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Loizon S, Boeuf P, Tetteh JKA, Goka B, Obeng-Adjei G, Kurtzhals JAL, Rogier C, Akanmori BD, Mercereau-Puijalon O, Hviid L, Behr C. Vβ profiles in African children with acute cerebral or uncomplicated malaria: very focused changes among a remarkable global stability. Microbes Infect 2007; 9:1252-9. [PMID: 17890120 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2006] [Revised: 04/30/2007] [Accepted: 05/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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T cells are thought to play a critical role in cerebral malaria pathogenesis. However, available evidences are restricted to rodent models in which V beta specific T cell expansion has been associated with neurological syndrome suggesting involvement of superantigens or dominant antigens. Using flow cytometry, we studied the peripheral V beta T cell repertoire of Ghanaian children with cerebral malaria, uncomplicated malaria and asymptomatic control children, to look for either expansion or deletion of specific V beta associated with cerebral malaria. At admission, the general pattern of the repertoire of the patients was very similar, with no major distortion compared to the control group a part a significant increase of the frequency of the V beta 21.3 subset correlating with disease severity and attributed to the CD4 subset. During convalescence very limited fluctuations were observed including a significant decrease of the V beta 21.3 subset and increase of the V beta 20 subset, a subset not detected at admission. The remarkable stability of the V beta repertoire observed in acute malaria either cerebral or uncomplicated argues against the idea that cerebral malaria would result from a T cell-mediated inflammatory shock syndrome driven by some dominant super-antigenic activity(ies). The significance of the reproducible increase of the CD4+V beta 21.3T cell subset deserves further investigations.
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- Séverine Loizon
- Unité d'Immunologie Moléculaire des Parasites, CNRS URA 2581, Département de Parasitologie, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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Keating R, Yue W, Rutigliano JA, So J, Olivas E, Thomas PG, Doherty PC. Virus-specific CD8+ T cells in the liver: armed and ready to kill. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 178:2737-45. [PMID: 17312116 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.5.2737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Influenza A virus infection of C57BL/6 mice is a well-characterized model for studying CD8+ T cell-mediated immunity. Analysis of primary and secondary responses showed that the liver is highly enriched for CD8+ T cells specific for the immunodominant H2D(b)NP(366-374) (D(b)NP(366)) epitope. Functional analysis established that these liver-derived virus-specific CD8+ T cells are fully competent cytotoxic effectors and IFN-gamma secretors. In addition, flow cytometric analysis of early apoptotic cells showed that these influenza-specific CD8+ T cells from liver are as viable as those in the spleen, bronchoalveolar lavage, mediastinal lymph nodes, or lung. Moreover, cytokine profiles of the influenza-specific CD8+ T cells recovered from different sites were consistent with the bronchoalveolar lavage, rather than liver population, being the most susceptible to activation-induced cell death. Importantly, adoptively transferred influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells from the liver survived and were readily recalled after virus challenge. Together, these results show clearly that the liver is not a "graveyard" for influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells.
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- Rachael Keating
- Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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Xu H, Chilton PM, Huang Y, Schanie CL, Yan J, Ildstad ST. Addition of Cyclophosphamide to T-cell Depletion–Based Nonmyeloablative Conditioning Allows Donor T-cell Engraftment and Clonal Deletion of Alloreactive Host T-cells After Bone Marrow Transplantation. Transplantation 2007; 83:954-63. [PMID: 17460568 DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000258679.18684.b0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Bone marrow (BM) chimerism has been shown to have a beneficial effect on allograft survival. We recently found that production of donor T-cells was highly correlated with induction of tolerance in minimally conditioned chimeras. In the present studies, we demonstrate that nonmyeloablative conditioning and BM cell infusion modulate innate and adaptive host immune responses. METHODS Chimeras were generated by bone marrow transplantation (B10.BR to B10). Recipients were preconditioned with T-cell depleting antibodies and total body irradiation with or without cyclophosphamide. Donor-specific tolerance was tested by skin grafting. RESULTS Transfer of tolerant splenocytes to immunocompetent secondary recipients did not transfer tolerance, nor did infusion of tolerant CD4+/CD25+ T-cells into chimeras without donor T-cell production, demonstrating that linked suppression is an unlikely mechanism in tolerance induction in the context of BM cell infusion. The addition of a single dose of cyclophosphamide to the conditioning enhanced engraftment and tolerance. This was associated with production of donor T-cells and effective clonal deletion, and a significant reduction in activated recipient plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) and natural killer (NK) cells. Chimeras without donor T-cell production that eventually lost their chimerism did not generate an antidonor humoral response, whereas unconditioned controls infused with similar numbers of BM cells did, indicating that infusion of donor BM cells into conditioned recipients induced immune deviation for adaptive B-cell immunity, preventing sensitization to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) alloantigens. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate that recipient T-cells, pDC, and NK cells contribute to the host barrier for establishing chimerism, implicate deletional tolerance as the mechanism for total body irradiation-based nonmyeloablative conditioning for BM transplantation, and show a beneficial effect of BM cells in preventing sensitization to MHC alloantigens.
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- Hong Xu
- Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202-1760, USA
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Manicassamy S, Sun Z. The critical role of protein kinase C-theta in Fas/Fas ligand-mediated apoptosis. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 178:312-9. [PMID: 17182568 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.1.312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A functional immune system not only requires rapid expansion of antigenic specific T cells, but also requires efficient deletion of clonally expanded T cells to avoid accumulation of T cells. Fas/Fas ligand (FasL)-mediated apoptosis plays a critical role in the deletion of activated peripheral T cells, which is clearly demonstrated by superantigen-induced expansion and subsequent deletion of T cells. In this study, we show that in the absence of protein kinase C-theta (PKC-theta), superantigen (staphylococcal enterotoxin B)-induced deletion of Vbeta8(+) CD4(+) T cells was defective in PKC-theta(-/-) mice. In response to staphylococcal enterotoxin B challenge, up-regulation of FasL, but not Fas, was significantly reduced in PKC-theta(-/-) mice. PKC-theta is thus required for maximum up-regulation of FasL in vivo. We further show that stimulation of FasL expression depends on PKC-theta-mediated activation of NF-AT pathway. In addition, PKC-theta(-/-) T cells displayed resistance to Fas-mediated apoptosis as well as activation-induced cell death (AICD). In the absence of PKC-theta, Fas-induced activation of apoptotic molecules such as caspase-8, caspase-3, and Bid was not efficient. However, AICD as well as Fas-mediated apoptosis of PKC-theta(-/-) T cells were restored in the presence of high concentration of IL-2, a critical factor required for potentiating T cells for AICD. PKC-theta is thus required for promoting FasL expression and for potentiating Fas-mediated apoptosis.
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- Santhakumar Manicassamy
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Lapinski PE, MacGregor JN, Marti F, King PD. The T cell-specific adapter protein functions as a regulator of peripheral but not central immunological tolerance. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2007; 584:73-87. [PMID: 16802600 DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34132-3_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Philip E Lapinski
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0620, USA
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This review considers a crucially new mechanism of T-cell antigen-recognizing repertoire formation. It includes the revision of T-cell antigen receptor (TCR), which implies the secondary rearrangement of TCR genes in peripheral T-lymphocytes and surface expression of a new antigen receptor with altered specificity. Factors and mechanisms involved in the induction of this process have been analyzed. Certain attention is paid to a possible role of TCR revision in the formation of peripheral tolerance in the processes of "avidity maturation" of T-lymphocytes during immune response and also negative consequences related to appearance of potentially autoreactive clones in the periphery.
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- E M Kuklina
- Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, 614081, Russia.
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Plaza R, Rodriguez-Sanchez JL, Juarez C. Staphylococcal enterotoxin B in vivo modulates both gamma interferon receptor expression and ligand-induced activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 in T cells. Infect Immun 2007; 75:306-13. [PMID: 17074848 PMCID: PMC1828398 DOI: 10.1128/iai.01220-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2006] [Revised: 09/15/2006] [Accepted: 10/19/2006] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Superantigens (SAg) are bacterial exotoxins that provoke extreme responses in the immune system; for example, the acute hyperactivation of SAg-reactive T cells that leads to toxic shock syndrome is followed within days by strong immunosuppression. The gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) response is deeply affected in both extremes. The implication of IFN-gamma in the pathophysiology of lethal shock induced in mice after a secondary challenge with the SAg staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) prompted us to study the regulation of IFN-gamma secretion and the intracellular response. We demonstrate in this study that a rechallenge with SEB becomes lethal only when given inside a critical time window after SEB priming and is associated with an increase of IFN-gamma serum release 72 h after priming. However, at this time, a selective blockade of IFN-gamma/STAT1 signaling develops in spleen cells, correlating with a lack of expression of the IFN-gamma receptor beta subunit and STAT1 in the T-cell population. Selective blockade of the STAT1 signaling pathway--while simultaneously maintaining STAT3 signaling and expression--may be a protective mechanism that shortens IFN-gamma production during the Th1 effector response. This blockade may also have consequences on switching towards a suppressor phenotype with chronic exposure to the superantigen.
