Maintenance of hair follicle immune privilege is linked to prevention of NK cell attack.
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Maintenance of hair follicle immune privilege is linked to prevention of NK cell attack. / Ito, Taisuke; Ito, Natsuho; Saatoff, Matthias; Hashizume, Hideo; Fukamizu, Hidekazu; Nickoloff, Brian J; Takigawa, Masahiro; Paus, Ralf.
in: J INVEST DERMATOL, Jahrgang 128, Nr. 5, 5, 2008, S. 1196-1206.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Maintenance of hair follicle immune privilege is linked to prevention of NK cell attack.
AU - Ito, Taisuke
AU - Ito, Natsuho
AU - Saatoff, Matthias
AU - Hashizume, Hideo
AU - Fukamizu, Hidekazu
AU - Nickoloff, Brian J
AU - Takigawa, Masahiro
AU - Paus, Ralf
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Hair follicles (HFs) enjoy a relative immune privilege (IP) that is characterized by downregulation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and local expression of potent immunosuppressants. Normally, natural killer (NK) cells attack cells with absent/low MHC class I expression. However, because few perifollicular NK cells are found around healthy human anagen HFs, we asked how HFs escape from NK cell attack. This study suggests that this happens via an active NK cell suppression. Alopecia areata (AA), an organ-specific autoimmune disease thought to result from a collapse of HF-IP, in contrast, shows striking defects in NK cell inhibition/containment. We show that the NK cell inhibitor macrophage migration inhibitory factor is strongly expressed by the HF epithelium, and very few CD56(+)/NKG2D(+) NK cells are observed in and around normal anagen HFs compared to AA with prominent aggregations of CD56(+)/NKG2D(+) NK around AA-HFs. By flow cytometry, many fewer NK function-activating receptors (NKG2D, NKG2C) and significantly more killer cell Ig-like receptors-2D2/2D3 were found to be expressed on peripheral blood CD56(+) NK cells of healthy controls than on those of AA patients. In addition, only weak immunoreactivity for MHC class I chain-related A gene was observed in normal anagen HFs compared to AA. To our knowledge, this defect is previously unreported and must be taken into account in AA pathogenesis and its management.
AB - Hair follicles (HFs) enjoy a relative immune privilege (IP) that is characterized by downregulation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and local expression of potent immunosuppressants. Normally, natural killer (NK) cells attack cells with absent/low MHC class I expression. However, because few perifollicular NK cells are found around healthy human anagen HFs, we asked how HFs escape from NK cell attack. This study suggests that this happens via an active NK cell suppression. Alopecia areata (AA), an organ-specific autoimmune disease thought to result from a collapse of HF-IP, in contrast, shows striking defects in NK cell inhibition/containment. We show that the NK cell inhibitor macrophage migration inhibitory factor is strongly expressed by the HF epithelium, and very few CD56(+)/NKG2D(+) NK cells are observed in and around normal anagen HFs compared to AA with prominent aggregations of CD56(+)/NKG2D(+) NK around AA-HFs. By flow cytometry, many fewer NK function-activating receptors (NKG2D, NKG2C) and significantly more killer cell Ig-like receptors-2D2/2D3 were found to be expressed on peripheral blood CD56(+) NK cells of healthy controls than on those of AA patients. In addition, only weak immunoreactivity for MHC class I chain-related A gene was observed in normal anagen HFs compared to AA. To our knowledge, this defect is previously unreported and must be taken into account in AA pathogenesis and its management.
M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
VL - 128
SP - 1196
EP - 1206
JO - J INVEST DERMATOL
JF - J INVEST DERMATOL
SN - 0022-202X
IS - 5
M1 - 5
ER -
