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Katharina Pfistershammer, Johannes Stckl, Jrgen Siekmann, Peter L. Turecek, Hans Peter Schwarz, Birgit M. Reipert

Recombinant factor VIII and factor VIII-von Willebrand factor complex do not present danger signals for human dendritic cells

Keywords: Hemophilia A, FVIII inhibitors, human dendritic cells, danger signals, factor VIII

Several lines of evidence have shown that antibody responses to coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) in patients with hemophilia A depend on the help of activated CD4+ T cells. The primary activation of CD4+ T cells requires interaction with mature dendritic cells (DCs) that present antigenic peptides in the context of MHC class II and express costimulatory molecules. Maturation of DCs requires danger signals provided by exogenous or endogenous stimuli such as pathogen-derived products or inflammatory cytokines. We asked the question whether FVIII itself, FVIII complexed with von Willebrand factor (VWF) or thrombin-activated FVIII contain danger signals for human DCs that induce the upregulation of costimulatory molecules or the expression of proinflammatory cytokines necessary for effective activation of CD4+ T cells. Human peripheral monocytes were differentiated into DCs. FVIII, thrombin-activated FVIII, VWF, VWF-FVIII, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), LPS + FVIII, LPS + VWF or LPS + FVIII-VWF were added either on day 0 or on day 5 of differentiation cultures. Differentiation markers, cytokines in cell culture supernatants and the capacity of DCs to stimulate autologous and allogeneic T cells were analysed after seven days of differentiation cultures. Our results indicate that neither FVIII, thrombin-activated FVIII, VWF nor a complex of FVIII and VWF modulate the maturation of human DCs or their capacity to stimulate autologous or allogeneic T cells. We conclude that neither of these proteins present danger signals to human DCs.

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Schattauer

Print ISSN: 0340-6245
Volume: 96, 09/2006
Pages: 309 - 316

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