PMID- 25566514 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150715 LR - 20181113 IS - 2235-2988 (Electronic) IS - 2235-2988 (Linking) VI - 4 DP - 2014 TI - Myeloid decidual dendritic cells and immunoregulation of pregnancy: defective responsiveness to Coxiella burnetii and Brucella abortus. PG - 179 LID - 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00179 [doi] LID - 179 AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) are a component of the placental immune system, but their role in pregnancy is still poorly understood. Decidual DCs (dDCs) were selected from at-term pregnancy on the basis of CD14 and CD11c expression. A phenotypic analysis revealed that dDCs are characterized by the expression of monocyte-derived DC (moDCs) markers and specific markers such as HLA-G and its ligand ILT4. As demonstrated by whole-genome microarray, dDCs expressed a specific gene program markedly distinct from that of moDCs; it included estrogen- and progesterone-regulated genes and genes encoding immunoregulatory cytokines, which is consistent with the context of foeto-maternal tolerance. A functional analysis of dDCs showed that they were unable to mature in response to bacterial ligands such as lipopolysaccharide or peptidoglycan, as assessed by the expression of HLA-DR, CD80, CD83, and CD86. When dDCs were incubated with bacteria known for their placenta tropism, Coxiella burnetii and Brucella abortus, they were also unable to mature and to produce inflammatory cytokines. It is likely that the defective maturation of dDCs and their inability to produce inflammatory cytokines is related to the spontaneous release of IL-10 by these cells. Taken together, these results suggest that dDCs exhibit an immunoregulatory program, which may favor the pathogenicity of C. burnetii or B. abortus. FAU - Gorvel, Laurent AU - Gorvel L AD - CNRS UMR 7278, IRD198, INSERM U1095, Unite de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France. FAU - Ben Amara, Amira AU - Ben Amara A AD - CNRS UMR 7278, IRD198, INSERM U1095, Unite de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France. FAU - Ka, Mignane B AU - Ka MB AD - CNRS UMR 7278, IRD198, INSERM U1095, Unite de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France. FAU - Textoris, Julien AU - Textoris J AD - CNRS UMR 7278, IRD198, INSERM U1095, Unite de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France. FAU - Gorvel, Jean-Pierre AU - Gorvel JP AD - UM2, INSERM U1104, CNRS, UMR7280, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France. FAU - Mege, Jean-Louis AU - Mege JL AD - CNRS UMR 7278, IRD198, INSERM U1095, Unite de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20141223 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Cell Infect Microbiol JT - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology JID - 101585359 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Brucella abortus/*immunology/physiology MH - Brucellosis/*immunology/microbiology MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Coxiella burnetii/*immunology/physiology MH - Dendritic Cells/*immunology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Monocytes/*immunology MH - Placenta/immunology/microbiology MH - Pregnancy MH - Pregnancy Complications/*immunology/microbiology MH - Q Fever/*immunology/microbiology PMC - PMC4275036 OTO - NOTNLM OT - dendritic cell OT - immunoregulation OT - microarray OT - phenotype OT - placenta EDAT- 2015/01/08 06:00 MHDA- 2015/07/16 06:00 PMCR- 2014/01/01 CRDT- 2015/01/08 06:00 PHST- 2014/10/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/12/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/01/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/01/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/07/16 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00179 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2014 Dec 23;4:179. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00179. eCollection 2014.