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There is increasing evidence that dendritic cells are capable of inducing T cell tolerance to tissue-specific antigens by presenting these antigens to CD4 and CD8 T cells in the respective draining lymph nodes. In contrast, parenchymal cells are often seen as immunologically inert. This lecture summarizes studies showing that tissue cells like sinusoidal endothelial cells and hepatocytes in the liver as well as keratinocytes in the skin can induce peripheral T cell tolerance. This tolerance induction is often preceded by T cell activation. Thus, several tolerance mechanisms are operating in parallel. We still have no learn which mechanism is most suitable for therapeutic intervention in autoimmune diseases and organ transplantation.
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- Bernd Arnold
- Molecular Immunology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum DKFZ, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69121, Heidelberg, Germany.
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T cell receptor transgenic mice have been a valuable tool in the study of the immune system, from development to selection to tolerance or pathogenesis. In this manuscript we review the T cell receptor transgenic mouse lines with specificity for self antigens that have been reported before August 2003. Many such lines have been generated, which have been instrumental in our understanding of, among other aspects, the role regulatory T cells in preventing autoimmunity, the role of microbes in modifying its outcome, the influence of the genetic background, the importance of regional differences in self-antigen concentration, and the importance of differences in antigen deposition between different tissues.
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- Juan J Lafaille
- Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Lustgarten J, Dominguez AL, Cuadros C. The CD8+
T cell repertoire against Her-2/neu antigens in neu transgenic mice is of low avidity with antitumor activity. Eur J Immunol 2004; 34:752-761. [PMID: 14991605 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200324427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The majority of tumor-associated antigens are aberrantly expressed or overexpressed normal gene products. Therefore, mechanisms responsible for self tolerance dampen immune responses against these antigens. To evaluate the effect that tolerance has on the immune responses against tumor antigens, we characterized the CD8+ T cell responses in neu mice. T cell responses against the A2.1/neu p369-377 and p773-782 peptides were evaluated in neu mice that were crossed with A2.1/Kb transgenic mice (A2 x neu). Tetramer binding and cytotoxic activity demonstrate that, compared to CTL from A2.1/Kb x FVB wild-type mice (A2 x FVB), CD8+ T cells from A2 x neu mice were of lower avidity for the peptides. Despite the fact that A2 x neu mice are tolerant, multiple immunizations with DC pulsed with the p369-377 or p773-782 peptides in the presence of IL-2 retarded tumor growth in A2 x neu mice, and immunizations in combination with the anti-OX40 mAb further enhanced the antitumor response. Taken together, these data indicate that low-avidity T cells for neu antigens persisting in A2 x neu mice have the capacity to develop antitumor responses as long as they are provided with efficient costimulation. These results underscore the potential role of low-avidity T cells in antitumor immunity and may offer an important component for vaccination immunotherapies.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology
- Antigens, Neoplasm/genetics
- Antigens, Neoplasm/immunology
- Cell Division
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Dendritic Cells/transplantation
- HLA-A2 Antigen/genetics
- Immune Tolerance
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Neoplasms, Experimental/immunology
- Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
- Peptides/immunology
- Receptor, ErbB-2/genetics
- Receptor, ErbB-2/immunology
- Receptors, OX40
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/transplantation
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T cell anergy is a tolerance mechanism in which the lymphocyte is intrinsically functionally inactivated following an antigen encounter, but remains alive for an extended period of time in a hyporesponsive state. Models of T cell anergy affecting both CD4(+) and CD8(+) cells fall into two broad categories. One, clonal anergy, is principally a growth arrest state, whereas the other, adaptive tolerance or in vivo anergy, represents a more generalized inhibition of proliferation and effector functions. The former arises from incomplete T cell activation, is mostly observed in previously activated T cells, is maintained by a block in the Ras/MAP kinase pathway, can be reversed by IL-2 or anti-OX40 signaling, and usually does not result in the inhibition of effector functions. The latter is most often initiated in naïve T cells in vivo by stimulation in an environment deficient in costimulation or high in coinhibition. Adaptive tolerance can be induced in the thymus or in the periphery. The cells proliferate and differentiate to varying degrees and then downregulate both functions in the face of persistent antigen. The state involves an early block in tyrosine kinase activation, which predominantly inhibits calcium mobilization, and an independent mechanism that blocks signaling through the IL-2 receptor. Adaptive tolerance reverses in the absence of antigen. Aspects of both of the anergic states are found in regulatory T cells, possibly preventing them from dominating initial immune responses to foreign antigens and shutting down such responses prematurely.
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- Ronald H Schwartz
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0420, USA.
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Stamou P, de Jersey J, Carmignac D, Mamalaki C, Kioussis D, Stockinger B. Chronic exposure to low levels of antigen in the periphery causes reversible functional impairment correlating with changes in CD5 levels in monoclonal CD8 T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 171:1278-84. [PMID: 12874216 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.3.1278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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This study describes a double-transgenic model in which monoclonal CD8 F5 T cells are chronically exposed to self Ag (nucleoprotein) in the periphery, but are not affected during thymic development. Chronic exposure of CD8 T cells to their cognate Ag rendered them unable to proliferate or produce cytokines in response to antigenic stimulation in vitro. However, the cells still retained some killer function in vivo and continuously eliminated APC expressing high levels of Ag. In addition, when crossed with mice expressing Ag in the anterior pituitary gland (triple-transgenic mice), F5 T cells migrated to this site and killed growth hormone producing somatotrophs. The anergic state was reversible upon transfer into Ag-free recipients, resulting in full recovery of in vitro responsiveness to Ag. Anergic CD8 T cells express higher levels of CD5, a negative regulator of T cell signaling, whereas after transfer and residence in Ag-free hosts, CD5 levels returned to normal. This suggests that up-regulation of negative T cell regulators in peripheral T cells exposed to chronic stimulation by Ag may prevent full functionality and thus avoid overt autoreactivity.
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- Panagiota Stamou
- Division of Molecular Immunology, The National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
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Buch T, Uthoff-Hachenberg C, Waisman A. Protection from autoimmune brain inflammation in mice lacking IFN-regulatory factor-1 is associated with Th2-type cytokines. Int Immunol 2003; 15:855-9. [PMID: 12807824 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxg086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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IFN-regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1) is a transcription factor that regulates the expression of IFN-induced genes and type I IFN. It has previously been demonstrated that IRF-1-deficient mice show reduced susceptibility to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) induced by a peptide from myelin basic protein. To further study the role of IRF-1 in brain inflammation, we analyzed EAE induced by immunization with a myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-derived peptide in 129/Sv mice lacking IRF-1. We found that these mice were almost completely resistant to EAE induction and that this unresponsiveness was intrinsically related to the IRF-1 deficiency of the T cells, but not with any other cell type. Furthermore, we show that the amelioration of EAE was associated with increased production of T(h)2-type and decreased production of T(h)1-type cytokines. These results demonstrate that absence of IRF-1 in myelin-specific T cells results in protection from severe EAE and is associated with a skewing of the T cell response towards T(h)2.
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- Thorsten Buch
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Weyertal 121, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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Curtsinger JM, Lins DC, Mescher MF. Signal 3 determines tolerance versus full activation of naive CD8 T cells: dissociating proliferation and development of effector function. J Exp Med 2003; 197:1141-51. [PMID: 12732656 PMCID: PMC2193970 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 369] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Activation of naive CD8 T cells to undergo clonal expansion and develop effector function requires three signals: (a) Ag, (b) costimulation, and (c) IL-12 or adjuvant. The requirement for the third signal to stimulate Ag-dependent proliferation is variable, making the greatest contribution when Ag levels are low. At high Ag levels, extensive proliferation can occur in vitro or in vivo in the absence of a third signal. However, despite having undergone the same number of divisions, cells that expand in the absence of a third signal fail to develop cytolytic effector function. Thus, proliferation and development of cytolytic function can be fully uncoupled. Furthermore, these cells are rendered functionally tolerant in vivo, in that subsequent restimulation with a potent stimulus results in limited clonal expansion, impaired IFN-gamma production, and no cytolytic function. Thus, the presence or absence of the third signal appears to be a critical variable in determining whether stimulation by Ag results in tolerance versus development of effector function and establishment of a responsive memory population.
