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Peng KW, Holler PD, Orr BA, Kranz DM, Russell SJ. Targeting virus entry and membrane fusion through specific peptide/MHC complexes using a high-affinity T-cell receptor. Gene Ther 2004; 11:1234-9. [PMID: 15215883 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The T-cell receptor (TCR) determines the specificity of T-cell recognition by binding to peptide fragments of intracellular proteins presented at the cell surface in association with molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Engagement of the TCR by its cognate peptide/MHC ligand, with appropriate co-stimulatory signals, leads to activation of T-cell effector functions. Here we show that the attachment proteins of attenuated measles viruses, engineered to display a high-affinity single-chain TCR (scTCR), can recognize and bind to specific peptide-MHC complexes and thereby mediate targeted virus-cell entry and cell-to-cell fusion. Using the 2C TCR and its peptide/MHC ligand (SIYRYYGL/mouse K(b)), we show that a scTCR grafted onto the measles virus H protein confers new specificity to virus entry and cell fusion. The efficiency of TCR-mediated virus entry was dependent on the number of peptide/MHC complexes expressed on the target cells, increasing progressively above densities higher than 2500 complexes per cell. This work introduces a new paradigm for targeting virus entry and membrane fusion by extending the repertoire of targets to specific peptide-MHC ligands and offering a novel quantitative readout for the cellular expression of peptide-MHC complexes.
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- K-W Peng
- Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Cheeseman JH, Kaiser MG, Lamont SJ. Genetic line effect on peripheral blood leukocyte cell surface marker expression in chickens. Poult Sci 2004; 83:911-6. [PMID: 15206617 DOI: 10.1093/ps/83.6.911] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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To determine the role of genetics in baseline lymphocyte parameters, several distinct lines of chickens were examined for differences in peripheral blood leukocyte (PBL) populations. Four highly inbred chicken lines (MHC congenic Fayoumi lines M15.2 and M5.1, and MHC congenic Leghorn lines G-B1 and G-B2), two advanced intercrosses [F5 (Broiler x G-B2) and F5 (Broiler x M15.2)], and an outbred population of broilers were used. Leukocytes isolated from healthy adult birds were labeled with monoclonal antibodies: chCD3, chCD4, chCD8, chBu-1, and hCD14. Flow cytometry was used to determine the total percentage of positively labeled cells for each surface marker in a sample, as well as the mean fluorescent intensity, or surface marker density, of a labeled subset. Significant line differences for percentage positive CD3 T cells and the ratio of B cells:T cells (represented by the Bu-1:CD3 ratio) were found. The effect of line was also significant for CD3 and CD8 T cell receptor density. Effects of sex and MHC on PBL cell surface marker expression were not significant in the lines examined. This study demonstrates the effect of genetic line on resting leukocyte composition of peripheral blood in the chicken lines examined. Observed PBL differences add to our growing knowledge of the varied roles that immune system status (defined by specific cell populations) and genetic background have in determining susceptibility and disease progression in chickens.
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- J H Cheeseman
- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3150, USA
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Purbhoo MA, Irvine DJ, Huppa JB, Davis MM. T cell killing does not require the formation of a stable mature immunological synapse. Nat Immunol 2004; 5:524-30. [PMID: 15048111 DOI: 10.1038/ni1058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 433] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2003] [Accepted: 01/28/2004] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A notable feature of T lymphocyte recognition on other cell surfaces is the formation of a stable mature immunological synapse. Here we use a single-molecule labeling method to directly measure the number of ligands a cytotoxic T cell engages and track the consequences of that interaction by three-dimensional video microscopy. Like helper T cells, cytotoxic T cells were able to detect even a single foreign antigen but required about ten complexes of peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) to achieve full calcium increase and to form a mature synapse. Thus, cytotoxic T cells and helper T cells are more uniform in their antigen sensitivities than previously thought. Furthermore, only three pMHC complexes were required for killing, showing that stable synapse formation and complete signaling are not required for cytotoxicity.