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- R Plaza
- Department of Immunology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Avda. Sant Antoni Maria Claret 167, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
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Buckler JL, Walsh PT, Porrett PM, Choi Y, Turka LA. Cutting edge: T cell requirement for CD28 costimulation is due to negative regulation of TCR signals by PTEN. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 177:4262-6. [PMID: 16982858 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.7.4262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Recent studies suggest that the phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) plays a critical role in the maintenance of self-tolerance. Using T cell-specific PTEN knockout mice (PTENDeltaT), we have identified a novel mechanism by which PTEN regulates T cell tolerance. We found that TCR stimulation alone, without CD28 costimulation, is sufficient to induce hyperactivation of the PI3K pathway, which leads to enhanced IL-2 production by naive PTENDeltaT T cells. Importantly, as a result of this increased response to TCR stimulation, PTENDeltaT CD4(+) T cells no longer require CD28 costimulation for in vitro or in vivo expansion. In fact, unlike wild-type T cells, PTENDeltaT CD4(+) T cells are not anergized by delivery of TCR stimulation alone. These data suggest that by negatively regulating TCR signals, PTEN imposes a requirement for CD28 costimulation, thus defining a novel mechanism for its role in self-tolerance.
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- Jodi L Buckler
- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6144, USA
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Gronski MA, Weinem M. Death pathways in T cell homeostasis and their role in autoimmune diabetes. Rev Diabet Stud 2006; 3:88-95. [PMID: 17487332 PMCID: PMC1783577 DOI: 10.1900/rds.2006.3.88] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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T cell apoptosis is a process necessary for central and peripheral tolerance. It ensures the proper removal of autoreactive T cells during thymic development as well as T cell homeostasis and the downregulation of immune responses against antigens in the periphery. Thus it is essential for the prevention of autoimmunity. Apoptotic pathways can be triggered by intrinsic (mitochondria-based) and extrinsic (receptor-based) stimuli. Both pathways involve a cascade of proteolytic enzymes called caspases whose activation commits the cell to death. In the periphery, autoreactive lymphocytes can be silenced by developmental arrest (anergy), or deleted by programmed cell death (apoptosis) through receptor-based activation-induced cell death (AICD). Central tolerance seems to rely more heavily on the mitochondria-based, T cell receptor (TCR)-stimulated apoptotic pathway, since thymocytes lacking the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member Bim are resistant to TCR-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, defects in the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis may impair clonal deletion of autoreactive T cells. Several animal models exist in which impaired apoptosis results in autoimmunity. Here, we discuss data that suggest defects in T cell apoptosis in type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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- Matthew A Gronski
- Beirne Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Lane Road, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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Foss-Freitas MC, Foss NT, Donadi EA, Foss MC. Effect of metabolic control on the in vitro proliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients. SAO PAULO MED J 2006; 124:219-22. [PMID: 17086304 PMCID: PMC11065367 DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31802006000400009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2006] [Accepted: 07/12/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Diabetes mellitus is a clinical syndrome that frequently leads to the development of chronic complications and high susceptibility to infections. It is probably due to defective immunological defense, which may be related to metabolic control of the disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of metabolic control on immune-cell behavior in type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients. For this, the in vitro proliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) was analyzed in patients with inadequate and adequate metabolic control. DESIGN AND SETTING Experimental/laboratory study at a university hospital. METHODS Eleven type 1 and thirteen type 2 diabetic patients were studied, together with 21 healthy individuals divided in two groups (11/10), who were matched by sex and age with those diabetic patients. PBMC cultures stimulated with concanavalin-A (Con-A) were used to measure 3H-thymidine incorporation after 72 hours of cell culturing. For patients with inadequate metabolic control, culturing was performed on the first day of patient hospitalization and again after intensive treatment to achieve adequate control. RESULTS The proliferation index for Con-A-stimulated cultures from type 1 diabetic patients was significantly greater than that for cultures from healthy individuals and type 2 diabetic patients, independent of metabolic control. A negative correlation between the proliferation cell index and body mass index and serum C-reactive protein levels was also observed. CONCLUSION The increase in the proliferation capacity of type 1 diabetic T lymphocytes was probably not caused by hyperglycemia and/or insulinopenia related to inadequate metabolic control.
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Salem ML, El-Naggar SA, Kadima A, Gillanders WE, Cole DJ. The adjuvant effects of the toll-like receptor 3 ligand polyinosinic-cytidylic acid poly (I:C) on antigen-specific CD8+ T cell responses are partially dependent on NK cells with the induction of a beneficial cytokine milieu. Vaccine 2006; 24:5119-32. [PMID: 16704888 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2005] [Revised: 04/10/2006] [Accepted: 04/17/2006] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Poly (I:C), a TLR3 ligand, has shown promise as a vaccine adjuvant to CD8(+) T cell responses. The underlying mechanisms involved in creating this adjuvant response in vivo, however, have not been well defined. In this study, we explored the contribution of NK cells and inflammatory cytokines in mediation the poly (I:C) adjuvant effects. Enhanced antigen-specific CD8(+) T cell responses were observed only when poly (I:C) was administered within 4h of peptide vaccination. Poly (I:C) treatment was associated with a rapid induction of inflammatory cytokines in the serum, including IL-6, IL-10, MCP-1, TNF-alpha, IFN-alpha, and IFN-gamma, and selective increases in the numbers of NK (NK1.1(+)CD11b(+)) cells and Mvarphi (NK1.1(-)CD11b(+)), but not NK T (CD3(+)NK1.1(+)) cells. NK cells were required for the adjuvant effects of poly (I:C). Poly (I:C) treatment in TNF-alpha, type I IFNR, IFN-gamma, IL-6, IL-12Rbeta2, or IL-15 gene-deficient mice revealed a reciprocal interaction and interdependence in the induction of these cytokines, where the absence of one cytokine impacted on the production of others. Further, the adjuvant effects of poly (I:C) were dependent on the endogenous levels of type I IFNs, TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, IL-12, and IL-15. IFN-alpha and IFN-beta, but not TNF-alpha or IL-6, were able to mimic the adjuvant effects of poly (I:C). We conclude that the adjuvant effects of poly (I:C) on antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells appeared to be exquisitely dependent on the rapid induction of certain beneficial cytokines produced in part by NK cells.
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- Mohamed L Salem
- Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
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Ulett GC, Adderson EE. Regulation of Apoptosis by Gram-Positive Bacteria: Mechanistic Diversity and Consequences for Immunity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 2:119-141. [PMID: 19081777 DOI: 10.2174/157339506776843033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Apoptosis, or programmed cell death (PCD), is an important physiological mechanism, through which the human immune system regulates homeostasis and responds to diverse forms of cellular damage. PCD may also be involved in immune counteraction to microbial infection. Over the past decade, the amount of research on bacteria-induced PCD has grown tremendously, and the implications of this mechanism on immunity are being elucidated. Some pathogenic bacteria actively trigger the suicide response in critical lineages of leukocytes that orchestrate both the innate and adaptive immune responses; other bacteria proactively prevent PCD to benefit their own survival and persistence. Currently, the microbial virulence factors, which represent the keys to unlocking the suicide response in host cells, are a primary focus of this field. In this review, we discuss these bacterial "apoptosis regulatory molecules" and the apoptotic events they either trigger or prevent, the host target cells of this regulatory activity, and the possible ramifications for immunity to infection. Gram-positive pathogens including Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Bacillus, Listeria, and Clostridia species are discussed as important agents of human infection that modulate PCD pathways in eukaryotic cells.
