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Blood, 1 April 2007, Vol. 109, No. 7, pp. 2887-2893.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on November 30, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-06-027862.


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Submitted June 21, 2006
Accepted November 22, 2006

Interferon regulatory factor 3-dependent responses to lipopolysaccharide are selectively blunted in cord blood cells

Ezra Aksoy, Valentina Albarani, Muriel Nguyen, Jean-Francois Laes, Jean-Louis Ruelle, Dominique De Wit, Fabienne Willems, Michel Goldman*, and Stanislas Goriely

Institute for Medical Immunology (IMI), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Charleroi, Belgium
Biovallee, Charleroi, Belgium
Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Research and Development, Rixensart, Belgium

* Corresponding author; email: mgoldman{at}ulb.ac.be.

The synthesis of interferon (IFN){beta} and IFN-inducible factors elicited by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) depends on the transcriptional activity of interferon regulatory factor (IRF)-3 downstream of Toll-like receptor (TLR)4. To examine the ability of human newborns to mount TLR4-mediated IRF-3-dependent responses, we analyzed the pattern of genes expressed upon addition of LPS to cord blood or cord blood monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDCs). Expression of IFN{beta} and IFN-inducible genes was selectively impaired in neonatal blood and moDCs as compared to their adult counterparts. This selective defect was confirmed by microarray experiments on moDCs. Altered expression of IFN-inducible genes was related to impaired IFN{beta} synthesis since IFN{beta} signaling was functional in neonatal moDCs. However, addition of exogenous IFN{beta} failed to restore LPS-induced IL-12p70 synthesis which was previously shown to be defective in neonatal moDCs. Whereas LPS-induced IRF-3 nuclear translocation was observed both in adult and neonatal moDCs, IRF-3 DNA binding activity and association with the coactivator CREB-binding protein (CBP) were decreased in neonatal as compared to adult moDCs. We conclude that impaired IRF-3/CBP interaction in neonatal blood cells exposed to LPS is associated with impaired expression of IFN{beta} and IFN-inducible genes. Since IRF-3 activity is also required for IL-12p70 synthesis, our findings provide a molecular basis for the decreased ability of LPS-stimulated neonatal moDCs to elicit Th1-type responses.


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