Eosinophils restrain humoral alloimmunity after lung transplantation

While the function of many leukocytes in transplant biology has been well defined, the role of eosinophils is controversial and remains poorly explored. Conflicting data exist regarding eosinophils' role in alloimmunity. Due to their prevalence in the lung, and their defined role in other pulmonary pathologies such as asthma, we set out to explore the role of eosinophils in the long-term maintenance of the lung allograft. We noted that depletion of eosinophils results in the generation of donor-specific antibodies. Eosinophil depletion increased memory B cell, plasma cell, and antibody-secreting cell differentiation and resulted in de novo generation of follicular germinal centers. Germinal center formation depended on the expansion of CD4+Foxp3-Bcl6+CXCR5+PD-1+ T follicular helper (Tfh) cells, which increase in number after eosinophil depletion. Mechanistically, we demonstrate that eosinophils prevent Tfh cell generation by acting as the dominant source of IFN-γ in an established lung allograft, thus facilitating Th1 rather than Tfh polarization of naive CD4+ T cells. Our data thus describe what we believe is a unique and previously unknown role for eosinophils in maintaining allograft tolerance and suggest that indiscriminate administration of eosinophil-lytic corticosteroids for treatment of acute cellular rejection may inadvertently promote humoral alloimmunity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

JCI insight - 9(2024), 3 vom: 08. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mei, Zhongcheng [VerfasserIn]
Khalil, May A [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Yizhan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Dongge [VerfasserIn]
Banerjee, Anirban [VerfasserIn]
Terada, Yuriko [VerfasserIn]
Yokoyama, Yuhei [VerfasserIn]
Kratzmeier, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Kelly [VerfasserIn]
Li, Lushen [VerfasserIn]
Lau, Christine L [VerfasserIn]
Courneya, Jean-Paul [VerfasserIn]
Luzina, Irina G [VerfasserIn]
Atamas, Sergei P [VerfasserIn]
Gelman, Andrew E [VerfasserIn]
Kreisel, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Jacobsen, Elizabeth A [VerfasserIn]
Krupnick, Alexander S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adaptive immunity
Antibodies
Immunology
Innate immunity
Journal Article
Organ transplantation
Transplantation

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 14.02.2024

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1172/jci.insight.168911

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368183505