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IL-10-producing Tfh cells accumulate with age and link inflammation with age-related immune suppression
Sci Adv. 2020 Jul 29;6(31):eabb0806. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb0806.
Maha Almanan 1, Jana Raynor 1, Ireti Ogunsulire 2, Anna Malyshkina 1, Shibabrata Mukherjee 1, Sarah A Hummel 1, Jennifer T Ingram 3, Ankur Saini 1 4, Markus M Xie 5, Theresa Alenghat 1 4 6, Sing Sing Way 6 7, George S Deepe Jr 5, Senad Divanovic 1, Harinder Singh 1 4, Emily Miraldi 1 4, Allan J Zajac 3, Alexander L Dent 8, Christoph Hölscher 2, Claire Chougnet 1 4, David A Hildeman 1 4
Abstract:
...In addition to increased interleukin-6 (IL-6), we found aged mice exhibit increased systemic IL-10 that requires forkhead box P3-negative (FoxP3-), but not FoxP3+, CD4+T cells. Most IL-10-producing cells manifested a T follicular helper (Tfh) phenotype and required the Tfh cytokines IL-6 and IL-21 for their accrual, so we refer to them as Tfh10 cells. IL-21 was also required to maintain normal serum levels of IL-6 and IL-10. Notably, antigen-specific Tfh10 cells arose after immunization of aged mice, and neutralization of IL-10 receptor signaling significantly restored Tfh-dependent antibody responses, whereas depletion of FoxP3+ regulatory and follicular regulatory cells did not. Thus, these data demonstrate that immune suppression with age is reversible and implicate Tfh10 cells as an intriguing link between "inflammaging" and impaired immune responses with age.
PMID: 32832688
Free Full-Text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7439492/
Tags: IL-10, immunity, mice, T follicular helper cells, Tfh