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Fujimoto Y, Tu L, Miller AS, Bock C, Fujimoto M, Doyle C, Steeber DA, Tedder TF. CD83 expression influences CD4+ T cell development in the thymus. Cell 2002; 108:755-67. [PMID: 11955430 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(02)00673-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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T lymphocyte selection and lineage commitment in the thymus requires multiple signals. Herein, CD4+ T cell generation required engagement of CD83, a surface molecule expressed by thymic epithelial and dendritic cells. CD83-deficient (CD83-/-) mice had a specific block in CD4+ single-positive thymocyte development without increased CD4+CD8+ double- or CD8+ single-positive thymocytes. This resulted in a selective 75%-90% reduction in peripheral CD4+ T cells, predominantly within the naive subset. Wild-type thymocytes and bone marrow stem cells failed to differentiate into mature CD4+ T cells when transferred into CD83-/- mice, while CD83-/- thymocytes and stem cells developed normally in wild-type mice. Thereby, CD83 expression represents an additional regulatory component for CD4+ T cell development in the thymus.
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- Yoko Fujimoto
- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Puls KL, Hogquist KA, Reilly N, Wright MD. CD53, a thymocyte selection marker whose induction requires a lower affinity TCR-MHC interaction than CD69, but is up-regulated with slower kinetics. Int Immunol 2002; 14:249-58. [PMID: 11867561 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/14.3.249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The molecular mechanisms that govern the survival, maturation and export of thymocytes are the subject of intense study, and candidates for involvement in these processes might be identified by their differential expression during thymocyte selection. One such molecule is the tetraspanin CD53, which is not expressed on most CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive (DP) cells in the normal mouse. We have examined CD53 expression on DP from several class I- and class II-restricted TCR transgenic (Tg) mice, and have found a strong correlation between CD53 expression and positive selection. CD53 expression in DP was formally demonstrated to be dependent upon MHC recognition as evidenced by studying DP from MHC-deficient mice which totally lack expression of this molecule. This link between selection and CD53 expression was reminiscent of CD69, and indeed the majority of selected DP from normal mice that express CD53 also express CD69. We compared CD53 and CD69 induction in vitro using pre-selected thymocytes from TCR-Tg mice that were stimulated either with mAb against TCR or with antigen-presenting cells (APC) pulsed with peptides. The data shows that with either stimulus, CD69 is induced rapidly on the thymocyte surface with expression detected in as little as 2 h. CD53 induction is slower with maximal expression taking up to 20 h. We also stimulated pre-selected thymocytes from the OT-1 TCR-Tg strain with APC pulsed with peptides of varying affinities for the TCR. Here low-affinity peptides which induce CD69 expression poorly were able to induce significant levels of CD53 expression. These data demonstrate that the induction of CD53 and CD69 upon selection is not identical. Thus a combination of the CD69 and CD53 selection markers may be a powerful tool to isolate thymocytes that have either been very recently selected or have arisen from differing MHC--TCR affinity interactions during selection.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/metabolism
- Antigens, CD/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/biosynthesis
- Biomarkers/analysis
- Clone Cells
- Histocompatibility Antigens/metabolism
- Kinetics
- Lectins, C-Type
- Mice
- Mice, SCID
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Tetraspanin 25
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Up-Regulation
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- Kirsten L Puls
- The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria 3050, Australia
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Romagnoli P, Hudrisier D, van Meerwijk JPM. Preferential recognition of self antigens despite normal thymic deletion of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 168:1644-8. [PMID: 11823492 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.4.1644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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T cell tolerance to self Ags is in part established in the thymus by induction of apoptosis or anergy of potentially autoreactive thymocytes. Some autospecific T cells nevertheless migrate to peripheral lymphoid organs but are kept under control by the recently identified CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cell subset. Because these cells inhibit autoimmunity more efficiently than useful non-self Ag-specific immune responses, they are probably autospecific, posing important questions as to how they develop in the thymus. In this study we show that significantly more peripheral CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells recognize self than non-self Ags. However, we also show for a large panel of endogenous superantigens as well as for self peptide/MHC complexes that autospecific CD4(+)CD25(+) thymocyte precursors are normally deleted during ontogeny. Combined, our data firmly establish that the repertoire of regulatory T cells is specifically enriched in autospecific cells despite the fact that their precursors are normally susceptible to thymic deletion.
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- Paola Romagnoli
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Claude de Preval Institute, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France.
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Gonzalez A, Andre-Schmutz I, Carnaud C, Mathis D, Benoist C. Damage control, rather than unresponsiveness, effected by protective DX5+ T cells in autoimmune diabetes. Nat Immunol 2001; 2:1117-25. [PMID: 11713466 DOI: 10.1038/ni738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The progression of autoimmune diabetes is regulated. We examined here the cellular controls exerted on disease that developed in the BDC2.5 T cell receptor-transgenic model. We found that all BDC2.5 mice with a monoclonal, beta cell-reactive, T cell repertoire developed diabetes before 4 weeks of age; transfer of splenocytes from young standard NOD (nonobese diabetic) mice into perinatal monoclonal BDC2.5 animals protected them from diabetes. The protective activity was generated by CD4+ alphabeta T cells, which operated for a short time at disease initiation, could be partitioned according to DX5 cell surface marker expression and split into two components. Protection did not involve clonal deletion or anergy of the autoreactive BDC2.5 cells, permitting their full activation and attack of pancreatic islets; rather, it tempered the aggressiveness of the insulitic lesion and the extent of beta cell destruction.
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- A Gonzalez
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP), Strasbourg, France
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Leung RK, Thomson K, Gallimore A, Jones E, Van den Broek M, Sierro S, Alsheikhly AR, McMichael A, Rahemtulla A. Deletion of the CD4 silencer element supports a stochastic mechanism of thymocyte lineage commitment. Nat Immunol 2001; 2:1167-73. [PMID: 11694883 DOI: 10.1038/ni733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The mechanism of T cell lineage commitment remains controversial; to examine it we deleted the CD4-silencer element in the germ line of a mouse using a combination of gene targeting and Cre/LoxP-mediated recombination. We found that these mice were unable to extinguish CD4 expression either in immature thymocytes or mature CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (CTLs), which resulted in the development of major histocompatibility complex class II-restricted double-positive CTLs in the periphery. This finding strongly supports a stochastic over an instructive mechanism of coreceptor down-regulation.
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- R K Leung
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Level 7, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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Derbinski J, Schulte A, Kyewski B, Klein L. Promiscuous gene expression in medullary thymic epithelial cells mirrors the peripheral self. Nat Immunol 2001; 2:1032-9. [PMID: 11600886 DOI: 10.1038/ni723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 770] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Expression of peripheral antigens in the thymus has been implicated in T cell tolerance and autoimmunity. Here we identified medullary thymic epithelial cells as being a unique cell type that expresses a diverse range of tissue-specific antigens. We found that this promiscuous gene expression was a cell-autonomous property of medullary epithelial cells and was maintained during the entire period of thymic T cell output. It may facilitate tolerance induction to self-antigens that would otherwise be temporally or spatially secluded from the immune system. However, the array of promiscuously expressed self-antigens appeared random rather than selected and was not confined to secluded self-antigens.
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- J Derbinski
- Tumor Immunology Program, Division of Cellular Immunology, German Cancer Research Center, INF 280, D-69120, Germany
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Hayashi K, Abe N, Watanabe T, Obinata M, Ito M, Sato T, Habu S, Satake M. Overexpression of AML1 transcription factor drives thymocytes into the CD8 single-positive lineage. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 167:4957-65. [PMID: 11673502 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.9.4957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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To understand the gene regulation involved in the development of single-positive (SP) thymocytes, we generated transgenic mice in which the AML1 transcription factor is overexpressed. In these mice the number of CD8 SP thymocytes was greatly increased, and this continued to be true even when MHC class I was absent. This promotion to the CD8 SP lineage was not, however, observed when both class I and class II were absent. Furthermore, even thymocytes carrying MHC class II-restricted TCR differentiated into the CD8 SP lineage when AML1 was overexpressed. The selected CD8 SP cells were, however, unable to mature, as judged by the expression level of heat-stable Ag. Thus, overexpression of AML1 is able to skew class II-restricted thymocytes into the CD8 SP lineage, but not to drive the maturation of resulting selected CD8 SP cells.
