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Natural killer T (NKT) cells constitute a conserved T cell sublineage with unique properties, including reactivity for a synthetic glycolipid presented by CD1d, expression of an invariant T cell antigen receptor (TCR) alpha chain, and unusual requirements for thymic selection. They rapidly produce many cytokines after stimulation and thus influence diverse immune responses and pathogenic processes. Because of intensive research effort, we have learned much about factors promoting the development and survival of NKT cells, regulation of their cytokine production, and the means by which they influence dendritic cells and other cell types. Despite this progress, knowledge of the natural antigen(s) they recognize and their physiologic role remain incomplete. The activation of NKT cells paradoxically can lead either to suppression or stimulation of immune responses, and we cannot predict which will occur. Despite this uncertainty, many investigators are hopeful that immune therapies can be developed based on NKT cell stimulation.
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- Mitchell Kronenberg
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
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A basic principle of immunology is that lymphocytes respond to foreign antigens but tolerate self tissues. For developing T cells, the ability to distinguish self from non-self is acquired in the thymus, where the majority of self-reactive cells are eliminated. Recently, however, it has become apparent that some self-reactive T cells avoid being destroyed and instead differentiate into specialized regulatory cells. This appears to be beneficial. Subpopulations of self-reactive T cells have a strong influence on self tolerance and may represent targets for therapeutic intervention to control a variety of autoimmune diseases, tumour growth and infection.
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- Mitchell Kronenberg
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
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Reed-Loisel LM, Sullivan BA, Laur O, Jensen PE. An MHC Class Ib-Restricted TCR That Cross-Reacts with an MHC Class Ia Molecule. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:7746-52. [PMID: 15944277 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.12.7746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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TCR transgenic 6C5 T cells recognize an insulin B chain epitope presented by the nonclassical class I MHC molecule, Qa-1(b). Positive selection of these T cells was shown previously to require Qa-1(b). Despite dedicated specificity for Qa-1(b), evidence presented in the current study indicates that 6C5 T cells can cross-recognize a classical class I molecule. Clonal deletion was observed unexpectedly in 6C5.H-2(bxq) mice, which do not express I-E MHC class II molecules and thus should not be subject to superantigen-mediated negative selection. 6C5 T cells were observed to respond in vivo and in vitro to spleen cells from allogeneic H-2(q) mice, and specificity was mapped to D(q). Evidence was obtained for direct recognition of D(q), rather than indirect presentation of a D(q)-derived peptide presented by Qa-1(b). Polyclonal CD8(+) T cells from class Ia-deficient K(b)D(b-/-) mice reacted in vitro to allogeneic spleen cells with an apparent frequency comparable to conventional class Ia-restricted T cells. Our results provide a clear example of a Qa-1-specific TCR that can cross-react with a class Ia molecule and evidence supporting the idea that this may be a common property of T cells selected by class Ib molecules.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Lineage/genetics
- Cell Lineage/immunology
- Clonal Deletion
- Crosses, Genetic
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Superantigens/genetics
- Superantigens/immunology
- Superantigens/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Lisa M Reed-Loisel
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Franki AS, Van Beneden K, Dewint P, Meeus I, Veys E, Deforce D, Elewaut D. Lymphotoxin alpha 1 beta 2: a critical mediator in V alpha 14i NKT cell differentiation. Mol Immunol 2005; 42:413-7. [PMID: 15607792 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2004.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lymphotoxin (LT) alpha 1 beta 2, a tumour necrosis factor (TNF) cytokine critically involved in lymphoid organogenesis, is indispensable for the differentiation of V alpha 14i natural killer T (NKT) cells, a lymphocyte subset with important immunoregulatory properties. However, it is not required for the development of conventional T-cells. LT alpha 1 beta 2 signals through the LT beta receptor, which is expressed on non-lymphoid cells. Triggering of this receptor induces a unique signalling cascade leading to the activation of the transcription factor RelB through activation of NF-kappa B inducing kinase. This pathway is required for V alpha 14i NKT cell differentiation as appears from studies in gene-deficient animals. By reciprocal bone marrow chimeras, it was shown that RelB is required in a radiation-resistant host cell or stromal cell for normal V alpha 14i NKT cell development, presumably in the thymic stroma. These stromal cells are not required for the positive selection of these cells but rather play a prominent role in their terminal differentiation. Altogether, these observations underscore the unique developmental requirements of this particular lymphocyte subset.
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- Ann Sophie Franki
- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Gent University, Belgium
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Dao T, Guo D, Ploss A, Stolzer A, Saylor C, Boursalian TE, Im JS, Sant'Angelo DB. Development of CD1d-restricted NKT cells in the mouse thymus. Eur J Immunol 2005; 34:3542-52. [PMID: 15549774 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200425546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Using genetic and phenotypic analyses, we have analyzed the developmental pathway of mouse CD1d-restricted invariant NKT cells. We provide strong evidence that similar to conventional T cells, positive selection of NKT cells occurs during a CD4(+)CD8(+) stage. Later stages of NKT cell development involved the down-regulation of both TCR and CD4 levels and therefore diverge from conventional T cell development pathways. A unique and complete dependency for development on Fyn, a Src family kinase member, also distinguishes the NKT cell and conventional T cell populations.