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- Julie M Curtsinger
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, MN 55455, USA
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Yuan CM, Stein S, Glick JH, Wasik MA. Natural killer-like T-cell lymphoma of the small intestine with a distinct immunophenotype and lack of association with gluten-sensitive enteropathy. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2003; 127:e142-6. [PMID: 12653603 DOI: 10.5858/2003-127-e142-nktlot] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We report the case of a large natural killer (NK)-like T-cell lymphoma that involved the ileum and displayed a distinct immunophenotype and complex karyotype. The patient exhibited no evidence of gluten-sensitive enteropathy (celiac disease) or any other type of enteropathy as determined by clinical history, endoscopy, and serology for immunoglobulin A (IgA) antiendomysial and IgG antigliadin antibodies. Molecular studies demonstrated a clonal T-cell receptor gamma chain gene rearrangement. Immunophenotype analysis showed expression of intestinal epithelium-homing receptor CD103, CD7, cytoplasmic CD3 epsilon, CD56, and CD16 but no other T- or NK-cell markers. Cytogenetic analysis of the malignant cells revealed multiple chromosomal abnormalities indicative of a biologically advanced, high-grade lymphoma. A novel subset of normal intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes, bearing a similar phenotype, has been described; moreover, this subset diminishes, rather than expands, in gluten-sensitive enteropathy. This case supports the notion that lymphomas involving the small intestine represent a heterogeneous group of lymphomas with diverse pathogenetic mechanisms.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Biomarkers/analysis
- Biomarkers/blood
- Biomarkers, Tumor/analysis
- Biomarkers, Tumor/blood
- Biomarkers, Tumor/immunology
- Celiac Disease/blood
- Celiac Disease/diagnosis
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping/methods
- Intestinal Neoplasms/blood
- Intestinal Neoplasms/chemistry
- Intestinal Neoplasms/diagnosis
- Intestinal Neoplasms/genetics
- Intestine, Small/chemistry
- Intestine, Small/pathology
- Killer Cells, Natural/chemistry
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Killer Cells, Natural/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/blood
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/chemistry
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/diagnosis
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/genetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
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- Constance M Yuan
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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Herberts CA, van Gaans-van den Brink J, van der Heeft E, van Wijk M, Hoekman J, Jaye A, Poelen MCM, Boog CJP, Roholl PJM, Whittle H, de Jong APJM, van Els CACM. Autoreactivity against induced or upregulated abundant self-peptides in HLA-A*0201 following measles virus infection. Hum Immunol 2003; 64:44-55. [PMID: 12507814 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(02)00707-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Infectious agents have been implied as causative environmental factors in the development of autoimmunity. However, the exact nature of their involvement remains unknown. We describe a possible mechanism for the activation of autoreactive T cells induced by measles virus (MV) infection. The display of HLA-A*0201 associated peptides obtained from MV infected cells was compared with that from uninfected cells by mass spectrometry. We identified two abundant self peptides, IFI-6-16(74-82) and Hsp90beta(570-578), that were induced or upregulated, respectively, following infection. Their parental proteins, the type I interferon inducible protein IFI-6-16, and the beta chain of heat shock protein 90, have not been involved in MV pathogenesis. MV infection caused minor and major changes in the intracellular expression patterns of these proteins, possibly leading to altered peptide processing. CD8+ T cells capable of recognizing the self-peptides in the context of HLA-A*0201 were detectable at low basal levels in the neonatal and adult human T cell repertoire, but were functionally silent. In contrast, peptide-specific producing IFN-gamma producing effector cells were present in MV patients during acute infection. Thus, MV infection induces an enhanced display of self-peptides in MHC class I, which may lead to the temporary activation of autoreactive T cells.
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- Carla A Herberts
- Laboratory of Vaccine Research, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Sacher T, Knolle P, Nichterlein T, Arnold B, Hämmerling GJ, Limmer A. CpG-ODN-induced inflammation is sufficient to cause T-cell-mediated autoaggression against hepatocytes. Eur J Immunol 2002; 32:3628-37. [PMID: 12516551 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200212)32:12<3628::aid-immu3628>3.0.co;2-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Autoimmune diseases are often associated with microbial infections. Molecular mimicry between microbial antigens and self-epitopes has been suggested as a mechanism for breaking self-tolerance and induction of autoimmunity. Since infections also cause inflammatory responses we explored the role of local inflammation in organ-specific autoimmunity. For this purpose, transgenic mice were used expressing the MHC class I molecule Kb exclusively on hepatocytes. These mice exhibit Kb-specific tolerance as exemplified by the acceptance of Kb+ grafts. Inflammatory reactions were induced by injection of immunostimulatory cytosine-phosphorothioate-guanine (CpG)-rich oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN). Application of CpG-ODN is sufficient to break tolerance in vivo, and to cause activation of Kb-specific CD8+ T cells and subsequent autoaggression against hepatocytes. The CpG-ODN-induced inflammation appears to have two major effects. First, it causes infiltration of T cells into the liver parenchyma. Second, adhesion and costimulatory molecules are up-regulated on hepatocytes so that the infiltrating CD8+ T cells encounter Kb on hepatocytes, which display an APC-like phenotype, resulting in activation and tissue damage. Autoimmune hepatitis can be maintained for at least eight weeks by repeated application of CpG-ODN but subsides after termination of the inflammatory stimulus, suggesting the requirement of additional factors for a self-perpetuation of autoimmunity. These observations describe an additional pathway for the induction of autoimmunity, i.e. in the absence of microbial antigens inflammatory reactions alone can lead to infiltration of T cells into organs, resulting in breaking of tolerance and autoaggression. Moreover, the results provide evidence that T cell activation can take place not only in draining lymph nodes but also directly on parenchymal cells.
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Gütgemann I, Darling JM, Greenberg HB, Davis MM, Chien YH. A blood-borne antigen induces rapid T-B cell contact: a potential mechanism for tolerance induction. Immunology 2002; 107:420-5. [PMID: 12460186 PMCID: PMC1782815 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2002.01527.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Understanding the difference between the development of a productive T-cell response and tolerance is central to discerning how the immune system functions. Intravenous injection of soluble protein is thought to mimic the presentation of self-serum and orally introduced antigens. It is generally toleragenic. The current view is that this outcome reflects the failure of 'immunogenic' dendritic cells to relocate to the T-cell zone of the secondary lymphoid tissues. Here, using a peptide/I-Ek tetramer and antibodies to stain splenic sections, we showed that antigen-specific T cells were activated in the spleen within hours of injection or feeding of protein. The activated T cells were found to be located at the T-B junction, the bridging zone and the B-cell area, interacting directly with B cells. In addition, B cells gain the ability to present antigen. Our results suggest a way for T cells to be stimulated by blood-borne antigen presented by naïve B cells, a potential mechanism of tolerance induction.
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- Ines Gütgemann
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Djilali-Saiah I, Lapierre P, Vittozi S, Alvarez F. DNA vaccination breaks tolerance for a neo-self antigen in liver: a transgenic murine model of autoimmune hepatitis. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:4889-96. [PMID: 12391200 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.9.4889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Understanding the pathogenesis of autoimmune hepatitis requires an animal model in which chronic progressive immune injury develops spontaneously or with minimal manipulations. The new transgenic mouse model proposed in this study is based on the hypothesis that infectious agents have the potential to initiate autoreactivity through molecular mimicry. A transgenic mouse expressing lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus nucleoprotein (NP) in a H-2(b) background developed liver injury when vaccinated with plasmids expressing NP as an intracellular or a secretory protein. Coinjection of plasmids coding for NP and IL-12 facilitated the induction of a Th1 phenotype as detected by a specific B lymphocyte response characterized by a predominance of IgG2 subclass anti-NP Abs. CTLs activated in peripheral lymphoid organs by DNA vaccination migrated to the periportal and lobular areas of the liver. Their presence was associated with a significant degree of cytolysis, as evidenced by elevated transaminases several weeks after immunization. As activated specific T lymphocytes proliferated in the periphery and caused cytolysis of target cells, this study suggests that autoimmune hepatitis can be triggered by molecular mimicry, and that local injury may not be essential to initiate autoreactivity in the liver.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Autoantigens/administration & dosage
- Autoantigens/genetics
- Autoantigens/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- B-Lymphocytes/virology
- Cytomegalovirus/genetics
- Cytomegalovirus/immunology
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genetic Vectors/administration & dosage
- Genetic Vectors/chemical synthesis
- Genetic Vectors/immunology
- Hepatitis, Autoimmune/genetics
- Hepatitis, Autoimmune/immunology
- Hepatitis, Autoimmune/pathology
- Humans
- Immunodominant Epitopes/immunology
- Immunoglobulin G/biosynthesis
- Injections, Intramuscular
- Liver/immunology
- Liver/virology
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/genetics
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Nucleoproteins/genetics
- Nucleoproteins/immunology
- Prealbumin/genetics
- Prealbumin/immunology
- Self Tolerance/genetics
- Simian virus 40/genetics
- Simian virus 40/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/virology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Vaccines, DNA/administration & dosage
- Vaccines, DNA/genetics
- Vaccines, DNA/immunology
- Viral Hepatitis Vaccines/administration & dosage
- Viral Hepatitis Vaccines/genetics
- Viral Hepatitis Vaccines/immunology
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- Idriss Djilali-Saiah
- Service de Gastroentérologie, Departement de Pédiatrie, Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Klugewitz K, Blumenthal-Barby F, Schrage A, Knolle PA, Hamann A, Crispe IN. Immunomodulatory effects of the liver: deletion of activated CD4+ effector cells and suppression of IFN-gamma-producing cells after intravenous protein immunization. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:2407-13. [PMID: 12193708 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.5.2407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The liver is tolerogenic in many situations, including as an allograft and during the response to allogeneic MHC expressed on hepatocytes. The majority of data that address this issue focus on endogenous Ags. Little is known about CD4(+) T cells and their fate under tolerizing conditions, especially with respect to fully differentiated CD4(+) effector T cells. In this study, we used the adoptive transfer of populations of TCR-transgenic CD4(+) T cells, skewed toward the Th1 or Th2 phenotype, to test whether either apoptotic or immune deviation mechanisms apply to cytokine-producing CD4(+) T cells that enter the liver. After transfer, Th1 and Th2 cells could be detected up to 25 days in lymphoid organs and the liver. Intravenous high dose Ag application resulted in accumulation, proliferation, and subsequent deletion of effector cells within the liver. Th1 cells lost their capacity to produce cytokines, whereas IL-4 expression was sustained within Th2 cells from the liver. However, there was no evidence for a deviation of Th1-programmed cells toward a Th2 (IL-4) or regulatory T cell (IL-10) pattern of cytokine expression. We used isolated populations of liver-derived APCs to test whether the liver had the capacity to impose a bias toward IL-4 expression in T cells. These experiments showed that liver sinusoidal endothelial cells selectively suppress the expansion of IFN-gamma-producing cells, yet they promote the outgrowth of IL-4-expressing Th2 cells, creating an immune suppressive milieu within this organ. These data suggest that presentation of Ags in the liver leads to modulation of immune response in terms of quantity and quality.