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- K Hayashi
- Department of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Darwin observed that multiple, lowly organized, rudimentary, or exaggerated structures show increased relative variability. However, the cellular basis for these laws has never been investigated. Some animals, such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, are famous for having organs that possess the same number of cells in all individuals, a property known as eutely. But for most multicellular creatures, the extent of cell number variability is unknown. Here we estimate variability in organ cell number for a variety of animals, plants, slime moulds, and volvocine algae. We find that the mean and variance in cell number obey a power law with an exponent of 2, comparable to Taylor's law in ecological processes. Relative cell number variability, as measured by the coefficient of variation, differs widely across taxa and tissues, but is generally independent of mean cell number among homologous tissues of closely related species. We show that the power law for cell number variability can be explained by stochastic branching process models based on the properties of cell lineages. We also identify taxa in which the precision of developmental control appears to have evolved. We propose that the scale independence of relative cell number variability is maintained by natural selection.
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- R B Azevedo
- Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
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Santori FR, Arsov I, Vukmanović S. Modulation of CD8+ T cell response to antigen by the levels of self MHC class I. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:5416-21. [PMID: 11313378 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.9.5416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The response of H-Y-specific TCR-transgenic CD8(+) T cells to Ag is characterized by poor proliferation, cytolytic activity, and IFN-gamma secretion. IFN-gamma secretion, but not cytotoxic function, can be rescued by the B7.1 molecule, suggesting that costimulation can selectively enhance some, but not all, effector CD8(+) T cell responses. Although the H-Y epitope binds H-2D(b) relatively less well than some other epitopes, it can induce potent CTL responses in nontransgenic mice, suggesting that the observed poor responsiveness of transgenic CD8(+) T cells cannot be ascribed to the epitope itself. Previously reported reactivity of this TCR to H-2A(b) is also not the cause of the poor responsiveness of the H-Y-specific CD8(+) T cells, as H-Y-specific CD8(+) T cells obtained from genetic backgrounds lacking H-2A(b) also responded poorly. Rather, reducing the levels of H-2(b) class I molecules by breeding the mice to (C57BL/6 x B10.D2)F(1) or TAP1(+/-) backgrounds partially restored cytotoxic activity and enhanced proliferative responses. These findings demonstrate that the self MHC class I gene dosage may regulate the extent of CD8(+) T cell responsiveness to Ag.
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- F R Santori
- Michael Heidelberger Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, and Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Schmedt C, Tarakhovsky A. Autonomous maturation of alpha/beta T lineage cells in the absence of COOH-terminal Src kinase (Csk). J Exp Med 2001; 193:815-26. [PMID: 11283154 PMCID: PMC2193374 DOI: 10.1084/jem.193.7.815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The deletion of COOH-terminal Src kinase (Csk), a negative regulator of Src family protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs), in immature thymocytes results in the development of alpha/beta T lineage cells in T cell receptor (TCR) beta-deficient or recombination activating gene (rag)-1-deficient mice. The function of Csk as a repressor of Lck and Fyn activity suggests activation of these PTKs is solely responsible for the phenotype observed in csk-deficient T lineage cells. We provide genetic evidence for this notion as alpha/beta T cell development is blocked in lck(-/)-fyn(-/)- csk-deficient mice. It remains unclear whether activation of Lck and Fyn in the absence of Csk uncouples alpha/beta T cell development entirely from engagement of surface-expressed receptors. We show that in mice expressing the alpha/beta TCR on csk-deficient thymocytes, positive selection is biased towards the CD4 lineage and does not require the presence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II. Furthermore, the introduction of an MHC class I-restricted transgenic TCR into a csk-deficient background results in the development of mainly CD4 T cells carrying the transgenic TCR both in selecting and nonselecting MHC background. Thus, TCR-MHC interactions have no impact on positive selection and commitment to the CD4 lineage in the absence of Csk. However, TCR-mediated negative selection of csk-deficient, TCR transgenic cells is normal. These data suggest a differential involvement of the Csk-mediated regulation of Src family PTKs in positive and negative selection of developing thymocytes.
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- C Schmedt
- Laboratory for Lymphocyte Signaling, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA.
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Bosselut R, Feigenbaum L, Sharrow SO, Singer A. Strength of signaling by CD4 and CD8 coreceptor tails determines the number but not the lineage direction of positively selected thymocytes. Immunity 2001; 14:483-94. [PMID: 11336693 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(01)00128-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The present study has assessed the impact of the intracellular domains of CD4 and CD8 on positive selection and lineage direction of MHC class I-restricted thymocytes. Contrary to current presumption, we found that the CD4 tail promotes the generation of both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells without preference for the CD4+ T cell lineage. We also found that the identity of the coreceptor tail and hence the strength of coreceptor signaling determine the number of thymocytes undergoing positive selection but not their ultimate CD4/CD8 phenotype. These findings demonstrate that the strength of coreceptor signaling has a significant quantitative but not qualitative impact on positive selection and provide a simple explanation for the greater numbers of CD4+ than CD8+ T cells selected in the normal thymus.
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- R Bosselut
- Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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McKean DJ, Huntoon CJ, Bell MP, Tai X, Sharrow S, Hedin KE, Conley A, Singer A. Maturation versus death of developing double-positive thymocytes reflects competing effects on Bcl-2 expression and can be regulated by the intensity of CD28 costimulation. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:3468-75. [PMID: 11207305 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.5.3468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Immature double-positive (DP) thymocytes mature into CD4(+)CD8(-) cells in response to coengagement of TCR with any of a variety of cell surface "coinducer" receptors, including CD2. In contrast, DP thymocytes are signaled to undergo apoptosis by coengagement of TCR with CD28 costimulatory receptors, but the molecular basis for DP thymocyte apoptosis by TCR plus CD28 coengagement is not known. In the present study, we report that TCR plus CD28 coengagement does not invariably induce DP thymocyte apoptosis but, depending on the intensity of CD28 costimulation, can induce DP thymocyte maturation. We demonstrate that distinct but interacting signal transduction pathways mediate DP thymocyte maturation signals and DP thymocyte apoptotic signals. Specifically, DP maturation signals are transduced by the extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK)/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway and up-regulate expression of the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-2. In contrast, the apoptotic response stimulated by CD28 costimulatory signals is mediated by ERK/MAPK-independent pathways. Importantly, when TCR-activated thymocytes are simultaneously coengaged by both CD28 and CD2 receptors, CD28 signals can inhibit ERK/MAPK-dependent Bcl-2 protein up-regulation. Thus, there is cross-talk between the signal transduction pathways that transduce apoptotic and maturation responses, enabling CD28-initiated signal transduction pathways to both stimulate DP thymocyte apoptosis and also negatively regulate maturation responses initiated by TCR plus CD2 coengagement.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Apoptosis/immunology
- CD28 Antigens/immunology
- CD28 Antigens/metabolism
- CD28 Antigens/physiology
- CD4 Antigens/biosynthesis
- CD8 Antigens/biosynthesis
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
- Female
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Lymphocyte Activation
- MAP Kinase Signaling System/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/biosynthesis
- Receptor Cross-Talk/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/enzymology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/enzymology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
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- D J McKean
- Department of Immunology, Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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Watanabe N, Arase H, Onodera M, Ohashi PS, Saito T. The quantity of TCR signal determines positive selection and lineage commitment of T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 165:6252-61. [PMID: 11086060 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.11.6252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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It is generally accepted that the avidity of TCR for self Ag/MHC determines the fate of immature thymocytes. However, the contribution of the quantity of TCR signal to T cell selection has not been well established, particularly in vivo. To address this issue, we analyzed DO-TCR transgenic CD3zeta-deficient (DO-Tg/zetaKO) mice in which T cells have a reduced TCR on the cell surface. In DO-Tg/zetaKO mice, very few CD4 single positive (SP) thymocytes developed, indicating that the decrease in TCR signaling resulted in a failure of positive selection of DO-Tg thymocytes. Administration of the peptide Ag to DO-Tg/zetaKO mice resulted in the generation of functional CD4 SP mature thymocytes in a dose-dependent manner, and, unexpectedly, DO-Tg CD8 SP cells emerged at lower doses of Ag. TCR signal-dependent, sequential commitment from CD8(+) SP to CD4(+) SP was also shown in a class I-restricted TCR-Tg system. These in vivo analyses demonstrate that the quantity of TCR signal directly determines positive and negative selection, and further suggest that weak signal directs positively selected T cells to CD8 lineage and stronger signal to CD4 lineage.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- CD3 Complex/biosynthesis
- CD3 Complex/genetics
- CD3 Complex/metabolism
- CD3 Complex/physiology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Lineage/genetics
- Cell Lineage/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/physiology
- Immunophenotyping
- Injections, Intraperitoneal
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Ovalbumin/administration & dosage
- Ovalbumin/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/administration & dosage
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/deficiency
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
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- N Watanabe
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
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Mechanisms of lineage choice represent a challenging problem in developmental biology. Recent studies have shown that different T-cell receptor signals can affect CD4 or CD8 lineage choice. Thus, all the ingredients for instructive mechanisms of lineage fate are in place but other mechanisms cannot be completely ruled out.
