Osamu Yoneda, Toshio Imai, Miyuki Nishimura, Michihiko Miyaji, Tsuneyo Mimori, Toshiro Okazaki, Naochika Domae, Hiroko Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Minami, Takeshi Kono, Eda T Bloom, Hisanori Umehara
Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Dental University, Osaka, Japan.
European journal of immunology 2003 JanNatural killer (NK) cells participate in both innate and adaptive immunity, in part by their prompt secretion of cytokines including IFN-gamma, a pro-inflammatory cytokine with an important role in Th1 polarization. To assess the involvement of fractalkine in inflammatory processes, we examined the effect of fractalkine on IFN-gamma production by NK cells. Although soluble chemokines, including MCP-1 and RANTES as well as fractalkine, had a negligible effect on IFN-gamma production, immobilized fractalkine markedly induced IFN-gamma production by NK cells in a dose-dependent manner. Pretreatment of NK cells with the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-K) inhibitor, wortmannin, completely inhibited the production of IFN-gamma induced by fractalkine, and pretreatment with the protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor, herbimycin A, partially suppressed the response, suggesting that augmentation of IFN-gamma production in response to fractalkine treatment of NK cells involves signaling through PI 3-K and protein tyrosine kinases. Furthermore, co-culture of NK cells with fractalkine-transfected 293E cells markedly enhanced IFN-gamma production by NK cells compared with co-culture with control 293E cells. These findings may indicate a paracrine feedback loop system in which endothelial cells may be activated to produce more fractalkine, and also suggest a role for fractalkine expressed on endothelial cells in Th1 polarization through the stimulation of IFN-gamma production by NK cells.
Osamu Yoneda, Toshio Imai, Miyuki Nishimura, Michihiko Miyaji, Tsuneyo Mimori, Toshiro Okazaki, Naochika Domae, Hiroko Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Minami, Takeshi Kono, Eda T Bloom, Hisanori Umehara. Membrane-bound form of fractalkine induces IFN-gamma production by NK cells. European journal of immunology. 2003 Jan;33(1):53-8
PMID: 12594832
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