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- Marco A Purbhoo
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Wooldridge L, Hutchinson SL, Choi EM, Lissina A, Jones E, Mirza F, Dunbar PR, Price DA, Cerundolo V, Sewell AK. Anti-CD8 antibodies can inhibit or enhance peptide-MHC class I (pMHCI) multimer binding: this is paralleled by their effects on CTL activation and occurs in the absence of an interaction between pMHCI and CD8 on the cell surface. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 171:6650-60. [PMID: 14662868 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.12.6650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cytotoxic T lymphocytes recognize short peptides presented in association with MHC class I (MHCI) molecules on the surface of target cells. The Ag specificity of T lymphocytes is conferred by the TCR, but invariable regions of the peptide-MHCI (pMHCI) molecule also interact with the cell surface glycoprotein CD8. The distinct binding sites for CD8 and the TCR allow pMHCI to be bound simultaneously by both molecules. Even before it was established that the TCR recognized pMHCI, it was shown that CTL exhibit clonal heterogeneity in their ability to activate in the presence of anti-CD8 Abs. These Ab-based studies have since been interpreted in the context of the interaction between pMHCI and CD8 and have recently been extended to show that anti-CD8 Ab can affect the cell surface binding of multimerized pMHCI Ags. In this study, we examine the role of CD8 further using point-mutated pMHCI Ag and show that anti-CD8 Abs can either enhance or inhibit the activation of CTL and the stable cell surface binding of multimerized pMHCI, regardless of whether there is a pMHCI/CD8 interaction. We further demonstrate that multimerized pMHCI Ag can recruit CD8 in the absence of a pMHCI/CD8 interaction and that anti-CD8 Abs can generate an intracellular activation signal resulting in CTL effector function. These results question many previous assumptions as to how anti-CD8 Abs must function and indicate that CD8 has multiple roles in CTL activation that are not necessarily dependent on an interaction with pMHCI.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/pharmacology
- Animals
- Antibodies, Blocking/pharmacology
- Binding Sites, Antibody
- Binding, Competitive/immunology
- CD8 Antigens/immunology
- CD8 Antigens/metabolism
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Membrane/immunology
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Clone Cells
- Cross-Linking Reagents/metabolism
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- HLA-A2 Antigen/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Humans
- Immunosuppressive Agents/pharmacology
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Mice
- Peptides/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism
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- Linda Wooldridge
- T Cell Modulation Group, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Morales PJ, Pace JL, Platt JS, Phillips TA, Morgan K, Fazleabas AT, Hunt JS. Placental cell expression of HLA-G2 isoforms is limited to the invasive trophoblast phenotype. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 171:6215-24. [PMID: 14634138 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.11.6215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The HLA-G message is alternatively spliced into multiple transcripts, two of which encode soluble isoforms. To initiate studies on the specific functions of the soluble isoforms, we produced soluble rHLA-G1 (rsG1) and rsG2 in human embryonic kidney 293 cells and characterized the proteins. Both isoforms were glycosylated and formed disulfide-bonded oligomers. Recombinant sG1 associated with beta(2)-microglobulin, whereas rsG2 did not. Mouse mAb generated to rsG1 (1-2C3), which identified exclusively sG1, and mAb generated to rsG2 (26-2H11), which identified both soluble and membrane G2 (m/sG2), were used for immunohistochemical isoform mapping studies on placental tissue sections. Soluble G1 protein was abundant in many subpopulations of trophoblast cells, whereas m/sG2 protein was present exclusively in extravillous cytotrophoblast cells. Although both isolated placental villous cytotrophoblast cells and chorion membrane extravillous cytotrophoblast cells contained mRNAs encoding sG1 and sG2, protein expression was as predicted from the immunostains with m/sG2 present only in the invasive trophoblast subpopulation. Analysis of function by Northern and Western blotting demonstrated that both rsG1 and rsG2 inhibit CD8alpha expression on PBMC without changing CD3delta expression or causing apoptotic cell death. Collectively, the studies indicate that: 1) both sG1 and m/sG2 are produced in placentas; 2) transcription and translation are linked for sG1, but not G2; 3) expression of G2 is exclusively associated with the invasive phenotype; and 4) the two isoforms of sG may promote semiallogeneic pregnancy by reducing expression of CD8, a molecule required for functional activation of CTL.