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- Katja Klugewitz
- Section of Immunobiology, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Laurie KL, Van Driel IR, Zwar TD, Barrett SP, Gleeson PA. Endogenous H/K ATPase beta-subunit promotes T cell tolerance to the immunodominant gastritogenic determinant. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:2361-7. [PMID: 12193702 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.5.2361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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A CD4(+) T cell response to the gastric H/K ATPase beta-subunit (H/Kbeta) is required for the onset of experimental autoimmune gastritis in BALB/c mice. The extent to which endogenous H/Kbeta contributes toward the tolerance of the H/Kbeta-specific T cell repertoire in normal individuals is not known. By comparison of T cell responses in H/Kbeta-deficient (o/o) and H/Kbeta-expressing BALB/c mice, in this work we show that the endogenous H/Kbeta autoantigen plays a major role in the tolerance of pathogenic H/Kbeta-specific T cells. First, T cell-dependent Ab responses to the H/Kbeta Ag were enhanced in H/K ATPase-immunized H/Kbeta-deficient mice compared with wild-type mice. Second, peptide immunization experiments indicated that immune responses to the major gastritogenic epitope of the H/K ATPase, namely H/Kbeta(253-277), were significantly more vigorous in H/Kbeta-deficient mice compared with wild-type mice. Third, unfractionated splenocytes from H/Kbeta-deficient mice, but not H/Kbeta-expressing mice, induced autoimmune gastritis after adoptive transfer to BALB/c nude mice. The enhanced responses to H/Kbeta in H/Kbeta-deficient mice were shown to be intrinsic to CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells rather than a change in status of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells. We conclude from these studies that the H/Kbeta-specific T cells in wild-type mice represent the residue of a T cell repertoire, directed toward a single determinant, that has been subjected to partial tolerance induction.
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- Karen L Laurie
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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The immune system is an adaptive defense system capable of specifically recognizing and eliminating an apparently limitless variety of foreign invaders. This highly specific response is provided by T and B lymphocytes. The enormous diversity of the antigen-specific receptors on these cells is generated by random rearrangement of the respective genes. The key challenge of such a defense system is to have as broad a T and B cell repertoire as possible in the absence of autoreactivity. This review summarizes mechanisms of peripheral T cell tolerance induction seen in various animal models. There is increasing evidence that tolerance to tissue-specific antigens can be induced by dendritic cells in the regional lymph nodes as well as by parenchymal cells like keratinocytes and hepatocytes in the respective tissues. Furthermore, tolerance induction should no longer only be viewed as prevention of T cell activation, as in certain systems activation of autoreactive T cells is insufficient to cause tissue damage. Thus, several tolerance mechanisms are operating in parallel under physiological conditions. With increasing knowledge of the molecular basis we will learn which mechanism is most suitable for therapeutic intervention.
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- Bernd Arnold
- Molecular Immunology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Terra R, Labrecque N, Perreault C. Thymic and extrathymic T cell development pathways follow different rules. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:684-92. [PMID: 12097370 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.2.684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Separation between primary and secondary lymphoid organs is a universal feature in jawed vertebrates. Strikingly, oncostatin M (OM)-transgenic mice present massive extrathymic T cell development, localized exclusively in the lymph nodes (LN). According to the prevailing paradigm, the thymus is the main source of T lymphocytes in gnathostomes mainly because thymic epithelial cells have a unique ability to support early steps in T cell development. It is therefore remarkable that productive T cell development occurs in the OM(+) LN, despite the absence of epithelial cells. The present study shows that in the OM(+) LN: 1) MHC class I expression strictly on hemopoietic cells is sufficient to support the development of a diversified repertoire of CD8 T cells; 2) the efficiency of positive selection of specific TCR-transgenic T cells is not the same as in the thymus; 3) negative selection is very effective, despite the lack of an organized thymic-like medulla. Furthermore, our data suggest that extrathymic T lymphocytes developing in the OM(+) LN undergo extensive postselection expansion because they live in the microenvironment in which they were positively selected. This work illustrates how the division of labor between primary and secondary lymphoid organs influences the repertoire and homeostasis of T lymphocytes.
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- Rafik Terra
- Guy-Bernier Research Center, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Yamazaki K, Ohsawa Y, Tabeta K, Ito H, Ueki K, Oda T, Yoshie H, Seymour GJ. Accumulation of human heat shock protein 60-reactive T cells in the gingival tissues of periodontitis patients. Infect Immun 2002; 70:2492-501. [PMID: 11953387 PMCID: PMC127937 DOI: 10.1128/iai.70.5.2492-2501.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Heat shock protein 60s (hsp60) are remarkably immunogenic, and both T-cell and antibody responses to hsp60 have been reported in various inflammatory conditions. To clarify the role of hsp60 in T-cell responses in periodontitis, we examined the proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), as well as the cytokine profile and T-cell clonality, for periodontitis patients and controls following stimulation with recombinant human hsp60 and Porphyromonas gingivalis GroEL. To confirm the infiltration of hsp60-reactive T-cell clones into periodontitis lesions, nucleotide sequences within complementarity-determining region 3 of the T-cell receptor (TCR) beta-chain were compared between hsp60-reactive peripheral blood T cells and periodontitis lesion-infiltrating T cells. Periodontitis patients demonstrated significantly higher proliferative responses of PBMC to human hsp60, but not to P. gingivalis GroEL, than control subjects. The response was inhibited by anti-major histocompatibility complex class II antibodies. Analysis of the nucleotide sequences of the TCR demonstrated that human hsp60-reactive T-cell clones and periodontitis lesion-infiltrating T cells have the same receptors, suggesting that hsp60-reactive T cells accumulate in periodontitis lesions. Analysis of the cytokine profile demonstrated that hsp60-reactive PBMC produced significant levels of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in periodontitis patients, whereas P. gingivalis GroEL did not induce any skewing toward a type1 or type2 cytokine profile. In control subjects no significant expression of IFN-gamma or interleukin 4 was induced. These results suggest that periodontitis patients have human hsp60-reactive T cells with a type 1 cytokine profile in their peripheral blood T-cell pools.
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- Kazuhisa Yamazaki
- Division of Periodontology, Department of Oral Biological Science, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan.
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Klugewitz K, Topp SA, Dahmen U, Kaiser T, Sommer S, Kury E, Hamann A. Differentiation-dependent and subset-specific recruitment of T-helper cells into murine liver. Hepatology 2002; 35:568-78. [PMID: 11870369 DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2002.31310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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It has been suggested that the liver traps and deletes activated and potentially harmful T cells, especially of the CD8(+) subset, providing mechanisms to limit systemic immune responses. It is unknown whether this also applies to CD4(+) T cells. In this study, we show that activated stages of CD4(+) T cells were trapped in the liver on intraportal injection. Intravital microscopy showed an immediate adhesion of activated CD4(+) T cells within periportal sinusoids after intraportal injection. Furthermore, we detected high frequencies of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma)-- (Th1) and interleukin 4 (IL-4)-- (Th2) synthesizing effector cells in the liver. Transfer experiments were performed to identify those phenotypes showing specific retention in the liver. Our data show that effector stages and activated cells in general are more efficiently recruited into the liver than resting CD4(+) T cells, similar to what has previously been shown for CD45RB(low) memory cells. In addition, we observed a certain preference for Th1-polarized cells to be trapped by the liver. However, the actual cytokine-producing cells did not specifically enrich among the total population. In conclusion, these data indicate that the liver acts as a filter for activated and memory/effector cells. Cells trapped in the liver might subsequently undergo modulatory influences exerted by the postulated specific microenvironment of the liver.
