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Studying Sjögren's syndrome in mice: What is the best available model? J Oral Biol Craniofac Res 2021; 11:245-255. [PMID: 33665074 DOI: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2020.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a common autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration and destruction of exocrine glands. The disease manifests primarily in the salivary and lacrimal glands, but other organs are also involved, leading to dry mouth, dry eyes, and other extra-glandular manifestations. Studying the disease in humans is entailed with many limitations and restrictions; therefore, the need for a proper mouse model is mandatory. SS mouse models are categorized, depending on the disease emergence into spontaneous or experimentally manipulated models. The usefulness of each mouse model varies depending on the SS features exhibited by that model; each SS model has advanced our understanding of the disease pathogenesis. In this review article, we list all the available murine models which have been used to study SS and we comment on the characteristics exhibited by each mouse model to assist scientists to select the appropriate model for their specific studies. We also recommend a murine strain that is the most relevant to the ideal SS model, based on our experience acquired during previous and current investigations.
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Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Control Initiation of Lymph Node Organogenesis. Immunity 2017; 47:80-92.e4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2016] [Revised: 04/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/26/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Mouri Y, Nishijima H, Kawano H, Hirota F, Sakaguchi N, Morimoto J, Matsumoto M. NF-κB-inducing kinase in thymic stroma establishes central tolerance by orchestrating cross-talk with not only thymocytes but also dendritic cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2014; 193:4356-67. [PMID: 25261487 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1400389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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Essential roles of NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) for the development of medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) and regulatory T cells have been highlighted by studies using a strain of mouse bearing a natural mutation of the NIK gene (aly mice). However, the exact mechanisms underlying the defect in thymic cross-talk leading to the breakdown of self-tolerance in aly mice remain elusive. In this study, we demonstrated that production of regulatory T cells and the final maturation process of positively selected conventional αβ T cells are impaired in aly mice, partly because of a lack of mature mTECs. Of note, numbers of thymic dendritic cells and their expression of costimulatory molecules were also affected in aly mice in a thymic stroma-dependent manner. The results suggest a pivotal role of NIK in the thymic stroma in establishing self-tolerance by orchestrating cross-talk between mTECs and dendritic cells as well as thymocytes. In addition, we showed that negative selection was impaired in aly mice as a result of the stromal defect, which accounts for the development of organ-specific autoimmunity through a lack of normal NIK.
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- Yasuhiro Mouri
- Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan; and
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- Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan; and
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- Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan; and
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- Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan; and
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- Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan; and
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- Division of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan; and
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Taniguchi R, Fukushima H, Osawa K, Maruyama T, Yasuda H, Weih F, Doi T, Maki K, Jimi E. RelB-induced expression of Cot, an MAP3K family member, rescues RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis in alymphoplasia mice by promoting NF-κB2 processing by IKKα. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:7349-61. [PMID: 24488495 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.538314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The alternative nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway, mainly the RelB-p52 heterodimer, plays important roles in bone metabolism through an unknown mechanism. We have previously reported that alymphoplasia (aly/aly) mice, which lack active NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK), show mild osteopetrosis due to the inhibition of osteoclastogenesis. p100 retains RelB in the cytoplasm and inhibits RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis in aly/aly cells. Furthermore, the overexpression of RelB in aly/aly cells rescues RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis by inducing p100 processing. In contrast, the overexpression of p65 in aly/aly cells has no effect. However, the overexpression of RelB fails to rescue RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis in the presence of p100ΔGRR, which cannot be processed to p52, suggesting that p100 processing is a key step in RelB-rescued, RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis in aly/aly cells. In this study, Cot (cancer Osaka thyroid), an MAP3K, was up-regulated by RelB overexpression. Analysis of the Cot promoter demonstrated that p65 and RelB bound to the distal NF-κB-binding site and that RelB but not p65 bound to the proximal NF-κB-binding site in the Cot promoter. The knocking down of Cot expression significantly reduced the RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis induced by RelB overexpression. The phosphorylation of IKKα at threonine 23 and its kinase activity were indispensable for the processing of p100 and osteoclastogenesis by RelB-induced Cot. Finally, constitutively activated Akt enhanced osteoclastogenesis by RelB-induced Cot, and a dominant-negative form of Akt significantly inhibited it. Taken together, these results indicate that the overexpression of RelB restores RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis by activation of Akt/Cot/IKKα-induced p100 processing.