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- Pedro J Morales
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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Choi EML, Chen JL, Wooldridge L, Salio M, Lissina A, Lissin N, Hermans IF, Silk JD, Mirza F, Palmowski MJ, Dunbar PR, Jakobsen BK, Sewell AK, Cerundolo V. High Avidity Antigen-Specific CTL Identified by CD8-Independent Tetramer Staining. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 171:5116-23. [PMID: 14607910 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.10.5116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Tetrameric MHC/peptide complexes are important tools for enumerating, phenotyping, and rapidly cloning Ag-specific T cells. It remains however unclear whether they can reliably distinguish between high and low avidity T cell clones. In this report, tetramers with mutated CD8 binding site selectively stain higher avidity human and murine CTL capable of recognizing physiological levels of Ag. Furthermore, we demonstrate that CD8 binding significantly enhances the avidity as well as the stability of interactions between CTL and cognate tetramers. The use of CD8-null tetramers to identify high avidity CTL provides a tool to compare vaccination strategies for their ability to enhance the frequency of high avidity CTL. Using this technique, we show that DNA priming and vaccinia boosting of HHD A2 transgenic mice fail to selectively expand large numbers of high avidity NY-ESO-1(157-165)-specific CTL, possibly due to the large amounts of antigenic peptide delivered by the vaccinia virus. Furthermore, development of a protocol for rapid identification of high avidity human and murine T cells using tetramers with impaired CD8 binding provides an opportunity not only to monitor expansion of high avidity T cell responses ex vivo, but also to sort high avidity CTL clones for adoptive T cell transfer therapy.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Neoplasm/analysis
- Antigens, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Binding Sites/genetics
- Binding Sites/immunology
- CD8 Antigens/analysis
- CD8 Antigens/genetics
- CD8 Antigens/metabolism
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Clone Cells
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/analysis
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/metabolism
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- HLA-A2 Antigen/genetics
- HLA-A2 Antigen/metabolism
- Humans
- Immunization, Secondary
- Jurkat Cells
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Membrane Proteins
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Plasmids/administration & dosage
- Proteins/analysis
- Proteins/genetics
- Proteins/metabolism
- Staining and Labeling
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/chemistry
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism
- Vaccinia/genetics
- Vaccinia/immunology
- beta 2-Microglobulin/analysis
- beta 2-Microglobulin/metabolism
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- Ed Man-Lik Choi
- Tumour Immunology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Kerry SE, Buslepp J, Cramer LA, Maile R, Hensley LL, Nielsen AI, Kavathas P, Vilen BJ, Collins EJ, Frelinger JA. Interplay between TCR affinity and necessity of coreceptor ligation: high-affinity peptide-MHC/TCR interaction overcomes lack of CD8 engagement. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 171:4493-503. [PMID: 14568922 PMCID: PMC3755740 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.9.4493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CD8 engagement is believed to be a critical event in the activation of naive T cells. In this communication, we address the effects of peptide-MHC (pMHC)/TCR affinity on the necessity of CD8 engagement in T cell activation of primary naive cells. Using two peptides with different measured avidities for the same pMHC-TCR complex, we compared biochemical affinity of pMHC/TCR and the cell surface binding avidity of pMHC/TCR with and without CD8 engagement. We compared early signaling events and later functional activity of naive T cells in the same manner. Although early signaling events are altered, we find that high-affinity pMHC/TCR interactions can overcome the need for CD8 engagement for proliferation and CTL function. An integrated signal over time allows T cell activation with a high-affinity ligand in the absence of CD8 engagement.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Aspartic Acid/genetics
- CD8 Antigens/immunology
- CD8 Antigens/metabolism
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- COS Cells
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Cytokines/metabolism
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Glycoproteins/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigen H-2D
- Ligands
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/immunology
- Lysine/genetics
- Membrane Microdomains/genetics
- Membrane Microdomains/immunology
- Membrane Microdomains/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Peptide Fragments/genetics
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/metabolism
- Protein Binding/genetics
- Protein Binding/immunology
- Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics
- Receptor Cross-Talk/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Viral Proteins/immunology
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- Samantha E. Kerry
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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Hutchinson SL, Wooldridge L, Tafuro S, Laugel B, Glick M, Boulter JM, Jakobsen BK, Price DA, Sewell AK. The CD8 T cell coreceptor exhibits disproportionate biological activity at extremely low binding affinities. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:24285-93. [PMID: 12697765 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300633200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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T lymphocytes recognize peptides presented in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules on the surface of antigen presenting cells. Recognition specificity is determined by the alphabeta T cell receptor (TCR). The T lymphocyte surface glycoproteins CD8 and CD4 enhance T cell antigen recognition by binding to MHC class I and class II molecules, respectively. Biophysical measurements have determined that equilibrium binding of the TCR with natural agonist peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes occurs with KD values of 1-50 microm. The pMHCI/CD8 and pMHCII/CD4 interactions are significantly weaker than this (KD >100 microm), and the relative roles of TCR/pMHC and pMHC/coreceptor affinity in T cell activation remain controversial. Here, we engineer mutations in the MHCI heavy chain and beta2-microglobulin that further reduce or abolish the pMHCI/CD8 interaction to probe the significance of pMHC/coreceptor affinity in T cell activation. We demonstrate that the pMHCI/CD8 coreceptor interaction retains the vast majority of its biological activity at affinities that are reduced by over 15-fold (KD > 2 mm). In contrast to previous reports, we observe that the weak interaction between HLA A68 and CD8, which falls within this spectrum of reduced affinities, retains substantial functional activity. These findings are discussed in the context of current concepts of coreceptor dependence and the mechanism by which TCR coreceptors facilitate T cell activation.
