Allergin-1 on mast cells suppresses house dust mite-induced airway hyperresponsiveness in mice

Int Immunol. 2018 Aug 30;30(9):429-434. doi: 10.1093/intimm/dxy025.

Abstract

Although airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is a prominent feature of asthma, how it is regulated remains incompletely understood. Allergin-1, an inhibitory immunoglobulin-like receptor containing an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM), is expressed on human and mouse mast cells (MCs) and inhibits high-affinity receptor for IgE (FcεRI)-mediated signaling. Using MC-deficient KitW-sh/W-sh mice and Mas-TRECK mice, which carries a diphtheria toxin (DT)-induced MC deletion system based on il4 enhancer elements, we demonstrate here that MCs are involved in the induction of house dust mite (HDM)-induced AHR. Further, we show that MCs deficient in Allergin-1 exacerbated HDM-induced AHR, but had no effect on airway inflammation. In vitro analysis demonstrated that Allergin-1 inhibited anti-HDM allergen antibody-dependent HDM allergen-mediated degranulation by MCs. Thus, Allergin-1 on MCs plays an important role in the regulation of HDM-induced AHR.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Mast Cells / immunology*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Pyroglyphidae / immunology*
  • Receptors, Immunologic / immunology*
  • Respiratory Hypersensitivity / immunology*
  • Respiratory Hypersensitivity / pathology

Substances

  • Milr1 protein, mouse
  • Receptors, Immunologic