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  • Title: IL-12 up-regulates IL-18 receptor expression on T cells, Th1 cells, and B cells: synergism with IL-18 for IFN-gamma production.
    Author: Yoshimoto T, Takeda K, Tanaka T, Ohkusu K, Kashiwamura S, Okamura H, Akira S, Nakanishi K.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1998 Oct 01; 161(7):3400-7. PubMed ID: 9759857.
    Abstract:
    IL-18 is a product of macrophages and with IL-12 strikingly induces IFN-gamma production from T, B, and NK cells. Furthermore, IL-18 and 1L-12 synergize for IFN-gamma production from Th1 cells, although this combination fails to affect Th2 cells. In this study, we show that IL-12 and IL-18 promptly and synergistically induce T and B cells to develop into IFN-gamma-producing cells without engaging their Ag receptors. We also studied the mechanism underlying differences in IL-18 responsiveness between Th1 and Th2 cells. Pretreatment of T or B cells with IL-12 rendered them responsive to IL-18, which induces cell proliferation and IFN-gamma production. These IL-12-stimulated cells had both high and low affinity IL-18R and an increased IL-18R mRNA expression. In particular, IL-12-stimulated T cells strongly and continuously expressed IL-18R mRNA. However, when T cells developed into Th1 cells after stimulation with anti-CD3 and IL-12, they lowered this IL-12-induced-IL-18R mRNA expression. Then, such T cells showed a dominant response to anti-CD3 by IFN-gamma production when they were subsequently stimulated with anti-CD3 and IL-18. In contrast, Th2 cells did not express IL-18R mRNA and failed to produce IFN-gamma in response to anti-CD3 and IL-18, although they produced a substantial amount of IFN-gamma in response to anti-CD3 and IL-12. However, when Th1 and Th2 cells were stimulated with anti-CD3, IL-12, and IL-18, only the Th1 cells markedly augmented IFN-gamma production in response to IL-18, suggesting that IL-18 responsiveness between Th1 and Th2 cells resulted from their differential expression of IL-18R.
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