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- H von Boehmer
- Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Hernández-Hoyos G, Sohn SJ, Rothenberg EV, Alberola-Ila J. Lck activity controls CD4/CD8 T cell lineage commitment. Immunity 2000; 12:313-22. [PMID: 10755618 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80184-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Thymocytes carrying MHC class I-restricted TCRs differentiate into CD8 T cells, while those recognizing MHC class II become CD4 T cells. The mechanisms underlying how MHC class recognition, coreceptor expression, and effector function are coordinated are not well understood. Since the tyrosine kinase Lck binds with more affinity to CD4 than CD8, it has been proposed as a candidate to mediate this process. By using transgenic mice with altered Lck activity, we show that thymocytes carrying a class II-restricted TCR develop into functional CD8 T cells when Lck activity is reduced. Conversely, thymocytes carrying a class I-restricted TCR develop into functional CD4 T cells when Lck activity is increased. These results directly show that quantitative differences in the Lck signal control the CD4/CD8 lineage decision.
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- G Hernández-Hoyos
- Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, USA
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Sharp LL, Hedrick SM. Commitment to the CD4 Lineage Mediated by Extracellular Signal-Related Kinase Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase and Lck Signaling. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.12.6598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The development of T cells results in a concordance between the specificity of the TCR for MHC class I and class II molecules and the expression of CD8 and CD4 coreceptors. Based on analogy to simple metazoan models of organ development and lineage commitment, we sought to determine whether extracellular signal-related kinase (Erk) mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway signaling acts as an inductive signal for the CD4 lineage. Here, we show that, by altering the intracellular signaling involving the Erk/MAP kinase pathway, T cells with specificity for MHC class I can be diverted to express CD4, and, conversely, T cells with specificity for MHC class II can be diverted to express CD8. Furthermore, we find that activation of the src-family tyrosine kinase, p56lck is an upstream mediator of lineage commitment. These results suggest a simple mechanism for lineage commitment in T cell development.
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- Leslie L. Sharp
- Department of Biology and Cancer Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093. E-mail address:
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- Department of Biology and Cancer Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093. E-mail address:
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Reinherz EL, Tan K, Tang L, Kern P, Liu J, Xiong Y, Hussey RE, Smolyar A, Hare B, Zhang R, Joachimiak A, Chang HC, Wagner G, Wang J. The crystal structure of a T cell receptor in complex with peptide and MHC class II. Science 1999; 286:1913-21. [PMID: 10583947 DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5446.1913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 329] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The crystal structure of a complex involving the D10 T cell receptor (TCR), 16-residue foreign peptide antigen, and the I-Ak self major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecule is reported at 3.2 angstrom resolution. The D10 TCR is oriented in an orthogonal mode relative to its peptide-MHC (pMHC) ligand, necessitated by the amino-terminal extension of peptide residues projecting from the MHC class II antigen-binding groove as part of a mini beta sheet. Consequently, the disposition of D10 complementarity-determining region loops is altered relative to that of most pMHCI-specific TCRs; the latter TCRs assume a diagonal orientation, although with substantial variability. Peptide recognition, which involves P-1 to P8 residues, is dominated by the Valpha domain, which also binds to the class II MHC beta1 helix. That docking is limited to one segment of MHC-bound peptide offers an explanation for epitope recognition and altered peptide ligand effects, suggests a structural basis for alloreactivity, and illustrates how bacterial superantigens can span the TCR-pMHCII surface.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens/chemistry
- Antigens/immunology
- Antigens/metabolism
- Binding Sites
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Conalbumin/chemistry
- Conalbumin/immunology
- Crystallization
- Crystallography, X-Ray
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/chemistry
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/metabolism
- Hydrogen Bonding
- Ligands
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred AKR
- Models, Molecular
- Oligopeptides/chemistry
- Oligopeptides/immunology
- Oligopeptides/metabolism
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Superantigens/immunology
- Superantigens/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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- E L Reinherz
- Laboratory of Immunobiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Salmon P, Mong M, Kang XJ, Cado D, Robey E. The Role of CD8α′ in the CD4 Versus CD8 Lineage Choice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.10.5312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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During thymic development the recognition of MHC proteins by developing thymocytes influences their lineage commitment, such that recognition of class I MHC leads to CD8 T cell development, whereas recognition of class II MHC leads to CD4 T cell development. The coreceptors CD8 and CD4 may contribute to these different outcomes through interactions with class I and class II MHC, respectively, and through interactions with the tyrosine kinase p56lck (Lck) via their cytoplasmic domains. In this paper we provide evidence that an alternatively spliced form of CD8 that cannot interact with Lck (CD8α′) can influence the CD4 vs CD8 lineage decision. Constitutive expression of a CD8 minigene transgene that encodes both CD8α and CD8α′ restores CD8 T cell development in CD8α mutant mice, but fails to permit the development of mismatched CD4 T cells bearing class I-specific TCRs. These results indicate that CD8α′ favors the development of CD8-lineage T cells, perhaps by reducing Lck activity upon class I MHC recognition in the thymus.
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- Patrick Salmon
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Keefe R, Dave V, Allman D, Wiest D, Kappes DJ. Regulation of lineage commitment distinct from positive selection. Science 1999; 286:1149-53. [PMID: 10550051 DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5442.1149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Developing alphabeta T cells diverge into the CD4 and CD8 lineages as they mature in the thymus. It is unclear whether lineage commitment is mechanistically distinct from the process that selects for the survival of T cells with useful T cell receptor (TCR) specificities (positive selection). In HD mice, which lack mature CD4+ T cells, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-restricted T cells are redirected to the CD8 lineage independent of MHC class I expression. However, neither TCR-mediated signaling nor positive selection is impaired. Thus, the HD mutation provides genetic evidence that lineage commitment may be mechanistically distinct from positive selection.