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- Glen C Ulett
- Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA
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Bianchi T, Gasser S, Trumpp A, MacDonald HR. c-Myc acts downstream of IL-15 in the regulation of memory CD8 T-cell homeostasis. Blood 2006; 107:3992-9. [PMID: 16449532 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-09-3851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A subset of CD8 T cells in normal mice, expressing high levels of activation markers such as CD44, shares many properties with antigen-specific memory CD8 T cells. Homeostasis of CD44(high) CD8 T cells depends upon cytokines such as interleukin-15 (IL-15); however, the downstream signaling pathways regulating IL-15-dependent homeostatic proliferation are poorly defined. Surprisingly, we show here that haploinsufficiency of the protooncogene c-myc leads to a highly selective decrease in CD44(high) CD8 T cells in mice. Although steady-state proliferation and survival of CD44(high) CD8 T cells appeared not to be dependent on c-Myc, homeostatic proliferation of c-myc(+/-) CD44(high) CD8 T cells in lymphopenic hosts was strongly reduced, and the residual homeostatic proliferation of these cells appeared to occur independently of IL-15. Moreover, c-myc(+/-) CD44(high) CD8 T cells responded very poorly to purified IL-15 in vitro. Backcrossing of c-myc(+/-) mice to IL-15(-/-) mice revealed that the number of CD44(high) CD8 T cells decreased in an additive fashion in mice heterozygous for c-myc and IL-15. Finally homeostatic proliferation of antigen-specific memory CD44(high) CD8 T cells was also impaired in c-myc(+/-) mice. Collectively, our data identify c-Myc as a novel downstream component of the IL-15-dependent pathway controlling homeostatic proliferation of memory CD44(high) CD8 T cells.
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- Teresa Bianchi
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), Ch. des Boveresses 155, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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Xu S, Huo J, Tan JEL, Lam KP. Cbp deficiency alters Csk localization in lipid rafts but does not affect T-cell development. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:8486-95. [PMID: 16166631 PMCID: PMC1265734 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.19.8486-8495.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The ubiquitously expressed transmembrane adaptor Csk-binding protein (Cbp) recruits Csk to lipid rafts, where the latter exerts its negative regulatory effect on the Src family of protein tyrosine kinases. We have inactivated Cbp in the mouse germ line. In contrast to Csk gene inactivation, which leads to embryonic lethality and impaired T-cell development, Cbp-deficient mice were viable and exhibited normal T-cell development but with an increased thymocyte population. In the absence of Cbp, the amount of Csk that localizes to the lipid rafts was greatly reduced. Interestingly, this altered lipid raft localization of Csk did not lead to any detectable biochemical or functional defect in T cells. The T-cell receptor-induced intracellular calcium flux, cell proliferation, and cytokine secretion were not affected by the absence of Cbp. Peripheral T-cell tolerance to superantigen SEB was also largely intact in Cbp-deficient mice. Thus, Cbp is dispensable for T-cell development and activation.
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- Shengli Xu
- Laboratory of Immunology, Center for Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Lab 6-15, Proteos, Singapore 138673, Singapore
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Jones RG, Saibil SD, Pun JM, Elford AR, Bonnard M, Pellegrini M, Arya S, Parsons ME, Krawczyk CM, Gerondakis S, Yeh WC, Woodgett JR, Boothby MR, Ohashi PS. NF-kappaB couples protein kinase B/Akt signaling to distinct survival pathways and the regulation of lymphocyte homeostasis in vivo. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 175:3790-9. [PMID: 16148125 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.6.3790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Protein kinase B (PKBalpha/Akt1) a PI3K-dependent serine-threonine kinase, promotes T cell viability in response to many stimuli and regulates homeostasis and autoimmune disease in vivo. To dissect the mechanisms by which PKB inhibits apoptosis, we have examined the pathways downstream of PKB that promote survival after cytokine withdrawal vs Fas-mediated death. Our studies show that PKB-mediated survival after cytokine withdrawal is independent of protein synthesis and the induction of NF-kappaB. In contrast, PKB requires de novo gene transcription by NF-kappaB to block apoptosis triggered by the Fas death receptor. Using gene-deficient and transgenic mouse models, we establish that NF-kappaB1, and not c-Rel, is the critical signaling molecule downstream of the PI3K-PTEN-PKB signaling axis that regulates lymphocyte homeostasis.
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- Russell G Jones
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Petito CK, Adkins B. Choroid plexus selectively accumulates T-lymphocytes in normal controls and after peripheral immune activation. J Neuroimmunol 2005; 162:19-27. [PMID: 15833356 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2004] [Revised: 10/29/2004] [Accepted: 12/16/2004] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We determined T-lymphocyte migration into brain and choroid plexus (CPx) after enterotoxin-induced systemic immune activation. CPx T-lymphocytes/mm2 in control mice were > 3 logs more numerous than brain and increased by as much as 150-fold by post-enterotoxin Day 3 (p < 0.01). Flow cytometry of pooled CPx confirmed post-enterotoxin increases. Brain T-lymphocytes increased up to 17-fold after SEB and accumulated in subependymal and periventricular brain. T cell apoptosis was absent. These results show preferential T-lymphocyte migration to CPx over brain and suggest that brain T cells may be derived from the CPx by direct migration or by cerebrospinal fluid dissemination.
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- C K Petito
- Department of Pathology, University of Miami, School of Medicine, 1550 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Röcken M, Shevach EM. Do parasitic infections break T-cell tolerance and trigger autoimmune disease? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 9:377-80. [PMID: 15463673 DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(93)90087-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Burnet and Fenner originally defined 'tolerance' as 'unresponsiveness against self'. It is now generally accepted that the phenomenon of tolerance is required to protect on individual from potentially autoreactive cells. Recent experiments have independently shown that parasite infection or interleukin 2 (IL-2) can reverse an established T-cell tolerance in vivo. Breaking T-cell tolerance restores the capacity of T cells to be stimulated by their specific antigen and, in the case of a self-antigen, may be followed by autoimmune disease. In this review, Martin Röcken and Ethan Shevach briefly describe the potential pathways for generating T-cell tolerance in vivo, and focus on recently described mechanisms by which parasitic infections may circumvent or abrogate the tolerant state.
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- M Röcken
- Laboratory of Immunology, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Marti F, Lapinski PE, King PD. The emerging role of the T cell-specific adaptor (TSAd) protein as an autoimmune disease-regulator in mouse and man. Immunol Lett 2005; 97:165-70. [PMID: 15752554 DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2004.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2004] [Revised: 10/21/2004] [Accepted: 10/25/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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T cell-specific adapter protein is a relatively recently described signaling adapter molecule expressed predominantly in T cells and NK cells. Studies in mouse and man have indicated that reduced expression of TSAd in T cells may predispose toward the development of autoimmune disease. In lupus-prone TSAd-deficient mice the development of autoimmunity is associated with an impaired T cell death response to antigens in vivo. Probably, this impaired death response is consequent to reduced T cell antigen receptor (TCR)-induced synthesis of the interleukin-2 (IL-2) cytokine in TSAd-deficient T cells. TSAd appears to contribute to IL-2 synthesis at multiple different levels acting in both the nucleus and cytoplasm of T cells. Recent advances relating to the role of TSAd in T cell signal transduction and as a regulator of autoimmune responses are discussed.
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- Francesc Marti
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, 6606 Medical Science Building II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0620, USA
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Vonderheid EC, Boselli CM, Conroy M, Casaus L, Espinoza LC, Venkataramani P, Bigler RD, Hou JS. Evidence for Restricted Vβ Usage in the Leukemic Phase of Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma. J Invest Dermatol 2005; 124:651-61. [PMID: 15737208 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-202x.2004.23586.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Antibodies directed against the beta chain of the T cell receptor (anti-Vbeta antibodies) are useful to identify the Vbeta repertoire of T cells in various diseases and to quantify numbers of Vbeta-bearing T cells. The goals of this study were to identify Vbeta+ cases of leukemic phase cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) and to compare the percentage of positive calls with other measures of blood tumor burden, i.e., lymphocyte subsets with a CD4+CD7- and CD4+CD26- phenotype and Sezary cell counts. Thirty-three of 49 (67%) cases of leukemic CTCL reacted with an anti-Vbeta antibody. When combined with reports from the literature, the frequency of Vbeta5 (probably Vbeta5.1) usage was relatively high when compared with Vbeta2 that is also frequently expressed by normal CD4+ T cells. The percentage of Vbeta+ cells correlated to the percentage of CD4+CD7- and CD4+CD26- cells for cases in which the neoplastic cells were deficient in expression of CD7 and CD26, respectively, but not the Sezary cell count. We hypothesize that the increased Vbeta5.1 usage in CTCL may be the result of depletion of Vbeta2 and other Vbeta-bearing T cells by staphylococcal superantigens prior to neoplastic transformation, resulting in a relative increase in the frequency of Vbeta5.1 usage in CTCL.