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- Rei Taniguchi
- From the Division of Molecular Signaling and Biochemistry and
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Shinzawa M, Maruyama Y, Qin J, Akiyama N, Miyauchi M, Yanai H, Takami M, Inoue JI, Akiyama T. Splenic extramedullary hemopoiesis caused by a dysfunctional mutation in the NF-κB-inducing kinase gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2011; 414:773-8. [PMID: 22005462 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2011] [Accepted: 10/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) plays critical roles in the development of lymph nodes and Peyer's patches, and microarchitecture of the thymus and spleen via NF-κB activation. Alymphoplasia (aly/aly) mice have a point mutation in the NIK gene that causes a defect in the activation of an NF-κB member RelB. Here, we developed a novel method to determine the aly mutation by genetic typing using PCR. This method facilitated the easy establishment of a congeneic aly/aly mouse line. Indeed, we generated a mouse line with aly mutation on a BALB/cA background (BALB/cA-aly/aly). BALB/cA-aly/aly mice showed significant splenomegaly with extramedullary hemopoiesis, which was not significant in aly/aly mice on a C57BL/6 background. Interestingly, the splenomegaly and extramedullary hemopoiesis caused by the aly mutation was gender-dependent. These data together with previous reports on extramedullary hemopoiesis in RelB-deficient mice suggest that NIK-RelB signaling may be involved in the suppression of extramedullary hemopoiesis in adult mice.
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- Miho Shinzawa
- Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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Maruyama T, Fukushima H, Nakao K, Shin M, Yasuda H, Weih F, Doi T, Aoki K, Alles N, Ohya K, Hosokawa R, Jimi E. Processing of the NF-kappa B2 precursor p100 to p52 is critical for RANKL-induced osteoclast differentiation. J Bone Miner Res 2010; 25:1058-67. [PMID: 19874202 DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.091032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Gene targeting of the p50 and p52 subunits of NF-kappaB has shown that NF-kappaB plays a critical role in osteoclast differentiation. However, the molecular mechanism by which NF-kappaB regulates osteoclast differentiation is still unclear. To address this issue, we analyzed alymphoplasia (aly/aly) mice in which the processing of p100 to p52 does not occur owing to an inactive form of NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK). Aly/aly mice showed a mild osteopetrosis with significantly reduced osteoclast numbers. RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis from bone marrow cells of aly/aly mice also was suppressed. RANKL still induced the degradation of I kappaB alpha and activated classical NF-kappaB, whereas processing of p100 to p52 was abolished by the aly/aly mutation. Moreover, RANKL-induced expression of NFATc1 was impaired in aly/aly bone marrow. Overexpression of constitutively active IKK alpha or p52 restored osteoclastogenesis in aly/aly cells. Finally, transfection of either wild-type p100, p100 Delta GRR that cannot be processed to p52, or p52 into NF-kappaB 2-deficient cells followed by RANKL treatment revealed a strong correlation between the number of osteoclasts induced by RANKL and the ratio of p52 to p100 expression. Our data provide a new finding for a previously unappreciated role for NF-kappaB in osteoclast differentiation.
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- Toshimasa Maruyama
- Division of Molecular Signaling and Biochemistry, Department of Bioscience, Kyushu Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan
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Taylor RT, Patel SR, Lin E, Butler BR, Lake JG, Newberry RD, Williams IR. Lymphotoxin-independent expression of TNF-related activation-induced cytokine by stromal cells in cryptopatches, isolated lymphoid follicles, and Peyer's patches. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2007; 178:5659-67. [PMID: 17442949 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.9.5659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Stromal cells play a crucial role in the organogenesis of lymphoid tissues. We previously identified VCAM-1(+) stromal cells in cryptopatches (CP) and isolated lymphoid follicles (ILF) in the small intestine of C57BL/6 mice. Nonhemopoietic stromal cell networks in CP and ILF of adult mice also expressed FDC-M1, CD157 (BP-3), and TNF-related activation-induced cytokine (TRANCE). Individual stromal cells were heterogeneous in their expression of these markers, with not all stromal cells expressing the entire set of stromal cell markers. Expression of VCAM-1, FDC-M1, and CD157 on CP stromal cells was absent in alymphoplasia mice deficient in NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK) and NIK knockout mice. Administration of lymphotoxin beta receptor (LTbetaR)-Ig to wild-type mice on day 13 resulted in the absence of CP on day 20; delaying administration of LTbetaR-Ig until day 18 resulted in an 80% decrease in the number of CP on day 22 and diminished expression of VCAM-1, FDC-M1, and CD157 on the remaining CP. In sharp contrast, TRANCE expression by stromal cells was completely independent of NIK and LTbetaR. In addition, expression of TRANCE in ILF was concentrated just beneath the follicle-associated epithelium, a pattern of polarization that was also observed in Peyer's patches. These findings suggest that TRANCE on stromal cells contributes to the differentiation and maintenance of organized lymphoid aggregates in the small intestine.
