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Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
The nature of the signals that bias Th effector choice is still not completely understood. Using parasite extracts from pathogens known to induce polarized Th1 or Th2 responses and an in vitro experimental model for priming murine CD4+ cells, we demonstrated that splenic dendritic cells (DC), but not B cells, promote Th1/Th2 differentiation of naive CD4+ lymphocytes. Th polarization in this system was found not to depend on DC secretion of the polarizing cytokines IL-12/IL-4, but instead correlated with distinct states of DC activation induced by the different parasite preparations. As expected, conditioning of DC for Th1 development was associated with up-regulation of costimulatory molecules and enhanced chemokine production and required intact MyD88 signaling. In contrast, conditioning of DC for Th2 differentiation correlated with down-regulation of many of the same functions and was MyD88 independent. This dampened DC activation was accompanied in the cocultures by a reduction in the frequency of CD4+ lymphocytes exiting the first division of the cell cycle. When the latter was mimicked by drug-induced arrest of peptide-primed CD4+ cells after the S phase of the first cycle, a marked Th2 polarization was also observed. Together, these findings suggest that the emergence of IL-4-producing CD4+ lymphocytes results from a suppression in DC function leading to a temporary delay in initial T cell cycling.
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