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- Katja Klugewitz
- Experimentelle Rheumatologie, Medizinische Klinik m. S. Rheumatologie, Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum, Schumannstrasse 21/22, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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Anderson DE, Hafler DA. Immune tolerance and the nervous system. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2002; 490:79-98. [PMID: 11505978 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1243-1_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- D E Anderson
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Kawahata K, Misaki Y, Yamauchi M, Tsunekawa S, Setoguchi K, Miyazaki JI, Yamamoto K. Peripheral tolerance to a nuclear autoantigen: dendritic cells expressing a nuclear autoantigen lead to persistent anergic state of CD4+ autoreactive T cells after proliferation. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 168:1103-12. [PMID: 11801644 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.3.1103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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It remains unknown why the T cell tolerance to nuclear autoantigens is impaired in systemic autoimmune diseases. To clarify this, we generated transgenic mice expressing OVA mainly in the nuclei (Ld-nOVA mice). When CD4+ T cells from DO11.10 mice expressing a TCR specific for OVA(323-339) were transferred into Ld-nOVA mice, they were rendered anergic, but persisted in vivo for at least 3 mo. These cells expressed CD44(high), CD45RB(low), and were generated after multiple cell divisions, suggesting that anergy is not the result of insufficient proliferative stimuli. Whereas dendritic cells (DCs) from Ld-nOVA (DCs derived from transgenic mice (TgDCs)), which present rather low amount of the self-peptide, efficiently induced proliferation of DO11.10 T cells, divided T cells stimulated in vivo by TgDCs exhibited a lower memory response than T cells stimulated in vitro by peptide-pulsed DCs. Furthermore, we found that repeated transfer of either TgDCs or DCs derived from wild-type mice pulsed with a lower concentration of OVA(323-339) induced a lower response of DO11.10 T cells in Ag-free wild-type recipients than DCs derived from wild-type mice. These results suggest that peripheral tolerance to a nuclear autoantigen is achieved by continuous presentation of the self-peptide by DCs, and that the low expression level of the peptide might also be involved in the induction of hyporesponsiveness.
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- Kimito Kawahata
- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
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Behrens D, Lange K, Fried A, Yoo-Ott KA, Richter K, Fändrich F, Krönke M, Zavazava N. Donor-derived soluble MHC antigens plus low-dose cyclosporine induce transplantation unresponsiveness independent of the thymus by down-regulating T cell-mediated alloresponses in a rat transplantation model. Transplantation 2001; 72:1974-82. [PMID: 11773898 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200112270-00018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND In vitro, soluble MHC (sMHC) antigens modulate and induce apoptosis in alloreactive and antigen-specific T cells, demonstrating their potency to regulate T cell-mediated immune responses. However, their efficacy to regulate immunological responses in vivo remains unclear. Here, we report that repetitive intraperitoneal injection of recombinant Lewis rat-derived MHC class I antigens in Dark Agouti (DA) rats modulates alloreactivity. METHODS RT1.A1 (Lewis derived) genes were cloned into mammalian expression vectors, and RT1.Aa (DA derived) genes were used to transfect a rat myeloma cell line. RT1.A1 molecules were injected intraperitoneally in DA recipients that subsequently underwent transplantation with Lewis-derived cardiac allografts. RESULTS Soluble class I antigens were secreted by the transfected cells and were shown to be heterodimeric, peptide-loaded, and conformationally folded. Injection of donor-derived soluble MHC significantly reduced the ability of recipient animals to mount a cytotoxic T-cell response to donor-derived tissue. More interestingly, this treatment significantly prolonged donor-graft survival and allowed 60% of treated animals to develop graft tolerance (>120 days), when donor sMHC were combined with a single subtherapeutic dosage of cyclosporine. Thymectomy of recipient animals before transplantation did not interfere with induction of peripheral tolerance. CONCLUSIONS Donor-derived sMHC are potential tolerogens for down-regulating the cytotoxic T-cell response of animals that undergo transplantation. Thus, these data provide for the first time a rationale for the application of directly injected sMHC in vivo to down-regulate immunological responses and aid the induction of graft tolerance.
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- D Behrens
- Corixa Corporation, Redwood City, California, USA
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Selection in the thymus restricted by MHC and self-peptide shapes the diverse reactivities of the T-cell population which subsequently seeds into the peripheral tissues, in anticipation of the universe of pathogen antigens to which the organism may be exposed. A necessary corollary is the potential for T-cell self-reactivity (autoimmunity) in the periphery. Transgenic mouse models in which transgene expression in the thymus is prevented or excluded, have been particularly useful for determining the immunological outcome when T-cells encounter transgene-encoded 'self' antigen in peripheral tissues. Data suggest that non-mutually exclusive mechanisms of T-cells 'ignoring' self-antigen, T-cell deletion, T-cell anergy and T-cell immunoregulation have evolved to prevent self-reactivity while maintaining T-cell diversity. The peripheral T-cell repertoire, far from being static following maturation through the thymus, is in a dynamic stated determined by these peripheral selective and immunoregulatory influences. This article reviews the evidence with particular reference to CD8+ive T-cells.
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- R W Tindle
- Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia.
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Tanchot C, Barber DL, Chiodetti L, Schwartz RH. Adaptive tolerance of CD4+ T cells in vivo: multiple thresholds in response to a constant level of antigen presentation. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 167:2030-9. [PMID: 11489985 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.4.2030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [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 in vivo T cell response to persistent Ag contains a hyporesponsive phase following an initial expansion and subsequent partial deletion of the responding cells. The mechanism(s) responsible for this tolerance process is poorly understood. In this study, we describe a new paired transgenic model (TCR and Ag), which within 7-14 days produces 20-40 million hyporesponsive T cells. This state is characterized by an 85-95% reduction in all cytokine production, an impairment of re-expression of CD25 and CD69, and a desensitization of the proliferative response to Ag. TCR levels were normal, and in vivo mixing experiments showed no evidence for active suppression. The hyporesponsiveness partially dissipated without proliferation when the cells were transferred into a non-Ag-bearing host. If the second host expressed Ag, the T cells initially regained responsiveness, but then slowly entered an even deeper state of tolerance characterized by an additional 7- to 10-fold lowering of cytokine production and a greater desensitization of proliferation. Surprisingly, this readaptation took place with the same level of Ag presentation, suggesting that other parameters can influence the tolerance threshold. Both the readjustment in sensitivity and the reversal without Ag convincingly demonstrate for the first time a truly adaptive tolerance process in CD4+ T cells in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Physiological/genetics
- Adaptation, Physiological/immunology
- Adoptive Transfer/methods
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/genetics
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology
- CD3 Complex/biosynthesis
- CD3 Complex/genetics
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/transplantation
- Columbidae
- Cytochrome c Group/genetics
- Cytochrome c Group/immunology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
- Immune Tolerance/genetics
- Interphase/genetics
- Interphase/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred A
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
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- C Tanchot
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Mahanty HD, Cherikh WS, Chang GJ, Baxter-Lowe LA, Roberts JP. Influence of pretransplant pregnancy on survival of renal allografts from living donors. Transplantation 2001; 72:228-32. [PMID: 11477343 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200107270-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The presence of a small number of cells of donor origin in organ transplant recipients (microchimerism) may influence allograft survival and may induce tolerance. Postpartum women may be microchimeric to offspring hematopoietic cells up to 27 years. We hypothesized that mothers receiving renal allografts from offspring would have better graft survival compared with either fathers receiving allografts from offspring, or mothers receiving allografts from nonoffspring donors. METHODS We analyzed 1803 living related kidney transplants from the UNOS database performed between January 1, 1990, and December 31, 1995, for mothers and fathers who received grafts from offspring with one haplotype match. We also compared these mothers with parous females receiving a kidney from nonoffspring donors (spouse and other biologically related or unrelated family members). A multivariate logistic regression method was used to analyze the effect of donor type, as well as other recipient, donor, and transplant characteristics, on graft and patient survival. RESULTS Mothers receiving one haplotype-matched offspring renal allografts did not have better graft survival at 1 or 3 years posttransplant compared with fathers receiving similar grafts. There was also no difference in graft or patient survival between mothers receiving kidney grafts from either offspring or nonoffspring donors. Graft survival in mothers with multiple pregnancies was poorer than those with a single pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS It is possible that persistent microchimerism of fetal cells in maternal circulation may, for some mothers, cause a detectable improvement in graft or patient survival. Comparison of female and male recipients from the UNOS database did not reveal any differences in outcomes. If mothers are tolerant to their offspring, our results indicate that this microchimerism may not improve renal allograft or patient survival in offspring donor to maternal recipient combinations. Lastly, more sensitive pretransplant cross-match assays may need to be implemented in multiparous women, given our results.