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- Eric C Vonderheid
- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Speiser DE, Liénard D, Rufer N, Rubio-Godoy V, Rimoldi D, Lejeune F, Krieg AM, Cerottini JC, Romero P. Rapid and strong human CD8+ T cell responses to vaccination with peptide, IFA, and CpG oligodeoxynucleotide 7909. J Clin Invest 2005; 115:739-46. [PMID: 15696196 PMCID: PMC546459 DOI: 10.1172/jci23373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 471] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2004] [Accepted: 12/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The induction of potent CD8+ T cell responses by vaccines to fight microbes or tumors remains a major challenge, as many candidates for human vaccines have proved to be poorly immunogenic. Deoxycytidyl-deoxyguanosin oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs) trigger Toll-like receptor 9, resulting in dendritic cell maturation that can enhance immunogenicity of peptide-based vaccines in mice. We tested whether a synthetic ODN, CpG 7909, could improve human tumor antigen-specific CD8+ T cell responses. Eight HLA-A2+ melanoma patients received 4 monthly vaccinations of low-dose CpG 7909 mixed with melanoma antigen A (Melan-A; identical to MART-1) analog peptide and incomplete Freund's adjuvant. All patients exhibited rapid and strong antigen-specific T cell responses: the frequency of Melan-A-specific T cells reached over 3% of circulating CD8+ T cells. This was one order of magnitude higher than the frequency seen in 8 control patients treated similarly but without CpG and 1-3 orders of magnitude higher than that seen in previous studies with synthetic vaccines. The enhanced T cell populations consisted primarily of effector memory cells, which in part secreted IFN- and expressed granzyme B and perforin ex vivo. In vitro, T cell clones recognized and killed melanoma cells in an antigen-specific manner. Thus, CpG 7909 is an efficient vaccine adjuvant that promotes strong antigen-specific CD8+ T cell responses in humans.
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- Daniel E Speiser
- Division of Clinical Onco-Immunology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Multidisciplinary Oncology Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Qiu J, Yoon JH, Shen B. Search for apoptotic nucleases in yeast: role of Tat-D nuclease in apoptotic DNA degradation. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:15370-9. [PMID: 15657035 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m413547200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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DNA fragmentation/degradation is an important step for apoptosis. However, in unicellular organisms such as yeast, this process has rarely been investigated. In the current study, we revealed eight apoptotic nuclease candidates in Saccharyomyces cerevisiae, analogous to the Caenorhabditis elegans apoptotic nucleases. One of them is Tat-D. Sequence comparison indicates that Tat-D is conserved across kingdoms, implicating that it is evolutionarily and functionally indispensable. In order to better understand the biochemical and biological functions of Tat-D, we have overexpressed, purified, and characterized the S. cerevisiae Tat-D (scTat-D). Our biochemical assays revealed that scTat-D is an endo-/exonuclease. It incises the double-stranded DNA without obvious specificity via its endonuclease activity and excises the DNA from the 3'- to 5'-end by its exonuclease activity. The enzyme activities are metal-dependent with Mg(2+) as an optimal metal ion and an optimal pH around 5. We have also identified three amino acid residues, His(185), Asp(325), and Glu(327), important for its catalysis. In addition, our study demonstrated that knock-out of TAT-D in S. cerevisiae increases the TUNEL-positive cells and cell survival in response to hydrogen hyperoxide treatment, whereas overexpression of Tat-D facilitates cell death. These results suggest a role of Tat-D in yeast apoptosis.
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- Junzhuan Qiu
- Department of Radiation Biology, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California 91010, USA.
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Milojkovic D, Devereux S, Westwood NB, Mufti GJ, Thomas NSB, Buggins AGS. Antiapoptotic microenvironment of acute myeloid leukemia. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 173:6745-52. [PMID: 15557167 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.11.6745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We showed previously that tumor-derived supernatant (TSN) from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) myeloblasts inhibits peripheral blood T cell activation and proliferation, rendering the T cells functionally incompetent. We show here that the AML TSN also significantly delays apoptosis of both resting and stimulated T cells, as judged by reduction in annexin V/propidium iodide staining. In addition, we show that this is not unique to T cells and that AML TSN inhibits apoptosis of peripheral B cells, neutrophils, and monocytes. Furthermore, it also enhances the survival of other AML myeloblasts with lower viability. Investigations into the mechanism demonstrate a reduction in the cleavage of procaspase-3, -8, and -9 and the caspase substrate, poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP). This may be due to Bcl-2, which is normally down-regulated in CD3/CD28-stimulated T cells, but is maintained in the presence of AML TSN. We conclude that AML cells generate an antiapoptotic microenvironment that favors the survival of malignant cells, but also inhibits apoptosis of other normal hemopoietic cells. Reversal of these immunosuppressive effects and restoration of normal immune responses in patients with AML would improve the success of immunotherapy protocols.
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- Dragana Milojkovic
- Department of Haematological Medicine, Leukaemia Sciences, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine, Rayne Institute, London, United Kingdom.
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Chen SC, Huang CC, Chien CL, Jeng CJ, Su HT, Chiang E, Liu MR, Wu CHH, Chang CN, Lin RH. Cross-linking of P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 induces death of activated T cells. Blood 2004; 104:3233-42. [PMID: 15198951 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-05-1679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence has shown that death signaling in T cells is regulated in a complicated way. Molecules other than death receptors can also trigger T-cell death. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1) or CD162 molecules cross-linked by an anti-PSGL-1 monoclonal antibody, TAB4, can trigger a death signal in activated T cells. In contrast to classic cell death, PSGL-1-mediated T-cell death is caspase independent. It involves translocation of apoptosis-inducing factor from mitochondria to nucleus and mitochondrial cytochrome c release. Ultrastructurally, both peripheral condensation of chromatin and apoptotic body were observed in PSGL-1-mediated T-cell death. Collectively, this study demonstrates a novel role for PSGL-1 in controlling activated T-cell death and, thus, advances our understanding of immune regulation.
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- Shu-Ching Chen
- Graduate Institute of Immunology and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Colege of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Gallego MA, Joseph B, Hemström TH, Tamiji S, Mortier L, Kroemer G, Formstecher P, Zhivotovsky B, Marchetti P. Apoptosis-inducing factor determines the chemoresistance of non-small-cell lung carcinomas. Oncogene 2004; 23:6282-91. [PMID: 15286713 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Non-small-cell lung carcinomas (NSCLCs) are resistant to the induction of apoptosis by conventional anticancer treatment. However, NSCLC cell lines are sensitive to the action of the broad protein kinase inhibitor, staurosporine (STS). In the NSCLC cell line U1810, STS induced the mitochondrial release of apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) and cytochrome c (Cyt c) followed by activation of caspases, nuclear condensation, DNA fragmentation and finally cell death. Although preincubation of U1810 cells with the broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor z-VAD.fmk delayed the occurrence of nuclear apoptosis induced by STS, it did not impede mitochondrial alterations (such as the release of Cyt c and AIF) and cell death to occur. Moreover, the microinjection of neither Cyt c nor recombinant active caspase-3 into the cytoplasm promoted nuclear apoptosis-related changes in U1810 cells. Evaluation of the role of the caspase-independent factor AIF in STS-mediated death revealed that, upon immunodepletion of AIF, cytosols from STS-treated U1810 lost their capacity to induce nuclear condensation when incubated with isolated nuclei. In addition, microinjection of an anti-AIF antibody prevented AIF from translocating to the nuclei of STS-treated U1810 cells and reduced STS-induced cell death. Finally, although the transfection-enforced overexpression of AIF was not sufficient to induce cell death, it did enhance STS-mediated cell killing. Altogether, these results indicate that activation of caspases is not sufficient to kill U1810 cells and rather suggests an important role for the AIF-mediated mitochondrial-mediated death pathway.