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- Tao Dao
- The Laboratory of T cell Immunobiology, Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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Li C, Bai X, Wang S, Tomiyama-Miyaji C, Nagura T, Kawamura T, Abo T. Immunopotentiation of NKT cells by low-protein diet and the suppressive effect on tumor metastasis. Cell Immunol 2005; 231:96-102. [PMID: 15919374 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2004.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2004] [Revised: 12/09/2004] [Accepted: 12/10/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Mice were fed with a 5% low-protein diet for two weeks, at which point tumor inoculation was conducted. Following this inoculation, the 5% low-protein diet was continued. On the other hand, control mice were fed with a normal diet (25% protein) and such diet was continued after tumor inoculation. In comparison with control mice, mice fed with the 5% low-protein diet showed a prominent prolongation of survival rate when injected with both EL4 and 3LL tumors. Interestingly, CD1d(-/-) mice, which primarily lack natural killer T (NKT) cells, did not show the prolongation of survival rate even when they received a 5% low-protein diet. The most striking phenomenon seen in tumor-bearing mice fed with the 5% low-protein diet was the suppression of tumor metastasis to the liver and lung. Such suppression was not seen in CD1d(-/-) mice who were fed with a 5% low-protein diet. Phenotypic study revealed that the proportion of NKT cells after tumor inoculation decreased in the mice fed with a normal diet. However, such decrease did not occur in mice fed with the 5% low-protein diet. Reflecting the activation of NKT cells by feeding, tumor cytotoxicity and cytokine production were also augmented by the 5% low-protein diet. These results suggest that a low-protein diet has the potential to augment the innate immunity against tumors, especially mediated by the activation of NKT cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD1/genetics
- Antigens, CD1/metabolism
- Antigens, CD1d
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/drug effects
- Diet, Protein-Restricted
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Interferon-gamma/genetics
- Interleukin-4/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-4/genetics
- Killer Cells, Natural/drug effects
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Liver/immunology
- Liver Neoplasms/diet therapy
- Liver Neoplasms/secondary
- Lung Neoplasms/diet therapy
- Lung Neoplasms/secondary
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Neoplasm Metastasis/therapy
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Survival Rate
- T-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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- Changchun Li
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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Swann J, Crowe NY, Hayakawa Y, Godfrey DI, Smyth MJ. Regulation of antitumour immunity by CD1d-restricted NKT cells. Immunol Cell Biol 2004; 82:323-31. [PMID: 15186264 DOI: 10.1111/j.0818-9641.2004.01254.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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An understanding of the complex interactions occurring between tumours and the immune system is a prerequisite for the rational design of effective cancer immunotherapies. To date, attention has focused mainly on the role the adaptive immune system plays in controlling tumourigenesis, with conventional T cells, which recognize peptide antigens presented by classical MHC molecules, coming under close scrutiny. Accumulating reports now suggest that an additional T-cell subset, known as CD1d-restricted natural killer T (NKT) cells, also plays a pivotal role in modulating antitumour responses. Found in both humans and mice, CD1d-restricted NKT cells are a highly specialized cell type that, in contrast to conventional T cells, recognize lipid/glycolipid antigens presented by the non-classical MHC molecule CD1d. Several features of NKT cells, including their ability to rapidly produce large quantities of cytokines upon primary stimulation, make them ideal targets for developing anticancer immunotherapies. This intriguing cell type is the focus of this review.
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- Jeremy Swann
- Cancer Immunology Program, Trescowthick Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St. Andrews Place, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia
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Hashimoto D, Asakura S, Miyake S, Yamamura T, Van Kaer L, Liu C, Tanimoto M, Teshima T. Stimulation of Host NKT Cells by Synthetic Glycolipid Regulates Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease by Inducing Th2 Polarization of Donor T Cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 174:551-6. [PMID: 15611282 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.1.551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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NKT cells are a unique immunoregulatory T cell population that produces large amounts of cytokines. We have investigated whether stimulation of host NKT cells could modulate acute graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) in mice. Injection of the synthetic NKT cell ligand alpha-galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer) to recipient mice on day 0 following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation promoted Th2 polarization of donor T cells and a dramatic reduction of serum TNF-alpha, a critical mediator of GVHD. A single injection of alpha-GalCer to recipient mice significantly reduced morbidity and mortality of GVHD. However, the same treatment was unable to confer protection against GVHD in NKT cell-deficient CD1d knockout (CD1d(-/-)) or IL-4(-/-) recipient mice or when STAT6(-/-) mice were used as donors, indicating the critical role of host NKT cells, host production of IL-4, and Th2 cytokine responses mediated by donor T cells on the protective effects of alpha-GalCer against GVHD. Thus, stimulation of host NKT cells through administration of NKT ligand can regulate acute GVHD by inducing Th2 polarization of donor T cells via STAT6-dependent mechanisms and might represent a novel strategy for prevention of acute GVHD.
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- Daigo Hashimoto
- Biopathological Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan
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Sullivan BA, Reed-Loisel LM, Kersh GJ, Jensen PE. Homeostatic proliferation of a Qa-1b-restricted T cell: a distinction between the ligands required for positive selection and for proliferation in lymphopenic hosts. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:6065-71. [PMID: 15528342 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.10.6065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Naive T cells proliferate in response to self MHC molecules after transfer into lymphopenic hosts, a process that has been termed homeostatic proliferation (HP). Previous studies have demonstrated that HP is driven by low level signaling induced by interactions with the same MHC molecules responsible for positive selection in the thymus. Little is known about the homeostatic regulation of T cells specific for class Ib molecules, including Qa-1 and H2-M3, though it has been suggested that their capacity to undergo homeostatic expansion may be inherently limited. In this study, we demonstrate that naive 6C5 TCR transgenic T cells with specificity for Qa-1(b) have a capacity similar to conventional T cells to undergo HP after transfer into sublethally irradiated mice. Proliferation was largely dependent on the expression of beta(2)-microglobulin, and experiments with congenic recipients expressing Qa-1(a) instead of Qa-1(b) demonstrated that HP is specifically driven by Qa-1(b) and not through cross-recognition of classical class I molecules. Thus, the same MHC molecule that mediates positive selection of 6C5 T cells is also required for HP. Homeostatic expansion, like positive selection, occurs in the absence of a Qa-1 determinant modifier, the dominant self-peptide bound to Qa-1 molecules. However, experiments with TAP(-/-) recipients demonstrate a clear distinction between the ligand requirements for thymic selection and HP. Positive selection of 6C5 T cells is dependent on TAP function, thus selection is presumably mediated by TAP-dependent peptides. By contrast, HP occurs in TAP(-/-) recipients, providing an example where the ligand requirements for HP are less stringent than for thymic selection.
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- Barbara A Sullivan
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 101 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Cannarile MA, Decanis N, van Meerwijk JPM, Brocker T. The Role of Dendritic Cells in Selection of Classical and Nonclassical CD8+T Cells In Vivo. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:4799-805. [PMID: 15470019 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.8.4799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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T cell development is determined by positive and negative selection events. An intriguing question is how signals through the TCR can induce thymocyte survival and maturation in some and programmed cell death in other thymocytes. This paradox can be explained by the hypothesis that different thymic cell types expressing self-MHC/peptide ligands mediate either positive or negative selection events. Using transgenic mice that express MHC class I (MHC-I) selectively on DC, we demonstrate a compartmentalization of thymic functions and reveal that DC induce CTL tolerance to MHC-I-positive hemopoietic targets in vivo. However, in normal and bone marrow chimeric mice, MHC-I+ DC are sufficient to positively select neither MHC-Ib (H2-M3)- nor MHC-Ia (H2-K)-restricted CD8+ T cells. Thus, thymic DC are specialized in tolerance induction, but cannot positively select the vast majority of MHC-I-restricted CD8+ T cells.
