PMID- 15604121 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20050418 LR - 20201226 IS - 0741-5400 (Print) IS - 0741-5400 (Linking) VI - 77 IP - 3 DP - 2005 Mar TI - Dendritic cells and natural killer cells interact via multiple TNF family molecules. PG - 408-13 AB - Dendritic cells (DC) and natural killer (NK) cells are essential components of the innate immune system, which rapidly sense and eliminate invading pathogens and transformed cells, mediate inflammation, and initiate adaptive immune responses. During the early immune events, DC and NK cells interact and regulate each other. The cellular "cross talk" and its molecular mediators are believed to be critical to the quality and magnitude of innate and adaptive immune responses. The goal of the present manuscript is to identify and initially assess major molecular mediators of DC-NK cell interaction. We have previously shown that DC and NK cells constitutively express several tumor necrosis factor family ligands (TNFfLs) and corresponding TNF family receptors (TNFfRs). Therefore, DC and NK cells might be able to interact via cognate interplays of TNFfLs and TNFfRs. Here, we provide initial experimental evidence supporting this possibility. We found that combined but not individual ligation of several TNFfRs induced substantial increases in secretion of interleukin-12 and interferon-gamma by DC and NK cells, respectively. In contrast, specific, individual disruptions of the engagements of the corresponding TNfL-TNFfR pairs greatly impaired DC and NK cell abilities to reciprocally mediate the increases in cytokine secretion. These findings indicate that multiple TNFfLs mediate DC-NK cell interaction. FAU - Makarenkova, Valeria AU - Makarenkova V AD - Hillman Cancer Center, G.17d, 5117 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-1863, USA. FAU - Chakrabarti, Ayan K AU - Chakrabarti AK FAU - Liberatore, Jennifer A AU - Liberatore JA FAU - Popovic, Petar AU - Popovic P FAU - Lu, Ganwei AU - Lu G FAU - Watkins, Simon AU - Watkins S FAU - Vujanovic, Nikola L AU - Vujanovic NL LA - eng GR - 1P60 DE 13059/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DE 14775/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. DEP - 20041216 PL - England TA - J Leukoc Biol JT - Journal of leukocyte biology JID - 8405628 RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Communication/immunology MH - Dendritic Cells/*immunology MH - Female MH - Killer Cells, Natural/*immunology MH - Ligands MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Models, Biological MH - Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/*immunology EDAT- 2004/12/18 09:00 MHDA- 2005/04/19 09:00 CRDT- 2004/12/18 09:00 PHST- 2004/12/18 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/04/19 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/12/18 09:00 [entrez] AID - jlb.1104675 [pii] AID - 10.1189/jlb.1104675 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Leukoc Biol. 2005 Mar;77(3):408-13. doi: 10.1189/jlb.1104675. Epub 2004 Dec 16.