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Geng L, Solimena M, Flavell RA, Sherwin RS, Hayday AC. Widespread expression of an autoantigen-GAD65 transgene does not tolerize non-obese diabetic mice and can exacerbate disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:10055-60. [PMID: 9707599 PMCID: PMC21460 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.17.10055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD)65 is a pancreatic beta cell autoantigen implicated as a target of T cells that initiate and sustain insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in humans and in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. In an attempt to establish immunological tolerance toward GAD65 in NOD mice, and thereby to test the importance of GAD in IDDM, we generated three lines transgenic for murine GAD65 driven by a major histocompatibility complex class I promoter. However, despite widespread transgene expression in both newborn and adult mice, T cell tolerance was not induced. Mononuclear cell infiltration of the islets (insulitis) and diabetes were at least as bad in transgenic mice as in nontransgenic NOD mice, and in mice with the highest level of GAD65 expression, disease was exacerbated. In contrast, the same transgene introduced into mouse strain, FvB, induced neither insulitis nor diabetes, and T cells were tolerant to GAD. Thus, the failure of NOD mice to develop tolerance toward GAD65 reflects at minimum a basic defect in central tolerance, not seen in animals not predisposed to IDDM. Hence, it may not be possible experimentally to induce full tolerance toward GAD65 in prediabetic individuals. Additionally, the fact that autoimmune infiltration in GAD65 transgenic NOD mice remained largely restricted to the pancreas, indicates that the organ-specificity of autoimmune disease is dictated by tissue-specific factors in addition to those directing autoantigen expression.
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- L Geng
- Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University (Kline Biology Tower) 219 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Sobel DO, Goyal D, Ahvazi B, Yoon JW, Chung YH, Bagg A, Harlan DM. Low dose poly I:C prevents diabetes in the diabetes prone BB rat. J Autoimmun 1998; 11:343-52. [PMID: 9776712 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1998.0203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Poly I:C, an inducer of IFN-alpha and other cytokines, has been used to study the development of diabetes in both the BioBreeding (BB) diabetes prone rat and non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse animal models of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Surprisingly, poly I:C accelerates the disease in the BB rat while inhibiting it in the NOD mouse. Since cytokines can have dose related opposing effects on immune responses, we hypothesized that the paradoxical effect of polyinosinic polycytidylic acid (poly I:C) on diabetes in the two animal models is dose related. Accordingly, we compared the incidence of diabetes and degree of insulitis in diabetes prone BB rats administered saline and poly I:C at doses (0.05 microg/g body weight and 0.1 microg/g body weight) up to 100-fold lower than doses (poly-5 microg/g) previously found to accelerate diabetes. In addition, the non-specific suppressor activity of mononuclear splenocytes from BB rats administered low dose (poly-0.05 microg/g body weight), high dose (poly-5 microg/g body weight), and saline were compared. The development of diabetes was inhibited in rats treated with each dose of poly I:C. The degree of insulitis in poly-I:C treated animals was also less severe. The total white blood cell count and proportion of RT6+ T-cells and each T-cell subset were unaltered by poly I:C. When compared to splenocytes of control animals, splenocytes from poly I:C (0.05 microg/g body weight) treated rats suppressed responder cell proliferation to concanavalin A and alloantigen. However, spleen cells from high dose poly-I:C did not suppress responder cell proliferation to alloantigen. In adoptive transfer studies, the administration of spleen cells from poly-0.05 treated rats decreased the development of diabetes in recipient BB rats. In vitro studies also demonstrated that poly-I:C inhibits the proliferative response of BB rat spleen cells to concanavalin A. The administration of poly-0.05, but not poly-5.0, decreased TNF-alpha mRNA and IL-10 mRNA content in spleen cells. We conclude that poly I:C, at a dose 100 times lower than that required to accelerate diabetes prevents the development of diabetes in BB rates by interfering with the development of insulitis. The induction of suppressor cell activity induced by low dose poly-I:C in vivo and the inhibition of T-cell responses by poly-I:C in vitro suggests that the diabetes sparing activity of poly I:C is mediated by augmented immunoregulatory cell activity. Further studies with poly I:C may be important in increasing our understanding of the pathogenesis of IDDM and provide a means to prevent it.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Body Weight/drug effects
- Concanavalin A/pharmacology
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/metabolism
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/prevention & control
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Flow Cytometry
