Effects of antigen and recombinant porcine cytokines on pig dendritic cell cytokine expression in vitro.
To evaluate variables influencing in vitro immune response induction, pig monocyte-derived DCs (moDCs) were treated with putative type-1 and type-2 antigens (Ags, killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL)) and recombinant porcine cytokines (IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha). Responses were measured as moDC cytokine mRNA expression. Treatment of moDCs with HEWL increased IL-13 but not IL-12, IFN-gamma or IL-10 mRNA, suggesting a DC2 phenotype. Addition of TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma or IL-12 to HEWL-treated moDCs increased IL-12p35 and reduced IL-13 mRNA; suggesting a DC1 phenotype. Mtb increased moDC IL-12p35, IFN-gamma and to a lesser extent IL-13 mRNA. This DC1 bias was enhanced by TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma or IL-12, which increased IL-12p35 and to a lesser extent IL-10 mRNA but reduced IL-13 mRNA. Addition of IL-10 to Mtb-pulsed moDCs reduced IL-12p35, IFN-gamma and IL-13, but increased IL-10 mRNA, suggesting diversion from DC1 to DC2. Thus porcine moDCs treated with Ag and/or cytokines alter moDC cytokine expression confirming their likely ability to initiate and steer acquired immune response.
Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., NIG-2W1, Canada. claudine.raymond@bbsrc.ac.uk
Claudine R
CR
Raymond
Abubaker M E
AM
Sidahmed
Bruce N
BN
Wilkie
D000818:Animals; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016207:Cytokines / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000494:pharmacology; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D009113:Muramidase / Q000276:immunology / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000276:immunology; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D013047:Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms; D013552:Swine / Q000276:immunology*
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D016207:Cytokines; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C421864:hen egg lysozyme; D009113:Muramidase