PMID- 19239635 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090616 LR - 20211020 IS - 1399-302X (Electronic) IS - 0902-0055 (Print) IS - 0902-0055 (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 2 DP - 2009 Apr TI - Effects of oral commensal and pathogenic bacteria on human dendritic cells. PG - 96-103 LID - 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2008.00478.x [doi] AB - BACKGROUND/AIMS: The oral cavity harbors a diverse and complex microbial community. Bacteria accumulate on both the hard and soft oral tissues in sessile biofilms and engage the host in an intricate cellular dialog, which normally constrains the bacteria to a state of commensal harmony. Dendritic cells (DCs) are likely to balance tolerance and active immunity to commensal microorganisms as part of chronic inflammatory responses. While the role played by DCs in maintaining intestinal homeostasis has been investigated extensively, relatively little is known about DC responses to oral bacteria. METHODS: In this study, we pulsed human monocyte-derived immature DCs (iDCs) with cell wall extracts from pathogenic and commensal gram-positive or gram-negative oral bacteria. RESULTS: Although all bacterial extracts tested induced iDCs to mature and produce cytokines/chemokines including interleukin-12p40, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), the most important factor for programming DCs by oral bacteria was whether they were gram-positive or gram-negative, not whether they were commensal or pathogenic. In general, gram-negative oral bacteria, except for periodontopathic Porphyromonas gingivalis, stimulated DC maturation and cytokine production at lower concentrations than gram-positive oral bacteria. The threshold of bacteria needed to stimulate chemokine production was 100-fold to 1000-fold lower than that needed to induce cytokines. In addition, very low doses of oral commensal bacteria triggered monocytes to migrate toward DC-derived MCP-1. CONCLUSION: Oral commensal and pathogenic bacteria do not differ qualitatively in how they program DCs. DC-derived MCP-1 induced in response to oral commensal bacteria may play a role, at least in part, in the maintenance of oral tissue integrity by attracting monocytes. FAU - Chino, T AU - Chino T AD - Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7650, USA. FAU - Santer, D M AU - Santer DM FAU - Giordano, D AU - Giordano D FAU - Chen, C AU - Chen C FAU - Li, C AU - Li C FAU - Chen, C-H AU - Chen CH FAU - Darveau, R P AU - Darveau RP FAU - Clark, E A AU - Clark EA LA - eng GR - R01 DE016381/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States GR - AI44257/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - DE16381/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI044257/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 AI044257/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DE016381-04/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - Denmark TA - Oral Microbiol Immunol JT - Oral microbiology and immunology JID - 8707451 RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) RN - 0 (Chemokines) RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) MH - Cell Wall/chemistry MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chemokine CCL2/biosynthesis MH - Chemokines/biosynthesis MH - Chemotaxis, Leukocyte MH - Cytokines/biosynthesis MH - Dendritic Cells/immunology/metabolism/*microbiology MH - Gram-Negative Bacteria/*physiology MH - Gram-Positive Bacteria/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Immunity, Mucosal/physiology MH - Monocytes/immunology MH - Mouth/*microbiology MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/biosynthesis PMC - PMC2733846 MID - NIHMS122163 EDAT- 2009/02/26 09:00 MHDA- 2009/06/17 09:00 PMCR- 2010/04/01 CRDT- 2009/02/26 09:00 PHST- 2009/02/26 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/02/26 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/06/17 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2010/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - OMI478 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2008.00478.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Oral Microbiol Immunol. 2009 Apr;24(2):96-103. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2008.00478.x.