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Title	Impact of estrogen receptor alpha signaling on plasmacytoid dendritic cells in systemic lupus erythematous
Author	Scott, Jennifer L.
Date	2015
Extent	xii, 123 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
Subject.MeSH	Academic Dissertations--South Carolina Estrogen Receptor alpha--deficiency Dendritic Cells Lupus Erythematous, Systemic--prevention & control Academic Dissertations Publication Type
Collection	MUSC Theses and Dissertations
Contributing Institution	Waring Historical Library (MUSC)
Digitization Specifications	This work was born digital.
Date Digital	2015
Rights	Copyright is held by the author.
Language	English
SC County	Charleston County (S.C.)
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Media Type	Manuscripts
Resource Identifier	mtd2015_scott_jl
Abstract	Female lupus prone NZM2410 estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) functionally deficient (ERαKO) mice are protected from renal disease and have prolonged survival compared to wild type (WT) littermates, however the mechanism of protection is unknown. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) and type I interferon (IFN) drive lupus pathogenesis and estrogen acting via ERα enhances both pDC development and IFN production. The objectives for this work were to determine if ERα modulates pDC number, maturation, or function in pre-disease NZM2410 mice as a possible protective mechanism of ERα functional deficiency in lupus prone mice. We measured the effect of ERα functional deficiency on spleen pDC frequency, number, maturation, activation state, and type I IFN activity. ERα functional deficiency reduced the frequency of MHCII+ pDCs without altering overall pDC frequency, number, or maturation state. Additionally, ERαKO NZM2410 mice had significantly decreased numbers of pDCs expressing PDC-TREM, a modulator of toll-like receptor (TLR) mediated IFN production. ERαKO NZM2410 mice also had reduced endogenous spleen type I IFN activity. After in vitro TLR9 stimulation, ERα functional deficiency significantly reduced the expression of PDC-TREM on pDCs from both NZM2410 and C57BL/6 mice. pDCs from ERαKO mice had reduced levels of PDC-TREM transcripts prior to TLR stimulation, suggesting that ERα signaling alters the pDC’s potential to respond to TLR stimulation, thus ‘pre-programming’ the pDCs. Since PDC-TREM is required for pDC TLR mediated IFN production, this finding represents a mechanism by which ERα impacts pDC IFN production. Thus, we have identified a significant effect of ERα functional deficiency on pDCs and type I IFN activity in predisease NZM2410 mice. We believe the modulation of PDC-TREM expression in pDCs and resultant type IFN activity may represent a mechanism by which ERα functional deficiency protects NZM2410 mice from lupus like disease.

Impact of estrogen receptor alpha signaling on plasmacytoid dendritic cells in systemic lupus erythematous

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