Toward the identification of a tolerogenic signature in IDO-competent dendritic cells
- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Hematology in Blood
- Vol. 107 (7) , 2846-2854
- https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2005-10-4077
Abstract
Although much is known about the transcriptional profiles of dendritic cells (DCs) during maturation, the molecular switches critical for the induction of a tolerogenic program in DC subsets are still obscure. We examined the gene-expression profiles of murine splenic CD8+ DCs rendered highly tolerogenic by interferon-γ (IFN-γ), which activates the enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO, encoded by Indo) and thus initiates the immunosuppressive pathway of tryptophan catabolism. By examining the expression of a series of relevant genes in IDO+ compared with IDO- DCs, we found consistent and selective association of the IDO-competent phenotype with down-modulation of the Tyrobp gene, encoding the signaling adapter DAP12, which typically associates with activating receptors. Down-modulation of Tyrobp involved IFN consensus sequence binding protein (ICSBP), a transcription factor also known as IRF-8. In murine and human monocyte-derived DCs, silencing DAP12 expression imparted IDO functional competence to IDO- cells, whereas silencing IRF-8 in IDO+ counterparts abolished IDO expression and function. Thus, IRF-8 is required in tolerogenic DCs for the positive regulation of Indo and the negative regulation of Tyrobp. Overall, these studies reveal the occurrence of a simple and evolutionarily conserved code in the control of tolerance by an ancestral metabolic enzyme.Keywords
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