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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2007

Identification, activation, and selective in vivo ablation of mouse NK cells via NKp46.

Thierry Walzer
Mathieu Bléry
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Pascale André
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Laurent Gauthier
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Laurent Daniel
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Karine Chemin
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Yannis Morel
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Marc Dalod
Jean Imbert
Alessandro Moretta
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François Romagné
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Eric Vivier

Résumé

Natural killer (NK) cells contribute to a variety of innate immune responses to viruses, tumors and allogeneic cells. However, our understanding of NK cell biology is severely limited by the lack of consensus phenotypic definition of these cells across species, by the lack of specific marker to visualize them in situ, and by the lack of a genetic model where NK cells may be selectively ablated. NKp46/CD335 is an Ig-like superfamily cell surface receptor involved in human NK cell activation. In addition to human, we show here that NKp46 is expressed by NK cells in all mouse strains analyzed, as well as in three common monkey species, prompting a unifying phenotypic definition of NK cells across species based on NKp46 cell surface expression. Mouse NKp46 triggers NK cell effector function and allows the detection of NK cells in situ. NKp46 expression parallels cell engagement into NK differentiation programs because it is detected on all NK cells from the immature CD122(+)NK1.1(+)DX5(-) stage and on a minute fraction of NK-like T cells, but not on CD1d-restricted NKT cells. Moreover, human NKp46 promoter drives NK cell selective expression both in vitro and in vivo. Using NKp46 promoter, we generated transgenic mice expressing EGFP and the diphtheria toxin (DT) receptor in NK cells. DT injection in these mice leads to a complete and selective NK cell ablation. This model paves a way for the in vivo characterization and preclinical assessment of NK cell biological function.

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Immunologie

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hal-00165486 , version 1 (26-07-2007)

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Thierry Walzer, Mathieu Bléry, Julie Chaix, Nicolas Fuseri, Lionel Chasson, et al.. Identification, activation, and selective in vivo ablation of mouse NK cells via NKp46.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007, 104 (9), pp.3384-9. ⟨10.1073/pnas.0609692104⟩. ⟨hal-00165486⟩

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