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Reverse signaling through the costimulatory ligand CD137L in epithelial cells is essential for natural killer cell-mediated acute tissue inflammation.

ABSTRACT: Renal ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) after kidney transplantation is a major cause of delayed graft function. Even though IRI is recognized as a highly coordinated and specific process, the pathways and mechanisms through which the innate response is activated are poorly understood. In this study, we used a mouse model of acute kidney IRI to examine whether the interactions of costimulatory receptor CD137 and its ligand (CD137L) are involved in the early phase of acute kidney inflammation caused by IRI. We report here that the specific expressions of CD137 on natural killer cells and of CD137L on tubular epithelial cells (TECs) are required for acute kidney IRI. Reverse signaling through CD137L in TECs results in their production of the chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 2 ligands CXCL1 and CXCL2 and the subsequent induction of neutrophil recruitment, resulting in a cascade of proinflammatory events during kidney IRI. Our findings identify an innate pathogenic pathway for renal IRI involving the natural killer cell-TEC-neutrophil axis, whereby CD137-CD137L interactions provide the causal contribution of epithelial cell dysregulation to renal IRI. The CD137L reverse signaling pathway in epithelial cells therefore may represent a good target for blocking the initial stage of inflammatory diseases, including renal IRI.

SUBMITTER: Kim HJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3252952 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reverse signaling through the costimulatory ligand CD137L in epithelial cells is essential for natural killer cell-mediated acute tissue inflammation.

Kim Hye J HJ Lee Jong S JS Kim Jung D JD Cha Hee J HJ Kim Ahra A Lee Sun K SK Lee Sang C SC Kwon Byoung S BS Mittler Robert S RS Cho Hong R HR Kwon Byungsuk B

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111212 1

Renal ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) after kidney transplantation is a major cause of delayed graft function. Even though IRI is recognized as a highly coordinated and specific process, the pathways and mechanisms through which the innate response is activated are poorly understood. In this study, we used a mouse model of acute kidney IRI to examine whether the interactions of costimulatory receptor CD137 and its ligand (CD137L) are involved in the early phase of acute kidney inflammation cau ...[more]

PMID: 22160719

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Reverse signaling through the costimulatory ligand CD137L in epithelial cells is essential for natural killer cell-mediated acute tissue inflammation.

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Reverse signaling through the costimulatory ligand CD137L in epithelial cells is essential for natural killer cell-mediated acute tissue inflammation.

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