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- Title
Circulating specific antibodies enhance systemic cross-priming by delivery of complexed antigen to dendritic cells in vivo.
- Authors
van Montfoort, Nadine; Mangsbo, Sara M.; Camps, Marcel G. M.; van Maren, Wendy W. C.; Verhaart, Ingrid E. C.; Waisman, Ari; Drijfhout, Jan Wouter; Melief, Cornelis J. M.; Verbeek, J. Sjef; Ossendorp, Ferry
- Abstract
Increasing evidence suggests that antibodies can have stimulatory effects on T-cell immunity. However, the contribution of circulating antigen-specific antibodies on MHC class I cross-priming in vivo has not been conclusively established. Here, we defined the role of circulating antibodies in cross-presentation of antigen to CD8+ T cells. Mice with hapten-specific circulating antibodies, but naϊve for the T-cell antigen, were infused with haptenated antigen and CD8+ T-cell induction was measured. Mice with circulating hapten-specific antibodies showed significantly enhanced cross-presentation of the injected antigen compared with mice that lacked these antibodies. The enhanced cross-presentation in mice with circulating antigen-specific antibodies was associated with improved antigen capture by APCs. Importantly, CD11c+ APCs were responsible for the enhanced and sustained cross-presentation, although CD11c− APCs had initially captured a significant amount of the injected antigen. Thus, in vivo formation of antigen-antibody immune complexes improves MHC class I cross-presentation, and CD8+ T-cell activation, demonstrating that humoral immunity can aid the initiation of systemic cellular immunity. These findings have important implications for the understanding of the action of therapeutic antibodies against tumor-associated antigens intensively used in the clinic nowadays.
- Publication
European Journal of Immunology, 2012, Vol 42, Issue 3, p598
- ISSN
0014-2980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/eji.201141613