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Cvetanovic M, Ucker DS. Innate immune discrimination of apoptotic cells: repression of proinflammatory macrophage transcription is coupled directly to specific recognition. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:880-9. [PMID: 14707059 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.2.880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Physiological cell death is a process the purpose of which is the elimination of functionally inappropriate cells in a manner that does not elicit an inflammatory response. We have shown previously that the ability of apoptotic corpses to be recognized by macrophages and to modulate the proinflammatory responses of those cells represents paradoxically a gain-of-function acquired during the physiological cell death process. Cells that die pathologically (that is, necrotic vs apoptotic corpses) also are recognized by macrophages but do not down-regulate macrophage inflammatory responses; the recognition of these two classes of native dying cells occurs via distinct and noncompeting mechanisms. We have examined the apoptotic modulation of proinflammatory cytokine gene transcription in macrophages (by real-time RT-PCR analysis) and the corresponding modulation of transcriptional activators (by transcriptional reporter analyses). Our data demonstrate that apoptotic cells target the proinflammatory transcriptional machinery of macrophages with which they interact, without apparent effect on proximal steps of Toll-like receptor signaling. The modulatory activity of the corpse is manifest as an immediate-early inhibition of proinflammatory cytokine gene transcription, and is exerted directly upon binding to the macrophage, independent of subsequent engulfment and soluble factor involvement. Recognition and inflammatory modulation represent key elements of an innate immune response that discriminates live from effete cells, and without regard to self.
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- Marija Cvetanovic
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 835 South Walcott, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Dong H, Zhu G, Tamada K, Flies DB, van Deursen JMA, Chen L. B7-H1 determines accumulation and deletion of intrahepatic CD8(+) T lymphocytes. Immunity 2004; 20:327-36. [PMID: 15030776 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(04)00050-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 315] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2003] [Revised: 01/16/2004] [Accepted: 02/04/2004] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Upon systemic activation by antigens, CD8(+), but not CD4(+), T cells selectively accumulate and undergo apoptosis in the liver, a mechanism associated with the induction of hepatic tolerance and chronic infection. The molecular basis for CD8(+) T cell preference in this process is unknown. We prepared B7-H1-deficient mice by gene targeting and found spontaneous accumulation of CD8(+) T cells in the liver while CD4(+) T cell levels remained normal. Moreover, antigen-driven CD8(+) T cells proliferated normally while apoptotic levels during the contraction phase was selectively impaired in the liver, leading to accelerated hepatocyte damage in experimental autoimmune hepatitis. Therefore, B7-H1 is a key protein selectively regulating the accumulation and deletion of intrahepatic CD8(+) T cells and may also contribute to inflammation, autoimmune diseases, and tolerance in the liver.
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- Haidong Dong
- Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Kametani Y, Katano I, Hirano Y, Mochida N, Takei E, Habu S. Transient suppression of IgG1 with IL-6 over-expression in immunized TCR-transgenic mice. Immunol Lett 2004; 93:27-32. [PMID: 15134895 DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2004.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2004] [Revised: 01/19/2004] [Accepted: 01/21/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Helper T cell-derived cytokines play a pivotal role in the production of antigen-specific IgG antibody by B cells. In order to examine the in vivo effect of massive activation of helper T cells on the production of specific antibodies, ovalbumin (OVA)-specific TCR transgenic mice (OVA23-3) were immunized with OVA and serum levels of antigen-specific antibodies were measured. As a result, a great enhancement of antigen-specific IgM secretion and delay of IgG secretion were observed while the T cells produced sufficient Th2 cytokines. Immediately after OVA-immunization, marked increase of serum IL-6 was noted, which was followed by a transient increase of antibody forming cells. Both in vivo and in vitro experiments demonstrated that excess amount of IL-6 enhanced IgM production by activated B cells while suppressing IgG production. These results suggest that overproduction of IL-6 in the early stages of the primary immunization promotes development of IgM producing cells and causes the delay of IgG1 secretion.
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- Yoshie Kametani
- Division of Immunology, Department of Immunology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Bohseidai, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan
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Savransky V, Pinelis D, Korolev S, Ionin B, Fegeding K. Immunogenicity of the histidine-to-tyrosine staphylococcal enterotoxin B mutant protein in C3H/HeJ mice. Toxicon 2004; 43:433-8. [PMID: 15051407 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2003] [Revised: 01/29/2004] [Accepted: 02/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is a common cause of food poisoning and toxic shock. A safe and effective vaccine is needed to protect against the superantigenic effects of this toxin. We previously constructed and produced an apparently nontoxic SEB mutant having four histidine-to-tyrosine substitutions in positions 12, 32, 105, and 121. In the present study, we found that this H1.2.3.4 SEB mutant had low toxicity, was able to induce high levels of specific IgG antibodies, and protected mice in both the actinomycin D-primed and intranasal SEB intoxication model systems, despite the absence of detectable specific IgM and IgA antibodies. We propose further development of the H1.2.3.4 recombinant protein as a potential anti-SEB vaccine candidate.
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- Vladimir Savransky
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, USA
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- Hong Jiang
- Department of Medicine and Pathology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Cantó E, Rodriguez-Sanchez JL, Vidal S. Distinctive response of naïve lymphocytes from cord blood to primary activation via TCR. J Leukoc Biol 2003; 74:998-1007. [PMID: 12972509 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0303098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is now being considered an alternative to bone marrow for restoring hematopoiesis after myeloablative therapy. The lower risk of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease in patients who received UCB cells seems related to the nature of UCB-T cells. Phenotypically, UCB-CD3+ cells are mostly naive (CD45RA+) and represent a transitional population between thymocytes and adult T cells. We examined the immune reactivity of highly purified, negatively selected CD4+CD45RA+ cells by mimicking activation via T cell receptor (TCR). All experiments included the extensively characterized adult peripheral blood (APB) cells as reference. On the contrary to APB, naive UCB-CD4+ cells were able to proliferate with anti-CD3 stimulation alone. With addition of interleukin (IL)-2 or costimulatory signal, both populations reached similar proliferation. Forty-eight hours after anti-CD3 stimulation, CD4+CD45RA+ from UCB, but not APB, showed characteristic blastic morphology and significant expression of CD25 on the surface. A low concentration of IL-2 was detected at 24 h by anti-CD3-stimulated UCB CD4+CD45RA+, which rapidly disappeared. By 72 h after activation, CD4+CD45RA+ UCB cells showed extensive apoptosis, whereas CD4+CD45RA+ APB cells showed low levels of apoptosis. Using RNase protection assay, we observed that CD95L levels were significantly higher in naive CD4+ cells from UCB than from APB after activation. However, neutralizing Fas-Fc protein was unable to inhibit anti-CD3-induced apoptosis, suggesting that this was a CD95-independent mechanism. These results indicate that UCB-CD4+CD45RA+ cells are able to start proliferating as a result of early IL-2 production after TCR engagement alone, but probably, as a result of the consumption of this IL-2, they undergo cell death.
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- Elisabet Cantó
- Department of Immunology, Institut de Recerca Hospital Sant Pau, Pare Claret 167, Barcelona-08025, Spain.
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Drappa J, Kamen LA, Chan E, Georgiev M, Ashany D, Marti F, King PD. Impaired T cell death and lupus-like autoimmunity in T cell-specific adapter protein-deficient mice. J Exp Med 2003; 198:809-21. [PMID: 12953096 PMCID: PMC2194195 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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T cell-specific adaptor protein (TSAd) is a T lineage-restricted signaling adaptor molecule that is thought to participate in the assembly of intracellular signaling complexes in T cells. Previous studies of TSAd-deficient mice have revealed a role for TSAd in the induction of T cell interleukin 2 secretion and proliferation. We now show that TSAd-deficient mice are susceptible to lupus-like autoimmune disease. On the nonautoimmune-prone C57BL/6 genetic background, TSAd deficiency results in hypergammaglobulinemia that affects all immunoglobulin (Ig)G subclasses. Older C57BL/6 TSAd-deficient mice (1 yr of age) accumulate large numbers of activated T and B cells in spleen, produce autoantibodies against a variety of self-targets including single stranded (ss) and double stranded (ds) DNA, and, in addition, develop glomerulonephritis. We further show that immunization of younger C57BL/6 TSAd-deficient mice (at age 2 mo) with pristane, a recognized nonspecific inflammatory trigger of lupus, results in more severe glomerulonephritis compared with C57BL/6 controls and the production of high titer ss and ds DNA antibodies of the IgG subclass that are not normally produced by C57BL/6 mice in this model. The development of autoimmunity in TSAd-deficient mice is associated with defective T cell death in vivo. These findings illustrate the role of TSAd as a critical regulator of T cell death whose absence promotes systemic autoimmunity.