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- R Keefe
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, 7701 Burholme Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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Rooke R, Waltzinger C, Benoist C, Mathis D. Positive selection of thymocytes induced by gene transfer: MHC class II-mediated selection of CD8 lineage cells. Int Immunol 1999; 11:1595-600. [PMID: 10508177 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/11.10.1595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Recombinant adenovirus vectors are powerful tools for inducing de novo gene expression in vivo. Here we have exploited them to study the specificity of CD4/CD8 lineage commitment during thymocyte positive selection, transferring MHC class II genes directly into thymi of mice deficient in both class I and II molecules. Expression of class II molecules was induced on cortical stroma, provoking the selection of a large population of mature CD4(+)CD8(-) cells, as expected, but also of a significant number of CD4(-)CD8(+) cells. The latter constituted a diverse population, containing both immature precursors and, though less frequent, cells that were mature according to several criteria. CD4(-)CD8(+) cells appeared with the same kinetics as their CD4(+)CD8(-) counterparts, but tended to be more prevalent at early times or when thymocyte reconstitution was only modest. These observations, derived from a dynamic selection system, indicate that CD4/CD8 lineage commitment is not irredeemably linked to the class of MHC molecule driving positive selection, a conclusion most compatible with selective models of commitment.
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- R Rooke
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP), 67404 Illkirch, CU de Strasbourg, France
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Marx A, Müller-Hermelink HK. From basic immunobiology to the upcoming WHO-classification of tumors of the thymus. The Second Conference on Biological and Clinical Aspects of Thymic Epithelial Tumors and related recent developments. Pathol Res Pract 1999; 195:515-33. [PMID: 10483582 DOI: 10.1016/s0344-0338(99)80001-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The Second Conference on Biological and Clinical Aspects of Thymic Epithelial Tumors in Leiden, The Netherlands, 1998, set the stage for an interdisciplinary meeting of immunologists, pathologists and members of various clinical disciplines to exchange their recent findings in the field of thymus-related biology, pathology, and medicine. The contributions covered such diverse subjects as the role of transcription factors and cytokines in the development of the thymic microenvironment, thymic T, B and NK cell development, the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis and other thymoma-associated autoimmunities, the pathology of thymic epithelial tumors and germ cell neoplasms, and new approaches to their diagnosis and treatment. This editorial will briefly sum up the data presented at the Conference and will comment on related novel findings that have been reported since then. Because it was also at the Leiden Conference, that the proposal of the WHO committee for the classification of thymic tumors was discussed for the first time, a description of the upcoming WHO Classification of Tumors of the Thymus is given with emphasis on the diagnostic criteria of thymic epithelial tumors, that should now be termed as type A, AB, B1-3 and type C thymomas, to make pathological and clinical studies comparable in the future.
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Combining CD5-null, MHC-deficient and lineage-specific reporter animals, we have investigated the influence of CD5 on positive selection and the choice of CD4- versus CD8-lineage commitment on broad populations of thymocytes. CD5 has no obvious quantitative effect in wild-type mice. In mice lacking MHC class II molecules, however, increased numbers of transitional, class I-selected CD4+ CD8(int) CD3(hi) cells were positively selected in the absence of CD5. Importantly, they were committed to the CD4 lineage. Our results indicate that CD5 negatively regulates the differentiation of CD4-committed cells in suboptimal conditions, thus perhaps serving to tighten the correlation between restriction of the TCR and lineage choice.
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- S Chan
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP) Illkirch, C.U. de Strasbourg, France
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Madsen L, Labrecque N, Engberg J, Dierich A, Svejgaard A, Benoist C, Mathis D, Fugger L. Mice lacking all conventional MHC class II genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:10338-43. [PMID: 10468609 PMCID: PMC17889 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.18.10338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 269] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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MHC class II (MHC-II) molecules play a central role in the selection of the T cell repertoire, in the establishment and regulation of the adaptive immune response, and in autoimmune deviation. We have generated knockout mice lacking all four of the classical murine MHC-II genes (MHCII(Delta/Delta) mice), via a large (80-kilobase) deletion of the entire class II region that was engineered by homologous recombination and Cre recombinase-mediated excision. These mice feature immune system perturbations like those of Aalpha and Abeta knockout animals, notably a dearth of CD4(+) lymphocytes in the thymus and spleen. No new anatomical or physiological abnormalities were observed in MHCII(Delta/Delta) mice. Because these animals are devoid of all classical MHC-II chains, even unpaired chains, they make excellent recipients for MHC-II transgenes from other species, avoiding the problem of interspecies cross-pairing of MHC-II chains. Therefore, they should be invaluable for engineering "humanized" mouse models of human MHC-II-associated autoimmune disorders.
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- L Madsen
- Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Ellmeier W, Sawada S, Littman DR. The regulation of CD4 and CD8 coreceptor gene expression during T cell development. Annu Rev Immunol 1999; 17:523-54. [PMID: 10358767 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.17.1.523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The two major subsets of T lymphocytes in the peripheral immune system, the helper and cytotoxic T cells, are defined by their expression of either the CD4 or the CD8 glycoproteins, respectively. Expression of these molecules, which serve as coreceptors by interacting specifically with either MHC class II or class I molecules, also defines discrete stages of T cell development within the thymus. Thus, CD4+ and CD8+ single-positive (SP) thymocytes arise from common progenitor double positive (DP) cells that express both CD4 and CD8, during a process known as positive selection. The molecular mechanisms underlying the developmental choice toward the helper or cytotoxic lineage remain poorly understood. Because regulation of coreceptor gene expression appears to be coupled to the phenotypic choice of the differentiating T cell, it is likely that shared signaling pathways direct CD4 and CD8 transcription and the development of an uncommited DP thymocyte toward either the helper or cytotoxic lineage. Therefore, an understanding of how CD4 and CD8 expression is regulated will not only provide insights into transcriptional control mechanisms in T cells, but may also result in the identification of molecular factors that are involved in lineage choices during T cell development. In this review, we summarize recent progress that has been made toward an understanding of how CD4 and CD8 gene expression is regulated.
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- W Ellmeier
- Molecular Pathogenesis Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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The control of CD4 gene expression is believed to be linked directly to the signaling events that mediate T cell development and is directly dependent on the CD4 promoter. We have previously determined that this promoter contains four factor-binding sites important for its function. One of these sites, referred to as the P4 site, contains an Ets consensus recognition sequence. Using functional and biochemical analyses, we determine that Elf-1 binds to this site and specifically activates the CD4 promoter, indicating that Elf-1 is playing an important role in CD4 promoter function. In addition, a second nuclear factor binds to this region. Although there are consensus recognition sites for other factors, we demonstrate that none of these factors binds to the P4 site, nor do other known members of the Ets family. Thus, a novel transcription factor may bind to the CD4 promoter and help mediate its function.
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- S Sarafova
- Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Hernández-Hoyos G, Joseph S, Miller NG, Butcher GW. The lymphopenia mutation of the BB rat causes inappropriate apoptosis of mature thymocytes. Eur J Immunol 1999; 29:1832-41. [PMID: 10382745 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199906)29:06<1832::aid-immu1832>3.0.co;2-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BB rats develop autoimmune diabetes mellitus at a high frequency. A key factor in the development of the disease is an autosomal recessive mutation determining peripheral T cell lymphocytopenia. Previous studies have suggested that the lymphopenia could be caused by increased cell death. Here we demonstrate that the lyp mutation dramatically reduces the in vitro lifespan of the TCRhi single-positive thymocytes and peripheral T cells, without abolishing their capacity to proliferate. The reduced lifespan is due to an increased rate of apoptosis, and is detected in single-positive thymocytes displaying characteristics of cells which have undergone positive selection. The cell death defect does not affect the in vitro lifespan of peripheral B cells. Interestingly, stimulation can rescue peripheral lyp/lyp T cells from immediate cell death. We propose that the lymphopenia mutation prevents the accumulation of a normal T cell pool, including regulatory subsets, without preventing the activation and proliferation of reactive T cells, thereby creating conditions appropriate for the development of uncontrolled autoimmune responses.