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- Rebekah T Taylor
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Wang J, Dong Y, Sun JZ, Taylor RT, Guo C, Alegre ML, Williams IR, Newell KA. Donor lymphoid organs are a major site of alloreactive T-cell priming following intestinal transplantation. Am J Transplant 2006; 6:2563-71. [PMID: 16952298 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01516.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We hypothesized that lymphoid organs within intestinal allografts contribute to their immunogenicity. Consistent with this hypothesis recipient T cells rapidly migrated to the lymph nodes and Peyer's patches of syngeneic and allogeneic intestinal grafts such that at 24 h approximately 50% of the lymphocytes isolated from donor lymphoid organs were of recipient origin. However, only in the lymphoid organs of allografts did recipient T cells display an activated phenotype, proliferate and produce IFNgamma. Rejection of allogeneic intestines lacking lymphoid organs was dramatically impaired in splenectomized, lymph node-deficient recipients compared to lymph node bearing, wild-type allogeneic intestines. This demonstrates the important role of donor lymphoid organs in the rejection process. Furthermore, recipient T cells proliferated more extensively and produced more IFNgamma in donor lymphoid organs than in recipient lymphoid organs, indicating that donor lymphoid organs play a dominant role in initiating the recipient anti-donor immune response following intestinal transplantation.
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- J Wang
- Emory Transplant Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Macpherson AJ. IgA adaptation to the presence of commensal bacteria in the intestine. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2006; 308:117-36. [PMID: 16922088 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-30657-9_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The lower intestine of mammals is colonised by a dense flora composed mainly of non-pathogenic commensal bacteria. These intestinal bacteria have a wide-ranging impact on host immunity and physiology. One adaptation following intestinal colonisation is increased production and secretion of polyspecific intestinal IgA. In contrast to the strong mucosal immune response to bacterial colonisation, the systemic immune system remains ignorant of these organisms in pathogen-free mice. Small numbers of bacteria can penetrate the epithelial surface overlying Peyer's patches and survive in dendritic cells to induce IgA by T-dependent and T-independent mechanisms. These dendritic cells loaded with live commensal organisms can home to the mesenteric lymph nodes but do not reach systemic secondary lymphoid structures, so induction of mucosal responses is focused in mucosal lymphoid tissues. The secretion of antibodies across the intestinal epithelial surface in turn limits the penetration of commensal organisms, but this is one of many mechanisms which adapt the intestinal mucosa to co-existence with commensal bacteria.
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- A J Macpherson
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University Medical Center, Room 3N51H, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton Ontario, L8 N 3Z5, Canada.
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Taylor RT, Lügering A, Newell KA, Williams IR. Intestinal cryptopatch formation in mice requires lymphotoxin alpha and the lymphotoxin beta receptor. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 173:7183-9. [PMID: 15585839 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.12.7183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Interactions between lymphotoxin (LT)alpha(1)beta(2) on inducer cells and the lymphotoxin beta receptor (LTbetaR) on stromal cells initiate development of lymph nodes and Peyer's patches. In this study, we assessed the contributions of LTalpha and LTbetaR to the development of cryptopatches (CP), aggregates of T cell precursors in the mouse small intestine. Mice genetically deficient in LTalpha or LTbetaR lacked CP. Bone marrow from LTalpha-deficient mice was unable to initiate development of CP or isolated lymphoid follicles (ILF) after transfer to CD132-null mice lacking CP and ILF. However, LTalpha-deficient bone marrow-derived cells contributed to CP formed in CD132-null mice receiving a mixture of wild-type and LTalpha-deficient bone marrow cells. Transfer of wild-type bone marrow into irradiated LTalpha-deficient mice resulted in reconstitution of both CP and ILF. However, the LT-dependent formation of CP was distinguished from the LT-dependent formation of ILF and Peyer's patches by not requiring the presence of an intact NF-kappaB-inducing kinase gene. CP but not ILF were present in the small intestine from NF-kappaB-inducing kinase-deficient alymphoplasia mice, indicating that the alternate NF-kappaB activation pathway required for other types of LTbetaR-dependent lymphoid organogenesis is dispensable for CP development. In addition, we identified VCAM-1(+) cells within both CP and ILF that are candidates for the stromal cells involved in receiving LT-dependent signals from the hemopoietic precursors recruited to CP. These findings demonstrate that interactions between cells expressing LTalpha(1)beta(2) and LTbetaR are a shared feature in the development of all small intestinal lymphoid aggregates.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Bone Marrow Transplantation/immunology
- Bone Marrow Transplantation/pathology
- Interleukin Receptor Common gamma Subunit
- Intestine, Small/immunology
- Intestine, Small/metabolism
- Intestine, Small/pathology
- Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Lymphocyte Subsets/transplantation
- Lymphoid Tissue/cytology
- Lymphoid Tissue/immunology
- Lymphoid Tissue/metabolism
- Lymphotoxin beta Receptor
- Lymphotoxin-alpha/deficiency
- Lymphotoxin-alpha/genetics
- Lymphotoxin-alpha/metabolism
- Lymphotoxin-alpha/physiology
- Lymphotoxin-beta
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Peyer's Patches/immunology
- Peyer's Patches/metabolism
- Peyer's Patches/pathology
- Receptors, Interleukin-7/deficiency
- Receptors, Interleukin-7/genetics
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/deficiency
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/physiology
- Stem Cells/cytology
- Stem Cells/immunology
- Stem Cells/metabolism
- Stromal Cells/immunology
- Stromal Cells/metabolism
- Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/biosynthesis
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Affiliation(s)
- Rebekah T Taylor
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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