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Blood, 15 April 2006, Vol. 107, No. 8, pp. 3229-3234.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on December 20, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-07-2650.
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IMMUNOBIOLOGY
U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein immune complexes induce type I interferon in plasmacytoid dendritic cells through TLR7
Emina Savarese,
Ohk-wha Chae,
Simon Trowitzsch,
Gert Weber,
Berthold Kastner,
Shizuo Akira,
Hermann Wagner,
Roland M. Schmid,
Stefan Bauer, and
Anne Krug
From the Department of Internal Medicine, Technical University Munich, Germany; Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Technical University Munich, Germany; Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany; and Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan.
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDCs), which produce IFN- in response to autoimmune complexes containing nuclear antigens, are thought to be critically involved in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). One of the immunostimulatory components of SLE immune complexes (SLE-ICs) is self DNA, which is recognized through Tlr9 in PDCs and B cells. Small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) are another major component of SLE-ICs in 30% to 40% of patients. In this study, we show that murine PDCs are activated by purified U1snRNP/anti-Sm ICs to produce IFN- and proinflammatory cytokines and to up-regulate costimulatory molecules. The induction of IFN- and IL-6 by U1snRNPs in murine bone marrowderived PDCs required the presence of intact U1RNA and was largely dependent on Tlr7 but independent of Tlr3. Intracellularly delivered isolated U1snRNA and oligoribonucleotides derived from the stem loop regions and the Sm-binding site of U1snRNA efficiently induced IFN- and IL-6 in Flt3L-cultured DCs in a Tlr7-dependent manner. The U1snRNA component of U1snRNP immune complexes, found in patients with SLE, acts as an endogenous "self" ligand for Tlr7 and triggers IFN- and IL-6 production in PDCs.

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