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Acute upregulation of an NKG2D ligand promotes rapid reorganization of a local immune compartment with pleiotropic effects on carcinogenesis.

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Title: Acute upregulation of an NKG2D ligand promotes rapid reorganization of a local immune compartment with pleiotropic effects on carcinogenesis.
Authors: Strid, J
Roberts, SJ
Filler, RB
Lewis, JM
Kwong, BY
Schpero, W
Kaplan, DH
Hayday, AC
Girardi, M
Item Type: Journal Article
Abstract: The self-encoded ligands MICA (human) and Rae-1 (mouse) for the cytotoxic lymphocyte activating receptor NKG2D are highly expressed in carcinomas and inflammatory lesions and have been linked to immunosurveillance and graft rejection. However, whether NKG2D ligands have an intrinsic ability to acutely regulate tissue-associated immune compartments is not known. Here we show that epidermis-specific upregulation of Rae-1 induced rapid, coincident and reversible changes in the organization of tissue-resident V(gamma)5V(delta)1 TCRgammadelta+ intraepithelial T cells and Langerhans cells, swiftly followed by epithelial infiltration by unconventional alphabeta T cells. Whereas local V(gamma)5V(delta)1+ T cells limited carcinogenesis, Langerhans cells unexpectedly promoted it. These results provide unique insight into the early phases of tissue immunosurveillance and indicate that acute changes in NKG2D ligands may alone initiate a rapid, multifaceted immunosurveillance response in vivo.
Issue Date: 29-Feb-2008
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/20030
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ni1556
Start Page: 146
End Page: 154
Journal / Book Title: Nat Immunol
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Copyright Statement: © 2008, Rights Managed by Nature Publishing Group
Conference Place: United States
Appears in Collections:Department of Medicine (up to 2019)