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Mocchegiani E, Giacconi R, Cipriano C, Gasparini N, Bernardini G, Malavolta M, Menegazzi M, Cavalieri E, Muzzioli M, Ciampa AR, Suzuki H. The variations during the circadian cycle of liver CD1d-unrestricted NK1.1+TCR gamma/delta+ cells lead to successful ageing. Role of metallothionein/IL-6/gp130/PARP-1 interplay in very old mice. Exp Gerontol 2004; 39:775-88. [PMID: 15130672 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2004.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2003] [Revised: 01/01/2004] [Accepted: 01/27/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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NKT cells derive from the thymus and home to the liver. Liver NKT cells can be divided in two groups: 'classical' and 'non-classical'. The first is CD1d-restricted, the second is CD1d-unrestricted. NKT cells (classical and non-classical) co-express T-cell receptor (TCR) and NK-cell marker (NK1.1), display cytotoxicity and produce IFN-gamma under IL-12 stimulation affecting, thereby, Th1 response and innate immunity. NK1.1(+)TCR alpha/beta(+) cells belong to both groups. NK1.1(+)TCR gamma/delta(+) cells belong to the second group. Anyway, both NKT cell subtypes, via IFN-gamma production, protect against viruses and bacteria from early in life. Immune variations as well as zinc rhythmicity during the circadian cycle confer the immune plasticity, which is essential for successful ageing. Liver NK1.1(+)TCR gamma/delta(+) cells, rather than TCR alpha/beta(+), from young and very old mice display 'in vitro' (under IL-12 stimulation) nocturnal peaks in cytotoxicity and IFN-gamma production. The acrophase of liver NK1.1(+)TCR gamma/delta(+) cells is present in young and very old mice, not in old. The interplay among zinc-bound metallothionein (MT)/IL-6/gp130/poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) may be involved in conferring plasticity to liver NK1.1(+)TCR gamma/delta(+) cells. IL-6, via sub-unit receptor gp130, induces MTmRNA. At night, gene expressions of MT, IL-6, gp130 are lower in very old mice than old and young MT-I transgenic mice (MT-I*). In very old mice, this phenomenon allows limited sequester of intracellular zinc from MT leading to good free zinc ion bioavailability for immune efficiency and zinc-dependent PARP-1 activity. Indeed (1) in vitro, high IL-6 provokes strong accumulation of MT, impaired cytotoxicity and low zinc ion bioavailability in liver NK1.1(+)TCR gamma/delta(+) cells exclusively from old and MT-I* mice. (2) The ratio total/endogen PARP-1 activity is higher in very old than in old and MT-I* mice, suggesting a higher capacity of PARP-1 in base excision DNA-repair in very old age thanks to low zinc-bound MT. Cytotoxicity and IFN-gamma production from liver NK1.1(+)TCR gamma/delta(+) cells are thus preserved leading to successful ageing. In conclusion, MT/IL-6/gp130/PARP-1 interplay may confer plasticity to liver CD1d-unrestricted NK1.1(+)TCR gamma/delta(+) cells, where MT, IL-6, gp130 are the main upstream protagonists, and PARP-1 is the main downstream protagonist in immunosenescence.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, CD/physiology
- Antioxidants/physiology
- Cellular Senescence/immunology
- Cellular Senescence/physiology
- Circadian Rhythm/physiology
- Cytokine Receptor gp130
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/physiology
- Gene Expression
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Interferon-gamma/blood
- Interleukin-12/blood
- Interleukin-12/immunology
- Interleukin-6/physiology
- Killer Cells, Natural/physiology
- Liver/physiology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/analysis
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Metallothionein/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Transgenic
- Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1
- Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/physiology
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Zinc/physiology
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- Eugenio Mocchegiani
- Immunology Center, Section Nutrition, Immunity and Ageing, Res. Department, Italian National Research Centres on Ageing, Via Birarelli 8, 60121, Ancona, Italy.
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Gadue P, Yin L, Jain S, Stein PL. Restoration of NK T cell development in fyn-mutant mice by a TCR reveals a requirement for Fyn during early NK T cell ontogeny. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:6093-100. [PMID: 15128794 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.10.6093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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NK T cells are a unique lymphocyte population that have developmental requirements distinct from conventional T cells. Mice lacking the tyrosine kinase Fyn have 5- to 10-fold fewer mature NK T cells. This study shows that Fyn-deficient mice have decreased numbers of NK1.1(-) NK T cell progenitors as well. 5-Bromo-2'-deoxyuridine-labeling studies indicate that the NK T cells remaining in fyn(-/-) mice exhibit a similar turnover rate as wild-type cells. The fyn(-/-) NK T cells respond to alpha-galactosylceramide, a ligand recognized by NK T cells, and produce cytokines, but have depressed proliferative capacity. Transgenic expression of the NK T cell-specific TCR alpha-chain Valpha14Jalpha18 leads to a complete restoration of NK T cell numbers in fyn(-/-) mice. Together, these results suggest that Fyn may have a role before alpha-chain rearrangement rather than for positive selection or the peripheral upkeep of cell number. NK T cells can activate other lymphoid lineages via cytokine secretion. These secondary responses are impaired in Fyn-deficient mice, but occur normally in fyn mutants expressing the Valpha14Jalpha18 transgene. Because this transgene restores NK T cell numbers, the lack of secondary lymphocyte activation in the fyn-mutant mice is due to the decreased numbers of NK T cells present in the mutant, rather than an intrinsic defect in the ability of the other fyn(-/-) lymphoid populations to respond.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens/metabolism
- Antigens, Ly
- Antigens, Surface
- B-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Ceramides/pharmacology
- Cytokines/metabolism
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor alpha
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Killer Cells, Natural/enzymology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Lectins, C-Type
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Lymphocyte Count
- Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck)/deficiency
- Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck)/genetics
- Lymphopenia/genetics
- Lymphopenia/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily B
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/deficiency
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/physiology
- Proteins/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/deficiency
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/physiology
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/physiology
- Stem Cells/pathology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/enzymology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Transgenes/immunology
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- Paul Gadue
- Graduate Group in Immunology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Baev DV, Peng XH, Song L, Barnhart JR, Crooks GM, Weinberg KI, Metelitsa LS. Distinct homeostatic requirements of CD4+ and CD4- subsets of Valpha24-invariant natural killer T cells in humans. Blood 2004; 104:4150-6. [PMID: 15328159 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-04-1629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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CD1d-restricted Valpha24-invariant natural killer T cells (iNKTs) are important in immunoregulation. CD4(+) and CD4(-) iNKTs develop with similar frequencies in murine thymus and depend on interleukin-15 (IL-15) in periphery. However, homeostatic requirements of iNKTs have not been analyzed in humans. We evaluated thymic production, peripheral dynamics, and functional maturation of human iNKTs. CD4(+) subset comprises 90% of iNKTs in mature thymocytes and cord blood (CB) but only 40% in adult blood. Using T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) analysis, we directly measured in vivo replicative history of CD4(+) and CD4(-) iNKT cells. Compared to CD4(+), CD4(-) iNKTs contain fewer TRECs, express higher levels of IL-2Rbeta, and proliferate with higher rate in response to IL-15. In contrast, CD4(+) cells express higher levels of IL-7Ralpha and better respond to IL-7. Neither thymic nor CB iNKTs are able to produce cytokines unless they are induced to proliferate. Therefore, unlike in the mouse, human CD4(+) iNKTs are mainly supported by thymic output and limited peripheral expansion, whereas CD4(-) cells undergo extensive peripheral expansion, and both subsets develop their functions in periphery. These findings reveal important differences in homeostatic requirements and functional maturation between murine and human iNKTs that are to be considered for clinical purposes.
