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Blood, 15 August 2006, Vol. 108, No. 4, pp. 1284-1290.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on April 25, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-12-4821.
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IMMUNOBIOLOGY
Unique efficacy of Toll-like receptor 8 agonists in activating human neonatal antigen-presenting cells
Ofer Levy,
Eugénie E. Suter,
Richard L. Miller, and
Michael R. Wessels
From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and 3M Pharmaceuticals, St Paul, MN.
Newborns are prone to microbial infection and have poor memory responses to multiple antigens. We have previously shown that human neonatal blood monocytes exhibit impaired TNF- responses to most known TLR agonists, including the pure TLR7 agonist imiquimod. Surprisingly, however, neonatal TNF- responses to the imiquimod congener R-848 (TLR 7/8) were fully intact. We now show that TLR8 agonists, including R-848 (TLR7/8), the imidazoquinoline congeners 3M-003 (TLR7/8) and 3M-002 (TLR8), as well as single-stranded viral RNAs (TLR8) induced robust production of the Th1-polarizing cytokines TNF- and IL-12 from neonatal antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that substantially exceeds responses induced by TLR-2, -4, or -7 (alone) agonists. TLR8 agonists also effectively induced up-regulation of the costimulatory molecule CD40 on neonatal and adult myeloid dendritic cells (DCs). The strong activity of TLR8 agonists correlates with their induction of p38 MAP kinase phosphorylation and with degradation of I B- in both neonatal and adult monocytes. We conclude that TLR8 agonists are uniquely efficacious in activating costimulatory responses in neonatal APCs and suggest that these agents are promising candidate adjuvants for enhancing immune responses in human newborns.
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