Absence of Innate Myd88 Signaling Promotes Inducible Allograft Acceptance.
From: Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
- Publish Date: Oct 2006
- ISSN: 0022-1767
- Volume: 177
- Issue: 8
- Pages: 5307-16
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Walker Wendy E, Nasr Isam W, Camirand Geoffrey, et al. Absence of Innate Myd88 Signaling Promotes Inducible Allograft Acceptance.. J. Immunol. Oct 2006;177:5307-16
Abstract
Prior experimental strategies to induce transplantation tolerance have focused largely on modifying adaptive immunity. However, less is known concerning the role of innate immune signaling in the induction of transplantation tolerance. Using a highly immunogenic murine skin transplant model that resists transplantation tolerance induction when innate immunity is preserved, we show that absence of MyD88, a key innate Toll like receptor signal adaptor, abrogates this resistance and facilitates inducible allograft acceptance. In our model, absence of MyD88 impairs inflammatory dendritic cell responses that reduce T cell activation. This effect increases T cell susceptibility to suppression mediated by CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells. Therefore, this study provides evidence that absence of MyD88 promotes inducible allograft acceptance and implies that inhibiting innate immunity may be a potential, clinically relevant strategy to facilitate transplantation tolerance.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Dendritic Cells, Immune Tolerance, Immunity, Natural, Lymphocyte Activation, Mice, Models, Animal, Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88, Signal Transduction, Skin Transplantation, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, Transplantation Immunology, Transplantation, Homologous
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