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- Denis V Baev
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, SRT-501-d, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
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Kim SJ, Cheung S, Hellerstein MK. Isolation of nuclei from label-retaining cells and measurement of their turnover rates in rat colon. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2004; 286:C1464-73. [PMID: 14960413 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00139.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We describe here a new technique for isolating nuclei from long-term label-retaining cells (LRCs), a subpopulation enriched with stem cells from colon, and for measuring their proliferation rates in vivo. A double-label approach was developed, combining the use of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) and 2H2O. Male Fisher 344 rats were administered BrdU in drinking water continuously for 2–8 wk. BrdU was then discontinued (BrdU washout), and animals ( n = 33) were switched to 2H2O in drinking water and killed after 2, 4, and 8 wk. Nuclei from BrdU-positive cells (LRCs) were collected by flow cytometry. The percentages of LRCs were 7 and 3.8% after 4 and 8 wk of BrdU washout, respectively. Turnover rates of LRCs were measured on the basis of deuterium incorporation from 2H2O into DNA of LRC nuclei, as determined by mass spectrometry. The proliferation rate of the LRCs collected was 0.33–0.90% per day (half-life of 77–210 days). Significant contamination from other potentially long-lived colon cells was excluded. In conclusion, this double-labeling method allows both physical isolation of nuclei from colon epithelial LRCs and measurement of their in vivo proliferation rates. Use of this approach may allow better understanding of mechanisms by which agents induce or protect against colon carcinogenesis.
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- Sylvia Jeewon Kim
- Graduate Group in Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA
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Swann J, Crowe NY, Hayakawa Y, Godfrey DI, Smyth MJ. Regulation of antitumour immunity by CD1d-restricted NKT cells. Immunol Cell Biol 2004. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1711.2004.01254.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Berzins SP, Uldrich AP, Pellicci DG, McNab F, Hayakawa Y, Smyth MJ, Godfrey DI. Parallels and distinctions between T and NKT cell development in the thymus. Immunol Cell Biol 2004; 82:269-75. [PMID: 15186258 DOI: 10.1111/j.0818-9641.2004.01256.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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NKT cells are emerging as an extremely influential regulatory subset of T lymphocytes that are functionally and developmentally distinct from their mainstream counterparts. Like other T cells, NKT cells are thymus-dependent but their apparently unique pathway of differentiation is poorly characterized. Given the strong association between NKT cell deficiency and increased incidences of autoimmunity and cancer it is imperative that the mechanisms by which NKT cells are generated becomes better understood. This review examines what is known about NKT cell development in the thymus and highlights elements of the pathway that differ significantly from mainstream T-cell development. It is here that NKT cell-specific disorders may originate and may best be addressed.
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- Stuart P Berzins
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010 Australia.
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Godfrey DI, MacDonald HR, Kronenberg M, Smyth MJ, Van Kaer L. NKT cells: what's in a name? Nat Rev Immunol 2004; 4:231-7. [PMID: 15039760 DOI: 10.1038/nri1309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 929] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Dale I Godfrey
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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Halder RC, Abe T, Mannoor MK, Morshed SRM, Ariyasinghe A, Watanabe H, Kawamura H, Sekikawa H, Hamada H, Nishiyama Y, Ishikawa H, Toba K, Abo T. Onset of hepatic erythropoiesis after malarial infection in mice. Parasitol Int 2004; 52:259-68. [PMID: 14665382 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5769(03)00029-1] [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: 11/30/2022]
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Plasmodium yoelii-infected erythrocytes were injected into mice with or without 6.5 Gy irradiation. This irradiation suppressed erythropoiesis and induced severe immunosuppression. However, these mice showed a rather delayed infection, suggesting that fresh erythrocytes may become malarial targets. In other words, malarial infection did not persist without newly generated erythrocytes in mice. We then examined erythropoiesis in the liver and bone marrow of mice with malaria. Surprisingly, erythropoiesis began in the liver. At this time, the serum level of erythropoietin (EPO) was prominently elevated and the EPO mRNA also became detectable in the kidney. Many clusters of red blood cells appeared de novo in the parenchymal space of the liver. These results revealed that malarial infection had a potential to induce the onset of hepatic erythropoiesis in mice.
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- Ramesh C Halder
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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Kawabe S, Abe T, Kawamura H, Gejyo F, Abo T. Generation of B220low B cells and production of autoantibodies in mice with experimental amyloidosis: association of primordial T cells with this phenomenon. Clin Exp Immunol 2004; 135:200-8. [PMID: 14738446 PMCID: PMC1808931 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2003.02361.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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To investigate the immunological state in amyloidosis, mice were twice intraperitoneally injected (2-week interval) with casein emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant. Two weeks after the treatment, amyloid deposits were detected in the spleen and other organs of these mice. The number of lymphocytes yielded by the liver and spleen increased significantly. The most affected lymphocyte subset was found to be B cells, namely, the total number of B cells increased and unusual B220low B cells were newly generated in the liver and spleen. In other words, not only normal B220high B cells but also unusual B220low B cells were detected in these organs of mice with amyloidosis. In parallel with this phenomenon, autoantibodies against denatured DNA were detected in sera. Since such autoantibodies are known to accompany the functional activation of NKT cells, NKT cell-deficient mice were used for the induction of amyloidosis. Such mice showed less formation of amyloidosis and lower levels of autoantibodies in sera. Athymic nude mice were NKT cell-deficient but NK1.1- TCRint cells were present. These athymic mice showed an intermediate induction of amyloidosis. The cytokine profile seen in mice with amyloidosis was the Th0 type, showing simultaneous production of IL-4 and IFNgamma. These results suggest that the generation of B220low B cells and the production of autoantibodies in aid of primordial T cells may be major immunological mechanisms in amyloidosis mice.
