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The functional characterization of interleukin-10 receptor expression on human natural killer cells.

Human natural killer (NK) cells are large granular lymphocytes that constitutively express functional forms of the interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) and lyse tumor and virally infected cells without prior sensitization. NK cells with high density expression of CD56 (CD56bright) express the high affinity IL-2R and proliferate in response to low (picomolar) concentrations of IL-2. CD56dim NK cells express the intermediate affinity IL-2R and demonstrate enhanced cytotoxic activity without proliferation in response to high (nanomolar) concentrations of IL-2. In the present study, we characterized IL-10R expression on human NK cells and the functional consequences of IL-10 binding directly to highly purified subsets of CD56bright and CD56dim NK cells. Binding studies using 125I-IL-10 indicated that resting human NK cells constitutively express the IL-10 receptor protein at a surface density of approximately 90 receptor sites per cell, with a kd of approximately 1 nmol/L. Alone, IL-10 did not induce proliferation of CD56bright or CD56dim NK cell subsets. However, at low concentrations (0.5 to 5 ng/mL), IL-10 significantly augmented IL-2-induced proliferation of the CD56bright NK cell subset mediated via the high-affinity IL-2R. In the absence of IL-2, IL-10 was able to induce significant NK cytotoxic activity against NK-resistant tumor cell targets in both subsets of NK cells in a dose-dependent fashion. Furthermore, the combination of IL-10 and IL-2 had an additive effect on NK cytotoxic activity, whereas that of IL-10 and IL-12 did not. Production of interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor by IL-2- activated NK cells was also significantly enhanced by IL-10. Neither resting nor activated human NK cells appear to produce human IL-10 protein. In summary, NK cells constitutively express the IL-10R protein in low density, and the functional consequences of IL-10 binding directly to human NK cell subsets appear to be stimulatory and dose-dependent. In contrast to its direct effects on human T cells and monocytes/macrophages, IL-10 potentiates cytokine production by human NK cells.[1]

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  1. The functional characterization of interleukin-10 receptor expression on human natural killer cells. Carson, W.E., Lindemann, M.J., Baiocchi, R., Linett, M., Tan, J.C., Chou, C.C., Narula, S., Caligiuri, M.A. Blood (1995) [Pubmed]
 
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