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- Jorn Drappa
- Research Division, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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After antigen-driven expansion, the majority of T cells involved in an immune response die rapidly by apoptosis dependent on the Bcl-2 related proteins, Bim and Bax or Bak. The details of how these proteins are activated and interact are still unclear. The crystal structure of mouse Bcl-x(L) bound to a long helical fragment of Bim indicates that the structure of Bim is very different from proteins with a Bcl-2-like fold and may leave the BH3 region of Bim constitutively exposed. Based on the structural homology between Bcl-x(L) and Bax, we predicted that binding of Bim to Bax would require displacement of the Bax penultimate alpha helix. Consistent with this prediction, truncation of this short helix was required for Bim/Bax interaction and led to spontaneous activation of Bax. Our results suggest a way in which both Bim and Bax/Bak might be required for activated T cell apoptosis.
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- Xinqi Liu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
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Kim KS, Jacob N, Stohl W. In vitro and in vivo T cell oligoclonality following chronic stimulation with staphylococcal superantigens. Clin Immunol 2003; 108:182-9. [PMID: 14499241 DOI: 10.1016/s1521-6616(03)00167-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Microbial superantigens (SAg), including SEB and TSST-1, polyclonally activate T cells belonging to specific TCR BV families. A pathogenic role for SAg in various human diseases has been suggested, but enthusiasm for this view has been tempered by the T cell oligoclonality in these disorders. To assess whether T cell oligoclonality can emerge following protracted SAg stimulation, human PBMC were stimulated with SEB, TSST-1, or anti-CD3 mAb and maintained in culture with exogenous IL-2. Oligoclonality was appreciated by day 14 among CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. In addition, mice transgenic for human DR2 and DQ8 were injected weekly with SEB, and splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells were analyzed for oligoclonality. In mice that received one or three such injections, little-to-no oligoclonality was detected. In contrast, considerable oligoclonality was detected in mice that received eight weekly SEB injections. Many of these T cell oligoclones were identical to "spontaneously" arising oligoclones detected in SEB-naive mice. Thus, T cell oligoclonality can emerge following chronic SAg stimulation. In hosts who have lost tolerance to self Ag, chronic exposure to SAg may preferentially promote expansion of autoreactive T cells and facilitate development of clinical disease.
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- Kyoung Soo Kim
- University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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Strauss G, Knape I, Melzner I, Debatin KM. Constitutive caspase activation and impaired death-inducing signaling complex formation in CD95-resistant, long-term activated, antigen-specific T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 171:1172-82. [PMID: 12874203 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.3.1172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Elimination of T cells during an immune response is mediated by activation-induced cell death (AICD) and CD95-mediated apoptosis. Chronic graft-vs-host disease and T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases are caused by the persistence of activated T cells that escaped tolerance induction by deletion or silencing. To mimic the in vivo situation of long-term activated T cells, we generated an in vitro system using HLA-A1-specific T cells, weekly restimulated by Ag. While short-term activated T cells (two to five rounds of stimulation) were CD95 sensitive and susceptible to AICD, T cells stimulated more than eight times acquired constitutive CD95 resistance and exhibited reduced AICD. Phenotypically, these long-term activated T cells could be identified as effector/memory T cells. The expression of the proforms of the CD95 receptor initiator caspases, caspase-8 and -10, and the effector caspase-3 was strongly decreased in these cells, and only active caspase fragments were detected. In contrast to short-term activated T cells, constitutive CD95 receptor clustering was observed on the cell surface, and caspase-8 was bound to the CD95 receptor in the absence of receptor triggering. After further cross-linking of CD95, additional formation of the death-inducing signaling complex (DISC) was strongly impaired. Reduced DISC formation in long-term activated T cells was associated with the loss of PTEN expression and the increased phosphorylation of protein kinase B. Inhibitors of phosphoinositol 3-kinase restored CD95 sensitivity and DISC formation in long-term activated T cells. These data suggest that defective CD95 signaling in effector/memory T cells may contribute to the apoptosis resistance toward physiological stimuli in T cells mediating tissue destruction in vivo.
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- Gudrun Strauss
- University Children's Hospital and Institute of Pathology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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A properly functioning immune system is dependent on programmed cell death at virtually every stage of lymphocyte development and activity. This review addresses the phenomenon of activation-induced cell death (AICD) in T lymphocytes, in which activation through the T-cell receptor results in apoptosis. AICD can occur in a cell-autonomous manner and is influenced by the nature of the initial T-cell activation events. It plays essential roles in both central and peripheral deletion events involved in tolerance and homeostasis, although it is likely that different forms of AICD proceed via different mechanisms. For example, while AICD in peripheral T cells is often caused by the induction of expression of the death ligand, Fas ligand (CD95 ligand, FasL), it does not appear to be involved in AICD in thymocytes. This and other mechanisms of AICD are discussed. One emerging model that may complement other forms of AICD involves the inducible expression of FasL by nonlymphoid tissues in response to activated T lymphocytes. Induction of nonlymphoid FasL in this manner may serve as a sensing mechanism for immune cell infiltration, which contributes to peripheral deletion.
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- Douglas R Green
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
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Grundström S, Cederbom L, Sundstedt A, Scheipers P, Ivars F. Superantigen-induced regulatory T cells display different suppressive functions in the presence or absence of natural CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in vivo. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:5008-17. [PMID: 12734345 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.10.5008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Repeated exposures to both microbial and innocuous Ags in vivo have been reported to both eliminate and tolerize T cells after their initial activation and expansion. The remaining tolerant T cells have been shown to suppress the response of naive T cells in vitro. This feature is reminiscent of natural CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells. However, it is not known whether the regulatory function of in vivo-tolerized T cells is similar to the function of natural CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells. In this study, we demonstrate that CD4(+)CD25(+) as well as CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells isolated from mice treated with superantigen three consecutive times to induce tolerance were functionally comparable to natural CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells, albeit more potent. The different subpopulations of in vivo-tolerized CD4(+) T cells efficiently down-modulated costimulatory molecules on dendritic cells, and their suppressive functions were strictly cell contact dependent. Importantly, we demonstrate that conventional CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells could also be induced to acquire regulatory functions by the same regimen in the absence of natural regulatory T cells in vivo, but that such regulatory cells were functionally different.
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MESH Headings
- Abatacept
- Animals
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/metabolism
- Antigens, CD
- Antigens, Differentiation/biosynthesis
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- CTLA-4 Antigen
- Cell Communication/genetics
- Cell Communication/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Clonal Anergy/genetics
- Clonal Anergy/immunology
- Clonal Deletion/genetics
- Clonal Deletion/immunology
- Cytokines/physiology
- DNA-Binding Proteins/biosynthesis
- DNA-Binding Proteins/deficiency
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
- Down-Regulation/genetics
- Down-Regulation/immunology
- Drug Administration Schedule
- Enterotoxins/administration & dosage
- Enterotoxins/pharmacology
- Female
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor beta/immunology
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Immunoconjugates
- Injections, Intravenous
- Interleukin-10/antagonists & inhibitors
- Interleukin-10/metabolism
- Leukocyte Common Antigens/biosynthesis
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, SCID
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Interleukin-2/biosynthesis
- Staphylococcus aureus/immunology
- Superantigens/administration & dosage
- Superantigens/pharmacology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/antagonists & inhibitors
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/metabolism
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/physiology
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Zheng Y, Vig M, Lyons J, Van Parijs L, Beg AA. Combined deficiency of p50 and cRel in CD4+ T cells reveals an essential requirement for nuclear factor kappaB in regulating mature T cell survival and in vivo function. J Exp Med 2003; 197:861-74. [PMID: 12668645 PMCID: PMC2193891 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Signaling pathways involved in regulating T cell proliferation and survival are not well understood. Here we have investigated a possible role of the nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB pathway in regulating mature T cell function by using CD4+ T cells from p50-/- cRel-/- mice, which exhibit virtually no inducible kappaB site binding activity. Studies with these mice indicate an essential role of T cell receptor (TCR)-induced NF-kappaB in regulating interleukin (IL)-2 expression, cell cycle entry, and survival of T cells. Our results further indicate that NF-kappaB regulates TCR-induced expression of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family members. Strikingly, retroviral transduction of CD4+ T cells with the NF-kappaB-inducing IkappaB kinase beta showed that NF-kappaB activation is not only necessary but also sufficient for T cell survival. In contrast, our results indicate a lack of involvement of NF-kappaB in both IL-2 and Akt-induced survival pathways. In vivo, p50-/- cRel-/- mice showed impaired superantigen-induced T cell responses as well as decreased numbers of effector/memory and regulatory CD4+ T cells. These findings provide the first demonstration of a role for NF-kappaB proteins in regulating T cell function in vivo and establish a critically important function of NF-kappaB in TCR-induced regulation of survival.