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- S Kawabe
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan
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Sagiyama K, Tsuchida M, Kawamura H, Wang S, Li C, Bai X, Nagura T, Nozoe S, Abo T. Age-related bias in function of natural killer T cells and granulocytes after stress: reciprocal association of steroid hormones and sympathetic nerves. Clin Exp Immunol 2004; 135:56-63. [PMID: 14678265 PMCID: PMC1808918 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2004.02340.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Stress-associated immune responses were compared between young (8 weeks of age) and old (56 weeks) mice. Since stress suppresses the conventional immune system (i.e. T and B cells) but inversely activates the primordial immune system (i.e. extrathymic T cells, NKT cells, and granulocytes), these parameters were analysed after restraint stress for 24 h. The thymus became atrophic as a function of age, and an age-related increase in the number of lymphocytes was seen in the liver. Although the number of lymphocytes in both the thymus and liver decreased as the result of stress, the magnitude was much more prominent in the thymus. To determine stress-resistant lymphocyte subsets, two-colour immunofluorescence tests were conducted in the liver and spleen. NKT cells were found to be such cells in the liver of young mice. On the other hand, an infiltration of granulocytes due to stress was more prominent in the liver of old mice than in young mice. Liver injury as a result of stress was prominent in young mice. This age-related bias in the function of NKT cells and granulocytes seemed to be associated with a difference in the responses of catecholamines (high in old mice) and corticosterone (high in young mice) after stress. Indeed, an injection of adrenaline mainly induced the infiltration of granulocytes while that of cortisol activated NKT cells. The present results suggest the existence of age-related bias in the function of NKT cells and granulocytes after stress and that such bias might be produced by different responses of sympathetic nerves and steroid hormones between young and old mice.
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- K Sagiyama
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan
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Xu H, Chun T, Colmone A, Nguyen H, Wang CR. Expression of CD1d under the control of a MHC class Ia promoter skews the development of NKT cells, but not CD8+ T cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 171:4105-12. [PMID: 14530332 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.8.4105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Although CD1d and MHC class Ia share similar overall structure, they have distinct levels and patterns of surface expression. While the expression of CD1d1 is known to be essential for the development of NKT cells, the contribution of CD1d1 to the development of CD8(+) T cells appears to be inconsequential. To investigate whether CD1d tissue distribution and expression levels confer differential capacity in selecting these two T cell subsets, we analyzed CD8 and NKT cell compartments in K(b)-CD1d-transgenic mice that lack endogenous MHC class Ia and CD1d, respectively. We found that MHC class Ia-like expression pattern and tissue distribution are not sufficient for CD1d to rescue the development of CD8(+) T cells, suggesting that unique structural features of CD1d preclude its active participation in selection of CD8(+) T cells. Conversely, cell type-specific CD1d surface density is important for the selection of NKT cells, as the NKT cell compartment was only partially rescued by the K(b)-CD1d transgene. We have previously demonstrated that increased CD1d expression on dendritic cells enhanced negative selection of NKT cells. In this study, we show that cell type-specific expression levels of CD1d establish a narrow window between positive and negative selection, suggesting that the distinct CD1d expression pattern may be selected evolutionarily to ensure optimal output of NKT cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD1/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD1/genetics
- Antigens, CD1d
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/metabolism
- Genes, MHC Class I/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/biosynthesis
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- H-2 Antigens/physiology
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Liver/cytology
- Liver/immunology
- Liver/metabolism
- Lymph Nodes/cytology
- Lymph Nodes/immunology
- Lymph Nodes/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/immunology
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- Spleen/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
- Transgenes/immunology
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- Honglin Xu
- Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research, Committee on Immunology and Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637-5420, USA
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Jensen PE, Sullivan BA, Reed-Loisel LM, Weber DA. Qa-1, a nonclassical class I histocompatibility molecule with roles in innate and adaptive immunity. Immunol Res 2004; 29:81-92. [PMID: 15181272 DOI: 10.1385/ir:29:1-3:081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Qa-1, a nonclassical class I histocompatibility molecule expressed in mice, predominantly assembles with a single nonameric peptide, Qdm, derived from the signal sequence of certain class Ia molecules. The Qa-1/Qdm complex is the primary ligand for CD94/NKG2A inhibitory receptors expressed on a major fraction of natural killer (NK) cells. Cells become susceptible to killing by NK cells under conditions where surface expression of the Qa-1/Qdm inhibitory ligand is reduced. The CD94/NKG2 "missing-self" recognition system serves as mechanism for removing cells that have abnormalities in the intracellular machinery required for assembly and expression of class I-peptides complexes, as a consequence of viral infection, for example. Despite its highly focused peptide-binding specificity, Qa-1 also has a capacity to act as an antigen-presentation molecule for CD8+ T cells. It appears that a small subpopulation of these T cells undergoes positive selection by interaction with Qa-1 in the thymus, and they maintain their specificity for Qa-1 after maturation. The role of these unusual T cells in adaptive immune responses remains to be defined.
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- Peter E Jensen
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Blais ME, Gérard G, Martinic MM, Roy-Proulx G, Zinkernagel RM, Perreault C. Do thymically and strictly extrathymically developing T cells generate similar immune responses? Blood 2003; 103:3102-10. [PMID: 15070691 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-09-3311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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If present in sufficient numbers, could extrathymic T cells substitute for thymus-derived T cells? To address this issue, we studied extrathymic T cells that develop in athymic mice under the influence of oncostatin M (OM). In this model, extensive T-cell development is probably due to amplification of a minor pathway of T-cell differentiation taking place only in the lymph nodes. Extrathymic CD4 T cells expanded poorly and were deficient in providing B-cell help after infection with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV). Compared with classic T cells, stimulated extrathymic CD8 T cells produced copious amounts of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), and their expansion was precocious but of limited amplitude because of a high apoptosis rate. Consequently, although extrathymic cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) responded to LCMV infection, as evidenced by the expansion of GP33-41 tetramer-positive CD8 T cells, they were unable to eradicate the virus. Our data indicate that the site of development impinges on T-cell quality and function and that extrathymic T cells functionally cannot substitute for classical thymic T cells.
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- Marie-Eve Blais
- Guy-Bernier Research Center, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Forestier C, Park SH, Wei D, Benlagha K, Teyton L, Bendelac A. T Cell Development in Mice Expressing CD1d Directed by a Classical MHC Class II Promoter. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 171:4096-104. [PMID: 14530331 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.8.4096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CD1d and nonclassical MHC molecules differ markedly from classical MHC ligands in their ability to promote the selection and differentiation of developing T cells. Whereas classical MHC-restricted T cells have a predominantly naive phenotype and a broad TCR repertoire, most other T cells have a memory and/or NKT phenotype with a restricted repertoire. Because the nonclassical ligands selecting these memory-type cells are expressed by bone marrow-derived cells, it has been suggested that the development of large repertoires of naive-type cells was dependent on the classical MHC expression pattern in the thymus cortex, high on epithelial cells and low on cortical thymocytes. We redirected CD1d expression using the classical MHC II Ealpha promoter. pEalpha-CD1d mice lacked memory-type NKT cells, but, surprisingly, they did not acquire the reciprocal ability to select a diverse population of naive CD1d-restricted cells. These findings suggest that, whereas the development of NKT cells is dependent on the pattern of CD1d expression, the absence of a broad, naive CD1d-restricted T cell repertoire may reflect intrinsic limitations of the pool of TCR genes or lipid Ags.
