Background: Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus is a trigger of atopic dermatitis. Many D pteronyssinus allergens are proteases that can elicit airway inflammation by stimulating the release of cytokines and chemokines by bronchial epithelial cells. Objective: We sought to investigate whether D pteronyssinus allergens can exert a similar activity on skin keratinocytes. Methods: Primary cultures of keratinocytes from healthy subjects or patients with atopic dermatitis and normal human bronchial epithelial cells were compared for cytokine production in response to D pteronyssinus extract. Results: Keratinocytes, but not bronchial epithelial cells, displayed a modest dose-dependent release of IL-1alpha and IL-1 receptor antagonist but no induction of their mRNA after exposure to D pteronyssinus. However, D pteronyssinus also degraded these cytokines. On the other hand, D pteronyssinus extract induced bronchial epithelial cells, but not keratinocytes, to increased expression of IL-8/CXCL8 and GNICSF mRNA and protein. These effects were efficiently abrogated by a mixture of cysteine and serine protease inhibitors. Both IL-8 and GM-CSF were fully resistant to D pteronyssinus proteolytic attack. No induction of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1/CCL2, RANTES/CCL5, or IFN-gamma-induced protein of 10 kd/CXCL10 was detected in either cell type. Only bronchial epithelial cells expressed protease-activated receptor (PAR) 4 mRNA, whereas PAR-1, PAR-2, and PAR-3 mRNA was found in both cell types. D pteronyssinus did not affect PAR mRNA signals. Conclusions: Although D pteronyssinus can cause proteolysis-dependent release of cytokines from keratinocytes, it appears incapable of activating de novo expression of cytokines and chemokines, arguing against a direct proinflammatory activity of house dust mite on the skin.

House dust mite allergen exerts no direct proinflammatory effects on human keratinocytes / F., Mascia; V., Mariani; GIANNETTI, Alberto; G., Girolomoni; S., Pastore. - In: JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. - ISSN 0091-6749. - STAMPA. - 109:3(2002), pp. 532-538. [10.1067/mai.2002.121830]

House dust mite allergen exerts no direct proinflammatory effects on human keratinocytes

GIANNETTI, Alberto;
2002

Abstract

Background: Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus is a trigger of atopic dermatitis. Many D pteronyssinus allergens are proteases that can elicit airway inflammation by stimulating the release of cytokines and chemokines by bronchial epithelial cells. Objective: We sought to investigate whether D pteronyssinus allergens can exert a similar activity on skin keratinocytes. Methods: Primary cultures of keratinocytes from healthy subjects or patients with atopic dermatitis and normal human bronchial epithelial cells were compared for cytokine production in response to D pteronyssinus extract. Results: Keratinocytes, but not bronchial epithelial cells, displayed a modest dose-dependent release of IL-1alpha and IL-1 receptor antagonist but no induction of their mRNA after exposure to D pteronyssinus. However, D pteronyssinus also degraded these cytokines. On the other hand, D pteronyssinus extract induced bronchial epithelial cells, but not keratinocytes, to increased expression of IL-8/CXCL8 and GNICSF mRNA and protein. These effects were efficiently abrogated by a mixture of cysteine and serine protease inhibitors. Both IL-8 and GM-CSF were fully resistant to D pteronyssinus proteolytic attack. No induction of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1/CCL2, RANTES/CCL5, or IFN-gamma-induced protein of 10 kd/CXCL10 was detected in either cell type. Only bronchial epithelial cells expressed protease-activated receptor (PAR) 4 mRNA, whereas PAR-1, PAR-2, and PAR-3 mRNA was found in both cell types. D pteronyssinus did not affect PAR mRNA signals. Conclusions: Although D pteronyssinus can cause proteolysis-dependent release of cytokines from keratinocytes, it appears incapable of activating de novo expression of cytokines and chemokines, arguing against a direct proinflammatory activity of house dust mite on the skin.
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House dust mite allergen exerts no direct proinflammatory effects on human keratinocytes / F., Mascia; V., Mariani; GIANNETTI, Alberto; G., Girolomoni; S., Pastore. - In: JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. - ISSN 0091-6749. - STAMPA. - 109:3(2002), pp. 532-538. [10.1067/mai.2002.121830]
F., Mascia; V., Mariani; GIANNETTI, Alberto; G., Girolomoni; S., Pastore
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