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- Sarah L Hutchinson
- The T Cell Modulation Group, The Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3SY, United Kingdom
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Dutoit V, Guillaume P, Ayyoub M, Hesdorffer CS, Luescher IF, Valmori D. Decreased binding of peptides-MHC class I (pMHC) multimeric complexes to CD8 affects their binding avidity for the TCR but does not significantly impact on pMHC/TCR dissociation rate. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:5110-7. [PMID: 12734357 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.10.5110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The CD8 coreceptor plays a crucial role in both T cell development in the thymus and in the activation of mature T cells in response to Ag-specific stimulation. In this study we used soluble peptides-MHC class I (pMHC) multimeric complexes bearing mutations in the CD8 binding site that impair their binding to the MHC, together with altered peptide ligands, to assess the impact of CD8 on pMHC binding to the TCR. Our data support a model in which CD8 promotes the binding of TCR to pMHC. However, once the pMHC/TCR complex is formed, the TCR dominates the pMHC/TCR dissociation rates. As a consequence of these molecular interactions, under physiologic conditions CD8 plays a key role in complex formation, resulting in the enhancement of CD8 T cell functions whose specificity, however, is determined by the TCR.
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- Valérie Dutoit
- Division of Clinical Onco-Immunology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Chiara Castelli
- Unit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumors, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano, Italy
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Guillaume P, Legler DF, Boucheron N, Doucey MA, Cerottini JC, Luescher IF. Soluble major histocompatibility complex-peptide octamers with impaired CD8 binding selectively induce Fas-dependent apoptosis. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:4500-9. [PMID: 12407102 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m208863200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fluorescence-labeled soluble major histocompatibility complex class I-peptide "tetramers" constitute a powerful tool to detect and isolate antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells by flow cytometry. Conventional "tetramers" are prepared by refolding of heavy and light chains with a specific peptide, enzymatic biotinylation at an added C-terminal biotinylation sequence, and "tetramerization" by reaction with phycoerythrin- or allophycocyanin-labeled avidin derivatives. We show here that such preparations are heterogeneous and describe a new procedure that allows the preparation of homogeneous tetra- or octameric major histocompatibility complex-peptide complexes. These compounds were tested on T1 cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), which recognize the Plasmodium berghei circumsporzoite peptide 252-260 (SYIPSAEKI) containing photoreactive 4-azidobenzoic acid on Lys(259) in the context of H-2K(d). We report that mutation of the CD8 binding site of K(d) greatly impairs the binding of tetrameric but not octameric or multimeric K(d)-PbCS(ABA) complexes to CTLs. This mutation abolishes the ability of the octamer to elicit significant phosphorylation of CD3, intracellular calcium mobilization, and CTL degranulation. Remarkably, however, this octamer efficiently activates CTLs for Fas (CD95)-dependent apoptosis.
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- Philippe Guillaume
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, University of Lausanne, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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Holler PD, Kranz DM. Quantitative analysis of the contribution of TCR/pepMHC affinity and CD8 to T cell activation. Immunity 2003; 18:255-64. [PMID: 12594952 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(03)00019-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 286] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The relative roles of CD8, TCR:pepMHC affinity, and TCR:pepMHC dissociation rate in T cell activation have remained controversial. To determine the relationships among these factors, we used T cells transfected with normal and in vitro engineered alphabeta TCRs, in the presence or absence of CD8. The TCRs exhibited a wide range of affinities (K(D) values of 80 microM to 5 nM). T cells with the highest affinity TCRs were efficiently stimulated by peptide, with or without CD8. In contrast, CD8 was required for T cells that expressed TCRs with affinities typical of syngeneic reactions (K(D) values above approximately 3 microM). The results suggest that virtually all normal syngeneic interactions require CD8, which enhances peptide sensitivity by one million-fold or more.
