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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 198, Issue 9, Pages 3448-3460Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601891
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- National Institutes of Health [AI109100, AI126371]
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Xiangya Hospital, China
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [14JJ6003]
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Although large amounts of vitamin A and its metabolite all-trans retinoic acid (RA) are stored in the liver, how RA regulates liver immune responses during viral infection remains unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that IL-22, mainly produced by hepatic gamma delta T cells, attenuated liver injury in adenovirus-infected mice. RA can promote gamma delta T cells to produce mTORC1-dependent IL-22 in the liver, but inhibits IFN-gamma and IL-17. RA also affected the aptitude of T cell responses by modulating dendritic cell (DC) migration and costimulatory molecule expression. These results suggested that RA plays an immunomodulatory role in viral infection. Proteomics data revealed that RA downregulated 5100 family protein expression in DCs, as well as NF-kappa B/ERK pathway activation in these cells. Furthermore, adoptive transfer of S100A4-repressed, virus-pulsed DCs into the hind foot of naive mice failed to prime T cell responses in draining lymph nodes. Our study has demonstrated a crucial role for RA in promoting IL-22 production and tempering DC function through downregulating 5100 family proteins during viral hepatitis.
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