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Dave VP, Allman D, Wiest DL, Kappes DJ. Limiting TCR Expression Leads to Quantitative But Not Qualitative Changes in Thymic Selection. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.10.5764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Thymic selection is controlled in part by the avidity of the interaction between thymocytes and APCs. In agreement, the selective outcome can be modulated by altering the expression levels of selecting ligands on APCs. Here we test the converse proposition, i.e., whether changing TCR levels on thymocytes can alter the selective outcome. To this end, we have generated mice in which all thymocytes express two transgenic TCRs simultaneously (dual TCR-expressing (DTE) mice), the class I-restricted HY TCR and the class II-restricted AND TCR. Due to mutual dilution, surface expression levels of the two individual transgenic TCRs are diminished in DTE relative to single TCR-expressing mice. We find that thymic selection is highly sensitive to these reductions in TCR surface expression. Positive selection mediated by the AND and HY TCRs is severely impaired or abolished, respectively. Negative selection of the HY TCR in male DTE mice is also partly blocked, leading to the appearance of significant numbers of double positive thymocytes. Also, in the periphery of male, but not female, DTE mice, substantial numbers of single positive CD8bright cells accumulate, which are positively selected in the thymus but by a highly inefficient hemopoietic cell-dependent process. Overall our results favor the interpretation that the outcome of thymic selection is not determined solely by avidity and the resulting signal intensity, but is also constrained by other factors such as the nature of the ligand and/or its presentation by different subsets of APCs.
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Rovira P, Buckle M, Abastado JP, Peumans WJ, Truffa-Bachi P. Major histocompatibility class I molecules present Urtica dioica agglutinin, a superantigen of vegetal origin, to T lymphocytes. Eur J Immunol 1999; 29:1571-80. [PMID: 10359111 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199905)29:05<1571::aid-immu1571>3.0.co;2-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The Urtica dioica agglutinin (UDA) shares with the superantigens the property of activating T cell subsets bearing particular Vbeta segments of the TCR. However, UDA is a lectin capable of binding to many glycoproteins on cell membranes. The implication of MHC versus other glycoproteins in UDA presentation was presently studied. Using mutant mice lacking MHC class I (MHC-I), MHC class II (MHC-II) or both MHC antigens, we provided evidence that MHC-I and MHC-II molecules serve as UDA receptors. Presentation by either one of these molecules ensured similar T cell responses and co-stimulatory signals were mandatory for optimal T cell activation and proliferation both in MHC-I and MHC-II contexts. Remarkably, in the absence of MHC molecules, UDA could not be efficiently presented to T cells by other glycosylated proteins. Surface plasmon resonance studies were used to confirm the binding of UDA to MHC-I molecules using a fusion protein consisting of MHC-I domains and beta2-microglobulin. The results indicated that the interaction between UDA and MHC-I molecules implicated lectin-binding site(s) of UDA. Taken together, our data demonstrate that, in addition to MHC-II antigens, MHC-I molecules serve as an alternative ligand for UDA.
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- P Rovira
- Unité d'Immunophysiologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Lucas B, Stefanová I, Yasutomo K, Dautigny N, Germain RN. Divergent changes in the sensitivity of maturing T cells to structurally related ligands underlies formation of a useful T cell repertoire. Immunity 1999; 10:367-76. [PMID: 10204492 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80036-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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CD4+ CD8+ thymocyte differentiation requires TCR signaling induced by self-peptide/MHC ligands. Nevertheless, the resulting mature T cells are not activated by these self-complexes, whereas foreign ligands can be potent stimuli. Here, we show that the signaling properties of TCR change during thymocyte maturation, differentially affecting responses to related peptide/MHC molecule complexes and contributing to this discrimination. Weak agonists for CD4+ CD8+ thymocytes lose potency during development, accompanied by a change in TCR-associated phosphorylation from an agonist to a partial agonist/antagonist pattern. In contrast, sensitivity to strong agonists is maintained, along with full signaling. This yields a mature T cell pool highly responsive to foreign antigen while possessing a wide margin of safety against activation by self-ligands.
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- B Lucas
- INSERM U345, Institut Necker, Paris, France
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Bhandoola A, Cibotti R, Punt JA, Granger L, Adams AJ, Sharrow SO, Singer A. Positive selection as a developmental progression initiated by alpha beta TCR signals that fix TCR specificity prior to lineage commitment. Immunity 1999; 10:301-11. [PMID: 10204486 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80030-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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During positive selection, immature thymocytes commit to either the CD4+ or CD8+ T cell lineage ("commitment") and convert from short-lived thymocytes into long-lived T cells ("rescue"). By formal precursor-progeny analysis, we now identify what is likely to be the initial positive selection step signaled by alpha beta TCR, which we have termed "induction". During induction, RAG mRNA expression is downregulated, but lineage commitment does not occur. Rather, lineage commitment (which depends upon the MHC class specificity of the alpha beta TCR) only occurs after downregulation of RAG expression and the consequent fixation of alpha beta TCR specificity. We propose that positive selection can be viewed as a sequence of increasingly selective developmental steps (induction-->commitment-->rescue) that are signaled by alpha beta TCR engagements of intrathymic ligands.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- CD3 Complex/physiology
- CD5 Antigens/physiology
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Lineage/immunology
- Clonal Deletion/immunology
- DNA-Binding Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- DNA-Binding Proteins/biosynthesis
- Down-Regulation/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/metabolism
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/immunology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Homeodomain Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- Homeodomain Proteins/biosynthesis
- Mice
- Mice, Congenic
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/chemistry
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
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- A Bhandoola
- Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Arsov I, Vukmanović S. Dual MHC Class I and Class II Restriction of a Single T Cell Receptor: Distinct Modes of Tolerance Induction by Two Classes of Autoantigens. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.4.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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In the final stages of thymic development, immature T cells undergo three distinct processes (positive selection, negative selection, and lineage commitment) that all depend on interactions of thymocyte TCRs with MHC molecules. It is currently thought that TCRs are preferentially restricted by either MHC class I or class II molecules. In this report, we present direct evidence that the TCR previously described as H-Y/H-2Db specific cross-reacts with H-2IAb if expressed in CD4+ cells. We also demonstrate an increase in thymocyte numbers in H-Y TCR-trangenic mice deficient in MHC class II, suggesting a relatively discrete form of negative selection by MHC class II compared with that induced by H-Y/H-2Db. We propose that inability to generate CD4+ T cells expressing H-Y TCR in different experimental settings may be due to tolerance to self-MHC class II. These results, therefore, support an intriguing possibility that tolerance to self may influence and/or interfere with the outcome of the lineage commitment.
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- Ivica Arsov
- Michael Heidelberger Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016
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- Michael Heidelberger Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016
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Dautigny N, Le Campion A, Lucas B. Timing and Casting for Actors of Thymic Negative Selection. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.3.1294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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We have recently proposed a new model for the differentiation pathway of αβ TCR thymocytes, with the CD4 and CD8 coreceptors undergoing an unexpectedly complex series of expression changes. Taking into account this new insight, we reinvestigated the timing of thymic negative selection. We found that, although endogenous superantigen-driven thymic negative selection could occur at different steps during double-positive/single-positive cell transition, this event was never observed among CD4lowCD8low TCRint CD69+ thymocytes, i.e., within the first subset to be generated upon TCR-mediated activation of immature double-positive cells. We confirm a role for CD40/CD40L interaction, and the absence of involvement of CD28 costimulation, in thymic deletion in vivo. Surprisingly, we found that thymic negative selection was impaired in the absence of Fas, but not FasL, molecule expression. Finally, we show involvement in opposing directions for p59fyn and SHP-1 molecules in signaling for thymic negative selection.