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- H D Mahanty
- Department of Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, USA
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Tindle RW, Herd K, Doan T, Bryson G, Leggatt GR, Lambert P, Frazer IH, Street M. Nonspecific down-regulation of CD8+ T-cell responses in mice expressing human papillomavirus type 16 E7 oncoprotein from the keratin-14 promoter. J Virol 2001; 75:5985-97. [PMID: 11390600 PMCID: PMC114314 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.13.5985-5997.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The E7 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16) transforms basal and suprabasal cervical epithelial cells and is a tumor-specific antigen in cervical carcinoma, to which immunotherapeutic strategies aimed at cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) induction are currently directed. By quantifying major histocompatibility complex class I tetramer-binding T cells and CTL in mice expressing an HPV16 E7 transgene from the keratin-14 (K14) promoter in basal and suprabasal keratinocytes and in thymic cortical epithelium, we show that antigen responsiveness of both E7- and non-E7-specific CD8+ cells is down-regulated compared to non-E7 transgenic control mice. We show that the effect is specific for E7, and not another transgene, expressed from the K14 promoter. Down-regulation did not involve deletion of CD8+ T cells of high affinity or high avidity, and T-cell receptor (TCR) Vbeta-chain usage and TCR receptor density were similar in antigen-responsive cells from E7 transgenic and non-E7 transgenic mice. These data indicate that E7 expressed chronically from the K14 promoter nonspecifically down-regulates CD8+ T-cell responses. The in vitro data correlated with the failure of immunized E7 transgenic mice to control the growth of an E7-expressing tumor challenge. We have previously shown that E7-directed CTL down-regulation correlates with E7 expression in peripheral but not thymic epithelium (T. Doan et al., J. Virol. 73:6166-6170, 1999). The findings have implications for the immunological consequences of E7-expressing tumor development and E7-directed immunization strategies. Generically, the findings illustrate a T-cell immunomodulatory function for a virally encoded human oncoprotein.
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- R W Tindle
- Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre, Royal Children's Hospital and Clinical Medical Virology Centre, Herston Rd., Herston, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia.
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Wrenshall LE, Ansite JD, Eckman PM, Heilman MJ, Stevens RB, Sutherland DE. MODULATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES AFTER PORTAL VENOUS INJECTION OF ANTIGEN1. Transplantation 2001; 71:841-50. [PMID: 11349714 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200104150-00004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND How the localization of antigen to the liver, through means such as oral ingestion, induces tolerance is poorly understood. METHODS To elucidate potential mechanisms we used an adoptive transfer system wherein ova-specific T cells were infused into a syngeneic host, and antigen-specific T-cell responses after delivery of soluble antigen into the liver were monitored. RESULTS After infusion of antigen into the portal vein, the frequency of antigen-specific T cells in lymph nodes draining the liver was lower than the frequency in peripheral lymph nodes. These findings were the reverse of what is typically observed after subcutaneous injection of antigen with adjuvant. Infusion of antigen with adjuvant into the portal vein did not alter this pattern of antigen-specific T-cell localization; however, an increased frequency of T cells, compared with antigen alone, was observed in peripheral lymph nodes and spleen. After exposure to antigen via the portal vein, T cells isolated from lymph nodes draining the liver and challenged with antigen in vitro exhibited a diminished proliferative response compared with T cells isolated from nondraining lymph nodes. This hyporesponsiveness was not observed when the antigen was administered with adjuvant. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that the influence of the liver on immune responses might reflect two processes: (1) loss of antigen-specific T cells after primary antigen injection, and (2) hyporesponsiveness on reexposure to antigen. These mechanisms may contribute to the prevention of undesirable immune responses to foods and enteric bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract. Furthermore, these results underscore the importance of minimizing inflammation in circumstances such as islet transplantation, if endogenous mechanisms of tolerance induction are to be maximized.
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- L E Wrenshall
- Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
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Gonnella PA, Waldner HP, Weiner HL. B cell-deficient (mu MT) mice have alterations in the cytokine microenvironment of the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) and a defect in the low dose mechanism of oral tolerance. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:4456-64. [PMID: 11254701 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.7.4456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Peripheral immune tolerance following i.v. administration of Ag has been shown to occur in the absence of B cells. Because different mechanisms have been identified for i.v. vs low dose oral tolerance and B cells are a predominant component of the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) they may play a role in tolerance induction following oral Ag. To examine the role of B cells in oral tolerance we fed low doses of OVA or myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein to B cell-deficient ( microMT) and wild-type C57BL/6 mice. Results showed that the GALT of naive wild-type and microMT mice was characterized by major differences in the cytokine microenvironment. Feeding low doses of 0.5 mg OVA or 250 microg myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein resulted in up-regulation of IL-4, IL-10, and TGF-beta in the GALT of wild-type but not microMT mice. Upon stimulation of popliteal node cells, in vitro induction of regulatory cytokines TGF-beta and IL-10 was observed in wild-type but not microMT mice. Greater protection against experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis was found in wild-type mice. Oral tolerance in microMT and wild-type mice was found to proceed by different mechanisms. Anergy was observed from 0.5 mg to 250 ng in microMT mice but not in wild-type mice. Increased Ag was detected in the lymph of microMT mice. No cytokine-mediated suppression was found following lower doses from 100 ng to 500 pg in either group. These results demonstrate the importance of the B cell for the induction of cytokine-mediated suppression associated with low doses of Ag.
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- P A Gonnella
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Ludewig B, McCoy K, Pericin M, Ochsenbein AF, Dumrese T, Odermatt B, Toes RE, Melief CJ, Hengartner H, Zinkernagel RM. Rapid peptide turnover and inefficient presentation of exogenous antigen critically limit the activation of self-reactive CTL by dendritic cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:3678-87. [PMID: 11238607 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.6.3678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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This study evaluated to what extent presentation of exogenously acquired self-Ags via MHC class I molecules on DC might contribute to the activation of self-reactive CTL and subsequent development of autoimmune disease. We show here by using the rat insulin promotor lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus glycoprotein model of autoimmune diabetes that the activation of self-reactive CTL by DC after uptake of exogenous Ag is very limited, first by the short half-life of MHC class I-associated peptides on DC in vitro and in vivo, and second by the rather inefficient MHC class I presentation of cell-associated self-Ags by DC. These two mechanisms are probably crucial in establishing high thresholds for the induction of self-reactive CTL that prevent autoimmune sequelae after release of sequestered and previously immunologically ignored tissue Ags.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/genetics
- Antigens, Viral/genetics
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Antigens, Viral/metabolism
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Dendritic Cells/immunology
- Dendritic Cells/metabolism
- Dendritic Cells/transplantation
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/pathology
- Glycoproteins/immunology
- Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Injections, Subcutaneous
- Insulin/genetics
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Islets of Langerhans/pathology
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/metabolism
- Peptides/immunology
- Peptides/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/immunology
- Rats
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/transplantation
- Viral Proteins
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- B Ludewig
- Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- T Kamradt
- Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum Berlin and Universitätsklinikum Charité, Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Rheumatologie and Klinische Immunologie, Germany.
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Grisotto MG, D'Império Lima MR, Marinho CR, Tadokoro CE, Abrahamsohn IA, Alvarez JM. Most parasite-specific CD8+ cells in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected chronic mice are down-regulated for T-cell receptor-alphabeta and CD8 molecules. Immunology 2001; 102:209-17. [PMID: 11260326 PMCID: PMC1783160 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2001.01170.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The present study shows that CD8+ T lymphocytes expressing low levels of T-cell receptor (TCR)alphabeta, CD8 and CD3 accumulate in the spleen, blood, peritoneum and liver, but not in the lymph nodes of mice chronically infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. Analysis of spleen lymphocytes reveals that most CD8LOW TCRLOW T cells have an experienced phenotype (CD44HIGH CD62LLOW and CD45RA,B,CLOW). These cells have small size, lack activation markers such as CD69, CD25 and CD11b (Mac-1), and do not spontaneously secrete cytokines, suggesting they are at the resting state. When stimulated in vitro with T. cruzi-infected macrophages, TCRLOW CD8LOW T cells behave as parasite-specific memory cells, readily responding with interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production. Indeed, among parasite-activated CD8+ lymphocytes, IFN-gamma production was mostly due to TCRLOW CD8LOW cells. Upon in vitro stimulation with anti-CD3/CD28 monoclonal antibodies, down-regulated cells produce IFN-gamma and tumour necrosis factor-alpha, but not interleukin IL-10 or IL-4. Our results indicate that despite parasite persistence, most T. cruzi-specific experienced CD8+ cells are resting. Nevertheless, when encountering infected macrophages these cells differentiate to Tc1 effectors.