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- Phillip D Holler
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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After a brief overview of the themes and variations that occur in the family of receptors containing immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs (ITAMs), and of recent structural data on the ligand-binding subunits of these receptors, we use these data to revisit how information on the state and quality of occupancy of the binding site of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) is conveyed to the proximal components of the TCR transduction cassette.
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- Bernard Malissen
- Centre d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France.
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Buslepp J, Kerry SE, Loftus D, Frelinger JA, Appella E, Collins EJ. High affinity xenoreactive TCR:MHC interaction recruits CD8 in absence of binding to MHC. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:373-83. [PMID: 12496422 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.1.373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The TCR from a xenoreactive murine cytotoxic T lymphocyte clone, AHIII 12.2, recognizes murine H-2D(b) complexed with peptide p1058 (FAPGFFPYL) as well as human HLA-A2.1 complexed with human self-peptide p1049 (ALWGFFPVL). To understand more about T cell biology and cross-reactivity, the ectodomains of the AHIII 12.2 TCR have been produced in E. coli as inclusion bodies and the protein folded to its native conformation. Flow cytometric and surface plasmon resonance analyses indicate that human p1049/A2 has a significantly greater affinity for the murine AHIII 12.2 TCR than does murine p1058/D(b). Yet, T cell binding and cytolytic activity are independent of CD8 when stimulated with human p1049/A2 as demonstrated with anti-CD8 Abs that block CD8 association with MHC. Even in the absence of direct CD8 binding, stimulation of AHIII 12.2 T cells with "CD8-independent" p1049/A2 produces p56(lck) activation and calcium flux. Confocal fluorescence microscopy and fluorescence resonance energy transfer flow cytometry demonstrate CD8 is recruited to the site of TCR:peptide MHC binding. Taken together, these results indicate that there exists another mechanism for recruitment of CD8 during high affinity TCR:peptide MHC engagement.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/genetics
- Antigens, Heterophile/metabolism
- CD8 Antigens/metabolism
- CD8 Antigens/physiology
- CHO Cells
- Cell Line
- Clone Cells
- Cricetinae
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- HLA-A2 Antigen/genetics
- HLA-A2 Antigen/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigen H-2D
- Humans
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Oligopeptides/immunology
- Oligopeptides/metabolism
- Protein Binding/genetics
- Protein Binding/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Recombinant Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Surface Plasmon Resonance
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Jennifer Buslepp
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Lee PUY, Kranz DM. Allogeneic and syngeneic class I MHC complexes drive the association of CD8 and TCR on 2C T cells. Mol Immunol 2003; 39:687-95. [PMID: 12531280 DOI: 10.1016/s0161-5890(02)00259-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In most cases, cytotoxic T cell activation is dependent on the interaction of the T cell receptor (TCR) and CD8 with MHC class I molecules. In the CD8(+) T cell system based on the mouse cytotoxic T cell clone 2C, recognition of the allogeneic MHC L(d) exhibits a less significant role for CD8 than recognition of the syngeneic MHC K(b). Here, we examined whether this difference is related to the relative abilities of the two pepMHC complexes to drive the association of CD8 and TCR on the T cell surface. We show that both the syngeneic and allogeneic pepMHC induced association of CD8 and TCR, as revealed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). Thus, the orientation of the syngeneic and allogeneic ligands when bound to the same TCR both allow CD8 to be recruited to the TCR complex. The conserved diagonal orientation of TCRs on different pepMHC ligands may facilitate such associations. The FRET results are consistent with the known binding properties and the CD8 involvement of the two different TCR:pepMHC interactions.
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- Peter U Y Lee
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Schott E, Ploegh HL. Mouse MHC class I tetramers that are unable to bind to CD8 reveal the need for CD8 engagement in order to activate naive CD8 T cells. Eur J Immunol 2002; 32:3425-34. [PMID: 12432573 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200212)32:12<3425::aid-immu3425>3.0.co;2-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Although the role of CD8 as a supplier of lck is unchallenged, its role in contributing to the formation of a stable complex between class I molecules and the TCR, as well as its role as an adhesion molecule, is less clear. To address the role of CD8/MHC-I interactions, we generated tetramers composed of H2-K(b) molecules with mutations in the alpha 3 domain of H2-K(b) that abolish CD8 binding. We show that the ability of tetramers to stain and activate CD8 T cells is strongly dependent on binding of CD8 to the same class I molecule engaged by the TCR. We characterize a mutation in the alpha 3 domain that results in H2-K(b) molecules capable of staining specific CD8 T cells with little ensuing activation. Although CD8 to some extent serves an adhesive function, this contribution is modest and does not substitute for lack of binding of CD8 to the class I molecule engaged by the TCR. We show that CD8 and the TCR associate in a process independent of binding of CD8 to class I. Our data support the notion that CD8 is required to form a stable complex between class I and the TCR.
