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Maturing Dendritic Cells Depend on RAGE for In Vivo Homing to Lymph Nodes¹

Angelo A. Manfredi^2,*, Annalisa Capobianco^*, Antonio Esposito, Francesco De Cobelli, Tamara Canu, Antonella Monno^*, Angela Raucci, Francesca Sanvito, Claudio Doglioni, Peter P. Nawroth^¶, Angelika Bierhaus^¶, Marco E. Bianchi, Patrizia Rovere-Querini^* and Alessandro Del Maschio

^* Clinical Immunology Unit, Department of Radiology, Department of Pathology, and Chromatin Dynamics Unit, H. San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; and ^¶ Department of Medicine I and Clinical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

The mobilization of dendritic cells (DCs) from peripheral tissues is critical for the establishment of T cell-dependent immune responses or tolerance, because the physical interaction of DCs with naive T cells takes place in the T cell areas of lymph nodes. The autocrine/paracrine release of the high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) nuclear protein by DCs controls the outcome of the DC–T cell interaction, influencing the priming/Th1 polarization of naive T cells. We herein present evidence that the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE), a multiligand member of the Ig superfamily of cell-surface molecules that acts as a receptor for HMGB1, plays a nonredundant role in DC homing to lymph nodes. We used noninvasive imaging by magnetic resonance and immunohistochemistry to track DCs after s.c. injection in the footpad of wild-type^+/+ or RAGE^–/– mice. Maturing DCs expressing RAGE effectively migrated in both conditions. In contrast, RAGE^–/– DCs failed to reach the draining popliteal lymph nodes of +/+ and –/– mice, indicating that the integrity of RAGE is required for DC mobilization. Thus the HMGB1-RAGE pathway is a checkpoint in DC maturation and function and a candidate for targeted therapies.

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¹ This work was supported by the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, the Ministero della Salute, and the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca.

² Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Angelo A. Manfredi, H. San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 48, Milan, 20132 Italy. E-mail address: manfredi.angelo{at}hsr.it

³ Abbreviations used in this paper: DC, dendritic cell; HMGB1, high mobility group box 1 (nuclear protein); MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; RAGE, receptor for advanced glycation end products; SPIO, superparamagnetic iron oxide particles.