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Department of Dermatology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
To investigate the intracellular signaling mechanisms involved in the activation of APC by contact sensitizers, we studied the induction of tyrosine phosphorylation by these agents. Selective analysis of phosphotyrosine (p-tyr) in human Langerhans cells and different mononuclear cell types was achieved using a multicolor flow-cytometric technique. Stimulation with contact sensitizers revealed a distinct increase in p-tyr exclusively for MHC class II-positive cells. For different haptens, irritants, as well as activators of distinct signal transduction pathways, it was demonstrated that only strong sensitizers or the protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor sodium orthovanadate or cross-linking of MHC class II molecules were able to induce formation of p-tyr in human blood-derived dendritic cells serving as model for the dendritic cell family. This event required physiologic cell culture conditions and was blocked by specific inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinases. No evidence for the inhibition of protein tyrosine phosphatases by haptens was found. Western blot analysis of monocyte-enriched populations revealed an augmented phosphorylation of distinct proteins after hapten stimulation partly resembling the pattern noticed after cross-linking of HLA-DR molecules. In dendritic cells generated from mononuclear progenitors, the protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein was able to block tyrosine phosphorylation as well as production of IL-1ß mRNA transcripts. Our data underline the unique capacity of haptens to activate APC and the important role of tyrosine phosphorylation for this process.
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