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- Nicole Dautigny
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 345, Institut Necker, Paris, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 345, Institut Necker, Paris, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 345, Institut Necker, Paris, France
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Paterson RK, Bluethmann H, Tseng P, Dunlap A, Finkel TH. Development and function of autospecific dual TCR+ T lymphocytes. Int Immunol 1999; 11:113-9. [PMID: 10050679 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/11.1.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Recent studies have challenged the long held concept that each T lymphocyte expresses on its surface only a single, unique alphabetaTCR. Dual TCR+ T cells have been recognized, however, their origin and potential to escape screening for self-reactivity remain obscure. We now report the thymic generation of dual alphabetaTCR+ T cells in the H-2Db/H-Y-specific TCR transgenic (Tg) mouse. Dual TCR+ thymocytes were positively selected less efficiently than single TCR+ thymocytes, although a subset attained maturity. Importantly, when TCR Tg mice were bred onto a negatively selecting background, auto-specific cells survived central deletion and matured as CD4+ dual TCR+ cells. These cells were autoreactive when CD8 expression was restored. The existence of autospecific, dual TCR+ T cells may have implications for the maintenance of self tolerance.
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- R K Paterson
- Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA
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A system to innocuously visualize T cell lineage commitment is described. Using a "knock-in" approach, we have generated mice expressing a beta-galactosidase reporter in place of CD4; expression of beta-galactosidase in these animals appears to be an accurate and early indicator of CD4 gene transcription. We have exploited this knock-in line to trace CD4/CD8 lineage commitment in the thymus, avoiding important pitfalls of past experimental approaches. Our results argue in favor of a selective model of thymocyte commitment, demonstrating a fundamentally symmetrical process: engagement of either class of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule by a differentiating CD4(+)CD8(+) cell can give rise to T cell antigen receptor (TCR)hi thymocytes of either lineage. Key findings include (a) direct demonstration of a substantial number of CD4-committed, receptor/coreceptor-mismatched cells in MHC class II- deficient mice, a critical prediction of the selective model; (b) highly efficient rescue of such "mismatched" intermediates by forced expression of CD8 in a TCR transgenic line, and an explanation of why previous experiments of this nature were less successful-a major past criticism of the selective model; (c) direct demonstration of an analogous, though smaller, population of CD8-committed mismatched intermediates in class I-deficient animals. Finally, we found no evidence of a CD4 default pathway.
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- S Chan
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP), Strasbourg, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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The outcome of positive selection of T lymphocytes is that there is a close match between the lineage adopted by a particular cell (CD4+ or CD8+) and the specificity of the T-cell receptor for the class of Major Histocompatibility Complex molecule recognized. How this match is obtained has been a matter of debate. We review the evidence, from recent and older experiments, that indicates that the process follows a selective logic, rather than an instructive one.
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- S Chan
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP) Strasbourg, France.
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T cells undergo a defined program of phenotypic and genetic changes during differentiation within the thymus. These changes define commitment of T-cell receptor (TCR) gamma delta and TCR alpha beta cells and lineage differentiation into CD4+ T helper and CD8+ cytotoxic T cells. T-cell differentiation and selection in the thymus constitute a tightly co-ordinated multistep journey through a network that can be envisaged as a three-dimensional informational highway made up of stromal cells and extracellular matrix molecules. This intrathymic journey is controlled by information exchange, with thymocytes depending on two-way cellular interactions with thymic stromal cells in order to receive essential signals for maturation and selection. Genetic inactivation of surface receptors, signal transduction molecules, and transcription factors using homologous recombination has provided novel insight into the signaling cascades that relay surface receptor engagement to gene transcription and subsequent progression of the developmental program. In this review we discuss molecular mechanisms of T lymphocyte development in mice that harbour genetic mutations in the guanine nucleotide exchange factor Vav and the interferon regulatory transcription factor 1 (IRF-1). We also propose a novel model of T-cell selection based on TCR alpha chain-directed signals for allelic exclusion and TCR alpha-based selection for single receptor usage.
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- J M Penninger
- Amgen Institute, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Fukui Y, Hashimoto O, Inayoshi A, Gyotoku T, Sano T, Koga T, Gushima T, Sasazuki T. Highly restricted T cell repertoire shaped by a single major histocompatibility complex-peptide ligand in the presence of a single rearranged T cell receptor beta chain. J Exp Med 1998; 188:897-907. [PMID: 9730891 PMCID: PMC2213398 DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.5.897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/1998] [Revised: 06/17/1998] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The T cell repertoire is shaped by positive and negative selection of thymocytes through the interaction of alpha/beta-T cell receptors (TCR) with self-peptides bound to self-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. However, the involvement of specific TCR-peptide contacts in positive selection remains unclear. By fixing TCR-beta chains with a single rearranged TCR-beta irrelevant to the selecting ligand, we show here that T cells selected to mature on a single MHC-peptide complex express highly restricted TCR-alpha chains in terms of Valpha usage and amino acid residue of their CDR3 loops, whereas such restriction was not observed with those selected by the same MHC with diverse sets of self-peptides including this peptide. Thus, we visualized the TCR structure required to survive positive selection directed by this single ligand. Our findings provide definitive evidence that specific recognition of self-peptides by TCR could be involved in positive selection of thymocytes.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- CD4 Antigens/analysis
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD8 Antigens/analysis
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Gene Expression Regulation/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor/immunology
- Genes, MHC Class I/immunology
- Genes, MHC Class II/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/biosynthesis
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/biosynthesis
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/genetics
- Ligands
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Peptide Fragments/genetics
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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- Y Fukui
- Department of Genetics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Wolf PR, Tourne S, Miyazaki T, Benoist C, Mathis D, Ploegh HL. The phenotype of H-2M-deficient mice is dependent on the MHC class II molecules expressed. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:2605-18. [PMID: 9754549 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199809)28:09<2605::aid-immu2605>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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For a broader view of the role of H-2M as an accessory molecule in antigen presentation, we investigated the degree to which different MHC class II isotypes and alleles depend on H-2M to function in vivo. We generated H-2M-deficient animals expressing Ek/b or Ak molecules in addition to the Ab molecules already present in the mutant strain, and compared the ability of the different MHC class II molecules to present antigen at the cell surface for recognition by T cells, and contribute to positive selection of CD4+ T cells in the thymus. Biochemical analyses were performed to assess MHC class II maturation, and to determine the peptide content of the molecules. In the absence of H-2M, Ek/b molecules contained a more heterogeneous set of class II-associated invariant chain peptides (CLIP) than Ab did, which, unlike Ab-CLIP complexes, were not SDS-stable. Unlike Ab molecules, both Ek/b and Ak efficiently presented exogenously added peptides to T cells in the absence of H-2M. In addition, epitopes from some proteins, especially those known to be invariant chain independent, were presented by Ak molecules in the mutant animals. To our surprise, expression of Ek/b overcame the positive selection defect observed in H-2M-deficient mice expressing Ab alone. In contrast, Ak expression did not augment positive selection of CD4+ T cells in the mutant animals. Some of these findings in vivo contrast significantly with findings from in vitro studies on murine MHC class II molecules in human DM-deficient cell lines.
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- P R Wolf
- Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, USA
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Boyd R, Kozieradzki I, Chidgey A, Mittrücker HW, Bouchard D, Timms E, Kishihara K, Ong CJ, Chui D, Marth JD, Mak TW, Penninger JM. Receptor-Specific Allelic Exclusion of TCRVα-Chains During Development. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.4.1718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Expression of a single Ag receptor on lymphocytes is maintained via allelic exclusion that generates cells with a clonal receptor repertoire. We show in normal mice and mice expressing functionally rearranged TCRαβ transgenes that allelic exclusion at the TCRα locus is not operational in immature thymocytes, whereas most mature T cells express a single TCRVα-chain. TCRVα allelic exclusion in mature thymocytes is regulated through a CD45 tyrosine phosphatase-mediated signal during positive selection. Using functional and genetic systems for selection of immature double TCRVα+ thymocytes, we show that peptide-specific ligand recognition provides the signal for allelic exclusion, i.e., mature T cells maintain expression of the ligand-specific TCRVα-chain, but lose the nonfunctional receptor. Whereas activation of TCRVβ-chains or CD3ε leads to receptor internalization, TCRVα ligation promotes retention of the TCR on the cell surface. Although both TCRVα- and TCRVβ-chains trigger phosphotyrosine signaling, only the TCRVβ-chain mediates membrane recruitment of the GTPase dynamin. These data indicate that TCRVα-directed signals for positive selection control allelic exclusion in T cells, and that developmental signals can select for single receptor usage.
