Moeller JB et al (2017) The neuropeptide neuromedin U stimulates innate lymphoid cells and type 2 inflammation. Nature 549 (7671):282-286.[3] Wallrapp A, Riesenfeld SJ, Burkett PR et al (2017) The neuropeptide NMU amplifies ILC2-driven allergic lung inflammation. Nature 549 (7672):351-356.[4] Sindhuja M Rao, Jennifer L Auger, Philippe Gaillard et al (2012) The Neuropeptide Neuromedin U Promotes Autoantibody-Mediated Arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther, 14 (1), R29.Disclosure of Interests:None declared


2016 ◽  
Vol 214 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob von Moltke ◽  
Claire E. O’Leary ◽  
Nora A. Barrett ◽  
Yoshihide Kanaoka ◽  
K. Frank Austen ◽  
...  

Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) and type 2 helper T cells (Th2 cells) are the primary source of interleukin 5 (IL-5) and IL-13 during type 2 (allergic) inflammation in the lung. In Th2 cells, T cell receptor (TCR) signaling activates the transcription factors nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT), nuclear factor κB (NF-κB), and activator protein 1 (AP-1) to induce type 2 cytokines. ILC2s lack a TCR and respond instead to locally produced cytokines such as IL-33. Although IL-33 induces AP-1 and NF-κB, NFAT signaling has not been described in ILC2s. In this study, we report a nonredundant NFAT-dependent role for lipid-derived leukotrienes (LTs) in the activation of lung ILC2s. Using cytokine reporter and LT-deficient mice, we find that complete disruption of LT signaling markedly diminishes ILC2 activation and downstream responses during type 2 inflammation. Type 2 responses are equivalently attenuated in IL-33– and LT-deficient mice, and optimal ILC2 activation reflects potent synergy between these pathways. These findings expand our understanding of ILC2 regulation and may have important implications for the treatment of airways disease.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Pishdadian ◽  
Abdol-Reza Varasteh ◽  
Mojtaba Sankian

Innate-like lymphocytes (ILLs) and innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are two newly characterized families of lymphocytes with limited and no rearranged antigen receptors, respectively. These soldiers provide a first line of defense against foreign insults by triggering a prompt innate immune response and bridging the gap of innate and adaptive immunity. Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILCs2) are newly identified members of the ILC family that play a key role in type 2 immune responses by prompt production of type 2 cytokines (especially IL-5 and IL-13) in response to antigen-induced IL-25/33 and by recruiting type 2 “immune franchise.” Regarding the two different roles of type 2 cytokines, helminth expulsion and type 2-related diseases, here we review the latest advances in ILC2 biology and examine the pivotal role of resident ILCs2 in allergen-specific airway inflammation and asthma.


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