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- M G Grisotto
- Departamento de Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Benson JM, Campbell KA, Guan Z, Gienapp IE, Stuckman SS, Forsthuber T, Whitacre CC. T-cell activation and receptor downmodulation precede deletion induced by mucosally administered antigen. J Clin Invest 2000; 106:1031-8. [PMID: 11032863 PMCID: PMC314345 DOI: 10.1172/jci10738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The fate of antigen-specific T cells was characterized in myelin basic protein (MBP) T-cell receptor (TCR) transgenic (Tg) mice after oral administration of MBP. Peripheral Th cells are immediately activated in vivo, as indicated by upregulation of CD69 and increased cytokine responses (Th1 and Th2). Concurrently, surface TCR expression diminishes and internal TCR levels increase. When challenged for experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis during TCR downmodulation, Tg mice are protected from disease. To characterize Th cells at later times after antigen feeding, it was necessary to prevent thymic release of naive Tg cells. Therefore, adult Tg mice were thymectomized before treatment. TCR expression returns in thymectomized Tg mice 3 days after MBP feeding and then ultimately declines in conjunction with MBP-specific proliferation and cytokine responses (Th1-type and Th2-type). The decline correlates with an increase in apoptosis. Collectively, these results demonstrate that a high dose of fed antigen induces early T-cell activation and TCR downmodulation, followed by an intermediate stage of anergy and subsequent deletion.
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MESH Headings
- Administration, Oral
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Clonal Deletion
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Down-Regulation
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Immunological
- Myelin Basic Protein/administration & dosage
- Myelin Basic Protein/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Th1 Cells/immunology
- Th2 Cells/immunology
- Thymectomy
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- J M Benson
- Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1239, USA
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Voehringer D, Blaser C, Grawitz AB, Chisari FV, Buerki K, Pircher H. Break of T cell ignorance to a viral antigen in the liver induces hepatitis. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 165:2415-22. [PMID: 10946266 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.5.2415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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To study peripheral tolerance of CD8 T cells to a classically MHC-restricted peptide Ag expressed in hepatocytes, ALB1 transgenic (tg) mice expressing the CTL epitope GP33 of the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus glycoprotein under control of the mouse albumin promoter were generated. ALB1 mice exclusively expressed the GP33 transgene in the liver and, at a 100- to 1000-fold lower level, in the thymus. TCR-tg mice specific for the GP33 epitope were used to directly follow GP33-specific T cells in vivo. These experiments revealed that 1) thymic expression of the GP33 transgene led to incomplete central deletion of TCR-tg cells; and 2) peripheral TCR-tg cells in ALB1 mice ignored the GP33 transgene expressed in hepatocytes. Ignorance of adoptively transferred TCR-tg cells in ALB1 mice was broken by infection with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, leading to induction of hepatitis in ALB1, but not in control, mice. Taken together, we have established a novel model of virus-induced CD8 T cell-mediated autoimmune hepatitis in mice and demonstrate that naive CD8 T cells may ignore Ags expressed in the liver.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Viral/genetics
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Glycoproteins/biosynthesis
- Glycoproteins/genetics
- Hepatitis, Viral, Animal/etiology
- Hepatitis, Viral, Animal/genetics
- Hepatitis, Viral, Animal/immunology
- Immune Tolerance/genetics
- Liver/immunology
- Liver/metabolism
- Liver/virology
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis/genetics
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Transgenic
- Peptide Fragments/biosynthesis
- Peptide Fragments/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
- Transgenes/immunology
- Viral Proteins
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- D Voehringer
- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Department of Immunology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Honey K, Bemelman F, Cobbold SP, Waldmann H. High dose bone marrow transplantation induces deletion of antigen-specific T cells in a Fas-independent manner. Transplantation 2000; 69:1676-82. [PMID: 10836380 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200004270-00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Monoclonal antibody induced tolerance to high doses of multiple lymphocyte stimulating (MLS)+minor mismatched bone marrow has recently been associated with clonal deletion, as reported in fully allogeneic models of bone marrow transplantation. FasL-induced apoptosis has been shown to mediate antigen-specific T cell deletion after antigenic stimulation in wild-type and T cell receptor transgenic mice. Therefore, we investigate a role for the Fas pathway in deletional tolerance to high dose bone marrow. METHODS Fas mutant and control mice (H-2k, MLS-1b) were tolerized under the cover of monoclonal antibodies to high dose (5 x 10(7) cells) AKR (H-2k, MLS-1a) bone marrow. Tolerance was confirmed by AKR skin grafting after antibody clearance. Antigen-reactive cell deletion was monitored by Vbeta6+ T cell elimination, measured by flow cytometry of peripheral blood throughout the experiment. Donor T cell (Thy1.1+) chimerism was assessed in a similar manner. RESULTS Fas mutant mice infused with high dose AKR bone marrow under the cover of antibody were tolerant, as demonstrated by indefinite survival of AKR skin grafts. When high levels of donor cell chimerism were established in Fas mutant mice, peripheral deletion of antigen-reactive cells was observed to be independent of signaling through Fas. CONCLUSIONS Apoptosis mediated by Fas receptor signaling is not the mechanism of clonal deletion of antigen-reactive cells after antibody facilitated high dose marrow transplantation. However, the Fas mutation does impair the development of adequate donor chimerism.
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- K Honey
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK
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Seeliger H, Hoffmann MW, Behrend M, Teebken OE, Tschernig T, Philippens K, Schürmeyer TH, Klempnauer J, Scheumann GF. Transplantation of H-2Kb-transgenic adrenocortical cells in the mouse having undergone an adrenalectomy: functional and morphological aspects. Transplantation 2000; 69:1561-6. [PMID: 10836362 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200004270-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND A new model of cellular adrenocortical transplantation after bilateral adrenalectomy in the mouse was established. This model was used to study the effects of the expression of the transgenic MHC class I molecule H-2K(b) (Kb) on graft survival and morphologic features, corticosterone secretion, and the possibility of tolerance induction in the recipient. METHOD A single cell suspension of purified adrenocortical cells was grafted under the kidney capsule of B10.Br (H-2k) mice having adrenalectomies. Syngeneic, fully MHC-mismatched, and MHC class I-incompatible Kb-transgenic mice served as donor strains. To analyze graft function, urinary excretion and serum levels of corticosterone were monitored over 100 days. Tolerance induction in the graft recipients of Kb-transgenic and third party skin grafts was tested on day 50 after adrenocortical transplantation. Histological sections of the adrenocortical grafts were obtained on day 100. RESULTS Recipients of syngeneic and Kb-transgenic grafts displayed pretransplant corticosterone levels on days 20, 50, and 100 and ACTH-stimulated serum corticosterone levels similar to those of controls on day 100 after adrenocortical transplantation. In contrast, in recipients of fully MHC-mismatched grafts, corticosterone excretion was significantly reduced. In this group, 4 of 7 mice did not survive. Syngeneic skin grafts survived indefinitely in recipients of syngeneic and Kb-transgenic adrenocortical grafts, whereas Kb-transgenic and fully MHC-mismatched skin grafts were acutely rejected. Tissue sections of the adrenocortical grafts revealed vascularized cell conglomerates in syngeneic and Kb-transgenic grafts without infiltrations of mononuclear cells. Furthermore, a differentiation similar to adrenocortical organization was partly found. CONCLUSION In conclusion, a model of cellular adrenocortical transplantation was established. The results show that syngeneic transplantation resulted in physiological corticosterone levels early after transplantation, whereas fully MHC-incompatible grafts were rejected. Recipients of Kb-transgenic grafts showed unimpaired adrenocortical function, but did not tolerize toward Kb-transgenic skin grafts. Possible mechanisms include a local immunomodulatory effect of glucocorticoids secreted by the graft and a low immunogenicity of the relatively small numbers of transplanted cells.
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- H Seeliger
- Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Hanover Medical School, Germany
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Grundström S, Dohlsten M, Sundstedt A. IL-2 unresponsiveness in anergic CD4+ T cells is due to defective signaling through the common gamma-chain of the IL-2 receptor. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:1175-84. [PMID: 10640728 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.3.1175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Repeated administration of the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A to mice transduces a state of anergy in the CD4+ T cell compartment, characterized by inhibition of IL-2 production and clonal expansion in vivo. In contrast to what has been reported on anergic T cell clones in vitro, culture of in vivo anergized CD4+ T cells in the presence of exogenous IL-2 did not overcome the block in responsiveness. In this study, we demonstrate that CD4+ T cells from mice anergized with staphylococcal enterotoxin A also exhibit a reduced proliferative capacity in response to IL-7 and IL-15, cytokines that share a common gamma-chain with the IL-2R. Flow-cytometric analysis revealed only modest changes in the expression of the different IL-2R chains. In a number of experiments, our results also provide evidence that excludes a major role of the IL-2R alpha-chain in this system. According to these results, the inability of anergic cells to respond to IL-2 is not mainly due to a down-regulation of the high affinity IL-2R, but to a perturbation in intracellular signaling. Our study confirmed that the activation and tyrosine phosphorylation of Janus-associated kinase 3 and STAT5 were considerably weaker after anergy induction. Moreover, anergic CD4+ T cells showed significantly reduced DNA-binding ability to STAT5-specific elements. Taken together, we suggest that the observed IL-2 unresponsiveness in anergic CD4+ T cells could be due to a defect in signaling through the common gamma-chain of the IL-2R.