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- Richard Boyd
- *Department of Pathology and Immunology, Monash Medical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- †Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- *Department of Pathology and Immunology, Monash Medical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- †Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- †Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- †Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- †Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- ‡The Biomedical Research Centre and Departments of Medical Genetics and Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; and
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- ‡The Biomedical Research Centre and Departments of Medical Genetics and Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; and
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- §Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- †Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- †Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Departments of Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Lu LS, Auerbach R. Characterization and Differentiation of an Early Murine Yolk Sac-Derived IL-7-Independent Pre-Pro-B Cell Line. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.3.1284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We describe a unique, stable pre-pro-B cell line (YS-PPB) derived from AA4.1+ yolk sac cells from day 10 mouse embryos. This cell line, discovered fortuitously during the course of studies of in vitro B cell differentiation, is independent of IL-7 supplementation for long term expansion in vitro. YS-PPB cells as well as clonal sublines expressed AA4.1, CD43, B220, Sca-1, CD19, heat stable antigen, MHC class I, IL-7R, and FcγR, but did not express cytoplasmic μ-chain, surface IgM (sIgM), or MHC class II molecules. PCR analysis showed that the cells expressed TdT, λ5, and RAG-1 genes, but that their Ig genes were still in germline configuration. The cell line was dependent on direct contact with S17 stromal cells for growth, but, in contrast to bone marrow stem cells, required no additional growth factors for maintenance and expansion. When stimulated with IL-7 and LPS, YS-PPB cells and cells from all tested clonal sublines differentiated into sIgM+ B cells in vitro. Irradiated mice reconstituted with YS-PPB cells yielded spleens containing 38% sIgM+ donor-derived B cells, demonstrating that YS-PPB cells, although stably arrested in development at the boundary between pre-pro-B and pro-B stages of B cell differentiation, still retain their competence to differentiate into mature, Ig-producing B cells when transferred to a normal host environment. Thus, this new cell line can provide a reproducible source of B cell precursors arrested at that critical time in B cell differentiation when the machinery for Ig gene rearrangement is in place but rearrangement has not yet occurred.
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- Li-Sheng Lu
- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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- Laboratory of Developmental Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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Dave VP, Allman D, Keefe R, Hardy RR, Kappes DJ. HD mice: a novel mouse mutant with a specific defect in the generation of CD4(+) T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:8187-92. [PMID: 9653162 PMCID: PMC20951 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.14.8187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/1998] [Accepted: 05/11/1998] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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We have identified a spontaneous mutation in mice, which we term HD for "helper T cell deficient." This mouse is distinguished by the virtual absence of peripheral T cells of the CD4(+)8(-) major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-restricted T helper subset due to a specific block in thymic development. The developmental defect is selective for CD4(+)8(-) cells; the maturation of CD4(-)8(+) and gamma delta T cells is normal. The autosomal recessive mutation underlying the HD phenotype is unrelated to MHC class II, since it segregates independently of the MHC class II locus. Moreover, the HD phenotype is not caused by a defect of the CD4 gene. Bone marrow transfer experiments demonstrate that the defect is intrinsic to cells of the hematopoietic lineage, i.e., most likely to developing thymocytes themselves. The frequency of CD4(+)8(low) intermediate cells is markedly increased in HD mice, suggesting that class II-restricted thymocytes are arrested at this stage. This is the first genetic defect of its kind to be described in the mouse and may prove highly informative in understanding the molecular pathways underlying lineage commitment.
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- V P Dave
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, 7701 Burholme Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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Fritsch M, Ivars F. Gammadelta T-cell precursor-derived CD4- CD8- alphabeta T cells retain gammadelta cell function. Scand J Immunol 1998; 48:8-14. [PMID: 9714405 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1998.00377.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We have previously shown that some of the DN alphabeta+ T cells arising in TcR alpha-chain transgenic mice are of gammadelta T cell origin, based on phenotypic data and on their status of TcR gene rearrangements. In the present report we investigated the impact of alphabeta TcR expression on the functional programme of the mature gammadelta precursor-derived DN alphabeta+ T cells. Our results demonstrate that both their proliferative capacity and their cytokine production profile are similar to that of gammadelta T cells. Furthermore, both transgenic DN alphabeta+ T cells and DN gammadelta+ T cells up-regulate CD8alpha expression after activation, but, in contrast to CD4+ alphabeta T cells, are unable to induce proliferation of naive B cells. Thus, our results suggest that the effector functions of mature T cells are determined independently of the TcR isotype, probably at an early stage of differentiation, and thereby have important implications for current models of T-cell lineage commitment.
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- M Fritsch
- Gastrointestinal Pharmacology, Astra Hässle AB, Mölndal, Sweden
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Wang H, Diamond RA, Rothenberg EV. Cross-lineage expression of Ig-beta (B29) in thymocytes: positive and negative gene regulation to establish T cell identity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:6831-6. [PMID: 9618498 PMCID: PMC22652 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.12.6831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/1997] [Accepted: 04/08/1998] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Developmental commitment involves activation of lineage-specific genes, stabilization of a lineage-specific gene expression program, and permanent inhibition of inappropriate characteristics. To determine how these processes are coordinated in early T cell development, the expression of T and B lineage-specific genes was assessed in staged subsets of immature thymocytes. T lineage characteristics are acquired sequentially, with germ-line T cell antigen receptor-beta transcripts detected very early, followed by CD3epsilon and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, then pTalpha, and finally RAG1. Only RAG1 expression coincides with commitment. Thus, much T lineage gene expression precedes commitment and does not depend on it. Early in the course of commitment to the T lineage, thymocytes lose the ability to develop into B cells. To understand how this occurs, we also examined expression of well defined B lineage-specific genes. Although lambda5 and Ig-alpha are not expressed, the mu 0 and I mu transcripts from the unrearranged IgH locus are expressed early, in distinct patterns, then repressed just before RAG1 expression. By contrast, RNA encoding the B cell receptor component Ig-beta was found to be transcribed in all immature thymocyte subpopulations and throughout most thymocyte differentiation. Ig-beta expression is down-regulated only during positive selection of CD4(+)CD8(-) cells. Thus several key participants in the B cell developmental program are expressed in non-B lineage-committed cells, and one is maintained even through commitment to an alternative lineage, and repressed only after extensive T lineage differentiation. The results show that transcriptional activation of "lymphocyte-specific" genes can occur in uncommitted precursors, and that T lineage commitment is a composite of distinct positive and negative regulatory events.
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- H Wang
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Eibl MM, Wolf HM. Biologic consequences of defective major histocompatibility complex class II presentation. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1998; 232:217-40. [PMID: 9557400 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-72045-1_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- M M Eibl
- Institute of Immunology, University of Vienna, Austria
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Nešić D, Vukmanović S. MHC Class I Is Required for Peripheral Accumulation of CD8+ Thymic Emigrants. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.8.3705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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MHC molecules influence the fate of T lymphocytes at two important stages of their differentiation. Recognition of self peptide/MHC complexes in the thymus determines whether immature T cells should live and mature into immunocompetent T cells or whether they should die. In the periphery, recognition of Ags presented by MHC molecules induces T cell activation, proliferation, and differentiation into effector/memory T cells. We describe in this work a third role that MHC molecules play in T cell physiology. CD8+ thymic emigrants require presence of MHC class I molecules in the periphery to seed the peripheral lymphoid organs. Numbers of CD8+ T cells are reduced severely in both the thymus and the periphery of β2-microglobulin-deficient (β2m−/−) mice. When grafted with wild-type (β2m+/+) thymic epithelium, immature β2m−/− T cells that populate the graft develop into functional mature CD8+ cells. However, significant numbers of peripheral CD8+ cells in grafted β2m−/− mice can be observed only after injection of MHC class I-expressing cells in the periphery. Thus, naive T cells in the periphery do not passively await antigenic stimulation, but actively engage in interactions with self MHC molecules that may promote their survival.