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- Eckart Schott
- Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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We have assembled references of 700 articles published in 2001 that describe work performed using commercially available optical biosensors. To illustrate the technology's diversity, the citation list is divided into reviews, methods and specific applications, as well as instrument type. We noted marked improvements in the utilization of biosensors and the presentation of kinetic data over previous years. These advances reflect a maturing of the technology, which has become a standard method for characterizing biomolecular interactions.
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- Rebecca L Rich
- Center for Biomolecular Interaction Analysis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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Direct visualization and quantification of antigen-specific T cells using major histocompatibility complex (MHC)/peptide tetramer technology offers a powerful means to study specific T cell populations of interest. In combination with functional assays, this technology has already provided many new insights into several long-standing immunological concepts in basic science as well as clinical settings.
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- Xiao-Ning Xu
- MRC Human Immunology Unit, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK.
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Choi EM, Palmowski M, Chen J, Cerundolo V. The use of chimeric A2K(b) tetramers to monitor HLA A2 immune responses in HLA A2 transgenic mice. J Immunol Methods 2002; 268:35-41. [PMID: 12213341 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1759(02)00198-9] [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: 02/07/2023]
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HLA A2 (A2) transgenic mice are currently being used to compare different vaccination protocols. However, the monitoring of A2 restricted CTL in A2 transgenic mice have been hampered by poor staining efficiency of mouse CTL by A2 tetramers. We demonstrate here that chimeric A2 tetramers containing mouse H-2K(b) (K(b)) alpha3 domain (A2K(b) tetramers) can be used as staining reagents to monitor A2 restricted CTL responses in A2 transgenic mice. The increased ability of A2K(b) tetramers to stain mouse A2 restricted CTL, as compared with A2 tetramers, correlated with their higher binding affinity for mouse A2 restricted CTL. The use of these novel staining reagents will allow efficient comparison of vaccination strategies and rapid identification of novel CTL epitopes in A2 transgenic mice.
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- E M Choi
- Molecular Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, OX3 9DS Headington, Oxford, UK
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Gao GF, Rao Z, Bell JI. Molecular coordination of alphabeta T-cell receptors and coreceptors CD8 and CD4 in their recognition of peptide-MHC ligands. Trends Immunol 2002; 23:408-13. [PMID: 12133804 DOI: 10.1016/s1471-4906(02)02282-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The interaction of the alphabeta T-cell receptor (TCR) with its ligand, peptide-MHC (pMHC), is enhanced by the recognition of the coreceptor CD8 or CD4 to the same pMHC in the immunological synapse. In the past few years, the coordination of these interactions at the molecular level has been revealed by analysis of their complex crystal structures and binding dynamics. Here we discuss the interactions of pMHC with the TCR and coreceptor CD8 or CD4 on the surfaces of alphabeta T cells and antigen presenting cells, and the implications for TCR signalling and the T-cell repertoire.
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- George F Gao
- Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK.
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Glick M, Price DA, Vuidepot AL, Andersen TB, Hutchinson SL, Laugel B, Sewell AK, Boulter JM, Dunbar PR, Cerundolo V, Oxenius A, Bell JI, Richards WG, Jakobsen BK. Novel CD8+ T cell antagonists based on beta 2-microglobulin. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:20840-6. [PMID: 11914379 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m201819200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The CD8 coreceptor of cytotoxic T lymphocytes binds to a conserved region of major histocompatibility complex class I molecules during recognition of peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigens on the surface of target cells. This event is central to the activation of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) effector functions. The contribution of the MHC complex class I light chain, beta(2)-microglobulin, to CD8alphaalpha binding is relatively small and is mediated mainly through the lysine residue at position 58. Despite this, using molecular modeling, we predict that its mutation should have a dramatic effect on CD8alphaalpha binding. The predictions are confirmed using surface plasmon resonance binding studies and human CTL activation assays. Surprisingly, the charge-reversing mutation, Lys(58) --> Glu, enhances beta(2)m-MHC class I heavy chain interactions. This mutation also significantly reduces CD8alphaalpha binding and is a potent antagonist of CTL activation. These results suggest a novel approach to CTL-specific therapeutic immunosuppression.
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- Meir Glick
- Department of Chemistry, Central Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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