RGD Reference Report - Islet-specific expression of CXCL10 causes spontaneous islet infiltration and accelerates diabetes development. - Rat Genome Database

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Islet-specific expression of CXCL10 causes spontaneous islet infiltration and accelerates diabetes development.

Authors: Rhode, A  Pauza, ME  Barral, AM  Rodrigo, E  Oldstone, MB  Von Herrath, MG  Christen, U 
Citation: Rhode A, etal., J Immunol. 2005 Sep 15;175(6):3516-24.
RGD ID: 2311363
Pubmed: PMID:16148094   (View Abstract at PubMed)

During inflammation, chemokines are conductors of lymphocyte trafficking. The chemokine CXCL10 is expressed early after virus infection. In a virus-induced mouse model for type 1 diabetes, CXCL10 blockade abrogated disease by interfering with trafficking of autoaggressive lymphocytes to the pancreas. We have generated transgenic rat insulin promotor (RIP)-CXCL10 mice expressing CXCL10 in the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans to evaluate how bystander inflammation influences autoimmunity. RIP-CXCL10 mice have islet infiltrations by mononuclear cells and limited impairment of beta cell function, but not spontaneous diabetes. RIP-CXCL10 mice crossed to RIP-nucleoprotein (NP) mice expressing the NP of the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in the beta cells had massively accelerated type 1 diabetes after lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. Mechanistically, we found a drastic increase in NP-specific, autoaggressive CD8 T cells in the pancreas after infection. In situ staining with H-2D(b)(NP(396)) tetramers revealed islet infiltration by NP-specific CD8 T cells in RIP-NP-CXCL10 mice early after infection. Our results indicate that CXCL10 expression accelerates the autoimmune process by enhancing the migration of Ag-specific lymphocytes to their target site.



RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
CXCL10Humantype 1 diabetes mellitus  ISOCxcl10 (Mus musculus) RGD 
Cxcl10Rattype 1 diabetes mellitus  ISOCxcl10 (Mus musculus) RGD 
Cxcl10Mousetype 1 diabetes mellitus  IMP  RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Cxcl10  (C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 10)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Cxcl10  (C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 10)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
CXCL10  (C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 10)


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