Increased and Long-Term Generation of Dendritic Cells with Reduced Function from IL-6-Deficient Bone Marrow

  • Bleier J
  • Pillarisetty V
  • Shah A
  • et al.
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Abstract

The importance of IL-6 in dendritic cell (DC) development and function has not been well defined. To establish the role of IL-6, we studied bone marrow-derived DC (BMDC) and freshly isolated splenic DC from IL-6−/−-transgenic mice. We found that although IL-6−/− bone marrow had a similar composition to that of wild-type (WT) mice, it generated up to 10 times more DC when cultured in GM-CSF. The difference persisted even when IL-6−/− and WT bone marrow were cultured together, excluding the possibility that the effects were simply due to different cytokine microenvironments. In comparison to WT BMDC, IL-6−/− BMDC captured at least as much Ag, had an equivalent surface phenotype, and matured similarly in response to LPS or CpG. However, IL-6−/− BMDC induced less T cell allostimulation and Ag-specific T cell activation, but only the former was related to their inability to generate IL-6. Although WT bone marrow cultures died within 4 wk, IL-6−/− cultures continued to generate BMDC for >120 days, although the BMDC became immature and less functional. In vivo, we found that IL-6−/− mice had similar numbers and types of splenic DC as WT mice, both normally and after treatment with either Flt-3 ligand or GM-CSF. These findings demonstrate that IL-6 has profound effects on DC development in vitro, although the number and subtype composition of DC are unaffected by the absence of IL-6 in vivo. Furthermore, secretion of IL-6 is critical to certain DC functions.

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Bleier, J. I., Pillarisetty, V. G., Shah, A. B., & DeMatteo, R. P. (2004). Increased and Long-Term Generation of Dendritic Cells with Reduced Function from IL-6-Deficient Bone Marrow. The Journal of Immunology, 172(12), 7408–7416. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.172.12.7408

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