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Adler AJ, Huang CT, Yochum GS, Marsh DW, Pardoll DM. In vivo CD4+ T cell tolerance induction versus priming is independent of the rate and number of cell divisions. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:649-55. [PMID: 10623806 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.2.649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In vitro studies have suggested that tolerance induction (i.e., anergy) is associated with an inability of T cells to proliferate vigorously upon Ag recognition. In vivo, the relationship between T cell proliferation and tolerance induction is less clear. To clarify this issue, we have been studying a model system in which naive CD4+ T cells specific for the model Ag hemagluttinin (HA) are adoptively transferred into different transgenic founder lines of mice expressing HA as a peripheral self-Ag. When transferred into two lines whose HA expression differs by at least 1000-fold, HA-specific T cells undergo multiple rounds of cell division before reaching a nonresponsive (i.e., tolerant) state. While the proliferative response is more rapid in mice expressing higher levels of HA, the T cells become tolerant regardless of the level of peripheral HA expression. When the T cells encounter HA expressed as a viral Ag, they proliferate at a similar rate and undergo the same number of divisions as with self-HA, but they do not become tolerant. These results indicate that a tolerizing stimulus can induce similar T cell mitotic rates as a priming stimulus. Therefore, CD4+ T cell tolerance induction in vivo is not the result of an insufficient proliferative response elicited upon TCR engagement.
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- A J Adler
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Guebre-Xabier M, Schwenk R, Krzych U. Memory phenotype CD8(+) T cells persist in livers of mice protected against malaria by immunization with attenuated Plasmodium berghei sporozoites. Eur J Immunol 1999; 29:3978-86. [PMID: 10602007 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199912)29:12<3978::aid-immu3978>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Natural exposure to Plasmodium parasites induces short-lived protective immunity. In contrast, exposure to radiation-attenuated sporozoites (gamma spz) promotes long-lasting protection that is in part mediated by CD8(+) T cells that target exoerythrocytic stage antigens. The mechanisms underlying the maintenance of long-lasting protection are currently unclear. The liver is a repository of Plasmodium antigens and may support the development and / or homing of memory T cells. While activated CD8(+) T cells are presumed to die in the liver, the fate of anti-Plasmodium CD8(+) T cells remains unknown. We propose that inflammatory conditions in the liver caused by Plasmodium parasites may allow some effector CD8(+) T cells to survive and develop into memory cells. To support this hypothesis, in this initial study we demonstrate that liver mononuclear cells from P. berghei gamma spz-immune mice transferred protection to naive recipients and moreover, that CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells responded to Plasmodium antigens by up-regulating activation / memory markers. While CD4(+) T cells under went a transient activation following immunization with gamma spz, CD8(+) T cells expanded robustly after spz challenge and exhibited stable expression of CD44(hi) and CD45RB(lo) during protracted protection. These results establish a key role for intrahepatic T cells in long-lasting protection against malaria.
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- M Guebre-Xabier
- Department of Immunology, Division of Communicable Diseases and Immunology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, USA
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Link H, Huang YM, Xiao BG. Dendritic cells in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 1999; 100:102-10. [PMID: 10695720 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(99)00197-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The mechanisms by which autoimmune diseases are triggered and by which the activation of autoreactive T cells is initiated and maintained are not yet fully understood. As the most potent antigen presenting cells (APC), and also being responsible for antigen transport as well as primary sensitisation of T cells, dendritic cells (DC) are capable of breaking the state of self-ignorance and inducing aggressive autoreactive T cells. In the development of autoimmune diseases, different types of DC exhibit distinct properties for inducing Th1/Th2 cell responses. Appropriate cytokines can convert immunogenic DC to tolerogenic DC. Utilizing the possibility to promote the tolerogenic effects of DC, a new therapeutic tool might soon become available to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
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- H Link
- Karolinska Institute, Division of Neurology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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T-cell activation and the development of efficient immune responses requires the delivery, by the antigen-presenting cell, of two distinct signals. The first results from the engagement of the TCR:CD3:CD4 complex, and the second from the interaction of CD28 with the B7 family of co-stimulatory molecules. In this context, the physiological significance and the functional consequences of antigen presentation by B7-deficient parenchymal cells, which express MHC class II molecules as a result of inflammation, remains a matter of debate. In this paper we have attempted to critically review the often conflicting reports on the functional effects of antigen presentation by epithelial and endothelial cells to T cells, both in vitro and in vivo. Our own findings are summarised in a model which is consistent with the suggestion of an important role for antigen presentation by parenchymal cells in the induction and the maintenance of peripheral tolerance.
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- F M Marelli-Berg
- Department of Immunology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
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Marelli-Berg FM, Frasca L, Imami N, Lombardi G, Lechler RI. Lack of T cell proliferation without induction of nonresponsiveness after antigen presentation by endothelial cells. Transplantation 1999; 68:280-7. [PMID: 10440402 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199907270-00021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND After priming or reactivation in lymph nodes, T cells recirculate to sites of inflammation, and enter tissues by migrating across activated endothelium. Given that activated endothelial and tissue parenchymal cells express both class I and class II MHC molecules, it is probable that transmigrating T cells encounter cognate antigen on endothelial cells, and on tissue parenchymal cells once they have entered the tissue. METHODS In this study the consequences of antigen presentation by endothelial and epithelial cells to human CD4+ T cell clones were analyzed and compared by a two-step culture system. RESULTS T cell clones that required B7-mediated costimulation to be activated were found not to be able to proliferate to antigen presented by either endothelial or epithelial cells, unless trans-costimulation was provided by the addition of B7-transfected cells in the cultures. Furthermore, antigen presentation by epithelial cells induced nonresponsiveness in the T cell clones. In contrast, after cognate recognition on endothelial cells, the ability of the T cell clones to proliferate to a subsequent rechallenge with antigen presented on a specialized APC was unaffected. CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that endothelial cells have unique properties as antigen-presenting cells, in that they do not influence the subsequent reactivity of cognate T cells.
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- F M Marelli-Berg
- Department of Immunology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
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- A M Faria
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Miller C, Ragheb JA, Schwartz RH. Anergy and cytokine-mediated suppression as distinct superantigen-induced tolerance mechanisms in vivo. J Exp Med 1999; 190:53-64. [PMID: 10429670 PMCID: PMC2195559 DOI: 10.1084/jem.190.1.53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Recombinant-activating gene 2 (RAG-2-/-) T cell receptor-transgenic mice repeatedly injected with the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A entered a tolerant state in which splenic CD4+ T cells produced little interleukin (IL)-2, interferon gamma, or IL-4. This state resulted from a combination of both clonal anergy and cytokine-mediated immunosuppression. The anergy persisted for at least 3 wk and could be distinguished from the suppression by a decrease in IL-2 production per cell, a block in the activation of early response kinases, and a failure to be reversed with anti-transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta. Full suppression lasted for only 1 wk and involved both IL-10 and TGF-beta, but required additional unknown molecules for optimal effect. These experiments show that complex in vivo interactions of multiple peripheral tolerance mechanisms can now be dissected at both the cellular and molecular levels.
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- C Miller
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0420, USA
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Blish CA, Dillon SR, Farr AG, Fink PJ. Anergic CD8+ T Cells Can Persist and Function In Vivo. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.1.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Using a mouse model system, we demonstrate that anergic CD8+ T cells can persist and retain some functional capabilities in vivo, even after the induction of tolerance. In TCR Vβ5 transgenic mice, mature CD8+Vβ5+ T cells transit through a CD8lowVβ5low deletional intermediate during tolerance induction. CD8low cells are characterized by an activated phenotype, are functionally compromised in vitro, and are slated for deletion in vivo. We now demonstrate that CD8low cells derive from a proliferative compartment, but do not divide in vivo. CD8low cells persist in vivo with a t1/2 of 3–5 days, in contrast to their in vitro t1/2 of 0.5–1 day. During this unexpectedly long in vivo life span, CD8low cells are capable of producing IFN-γ in vivo despite their inability to proliferate or to kill target cells in vitro. CD8low cells also accumulate at sites of inflammation, where they produce IFN-γ. Therefore, rather than withdrawing from the pool of functional CD8+ T cells, anergic CD8low cells retain a potential regulatory role despite losing their capacity to proliferate. The ability of anergic cells to persist and function in vivo adds another level of complexity to the process of tolerance induction in the lymphoid periphery.