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- Ye Zheng
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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T lymphocytes play a key role in immunity by distinguishing self from nonself peptide antigens and regulating both the cellular and humoral arms of the immune system. Acquired, antigen-specific unresponsiveness is an important mechanism by which T cell responses to antigen are regulated in vivo. Clonal anergy is the term that describes T cell unresponsiveness at the cellular level. Anergic T cells do not proliferate or secrete interleukin (IL)-2 in response to appropriate antigenic stimulation. However, anergic T cells express the IL-2 receptor, and anergy can be broken by exogenous IL-2. Anergy can be induced by submitogenic exposure to peptide antigen in the absence of a costimulatory signal provided by soluble cytokines or by interactions between costimulatory receptors on T cells and counter-receptors on antigen-presenting cells. The molecular events that mediate the induction and maintenance of T cell anergy are the focus of this review. The molecular consequences of CD28-B7 interaction are discussed as a model for the costimulatory signal that leads to T cell activation rather than the induction of anergy.
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- Leonard J Appleman
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Carrión F, Fernandez M, Iruretagoyena M, Coelho Andrade LE, Odete-Hilário M, Figueroa F. Selective depletion of Vbeta2+CD8+ T cells in peripheral blood from rheumatic heart disease patients. J Autoimmun 2003; 20:183-90. [PMID: 12657531 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-8411(03)00002-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its chronic valvular sequelae are the delayed consequence of a pharyngeal infection with group A Streptococcus (GAS). Several GAS proteins have been shown to be superantigens, raising the possibility that the expansion or deletion of T cells expressing specific Vbeta regions might play a role in the pathogenesis of ARF or chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD). We therefore analyzed by four-color flow cytometry, the Vbeta repertoire on CD3, CD4 and CD8 T cells from four ARF patients, 10 RHD patients and also nine healthy controls. A selective depletion of Vbeta2+ T cells was found only in the CD8 subset of chronic RHD patients. This is of interest since a number of GAS superantigens exert their effects on Vbeta2+ cells and because only CD8+ T cells from ARF and RHD patients undergo anergy in response to GAS superantigens. Our results suggests that an ongoing immune process is present in RHD patients and that CD8+ T cells may have an important immunoregulatory role in the pathogenesis of the disease.
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- F Carrión
- Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de los Andes, Avda. San Carlos de Apoquindo 2200, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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Hildeman DA, Mitchell T, Kappler J, Marrack P. T cell apoptosis and reactive oxygen species. J Clin Invest 2003. [DOI: 10.1172/jci200318007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hildeman DA, Mitchell T, Kappler J, Marrack P. T cell apoptosis and reactive oxygen species. J Clin Invest 2003; 111:575-81. [PMID: 12618509 PMCID: PMC151907 DOI: 10.1172/jci18007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- David A Hildeman
- Division of Immunobiology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA.
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Kishimoto H, Hamada K, Saunders M, Backman S, Sasaki T, Nakano T, Mak TW, Suzuki A. Physiological functions of Pten in mouse tissues. Cell Struct Funct 2003; 28:11-21. [PMID: 12655146 DOI: 10.1247/csf.28.11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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PTEN is a tumor suppressor gene mutated in many human sporadic cancers and in hereditary cancer syndromes such as Cowden disease, Bannayan-Zonana syndrome and Lhermitte-Duclos disease. The major substrate of PTEN is PIP3, a second messenger molecule produced following PI3K activation induced by variety of stimuli. PIP3 activates the serine-threonine kinase PKB/Akt which is involved in anti-apoptosis, proliferation and oncogenesis. In mice, heterozygosity for a null mutation of Pten (Pten(+/-) mice) frequently leads to the development of a variety of cancers and autoimmune disease. Homozygosity for the null mutation (Pten (-/-) mice) results in early embryonic lethality, precluding the functional analysis of Pten in various organs. To investigate the physiological functions of Pten in viable mice, various tissue-specific Pten mutations have been generated using the Cre-loxP system. This review will summarize the phenotypes of conditional mutant mice lacking Pten function in specific tissues, and discuss how these phenotypes relate to the physiological roles of Pten in various organ systems.
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- Hiroyuki Kishimoto
- Department of Biochemistry, Akita University School of Medicine, Hondo 1-1-1, Akita 010-8543, Japan
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Salomone T, Tosi P, Raiti C, Guariento A, Tomassetti P, Migliori M, Saieva C, Romboli M, Gullo L. Apoptosis in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells as a self-limitation process in human acute pancreatitis. Pancreatology 2003; 2:204-10. [PMID: 12138725 DOI: 10.1159/000058034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIM Acute pancreatitis is primed and sustained by a chain of immuno-inflammatory factors. In this study, we investigated the possible existence of peripheral blood mononuclear cell apoptosis as a self-limitation mechanism in acute pancreatitis. METHODS Peripheral blood mononuclear cell apoptosis was determined cytofluorometrically daily for 10 days from the onset of the illness in 27 consecutive patients (18 having mild uncomplicated acute pancreatitis and 9 having pancreatitis with complications) and was related to peripheral blood counts, including reticulocytes and reticulocyte fractions, and albumin, fibrinogen, and C-reactive protein levels. RESULTS In the 18 patients with uncomplicated acute pancreatitis, the rate of peripheral blood apoptosis increased progressively until days 5-6 and then decreased. The 9 patients who developed complications showed levels of peripheral blood apoptosis stable across the five periods and lower than those with uncomplicated disease during the first four periods. This difference was statistically significant (p = 0.002) only on days 7-8. On days 9-10, the patients with complications showed higher levels of peripheral blood apoptosis than those with mild uncomplicated acute pancreatitis (p = 0.0005). Peripheral blood apoptosis was not significantly related to the other laboratory parameters, but there was a trend towards an inverse relation to reticulocytes and total leucocytes (p < 0.09). CONCLUSIONS Peripheral blood apoptosis may act as a mechanism of self-limitation of the process of acute pancreatitis. Its effects, however, seem to be hampered and delayed by the presence of complications.
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Firpo EJ, Kong RK, Zhou Q, Rudensky AY, Roberts JM, Franza BR. Antigen-specific dose-dependent system for the study of an inheritable and reversible phenotype in mouse CD4+ T cells. Immunology 2002; 107:480-8. [PMID: 12460193 PMCID: PMC1782820 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2002.01540.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The transgenic T-cell receptor in mouse TEa CD4+ lymphocytes recognizes an endogenous peptide, Ealpha52-68, presented in the context of the major histocompatibility complex class II molecule I-Ab. In response to an optimal peptide concentration TEa cells enter the cell cycle and proliferate. However, a single exposure to high doses of the specific peptide diminished cell expansion upon subsequent restimulation. This hyporesponsive, or anergic, phenotype can still be detected after multiple restimulations indicating that the hyporesponsiveness persists despite cell division and it was inherited by daughter cells. Furthermore, we demonstrated that this hypoproliferative response is associated with high p27Kip1 and cyclin E protein levels, and reduced intracellular interleukin-2 (IL-2) expression. Addition of exogenous IL-2 was required to reset p27Kip1 levels in the progeny derived from hyporesponsive TEa cells. Thus, we have established antigen dose-dependent induction of a reversible, inheritable (i.e. epigenetic) phenotype and we have identified at least three components of the network of interactions: p27Kip1 cyclin E, and IL-2 expression.
