CD11c+ Dendritic Cells Accelerate the Rejection of Older Cardiac Transplants via Interleukin-17A
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CD11c+ Dendritic Cells Accelerate the Rejection of Older Cardiac Transplants via Interleukin-17A. / Heinbokel, Timm; Oberhuber, Rupert; Cetina Biefer, Hector Rodriguez; Boenisch, Olaf; Hock, Karin; Bronson, Roderick T; Wilhelm, Markus J; Iwakura, Yoichiro; Edtinger, Karoline; Uehara, Hirofumi; Quante, Markus; Voskuil, Floris; Krenzien, Felix; Slegtenhorst, Bendix; Abdi, Reza; Pratschke, Johann; Elkhal, Abdallah; Tullius, Stefan G.
In: CIRCULATION, Vol. 132, No. 2, 14.07.2015, p. 122-31.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - CD11c+ Dendritic Cells Accelerate the Rejection of Older Cardiac Transplants via Interleukin-17A
AU - Heinbokel, Timm
AU - Oberhuber, Rupert
AU - Cetina Biefer, Hector Rodriguez
AU - Boenisch, Olaf
AU - Hock, Karin
AU - Bronson, Roderick T
AU - Wilhelm, Markus J
AU - Iwakura, Yoichiro
AU - Edtinger, Karoline
AU - Uehara, Hirofumi
AU - Quante, Markus
AU - Voskuil, Floris
AU - Krenzien, Felix
AU - Slegtenhorst, Bendix
AU - Abdi, Reza
AU - Pratschke, Johann
AU - Elkhal, Abdallah
AU - Tullius, Stefan G
N1 - © 2015 American Heart Association, Inc.
PY - 2015/7/14
Y1 - 2015/7/14
N2 - BACKGROUND: Organ transplantation has seen an increased use of organs from older donors over the past decades in an attempt to meet the globally growing shortage of donor organs. However, inferior transplantation outcomes when older donor organs are used represent a growing challenge.METHODS AND RESULTS: Here, we characterize the impact of donor age on solid-organ transplantation using a murine cardiac transplantation model. We found a compromised graft survival when older hearts were used. Shorter graft survival of older hearts was independent of organ age per se, because chimeric young or old organs repopulated with young passenger leukocytes showed comparable survival times. Transplantation of older organs triggered more potent alloimmune responses via intragraft CD11c+ dendritic cells augmenting CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell proliferation and proinflammatory cytokine production, particularly that of interleukin-17A. Of note, depletion of donor CD11c+ dendritic cells before engraftment, neutralization of interleukin-17A, or transplantation of older hearts into IL-17A(-/-) mice delayed rejection and reduced alloimmune responses to levels observed when young hearts were transplanted.CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate a critical role of old donor CD11c+ dendritic cells in mounting age-dependent alloimmune responses with an augmented interleukin-17A response in recipient animals. Targeting interleukin-17A may serve as a novel therapeutic approach when older organs are transplanted.
AB - BACKGROUND: Organ transplantation has seen an increased use of organs from older donors over the past decades in an attempt to meet the globally growing shortage of donor organs. However, inferior transplantation outcomes when older donor organs are used represent a growing challenge.METHODS AND RESULTS: Here, we characterize the impact of donor age on solid-organ transplantation using a murine cardiac transplantation model. We found a compromised graft survival when older hearts were used. Shorter graft survival of older hearts was independent of organ age per se, because chimeric young or old organs repopulated with young passenger leukocytes showed comparable survival times. Transplantation of older organs triggered more potent alloimmune responses via intragraft CD11c+ dendritic cells augmenting CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell proliferation and proinflammatory cytokine production, particularly that of interleukin-17A. Of note, depletion of donor CD11c+ dendritic cells before engraftment, neutralization of interleukin-17A, or transplantation of older hearts into IL-17A(-/-) mice delayed rejection and reduced alloimmune responses to levels observed when young hearts were transplanted.CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate a critical role of old donor CD11c+ dendritic cells in mounting age-dependent alloimmune responses with an augmented interleukin-17A response in recipient animals. Targeting interleukin-17A may serve as a novel therapeutic approach when older organs are transplanted.
KW - Aging
KW - Animals
KW - Antigens, CD11c
KW - Dendritic Cells
KW - Graft Rejection
KW - Heart Transplantation
KW - Interleukin-17
KW - Male
KW - Mice
KW - Mice, Inbred BALB C
KW - Mice, Inbred C57BL
KW - Mice, Inbred DBA
KW - Mice, Knockout
KW - Transplantation, Homologous
U2 - 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014917
DO - 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014917
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 25957225
VL - 132
SP - 122
EP - 131
JO - CIRCULATION
JF - CIRCULATION
SN - 0009-7322
IS - 2
ER -