title: Respiratory DC Use IFITM3 to Avoid Direct Viral Infection and Safeguard Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cell Priming.
abstract: Respiratory dendritic cells (DC) play a pivotal role in the initiation of adaptive immune responses to influenza virus. To do this, respiratory DCs must ferry viral antigen from the lung to the draining lymph node without becoming infected and perishing en route. We show that respiratory DCs up-regulate the expression of the antiviral molecule, interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) in response to influenza virus infection, in a manner dependent on type I interferon signaling and the transcription factors IRF7 and IRF3. Failure of respiratory DCs to up-regulate IFITM3 following influenza virus infection resulted in impaired trafficking to the draining LN and consequently in impaired priming of an influenza-specific CD8+ T cell response. The impaired trafficking of IFITM3-deficient DC correlated with an increased susceptibility of these DC to influenza virus infection. This work shows that the expression of IFITM3 protects respiratory DCs from influenza virus infection, permitting migration from lung to LN and optimal priming of a virus specific T-cell response.
authors.affiliation: Division of Systems Biology and Personalised Medicine, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Infusini
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pizzolla
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: Wy Ching
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: Sarah L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Londrigan
authors.affiliation: Malaria Immunology Lab, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Ashraful
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haque
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.|WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: Patrick C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Reading
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.|Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
authors.forename: Jose A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Villadangos
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: Linda M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Wakim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D018414:CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D050838:Interferon Regulatory Factor-3 / Q000378:metabolism; D050839:Interferon Regulatory Factor-7 / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009976:Orthomyxoviridae Infections / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D050838:Interferon Regulatory Factor-3; D050839:Interferon Regulatory Factor-7; C494233:Irf3 protein, mouse; C494235:Irf7 protein, mouse; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C462181:fragilis protein, mouse