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- Eduardo J Firpo
- Cell Systems Initiative, Department of Bioengineering, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Mitchell TC, Teague TK, Hildeman DA, Bender J, Rees WA, Kedl RM, Swanson B, Kappler JW, Marrack P. Stronger correlation of bcl-3 than bcl-2, bcl-xL, costimulation, or antioxidants with adjuvant-induced T cell survival. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2002; 975:114-31. [PMID: 12538159 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb05946.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A set of signals separate from those needed for T cell activation and clonal expansion acts to sustain a T cell response once it has begun. Immunologic adjuvants can initiate these signals in a process we designate adjuvant-induced survival (AIS). Here, the natural adjuvant LPS was used in a super-antigen model of AIS to understand which factors are needed to sustain T cell survival after activation. Flow cytometric stains for antiapoptotic Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL showed that neither factor was well correlated with AIS, although both were increased transiently upon T cell activation. T cells protected via AIS showed no increased ability to resist death caused by reactive oxygen species, and cellular division was not accelerated as might be expected if AIS were to operate through co-stimulatory pathways. Finally, microarray analyses were performed that showed increased expression of Bcl-3, an NFkappaB/IkappaB factor, was correlated with AIS. It is proposed that T cell survival during productive immune responses occurs by successive activities of Bcl-2, Bcl-xL and Bcl-3, with Bcl-3 requiring innate immune responses to adjuvants for its expression.
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- Thomas C Mitchell
- Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
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Di Renzo M, Capecchi PL, Camurri A, Di Ciolla F, Maccherini M, Lisi G, Pompella G, Pasqui AL, Auteri A, Abbracchio MP, Pasini FL. Enhanced apoptosis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in cardiac transplanted patients undergoing chronic immunosuppressive treatment. Transpl Immunol 2002; 10:269-75. [PMID: 12507398 DOI: 10.1016/s0966-3274(02)00075-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Apoptosis plays a major role in tissue transplantation because intact T-cell-apoptosis pathways are required for the induction of tolerance to allografts. Moreover, immunosuppressive agents commonly used in clinical transplantation medicine promote lymphocyte apoptosis inhibiting the expression and production of cytokines involved in lymphocyte survival. The aim of our study was to evaluate peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) spontaneous apoptosis in patients undergoing chronic immunosuppressive treatment after cardiac transplantation. PBMC obtained from patients (n = 31) and controls matched for age and sex (n = 25) were cultured for 72 h and apoptosis was evaluated by quantification of fragmented DNA, staining with Hoechst 33258 dye and annexin V binding. We also investigated Fas expression and FasL mRNA expression as well as the ability of an IgM anti-Fas antibody to induce apoptosis. Finally, we evaluated IL2 production induced by PHA and the ability of IL2 to prevent apoptosis. In patients, PBMC underwent enhanced spontaneous apoptosis in comparison with controls. However, we could not find any difference between patients and normals as regards the expression of Fas and of FasL mRNA, even if the cross-linking of the Fas molecule induced apoptosis in PBMC from patients, whereas it failed to induce cell death in normals. We also found that IL2 production was significantly decreased in patients and that the addition of IL2 to the culture medium reduced PBMC spontaneous apoptosis. Our findings suggest that in cardiac transplanted patients PBMC undergo enhanced spontaneous apoptosis, which may contribute to prevent allograft rejection.
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- M Di Renzo
- Istituto di Semeiotica Medica, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.
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Murata K, Nose M, Ndhlovu LC, Sato T, Sugamura K, Ishii N. Constitutive OX40/OX40 ligand interaction induces autoimmune-like diseases. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:4628-36. [PMID: 12370402 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.8.4628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The interaction between OX40 and OX40 ligand (OX40L) is suggested to provide T cells with an effective costimulatory signals during T cell-APC interaction. To examine the in vivo effect of constitutive OX40/OX40L interaction during immune regulation, we report the establishment of OX40L-transgenic (OX40L-Tg) mice that constitutively express OX40L on T cells. Markedly elevated numbers of effector memory CD4(+) T cells, but not CD8(+) T cells, were observed in the secondary lymphoid organs of OX40L-Tg mice. Upon immunization with keyhole limpet hemocyanin in the absence of adjuvant, profound T cell proliferative responses and cytokine productions were seen in the OX40L-Tg mice as compared with wild-type mice. Furthermore, in OX40L-Tg mice administrated with superantigen, this constitutive OX40/OX40L interaction on CD4(+) T cells completely prevented normal in vivo clonal T cell deletion. Interestingly, OX40L-Tg mice on the C57BL/6 background spontaneously developed interstitial pneumonia and inflammatory bowel disease that was accompanied with a significant production of anti-DNA Ab in the sera. Surprisingly, these diseases were not evident on the OX40L-Tg mice on the BALB/c strain. However, such inflammatory diseases were successfully reproducible in recombination-activating gene (RAG)2-deficient mice upon transfer of OX40L-Tg CD4(+) T cells. Blockade of OX40/OX40L interaction in the recipient RAG2-deficient mice completely prevented disease development. The present results orchestrated in this study indicate that OX40/OX40L interaction may be a vital link in our understanding of T cell-mediated organ-specific autoimmunity.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Autoantibodies/biosynthesis
- Autoantibodies/blood
- Autoimmune Diseases/genetics
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Autoimmune Diseases/pathology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/transplantation
- Clonal Deletion/genetics
- Crosses, Genetic
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Cytokines/blood
- DNA-Binding Proteins/deficiency
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Immunologic Memory/genetics
- Inflammation/genetics
- Inflammation/immunology
- Ligands
- Lymphatic Diseases/genetics
- Lymphatic Diseases/immunology
- Lymphocyte Count
- Membrane Glycoproteins/deficiency
- Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- OX40 Ligand
- Organ Specificity/genetics
- Organ Specificity/immunology
- Receptors, OX40
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor
- Splenomegaly/genetics
- Splenomegaly/immunology
- Th2 Cells/immunology
- Th2 Cells/metabolism
- Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily, Member 7/physiology
- Tumor Necrosis Factors
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- Kazuko Murata
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aobu-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
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Atsumi T, Ishihara K, Kamimura D, Ikushima H, Ohtani T, Hirota S, Kobayashi H, Park SJ, Saeki Y, Kitamura Y, Hirano T. A point mutation of Tyr-759 in interleukin 6 family cytokine receptor subunit gp130 causes autoimmune arthritis. J Exp Med 2002; 196:979-90. [PMID: 12370259 PMCID: PMC2194024 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20020619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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We generated a mouse line in which the src homology 2 domain-bearing protein tyrosine phosphatase (SHP)-2 binding site of gp130, tyrosine 759, was mutated to phenylalanine (gp130(F759/F759)). The gp130(F759/F759) mice developed rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-like joint disease. The disease was accompanied by autoantibody production and accumulated memory/activated T cells and myeloid cells. Before the disease onset, the T cells were hyperresponsive and thymic selection and peripheral clonal deletion were impaired. The inhibitory effect of IL-6 on Fas ligand expression during activation-induced cell death (AICD) was augmented in gp130(F759/F759) T cells in a manner dependent on the tyrosine residues of gp130 required for signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 activation. Finally, we showed that disease development was dependent on lymphocytes. These results provide evidence that a point mutation of a cytokine receptor has the potential to induce autoimmune disease.
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- Toru Atsumi
- Department of Molecular Oncology (C7), Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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Aberrant regulation of superantigen responses during T-cell reconstitution and graft-versus-host disease in immunodeficient mice. Blood 2002. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v100.6.2216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic stem cell transplantation is associated with impaired deletion and anergy of host-reactive T cells. To elucidate the immunoregulatory events that may contribute to such dysregulated T-cell responses in GVHD, we studied superantigen (SAg) responses after adoptive T-cell transfer into severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice. SAg responses are normally regulated by mechanisms involving deletion and anergy, with SAg-reactive T cells typically being deleted rapidly in vivo. In a SCID mouse model of GVHD, however, allogeneic host SAg-reactive T cells were not deleted rapidly, but rather persisted in increased numbers for several months. Moreover, depending on the timing of SAg stimulation and the numbers of T cells transferred, dysregulation (impaired deletion and anergy) of SAg responses could be demonstrated following the adoptive transfer of syngeneic T cells into SCID mice as well. Transgenic T-cell receptor-bearing KJ1-26.1+ T cells were then used to determine the fate of weakly reactive T cells after adoptive transfer and SAg stimulation. When transferred alone, KJ1-26.1+ T cells demonstrated impaired deletion and anergy. In the presence of more strongly staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB)–reactive T cells, however, KJ1-26.1+ T cells were regulated normally, in a manner that could be prevented by inhibiting the effects of more strongly SEB-reactive cells or by increasing the level of activation of the KJ1-26.1+ T cells themselves. We suggest that the control mechanisms that normally regulate strongly activated T cells in immunocompetent animals are lost following adoptive transfer into immunodeficient hosts, and that this impairment contributes to the development of GVHD.
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