- Gene Expression
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/biosynthesis
- Interferon Inducers/therapeutic use
- Islets of Langerhans/drug effects
- Islets of Langerhans/pathology
- Leukocyte Count/drug effects
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/cytology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/immunology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism
- Lymphocyte Activation/drug effects
- Male
- Phenotype
- Poly I-C/therapeutic use
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred BB
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/drug effects
- Spleen/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory/drug effects
- T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory/immunology
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- D O Sobel
- Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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Dahlén E, Dawe K, Ohlsson L, Hedlund G. Dendritic Cells and Macrophages Are the First and Major Producers of TNF-α in Pancreatic Islets in the Nonobese Diabetic Mouse. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.7.3585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse spontaneously develops autoimmune insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and serves as an animal model for human type I diabetes. TNF-α is known to be produced by islet-infiltrating mononuclear cells during insulitis and subsequent β cell destruction and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of IDDM. Previously, T cells have been suggested as the main source of TNF-α in the islet infiltrate. However, on immunohistochemical analysis of TNF-α expression in islets, we are able to show that the staining pattern of TNF-α resembles that of dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages (Mφ) rather than T cells and that TNF-α is expressed in islets at the very early stages of insulitis when no T cells are detected. On double staining for TNF-α and cell surface markers, we can demonstrate that TNF-α staining clearly correlates with DC and Mφ, whereas there is a poor correlation with T cells. This feature was observed at both early and late stages of insulitis. TNF-α expression was also seen in NOD-SCID islets, in addition to a peri-islet infiltration consisting of DC and Mφ, indicating that T cells are not required for the early DC and Mφ infiltration and TNF-α expression in islets. In conclusion, our results show that DC and Mφ are the major, early source of TNF-α in the NOD islet infiltrate and that TNF-α can be expressed independently of T cells, indicating that the early DC and Mφ infiltration and expression of TNF-α are crucial in initiation of diabetes.
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- Eva Dahlén
- Pharmacia & Upjohn, Lund Research Center, Lund, Sweden
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- Pharmacia & Upjohn, Lund Research Center, Lund, Sweden
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Sarukhan A, Lanoue A, Franzke A, Brousse N, Buer J, von Boehmer H. Changes in function of antigen-specific lymphocytes correlating with progression towards diabetes in a transgenic model. EMBO J 1998; 17:71-80. [PMID: 9427742 PMCID: PMC1170359 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.1.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Mice that express influenza hemagglutinin under control of the rat insulin promoter (INS-HA) as well as a class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted HA-specific transgenic TCR (TCR-HA), develop early insulitis with huge infiltrates, but progress late and irregularly to diabetes. Initially, in these mice, INS-HA modulates the reactivity of antigen-specific lymphocytes, such that outside the pancreas they do not cause lethal shock like their naive counterparts in single transgenic TCR-HA mice, when stimulated with high doses of antigen. Inside the pancreas, the antigen-specific cells do not initially attack the islet cells, and produce some IFN-gamma as well as IL-10 and IL-4. Spontaneous progression to diabetes, which can be accelerated by cyclophosphamide injection, is accompanied by a 10-fold increase in IFN-gamma and a 3-fold decrease in IL-10 and IL-4 production by the locally residing antigen-specific T cells. Also, total islets from non-diabetic mice contain more TNF-alpha, compared with diabetic mice. This scenario is consistent with the view that beta cell destruction depends upon the increased production of certain pro-inflammatory cytokines by infiltrating T cells. Our inability to detect Fas expression on beta cells, but not on lymphoid cells, in diabetic and non-diabetic mice, puts some constraints on the role of Fas in beta cell destruction.
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- A Sarukhan
- Institut Necker, INSERM 373, 156 rue de Vaugirad, 75730 Paris, Cedex 15, France
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Therapeutic studies and genetically engineered animals have elucidated the inflammatory roles of cytokines and chemokines in autoimmune disease. Most unexpected has been a continuum of recent evidence demonstrating that inflammatory mediators are crucial in lymphoid organ development, thus suggesting that these hitherto unrelated processes have common elements with implications for determinant spreading.
