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This study examined the contribution of cysteine-cysteinyl chemokine receptor 6 (CCR6) to the innate pulmonary antimycobacterial immune response. Using a mouse model of Mycobacterium bovis BCG airway infection, we detected maximal induction of the CCR6 agonist CCL20 in lungs at 1 week after infection. Infected CCR6 knockout (CCR6-/-) mice displayed an early impairment of bacterial clearance, but ultimately eliminated the attenuated organisms with the onset of adaptive immunity. Flow-cytometric analyses of bronchoalveolar lavages and dispersed lungs revealed a 60% reduction in TCR-α/β+ T cells in airways but no compromise of TCR-γ/δ+ T cells. The subset of CD1d-restricted, CD8-TCR-α/β+ natural killer cells, which mediate innate mycobacterial resistance, was profoundly reduced (90%). Analysis of the adaptive response using ovalbumin-specific transgenic TCR T cell (OT-II) transfer combined with infection with recombinant M. bovis BCG producing ovalbumin peptide indicated no impairment of adaptive T cell activation in CCR6-/- mice. There was also no impairment of the induction of cytokine-producing cells in draining lymphoid tissue of CCR6-/- mice. Taken together, our findings indicate that CCR6 is not required for induction of the adaptive antimycobacterial response, but is likely critical to airway compartment mobilization of TCR-α/β+CCR6+ innate and adaptive effector T cells.

journal of innate immunity

Cysteine-Cysteinyl Chemokine Receptor 6 Mediates Invariant Natural Killer T Cell Airway Recruitment and Innate Stage Resistance during Mycobacterial Infection