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Infection and Immunity, October 2002, p. 5533-5539, Vol. 70, No. 10
0019-9567/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.10.5533-5539.2002
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Cholera Toxin and Heat-Labile Enterotoxin Activate Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells and Dominantly Inhibit Cytokine Production through a Cyclic AMP-Dependent Pathway

Division of Vaccine Research, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute,¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland—Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland 21201³

Received 9 May 2002/ Returned for modification 2 July 2002/ Accepted 16 July 2002

Cholera toxin (CT) and heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) are powerful mucosal adjuvants whose cellular targets and mechanism of action are unknown. There is emerging evidence that dendritic cells (DC) are one of the principal cell types that mediate the adjuvant effects of these toxins in vivo. Here we investigate the effects of CT and LT on the maturation of human monocyte-derived DC (MDDC) in vitro. We found that an enzymatically active A domain is necessary for both CT and LT to induce the maturation of MDDC and that this activation is strictly cyclic AMP (cAMP) dependent. ADP-ribosylation-defective derivatives of these toxins failed to induce maturation of MDDC, whereas dibutyryl-cyclic-3',5'-AMP and Forskolin mimic the maturation of MDDC induced by CT and LT. In addition, an inhibitor of cAMP-dependent kinases, Rp-8-Br-cAMPs, blocked the ability of CT, LT, and Forskolin to activate MDDC. CT, LT, dibutyryl-cyclic-3',5'-AMP, and Forskolin also dominantly inhibit interleukin 12 and tumor necrosis factor alpha production by MDDC in the presence of saturating concentrations of lipopolysaccharide. Taken together, these results show that the effects of CT and LT on MDDC are mediated by cAMP.

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