Protective Role of the Inflammatory CCR2/CCL2 Chemokine Pathway through Recruitment of Type 1 Cytotoxic γδ T Lymphocytes to Tumor Beds
Open Access
- 15 June 2013
- journal article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 190 (12), 6673-6680
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1300434
Abstract
Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular bacterial pathogen that is the cause of a severe pneumonia in humans called Legionnaires’ disease. A key feature of L. pneumophila pathogenesis is the rapid influx of neutrophils into the lungs, which occurs in response to signaling via the IL-1R. Two distinct cytokines, IL-1α and IL-1β, can stimulate the type I IL-1R. IL-1β is produced upon activation of cytosolic sensors called inflammasomes that detect L. pneumophila in vitro and in vivo. Surprisingly, we find no essential role for IL-1β in neutrophil recruitment to the lungs in response to L. pneumophila. Instead, we show that IL-1α is a critical initiator of neutrophil recruitment to the lungs of L. pneumophila–infected mice. We find that neutrophil recruitment in response to virulent L. pneumophila requires the production of IL-1α specifically by hematopoietic cells. In contrast to IL-1β, the innate signaling pathways that lead to the production of IL-1α in response to L. pneumophila remain poorly defined. In particular, although we confirm a role for inflammasomes for initiation of IL-1β signaling in vivo, we find no essential role for inflammasomes in production of IL-1α. Instead, we propose that a novel host pathway, perhaps involving inhibition of host protein synthesis, is responsible for IL-1α production in response to virulent L. pneumophila. Our results establish IL-1α as a critical initiator of the inflammatory response to L. pneumophila in vivo and point to an important role for IL-1α in providing an alternative to inflammasome-mediated immune responses in vivo.Keywords
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