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- Catherine A. Blish
- Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195
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Doan T, Herd K, Street M, Bryson G, Fernando G, Lambert P, Tindle R. Human papillomavirus type 16 E7 oncoprotein expressed in peripheral epithelium tolerizes E7-directed cytotoxic T-lymphocyte precursors restricted through human (and mouse) major histocompatibility complex class I alleles. J Virol 1999; 73:6166-70. [PMID: 10364377 PMCID: PMC112686 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.7.6166-6170.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Mice which coexpress human papillomavirus type 16 E7 and HLA A2.1 in peripheral squamous epithelium and thymic cortical epithelium are tolerant at the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) level to E7 epitopes restricted through HLA A*0201 and H-2(b) (T. Doan, M. Chambers, M. Street, G. J. Fernando, K. Herd, P. Lambert, and R. Tindle, Virology 244:352-364, 1998). Here we used bone marrow-reconstituted radiation chimeras to distinguish whether E7-directed CTL tolerance was mediated peripherally by E7 expression in skin or centrally by E7 expression in thymus. In chimeric mice expressing E7 in skin and reconstituted with E7-naïve bone marrow and E7-naïve thymus, CTL responses to vaccine-administered E7 epitopes were not restored, i.e. , the mice remained tolerant. In contrast, chimeric mice not expressing E7 in skin and reconstituted with E7-naïve bone marrow and E7-expressing thymus had full E7-directed CTL responses. These results demonstrate that E7 protein expression in peripheral squamous epithelium is sufficient to tolerize the E7-directed CTL precursor repertoire. The data have implications for E7-mediated tumorigenesis and for the development of E7-based immunotherapeutic strategies, since peripheral immunological tolerance of tumor-associated antigens may create a barrier to effective immunotherapy.
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- T Doan
- Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia
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Kawahata K, Misaki Y, Komagata Y, Setoguchi K, Tsunekawa S, Yoshikawa Y, Miyazaki JI, Yamamoto K. Altered Expression Level of a Systemic Nuclear Autoantigen Determines the Fate of Immune Response to Self. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.11.6482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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One of the hallmarks of systemic autoimmune diseases is immune responses to systemic nuclear autoantigens. We have examined the fate of the immune response against a nuclear autoantigen using human U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein-A protein (HuA) transgenic (Tg) mice by adoptive transfer of autoreactive lymphocytes. We obtained two Tg lines that have different expression levels of the transgene. After spleen cells from HuA-immunized wild-type mice were transferred to Tg mice and their non-Tg littermates, these recipients were injected with HuA/IFA to induce a recall memory response. HAB69, which expressed a lower amount of HuA, exhibited a vigorous increase in the autoantibody level and glomerulonephritis. Moreover, the autoreactivity spread to 70K autoantigen. Alternatively, in HAB64, which expressed a higher amount of HuA, the production of autoantibody was markedly suppressed. The immune response to HuA autoantigen was impaired as demonstrated in a both delayed-type hypersensitivity response and proliferation assay. This inhibition was Ag-specific and was mediated by T cells. These data suggest that the expression level of systemic autoantigens influences the outcome of the immune response to self.
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- Kimito Kawahata
- *Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- *Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- *Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- †Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- *Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- §Department of Clinical Laboratory, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Beppu, Japan; and
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- ¶Department of Nutrition and Physiological Chemistry, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan
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- *Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Ludewig B, Odermatt B, Ochsenbein AF, Zinkernagel RM, Hengartner H. Role of dendritic cells in the induction and maintenance of autoimmune diseases. Immunol Rev 1999; 169:45-54. [PMID: 10450507 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1999.tb01305.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Autoimmune diseases are characterised by the loss of tolerance against self-determinants, activation of autoreactive lymphocytes and pathological damage to single or multiple organs. The mechanisms by which autoimmune responses are triggered and activation of autoreactive lymphocytes is initiated and maintained are not yet fully understood. Translocation of previously immunologically ignored antigens from the periphery to secondary lymphoid organs is probably a key step in the initiation of autoimmunity. Antigen transport and primary sensitisation of T lymphocytes is mainly mediated by dendritic cells which reside in peripheral non-lymphoid tissues and maintain a continuous gradient of antigens towards secondary lymphoid tissues. In the transgenic rat insulin promoter-glycoprotein model of autoimmune diabetes, dendritic cell (DC)-mediated antigen transport initiates an autoimmune response against a pancreatic neoself-antigen. Dose and timing of antigen delivery by DC and turnover of antigenic peptides presented by DC are the main parameters regulating the outcome of autoimmune diabetes in this model system. An important sequel of continued antigenic stimulation via DC is the formation of lymphoid structures in the pancreas. Thus, appropriate and repeated activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes by DC, in concert with local inflammatory processes leading to formation of organised lymphoid tissue in the target organ, is likely to be crucial in the development of destructive autoimmunity. Therapeutic intervention to selectively manipulate antigen transport by dendritic cells or to influence antigen presentation may prove beneficial for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, the capacity of DC to induce potent antiself responses might have implications for the use of DC presenting self-antigens in treatment of established tumours.
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- B Ludewig
- Institute of Experimental Immunology, Zürich, Switzerland.
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St Louis J, Zhang XM, Heber-Katz E, Uniyal S, Robbinson D, Singh B, Strejan GH. Tolerance induction by acylated peptides: effect on encephalitogenic T cell lines. J Autoimmun 1999; 12:177-89. [PMID: 10222027 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1998.0275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We reported previously that acylation of an encephalitogenic peptide of myelin basic protein (MBP68-86) by attachment of palmitoyl chloride (PAL68-86) converted this peptide into a powerful tolerogen for EAE in the Lewis rat. In this study we show that T cell lines derived from a PAL68-86-protected rat proliferated poorly to MBP68-86 in vitro, even after repeated passages in this peptide and IL-2. Conversely, T cell lines derived from untreated rats that were challenged with MBP68-86 or PAL68-86 in CFA responded vigorously to MBP68-86 when propagated for many passages in this peptide but became gradually unresponsive after being propagated in the presence of PAL68-86. The modulation of the T cell lines by PAL68-86 in vitro was reflected by a significant reduction in their ability to transfer EAE to recipients. A high percentage of cells stained with an anti-Vbeta8.2 antibody, regardless of whether they were propagated in the presence of unmodified or acylated peptide. The results are consistent with the notion that tolerance induced by PAL68-86 operates by functional inactivation and provide the basis for the use of acylated peptides in the antigen-specific treatment of autoimmune diseases.
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- J St Louis
- The John P. Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, N6A 5C1, Canada
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Verdaguer2 J, Amrani2 A, Anderson B, Schmidt D, Santamaria P. Two Mechanisms for the Non-MHC-Linked Resistance to Spontaneous Autoimmunity. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.8.4614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Genetic susceptibility and resistance to most autoimmune disorders are associated with highly polymorphic genes of the MHC and with non-MHC-linked polygenic modifiers. It is known that non-MHC-linked polymorphisms can override or enhance the susceptibility to an autoimmune disease provided by pathogenic MHC genes, but the mechanisms remain elusive. In this study, we have followed the fate of two highly diabetogenic β cell-specific T cell receptors (Kd and I-Ag7 restricted, respectively) in NOR/Lt mice, which are resistant to autoimmune diabetes despite expressing two copies of the diabetogenic MHC haplotype H-2g7. We show that at least two mechanisms of non-MHC-linked control of pathogenic T cells operate in these mice. One segregates as a recessive trait and is associated with a reduction in the peripheral frequency of diabetogenic CD8+ (but not CD4+) T cells. The other segregates as a dominant trait and is mediated by IL-4- and TGF-β1-independent immune suppressive functions provided by lymphocytes that target diabetogenic CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, without causing their deletion, anergy, immune deviation, or ignorance. These results provide explanations as to how non-MHC-linked polymorphisms can override the susceptibility to an autoimmune disease provided by pathogenic MHC haplotypes, and demonstrate that protective non-MHC-linked genes may selectively target specific lymphoid cell types in cellularly complex autoimmune responses.
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- Joan Verdaguer2
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Taams LS, van Eden W, Wauben MHM. Dose-Dependent Induction of Distinct Anergic Phenotypes: Multiple Levels of T Cell Anergy. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.4.1974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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T cell anergy has been proposed as one of the mechanisms underlying peripheral T cell tolerance. In recent years, the functional relevance of T cell anergy has been studied extensively in vitro and in vivo, using different species, cell systems, and ways to induce anergy. Although these studies concurred about the induction of unresponsiveness, conflicting findings were obtained with respect to the function of anergic T cells and to the persistence of T cell anergy. In the present study, T cell anergy was induced through T-T presentation of the specific Ag by rat MHC class II+ T cells in the absence of professional APC. We show that, depending on the Ag dose with which T cells were incubated, distinct anergic phenotypes were induced. Incubation of T cell clones with a low (suboptimal) Ag dose induced hyporesponsiveness. Incubation with a higher (optimal) Ag dose induced an anergic state capable of exerting immunoregulatory effects. Incubation with a high (supraoptimal) Ag dose led to an anergic suppressive phenotype that was persistent and was not reversed by APC, Ag, and rIL-2. These findings demonstrate that T cell anergy is not confined to a single state of functional inactivation. Instead, multiple levels of T cell anergy exist. Thus, anergic T cells can contribute to the regulation of the immune response either in a persistent and active manner or in a passive manner, depending on their level of T cell anergy.
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- Leonie S. Taams
- Institute of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- B Stockinger
- Division of Molecular Immunology, National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
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