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- Claire Forestier
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Tsukada C, Miyaji C, Kawamura H, Miyakawa R, Yokoyama H, Ishimoto Y, Miyazawa S, Watanabe H, Abo T. Characterization of extrathymic CD8 alpha beta T cells in the liver and intestine in TAP-1 deficient mice. Immunology 2003; 109:343-50. [PMID: 12807479 PMCID: PMC1782982 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2003.01654.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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TAP-1 deficient (-/-) mice cannot transport MHC class I antigens onto the cell surface, which results in failure of the generation of CD8+ T cells in the thymus. In a series of recent studies, it has been proposed that extrathymic T cells are generated in the liver and at other extrathymic sites (e.g. the intestine). It was therefore investigated whether CD8+ extrathymic T cells require an interaction with MHC class I antigens for their differentiation in TAP-1(-/-) mice. Although CD8+ thymically derived T cells were confirmed to be absent in the spleen as well as in the thymus, CD8 alpha beta+ T cells were abundant in the livers and intestines of TAP-1(-/-) mice. These CD8+ T cells expanded in the liver as a function of age and were mainly confined to a NK1.1-CD3int population which is known to be truly of extrathymic origin. Hepatic lymphocytes, which contained CD8+ T cells and which were isolated from TAP-1(-/-) mice (H-2b), responded to neither mutated MHC class I antigens (bm1) nor allogeneic MHC class I antigens (H-2d) in in vitro mixed lymphocyte cultures. However, the results from repeated in vivo stimulations with alloantigens (H-2d) were interesting. Allogeneic cytotoxicity was induced in liver lymphocytes in TAP-1(-/-) mice, although the magnitude of cytotoxicity was lower than that of liver lymphocytes in immunized B6 mice. All allogeneic cytotoxicity disappeared with the elimination of CD8+ cells in TAP-1(-/-) mice. These results suggest that the generation and function of CD8+ extrathymic T cells are independent of the existence of the MHC class I antigens of the mouse but have a limited allorecognition ability.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/immunology
- Aging/immunology
- Animals
- CD3 Complex/analysis
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Cell Division/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Intestine, Small/immunology
- Isoantigens/immunology
- Liver/immunology
- Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
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- Chika Tsukada
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan
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Elewaut D, Shaikh RB, Hammond KJL, De Winter H, Leishman AJ, Sidobre S, Turovskaya O, Prigozy TI, Ma L, Banks TA, Lo D, Ware CF, Cheroutre H, Kronenberg M. NIK-dependent RelB activation defines a unique signaling pathway for the development of V alpha 14i NKT cells. J Exp Med 2003; 197:1623-33. [PMID: 12810685 PMCID: PMC2193960 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20030141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2003] [Revised: 04/02/2003] [Accepted: 04/02/2003] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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A defect in RelB, a member of the Rel/nuclear factor (NF)-kappa B family of transcription factors, affects antigen presenting cells and the formation of lymphoid organs, but its role in T lymphocyte differentiation is not well characterized. Here, we show that RelB deficiency in mice leads to a selective decrease of NKT cells. RelB must be expressed in an irradiation-resistant host cell that can be CD1d negative, indicating that the RelB expressing cell does not contribute directly to the positive selection of CD1d-dependent NKT cells. Like RelB-deficient mice, aly/aly mice with a mutation for the NF-kappa B-inducing kinase (NIK), have reduced NKT cell numbers. An analysis of NK1.1 and CD44 expression on NKT cells in the thymus of aly/aly mice reveals a late block in development. In vitro, we show that NIK is necessary for RelB activation upon triggering of surface receptors. This link between NIK and RelB was further demonstrated in vivo by analyzing RelB+/- x aly/+ compound heterozygous mice. After stimulation with alpha-GalCer, an antigen recognized by NKT cells, these compound heterozygotes had reduced responses compared with either RelB+/- or aly/+ mice. These data illustrate the complex interplay between hemopoietic and nonhemopoietic cell types for the development of NKT cells, and they demonstrate the unique requirement of NKT cells for a signaling pathway mediated by NIK activation of RelB in a thymic stromal cell.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD1/metabolism
- Antigens, CD1d
- Cell Differentiation/physiology
- Cells, Cultured
- Chimera
- Fibroblasts/cytology
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Hyaluronan Receptors/metabolism
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/physiology
- Lymphotoxin beta Receptor
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors
- NF-kappa B/metabolism
- Peyer's Patches/anatomy & histology
- Peyer's Patches/metabolism
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/physiology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
- Transcription Factor RelB
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- beta 2-Microglobulin/metabolism
- NF-kappaB-Inducing Kinase
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- Dirk Elewaut
- Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Dr., San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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Antigen presentation by both classical MHC class II molecules and the non-classical MHC class I-like molecule CD1D requires their entry into the endosomal/lysosomal compartment. Lysosomal cysteine proteases constitute an important subset of the enzymes that are present in this compartment and, here, we discuss the role of these proteases in regulating antigen presentation by both MHC class II and CD1D molecules.
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- Karen Honey
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Stanic AK, Park JJ, Joyce S. Innate self recognition by an invariant, rearranged T-cell receptor and its immune consequences. Immunology 2003; 109:171-84. [PMID: 12757612 PMCID: PMC1782955 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2003.01657.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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This review attempts to illuminate the glycolipid antigen presentation properties of CD1d, how CD1d controls the function of natural T (iNKT) cells and how CD1d and iNKT cells interact to jump-start the immune system. It is postulated that the CD1d-iNKT cell system functions as a sensor, sensing alterations in cellular lipid content by virtue of its affinity for such ligands. The presentation of a neo-self glycolipid, presumably by infectious assault of antigen-presenting cells, activates iNKT cells, which promptly release pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines and jump-start the immune system.