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- R Sacca
- Department of Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA
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McSorley SJ, Soldera S, Malherbe L, Carnaud C, Locksley RM, Flavell RA, Glaichenhaus N. Immunological tolerance to a pancreatic antigen as a result of local expression of TNFalpha by islet beta cells. Immunity 1997; 7:401-9. [PMID: 9324360 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80361-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Recent experiments have suggested that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) can down-regulate islet-specific T cells and prevent the development of autoimmune diabetes. Here we demonstrate that transgenic mice expressing both TNFalpha and the Leishmania major LACK antigen in the pancreas (RIP-TNFalpha/RIP-LACK) exhibit an impaired ability to mount a CD4+ T cell response against LACK. In addition, peripheral CD4+ T cells from TCR transgenic mice (TCR-LACK/RIP-TNFalpha/RIP-LACK) produced reduced interleukin-2 but elevated levels of T helper 2 cytokines in response to LACK peptide in vitro. Taken together, our data suggest that TNFalpha may act in vivo to modulate a potentially damaging self-reactive T cell response by inducing tolerance to pancreatic antigens.
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- S J McSorley
- Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UPR411, Valbonne, France
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Mueller R, Bradley LM, Krahl T, Sarvetnick N. Mechanism underlying counterregulation of autoimmune diabetes by IL-4. Immunity 1997; 7:411-8. [PMID: 9324361 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80362-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. We have previously reported that transgenic expression of interleukin-4 (IL-4) counterregulates the disease process, completely protecting NOD mice from insulitis and diabetes. Here we demonstrate the presence of autoreactivity but lack of pathogenicity of the IL-4-regulated lymphocytes. The importance of T cell diversity for the protective effect of IL-4 is demonstrated through breeding with transgenic BDC2.5 mice, which have an almost exclusively monoclonal T cell repertoire. Limitation of T cell diversity abrogated the protection by IL-4. We suggest that "immune deviation" in NOD-IL-4 mice is mediated by the pancreatic tissue itself, which causes activation of distinct, nonpathogenic T cell specificities.
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- R Mueller
- Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Lotze MT. Getting to the source: dendritic cells as therapeutic reagents for the treatment of patients with cancer. Ann Surg 1997. [PMID: 9242331 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2007.15.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Lotze MT. Getting to the source: dendritic cells as therapeutic reagents for the treatment of patients with cancer. Ann Surg 1997; 226:1-5. [PMID: 9242331 PMCID: PMC1190900 DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199707000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Cope A, Ettinger R, McDevitt H. The role of TNF alpha and related cytokines in the development and function of the autoreactive T-cell repertoire. RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY 1997; 148:307-12. [PMID: 9352594 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2494(97)87239-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- A Cope
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical Center, CA 94305, USA
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Cope AP, Liblau RS, Yang XD, Congia M, Laudanna C, Schreiber RD, Probert L, Kollias G, McDevitt HO. Chronic tumor necrosis factor alters T cell responses by attenuating T cell receptor signaling. J Exp Med 1997; 185:1573-84. [PMID: 9151895 PMCID: PMC2196294 DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.9.1573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/1997] [Revised: 03/05/1997] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Repeated injections of adult mice with recombinant murine TNF prolong the survival of NZB/W F1 mice, and suppress type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. To determine whether repeated TNF injections suppress T cell function in adult mice, we studied the responses of influenza hemagglutinin-specific T cells derived from T cell receptor (HNT-TCR) transgenic mice. Treatment of adult mice with murine TNF for 3 wk suppressed a broad range of T cell responses, including proliferation and cytokine production. Furthermore, T cell responses of HNT-TCR transgenic mice also expressing the human TNF-globin transgene were markedly reduced compared to HNT-TCR single transgenic littermates, indicating that sustained p55 TNF-R signaling is sufficient to suppress T cell function in vivo. Using a model of chronic TNF exposure in vitro, we demonstrate that (a) chronic TNF effects are dose and time dependent, (b) TNF suppresses the responses of both Th1 and Th2 T helper subsets, (c) the suppressive effects of endogenous TNF produced in T cell cultures could be reversed with neutralizing monoclonal antibodies to TNF, and (d) prolonged TNF exposure attenuates T cell receptor signaling. The finding that anti-TNF treatment in vivo enhances T cell proliferative responses and cytokine production provides evidence for a novel regulatory effect of TNF on T cells in healthy laboratory mice. These effects are more pronounced in chronic inflammatory disease. In addition, our data provide a mechanism through which prolonged TNF exposure suppresses disease in animal models of autoimmunity.
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- A P Cope
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA
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- N Sarvetnick
- Department of Immunology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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