Abstract
In celiac disease (CeD), a gluten-dependent autoimmune disorder, transglutaminase 2 (TG2), deamidates selected glutamine residues in gluten peptides, while HLA-DQ2 presents deamidated antigens to inflammatory T cells. The cellular sources of pathogenic TG2 and DQ2 are unclear. Using chemical biology tools, we show that intestinal CD103+ dendritic cells (DCs) couple cell-surface TG2 to the endocytic LRP1 receptor to simultaneously deamidate gluten antigens and concentrate them in lysosomes. In DQ2-transgenic mice, CD103+ DCs loaded with deamidated antigens migrate from intestinal lamina propria and Peyer’s patches into mesenteric lymph nodes, where they engage T cells. In turn, gluten antigen presentation upregulates intestinal TG2 activity. The tool (HB-230) used to establish a role of CD103+ DCs in gluten antigen presentation and TG2 activation in mice also revealed that the TG2/LRP1 pathway is active in human CD14+ monocytes. Within this population of circulating monocytes, a DC subset with the gut-homing β7-integrin marker is elevated in patients with CeD with active disease compared with nonceliac controls or patients on a gluten-free diet. Our findings not only inform the cellular basis for gluten toxicity in CeD, but they also highlight the immunologic role of an enigmatic protein of growing therapeutic relevance in CeD and other immune disorders.
Authors
Fu-Chen Yang, Harrison A. Besser, Hye Rin Chun, Megan Albertelli, Nielsen Q. Fernandez-Becker, Bana Jabri, Chaitan Khosla
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