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MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY
卷 5, 期 2, 页码 161-172出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/mi.2011.62
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- Centre of Respiratory Infections (CRI)
- MRC [G0800311]
- Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma
- Wellcome Trust [087805/Z/08/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [087805/Z/08/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- Asthma UK [S06/001] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0800311, G1001763, G1000758] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0800311, G1001763] Funding Source: UKRI
The inflammatory response to lung infections must be tightly regulated, enabling pathogen elimination while maintaining crucial gas exchange. Using recently described depletion of regulatory T cell (DEREG) mice, we found that selective depletion of regulatory T cells (Tregs) during acute respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection enhanced viral clearance but increased weight loss, local cytokine and chemokine release, and T-cell activation and cellular influx into the lungs. Conversely, inflammation was decreased when Treg numbers and activity were boosted using interleukin-2 immune complexes. Unexpectedly, lung (but not draining lymph node) Tregs from RSV-infected mice expressed granzyme B (GzmB), and bone marrow chimeric mice with selective loss of GzmB in the Treg compartment displayed markedly enhanced cellular infiltration into the lung after infection. A crucial role for GzmB-expressing Tregs has not hitherto been described in the lung or during acute infections, but may explain the inability of children with perforin/GzmB defects to regulate immune responses to infection. The effects of RSV infection in mice with defective immune regulation closely parallel the observed effects of RSV in children with bronchiolitis, suggesting that the pathogenesis of bronchiolitis may involve an inability to regulate virus-induced inflammation.
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