Innate Lymphocyte/Ly6C hi Monocyte Crosstalk Promotes Klebsiella Pneumoniae Clearance

Autor: James W. Keith, Dane Samilo, Eric G. Pamer, Ingrid Leiner, Rebecca A. Carter, Huizhong Xiong
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Cell. 165:679-689
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.03.017
Popis: Increasing antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens has rendered some infections untreatable with available antibiotics. Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterial pathogen that has acquired high-level antibiotic resistance, is a common cause of pulmonary infections. Optimal clearance of K. pneumoniae from the host lung requires TNF and IL-17A. Herein we demonstrate that inflammatory monocytes are rapidly recruited to the lungs of K. pneumoniae infected mice, and produce TNF, which markedly increases the frequency of IL-17-producing innate lymphoid cells. While pulmonary clearance of K. pneumoniae is preserved in neutrophil-depleted mice, monocyte depletion or TNF deficiency impairs IL-17A–dependent resolution of pneumonia. Monocyte-mediated bacterial uptake and killing is enhanced by ILC production of IL-17A, indicating that innate lymphocytes engage in a positive feedback loop with monocytes that promotes clearance of pneumonia. Innate immune defense against a highly antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogen depends on crosstalk between inflammatory monocytes and innate lymphocytes that is mediated by TNF and IL-17A.
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