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- Aleksandar K Stanic
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medical School, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Blais ME, Louis I, Corneau S, Gérard G, Terra R, Perreault C. Extrathymic T-lymphocyte development. Exp Hematol 2003; 31:349-54. [PMID: 12763132 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-472x(03)00026-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Marie-Eve Blais
- Guy-Bernier Research Center, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Chun T, Page MJ, Gapin L, Matsuda JL, Xu H, Nguyen H, Kang HS, Stanic AK, Joyce S, Koltun WA, Chorney MJ, Kronenberg M, Wang CR. CD1d-expressing dendritic cells but not thymic epithelial cells can mediate negative selection of NKT cells. J Exp Med 2003; 197:907-18. [PMID: 12682110 PMCID: PMC2193895 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Natural killer T (NKT) cells are a unique immunoregulatory T cell population that is positively selected by CD1d-expressing thymocytes. Previous studies have shown that NKT cells exhibit autoreactivity, which raises the question of whether they are subject to negative selection. Here, we report that the addition of agonist glycolipid alpha-galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer) to a fetal thymic organ culture (FTOC) induces a dose-dependent disappearance of NKT cells, suggesting that NKT cells are susceptible to negative selection. Overexpression of CD1d in transgenic (Tg) mice results in reduced numbers of NKT cells, and the residual NKT cells in CD1d-Tg mice exhibit both an altered Vbeta usage and a reduced sensitivity to antigen. Furthermore, bone marrow (BM) chimeras between Tg and WT mice reveal that CD1d-expressing BM-derived dendritic cells, but not thymic epithelial cells, mediate the efficient negative selection of NKT cells. Thus, our data suggest that NKT cells developmentally undergo negative selection when engaged by high-avidity antigen or abundant self-antigen.
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- Taehoon Chun
- Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research, University of Chicago, 924 East 57th St., R412, Chicago, IL 60637-5420, USA
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Woo SY, Jung YJ, Ryu KH, Park HY, Kie JH, Im SA, Chung WS, Han HS, Seoh JY. In vitro differentiation of natural killer T cells from human cord blood CD34+ cells. Br J Haematol 2003; 121:148-56. [PMID: 12670346 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04230.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Natural killer T (NKT) cells are involved in innate immune defence and also in the regulation of adaptive immune responses. However, the development of NKT cells in vitro has not been fully characterized and culture conditions have not been fully optimized. In the present study, we found that an NKT cell fraction developed during the in vitro culture of cord blood (CB) CD34+ cells, and this was subsequently characterized both phenotypically and morphologically. CD34+ cells purified from 10 human CB were cultured in the presence of several cytokines and analysed by flow cytometry, light microscopy and electron microscopy. The NKT cell fraction, defined phenotypically (CD3+CD16+CD56+CD94+) as expressing the invariant T-cell receptor Valpha24 and Vbeta11, appeared in the CD56hi fractions. Intracytoplasmic staining demonstrated that interferon-gamma and interleukin 4 (IL-4) were detected in the CD56hi fractions. IL-15 was essential and, in combination with either flt3-ligand (FL) or stem cell factor (SCF), was sufficient to induce the development of NKT cells. The phenotype of the NKT cell fraction was CD45RO+CD45RA- and CD4+CD8alpha+. Morphologically, they were very large, with either round or oval nuclei, moderately condensed chromatins, voluminous weakly basophilic cytoplasm and various cytoplasmic granules such as dense core granules, multivesicular bodies, and intermediate form granules. When CD34+ cells purified from bone marrow (BM) were compared with those from CB, the latter were consistently more efficient at generating CD56hi NKT cell fractions. In conclusion, IL-15 in combination with FL and/or SCF can induce the differentiation of NKT cells from human CB CD34+ cells.
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- So-Youn Woo
- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Mok-6-Dong 911-1, Yangchon-Gu, Seoul 158-710, Korea
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Capone M, Cantarella D, Schümann J, Naidenko OV, Garavaglia C, Beermann F, Kronenberg M, Dellabona P, MacDonald HR, Casorati G. Human invariant V alpha 24-J alpha Q TCR supports the development of CD1d-dependent NK1.1+ and NK1.1- T cells in transgenic mice. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:2390-8. [PMID: 12594262 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.5.2390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A sizable fraction of T cells expressing the NK cell marker NK1.1 (NKT cells) bear a very conserved TCR, characterized by homologous invariant (inv.) TCR V alpha 24-J alpha Q and V alpha 14-J alpha 18 rearrangements in humans and mice, respectively, and are thus defined as inv. NKT cells. Because human inv. NKT cells recognize mouse CD1d in vitro, we wondered whether a human inv. V alpha 24 TCR could be selected in vivo by mouse ligands presented by CD1d, thereby supporting the development of inv. NKT cells in mice. Therefore, we generated transgenic (Tg) mice expressing the human inv. V alpha 24-J alpha Q TCR chain in all T cells. The expression of the human inv. V alpha 24 TCR in TCR C alpha(-/-) mice indeed rescues the development of inv. NKT cells, which home preferentially to the liver and respond to the CD1d-restricted ligand alpha-galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer). However, unlike inv. NKT cells from non-Tg mice, the majority of NKT cells in V alpha 24 Tg mice display a double-negative phenotype, as well as a significant increase in TCR V beta 7 and a corresponding decrease in TCR V beta 8.2 use. Despite the forced expression of the human CD1d-restricted TCR in C alpha(-/-) mice, staining with mCD1d-alpha-GalCer tetramers reveals that the absolute numbers of peripheral CD1d-dependent T lymphocytes increase at most by 2-fold. This increase is accounted for mainly by an increased fraction of NK1.1(-) T cells that bind CD1d-alpha-GalCer tetramers. These findings indicate that human inv. V alpha 24 TCR supports the development of CD1d-dependent lymphocytes in mice, and argue for a tight homeostatic control on the total number of inv. NKT cells. Thus, human inv. V alpha 24 TCR-expressing mice are a valuable model to study different aspects of the inv. NKT cell subset.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD1/physiology
- Antigens, CD1d
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/physiology
- Antigens, Ly
- Antigens, Surface
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Galactosylceramides/immunology
- Gene Expression Regulation/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor/genetics
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor alpha/genetics
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor alpha/physiology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/biosynthesis
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/physiology
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Constant Regions/genetics
- Immunophenotyping
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Lectins, C-Type
- Lymphocyte Count
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic/immunology
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily B
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Proteins
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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- Myriam Capone
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland
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Honey K, Benlagha K, Beers C, Forbush K, Teyton L, Kleijmeer MJ, Rudensky AY, Bendelac A. Thymocyte expression of cathepsin L is essential for NKT cell development. Nat Immunol 2002; 3:1069-74. [PMID: 12368909 DOI: 10.1038/ni844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2002] [Accepted: 09/04/2002] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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CD1d antigen presentation to natural killer T (NKT) cells expressing the semi-invariant T cell receptor V(alpha)14J(alpha)18 requires CD1d trafficking through endosomal compartments; however, the endosomal events remain undefined. We show that mice lacking the endosomal protease cathepsin L (catL) have greatly reduced numbers of V(alpha)14(+)NK1.1(+) T cells. In addition, catL expression in thymocytes is critical not only for selection of these cells in vivo but also for stimulation of V(alpha)14(+)NK1.1(+) T cells in vitro. CD1d cell-surface expression and intracellular localization appear normal in catL-deficient thymocytes, as does the lysosomal morphology; this implies a specific role for catL in regulating presentation of natural CD1d ligands mediating V(alpha)14(+)NK1.1(+) T cell selection. These data implicate lysosomal proteases as key regulators of not only classical major histocompatibility complex class II antigen presentation but also nonclassical CD1d presentation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/physiology
