Humoral Immunity Provides Resident Intestinal Eosinophils Access to Luminal Antigen via Eosinophil-Expressed Low-Affinity Fcγ Receptors.
Eosinophils are native to the healthy gastrointestinal tract and are associated with inflammatory diseases likely triggered by exposure to food allergens (e.g., food allergies and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders). In models of allergic respiratory diseases and in vitro studies, direct Ag engagement elicits eosinophil effector functions, including degranulation and Ag presentation. However, it was not known whether intestinal tissue eosinophils that are separated from luminal food Ags by a columnar epithelium might similarly engage food Ags. Using an intestinal ligated loop model in mice, in this study we determined that resident intestinal eosinophils acquire Ag from the lumen of Ag-sensitized but not naive mice in vivo. Ag acquisition was Ig-dependent; intestinal eosinophils were unable to acquire Ag in sensitized Ig-deficient mice, and passive immunization with immune serum or Ag-specific IgG was sufficient to enable intestinal eosinophils in otherwise naive mice to acquire Ag in vivo. Intestinal eosinophils expressed low-affinity IgG receptors, and the activating receptor FcγRIII was necessary for Ig-mediated acquisition of Ags by isolated intestinal eosinophils in vitro. Our combined data suggest that intestinal eosinophils acquire lumen-derived food Ags in sensitized mice via FcγRIII Ag focusing and that they may therefore participate in Ag-driven secondary immune responses to oral Ags.
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215.
Kalmia M
KM
Smith
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215.
Raiann S
RS
Rahman
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215 lspencer@bidmc.harvard.edu.
Lisa A
LA
Spencer
D056704:Adaptive Immunity; D000485:Allergens / Q000276:immunology; D000818:Animals; D017951:Antigen Presentation; D000941:Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000276:immunology*; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000276:immunology*; D056724:Immunity, Humoral; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000276:immunology* / Q000601:surgery; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D023421:Models, Animal; D010047:Ovalbumin / Q000276:immunology; D017452:Receptors, IgG / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
D000485:Allergens; D000941:Antigens; D017452:Receptors, IgG; D007073:Immunoglobulin E; D010047:Ovalbumin
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