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- Dragana Nešić
- Michael Heidelberger Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology and Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016
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- Michael Heidelberger Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology and Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 10016
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Lühder F, Katz J, Benoist C, Mathis D. Major histocompatibility complex class II molecules can protect from diabetes by positively selecting T cells with additional specificities. J Exp Med 1998; 187:379-87. [PMID: 9449718 PMCID: PMC2212118 DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.3.379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Insulin-dependent diabetes is heavily influenced by genes encoded within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), positively by some class II alleles and negatively by others. We have explored the mechanism of MHC class II-mediated protection from diabetes using a mouse model carrying the rearranged T cell receptor (TCR) transgenes from a diabetogenic T cell clone derived from a nonobese diabetic mouse. BDC2.5 TCR transgenics with C57Bl/6 background genes and two doses of the H-2(g7) allele exhibited strong insulitis at approximately 3 wk of age and most developed diabetes a few weeks later. When one of the H-2(g7) alleles was replaced by H-2(b), insulitis was still severe and only slightly delayed, but diabetes was markedly inhibited in both its penetrance and time of onset. The protective effect was mediated by the Abetab gene, and did not merely reflect haplozygosity of the Abetag7 gene. The only differences we observed in the T cell compartments of g7/g7 and g7/b mice were a decrease in CD4(+) cells displaying the transgene-encoded TCR and an increase in cells expressing endogenously encoded TCR alpha-chains. When the synthesis of endogenously encoded alpha-chains was prevented, the g7/b animals were no longer protected from diabetes. g7/b mice did not have a general defect in the production of Ag7-restricted T cells, and antigen-presenting cells from g7/b animals were as effective as those from g7/g7 mice in stimulating Ag7-restricted T cell hybridomas. These results argue against mechanisms of protection involving clonal deletion or anergization of diabetogenic T cells, or one depending on capture of potentially pathogenic Ag7-restricted epitopes by Ab molecules. Rather, they support a mechanism based on MHC class II-mediated positive selection of T cells expressing additional specificities.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genes, MHC Class II/genetics
- Genes, MHC Class II/immunology
- Haplotypes/genetics
- Hemocyanins/immunology
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Interleukin-2/metabolism
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, Transgenic
- Muramidase/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Transgenes/genetics
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- F Lühder
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale/Université Louis Pasteur, 67404 Illkirch, Strasbourg, France
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Mitnacht R, Bischof A, Torres-Nagel N, Hünig T. Opposite CD4/CD8 Lineage Decisions of CD4+8+ Mouse and Rat Thymocytes to Equivalent Triggering Signals: Correlation with Thymic Expression of a Truncated CD8α Chain in Mice But Not Rats. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.2.700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Unselected CD4+8+ rat thymocytes, generated in vitro from their direct precursors, are readily converted to functional TCRhigh T cells by stimulation with immobilized TCR-specific mAb plus IL-2. Lineage decision invariably occurs toward CD4−8+, regardless of the timing of TCR stimulation after entry into the CD4+8+ compartment or the concentration of TCR-specific mAb used for stimulation. CD4-specific mAb synergizes with suboptimal TCR-specific mAb in inducing T cell maturation, but lineage decision remains exclusively CD4−8+. These results contrast with those obtained in mice, in which Abs to the TCR complex were shown to promote CD4+8− T cell maturation from CD4+8+ thymocytes. Surprisingly, when rat and mouse CD4+8+ thymocytes were stimulated with PMA/ionomycin under identical conditions, the opposite lineage commitment was observed, i.e., mouse thymocytes responded with the generation of CD4+8− and rat thymocytes with the generation of CD4−8+ cells. It thus seems that CD4+8+ thymocytes of the two species respond with opposite lineage decisions to strong activating signals such as given by TCR-specific mAb or PMA/ionomycin. A possible key to this difference lies in the availability of p56lck for coreceptor-supported signaling. We show that in contrast to mouse CD4+8+ thymocytes, which express both a complete and a truncated CD8α-chain (CD8α′) unable to bind p56lck, rat thymocytes only express full-length CD8α molecules. Mice, but not rats, therefore may use CD8α′ as a “dominant negative” coreceptor chain to attenuate the CD8 signal, thereby facilitating MHC class II recognition through the higher amount of p56lck delivered, and rats may use a different mechanism for MHC class distinction during positive selection.
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- Rita Mitnacht
- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Dembic Z, Munthe LA, Schenck K, Mueller C, Bogen B. Transient overexpression of CD4 enhances allelic exclusion of T-cell receptor (TCR) α chains and promotes positive selection of class II-restricted TCR-transgenic thymocytes. Mol Immunol 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0161-5890(98)80014-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Kirberg J, Berns A, von Boehmer H. Peripheral T cell survival requires continual ligation of the T cell receptor to major histocompatibility complex-encoded molecules. J Exp Med 1997; 186:1269-75. [PMID: 9334366 PMCID: PMC2199081 DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.8.1269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 345] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In the thymus, T cells are selected according to their T cell receptor (TCR) specificity. After positive selection, mature cells are exported from primary lymphoid organs to seed the secondary lymphoid tissue. An important question is whether survival of mature T cells is an intrinsic property or requires continuous survival signals, i.e., engagement of the TCR by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in the periphery, perhaps in a similar way as occurring during thymic positive selection. To address this issue we used recombination-activating gene (Rag)-deficient H-2b mice expressing a transgenic TCR restricted by I-Ed class II MHC molecules. After engraftment with Rag-/- H-2d fetal thymi, CD4+8- peripheral T cells emerged. These cells were isolated and transferred into immunodeficient hosts of H-2b or H-2d haplotype, some of the latter being common cytokine receptor gamma chain deficient to exclude rejection of H-2b donor cells by host natural killer cells. Our results show that in the absence, but not in the presence, of selecting MHC molecules, peripheral mature T cells are short lived and disappear within 7 wk, indicating that continuous contact of the TCR with selecting MHC molecules is required for survival of T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Survival/genetics
- Cell Survival/immunology
- Genes, RAG-1/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/metabolism
- Ligands
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred NZB
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Nude
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/transplantation
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- J Kirberg
- Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Molecular Genetics, Amsterdam
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Merkenschlager M, Graf D, Lovatt M, Bommhardt U, Zamoyska R, Fisher AG. How many thymocytes audition for selection? J Exp Med 1997; 186:1149-58. [PMID: 9314563 PMCID: PMC2199071 DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.7.1149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
T cell maturation requires the rearrangement of clonotypic T cell receptors (TCR) capable of interacting with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ligands to initiate positive and negative selection. Only 3-5% of thymocytes mature to join the peripheral T cell pool. To investigate the basis for this low success rate, we have measured the frequency of preselection thymocytes capable of responding to MHC. As many as one in five MHC-naive thymocytes show upregulation of activation markers on exposure to MHC-expressing thymic stroma in short-term reaggregate culture. The majority of these cells display physiological changes consistent with entry into the selection process within 24 h. By exposing TCR transgenic thymocytes to a range of MHC-peptide complexes, we show that CD69 induction is indicative of thymocyte selection, positive or negative. Our data provide evidence that the fraction of thymocytes that qualify to enter the thymic selection process far exceeds the fraction that successfully complete it, and suggest that most MHC-reactive thymocytes are actively eliminated in the course of selection.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Clonal Deletion
- DNA Primers
- DNA-Binding Proteins/immunology
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/metabolism
- Homeodomain Proteins
- Lectins, C-Type
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Major Histocompatibility Complex/immunology
- Mice
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Selection, Genetic
- T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Thymus Gland/embryology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- M Merkenschlager
- Lymphocyte Development Group, Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
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