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Activated Human Nasal Epithelial Cells Modulate Specific Antibody Response against Bacterial or Viral Antigens

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PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e55472. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055472. Epub 2013 Feb 6.
Activated Human Nasal Epithelial Cells Modulate Specific Antibody Response against Bacterial or Viral Antigens.
Yeh CY, Yeh TH, Jung CJ, Chen PL, Lien HT, Chia JS.
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Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Abstract

Nasal mucosa is an immune responsive organ evidenced by eliciting both specific local secretory IgA and systemic IgG antibody responses with intra-nasal administration of antigens. Nevertheless, the role of nasal epithelial cells in modulating such responses is unclear. Human nasal epithelial cells (hNECs) obtained from sinus mucosa of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis were cultured in vitro and firstly were stimulated by Lactococcus lactis bacterium-like particles (BLPs) in order to examine their role on antibody production. Secondly, both antigens of immunodominant protein IDG60 from oral Streptococcus mutans and hemagglutinin (HA) from influenza virus were tested to evaluate the specific antibody response. Stimulated hNECs by BLPs exhibited a significant increase in the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6), and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP). Conditioned medium of stimulated hNECs has effects on enhancing the proliferation of CD4+ T cells together with interferon-γ and IL-5 production, increasing the costimulatory molecules on dendritic cells and augmenting the production of IDG60 specific IgA, HA specific IgG, IgA by human peripheral blood lymphocytes. Such production of antigen specific IgG and IgA is significantly counteracted in the presence of IL-6 and TSLP neutralizing antibodies. In conclusion, properly stimulated hNECs may impart immuno-modulatory effects on the antigen-specific antibody response at least through the production of IL-6 and TSLP.

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23405156
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