Orally desensitized mast cells form a regulatory network with Treg cells for the control of food allergy

Autor: Ayako Kaitani, Masato Kubo, Yoshimichi Okayama, Jiro Kitaura, Yukari Saito, Shizuo Akira, Sayuri Murasaki, Miho Nakamura, Takao Takahashi, Masahiro Kiuchi, Toshinori Nakayama, Kumiko Fujisawa, Kiyoshi Hirahara, Shota Toyoshima, Yosuke Kurashima, Kaoru Shimada, Kumi Izawa, Fujimi Arai, Naoki Takemura, Satoshi Uematsu, Jun Kunisawa, Yoshihiro Takasato, Hiroshi Kiyono
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Mucosal Immunology
ISSN: 1933-0219
Popis: Oral immunotherapy (OIT) is an effective approach to controlling food allergy. Although the detailed molecular and cellular mechanisms of OIT are unknown currently, they must be understood to advance the treatment of allergic diseases in general. To elucidate the mechanisms of OIT, especially during the immunological transition from desensitization to allergy regulation, we generated a clinical OIT murine model and used it to examine immunological events of OIT. We found that in mice that completed OIT successfully, desensitized mast cells (MCs) showed functionally beneficial alterations, such as increased induction of regulatory cytokines and enhanced expansion of regulatory T cells. Importantly, these regulatory-T-cell-mediated inhibitions of allergic responses were dramatically decreased in mice lacking OIT-induced desensitized MC. Collectively, these findings show that the desensitization process modulates the activation of MCs, leading directly to enhanced induction of regulatory-T-cell expansion and promotion of clinical allergic unresponsiveness. Our results suggest that efficiently inducing regulatory MCs is a novel strategy for the treatment of allergic disease.
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