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B Activation
* Laboratory of Immunology, First Medical Clinic, and
Department of Immunology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany;
Gastroenterology Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; and
Department of Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507
The EBV-induced gene 3 (EBI3) is expressed in dendritic cells (DCs) and part of the cytokine IL-27 that controls Th cell development. However, its regulated expression in DCs is poorly understood. In the present study we demonstrate that EBI3 is expressed in splenic CD8–, CD8+, and plasmacytoid DC subsets and is induced upon TLR signaling. Cloning and functional analysis of the EBI3 promoter using in vivo footprinting and mutagenesis showed that stimulation via TLR2, TLR4, and TLR9 transactivated the promoter in primary DCs via NF-
B and Ets binding sites at –90 and –73 bp upstream of the transcriptional start site, respectively. Furthermore, we observed that NF-B p50/p65 and PU.1 were sufficient to transactivate the EBI3 promoter in EBI3-deficient 293 cells. Finally, induced EBI3 gene expression in DCs was reduced or abrogated in TLR-2/TLR4, TLR9, and MyD88 knockout mice, whereas both basal and inducible EBI3 mRNA levels in DCs were strongly suppressed in NF-B p50-deficient mice. In summary, these data suggest that EBI3 expression in DCs is transcriptionally regulated by TLR signaling via MyD88 and NF-B. Thus, EBI3 gene transcription in DCs is induced rapidly by TLR signaling during innate immune responses preceding cytokine driven Th cell development.
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