- Antigens, CD1/metabolism
- Antigens, CD1d
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Cathepsin L
- Cathepsins/deficiency
- Cathepsins/genetics
- Cathepsins/physiology
- Cell Communication
- Cell Differentiation
- Cells, Cultured
- Crosses, Genetic
- Cysteine Endopeptidases
- Endosomes/enzymology
- Endosomes/ultrastructure
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/chemistry
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Ligands
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Lysosomes/enzymology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Radiation Chimera
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Stromal Cells/enzymology
- T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/enzymology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
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- Karen Honey
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Kukreja A, Costi G, Marker J, Zhang CH, Sinha S, Sun Z, Maclaren N. NKT cell defects in NOD mice suggest therapeutic opportunities. J Autoimmun 2002; 19:117-28. [PMID: 12419282 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.2002.0609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Recent studies have reported that immunoregulatory NKT cells are defective in NOD mice and that treatment of mice with alpha-galactosylceramide that selectively stimulate NKT cells, is anti-diabetogenic. The objective of this study was to document the natural history of changes in NKT cells in various organs in NOD mice in the period up to the time of diabetes onset so that novel intervention therapies could be devised. We found that NKT cell-specific receptor (NKT-TCR) Valpha14Jalpha281 expressions by quantitative (RealTime) RT-PCR in thymus, spleen and liver of NOD male and female mice were low at 1-3 months of life compared to BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice, albeit a transient spike in levels occurred in female NOD livers at 2 months. Female pancreases showed low levels of these transcripts despite their active and destructive insulitis. In contrast, NOD males exhibited high expression of this invariant TCR in pancreas, where their insulitis was less destructive. A survey of NKT-TCR expressions in a battery of congenic, non-diabetes prone NOD strains indicated that this NKT phenotype was quite variable but higher than diabetes prone NOD. Bone marrow transplantation of NOD females from B6.NOD-H2(g7) donors raised their NKT-TCR expressions. Tuberculin administrations in the forms of BCG and CFA in a manner known to protect NOD mice from diabetes both raised NKT-TCR levels, as did the anti-inflammatory PPAR-gamma agonist rosiglitazone. These findings provide exciting therapeutic avenues to be explored in the treatment of human immune mediated type-1 diabetes where there are similar immunoregulatory lesions.
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- Animals
- Antigens, CD1/immunology
- Cell Division/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Killer Cells, Natural/pathology
- Killer Cells, Natural/physiology
- Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Congenic
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Organ Specificity/immunology
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- Anjli Kukreja
- Department of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Matsuda JL, Gapin L, Sidobre S, Kieper WC, Tan JT, Ceredig R, Surh CD, Kronenberg M. Homeostasis of V alpha 14i NKT cells. Nat Immunol 2002; 3:966-74. [PMID: 12244311 DOI: 10.1038/ni837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 251] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2002] [Accepted: 08/12/2002] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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CD1d-reactive natural killer T (NKT) cells with an invariant V alpha 14 rearrangement (V alpha 14i) are a distinct subset of T lymphocytes that likely have important immune-regulatory functions. Little is known regarding the factors responsible for their peripheral survival. Using alpha-galactosylceramide-containing CD1d tetramers to detect V alpha 14i NKT cells, we show here that the expansion of V alpha 14i NKT cells in lymphopenic mice was not dependent on CD1d expression and was unaffected by the presence of host NKT cells. Additionally, we found that IL-15 was important in the expansion and/or survival of V alpha 14i NKT cells, with IL-7 playing a lesser role. These results demonstrate that the homeostatic requirements for CD1d-restricted NKT cells, which are CD4(+) or CD4(-)CD8(-), resemble those of CD8(+) memory T cells. We propose that this expansion and/or survival in the periphery of V alpha 14i NKT cells is affected by competition for IL-15, and that IL-15-requiring cells-such as NK cells and CD8(+) memory cells-may define the V alpha 14i NKT cell niche.
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- Jennifer L Matsuda
- Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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Gadue P, Stein PL. NK T cell precursors exhibit differential cytokine regulation and require Itk for efficient maturation. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:2397-406. [PMID: 12193707 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.5.2397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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NK T cells are a lymphocyte lineage that is selected by CD1d and is characterized by the ability to rapidly secrete large amounts of both IFN-gamma and IL-4 after TCR stimulation. Using reactivity to CD1d tetramers to define presumptive NK T cells, several NK T cell progenitor populations were characterized based upon NK marker expression and CD4 vs CD8 expression. The earliest populations were found to be negative for NK markers and could proliferate to IL-7, while mature NK T cells did not. The NK1.1(-) NK T cell progenitors were capable of up-regulating NK1.1 when transferred in vivo. Upon stimulation, the NK1.1(-) populations secrete IL-4, but little IFN-gamma. As the cells mature and up-regulate NK1.1, they acquire the ability to secrete IFN-gamma. Finally, the Tec family tyrosine kinase Itk is necessary for optimal NK1.1 up-regulation and hence final maturation of NK T cells. The itk(-/-) mice also display a progressive decrease in NK T cells in older animals, suggesting a further role in peripheral maintenance.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Ly
- Antigens, Surface/biosynthesis
- CD4 Antigens/biosynthesis
- CD8 Antigens/biosynthesis
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Division/genetics
- Cell Division/immunology
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Cytokines/physiology
- Immunophenotyping
- Injections, Intravenous
- Integrin alpha2
- Interleukin-7/pharmacology
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Killer Cells, Natural/enzymology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Lectins, C-Type
- Lymphocyte Transfusion
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily B
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/deficiency
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/physiology
- Proteins
- Stem Cell Transplantation
- Stem Cells/immunology
- Stem Cells/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/enzymology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Time Factors
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- Paul Gadue
- Graduate Group in Immunology and Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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- Mitchell Kronenberg
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
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Urdahl KB, Sun JC, Bevan MJ. Positive selection of MHC class Ib-restricted CD8(+) T cells on hematopoietic cells. Nat Immunol 2002; 3:772-9. [PMID: 12089507 PMCID: PMC2782383 DOI: 10.1038/ni814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Unlike conventional CD8(+) T cells, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class Ib-restricted CD8(+) T cells show an activated phenotype in uninfected mice and respond rapidly to foreign invaders. The underlying factors that contribute to these differences are not well understood. We show here that the activated phenotype of MHC class Ib-restricted CD8(+) T cells was partially acquired as a result of interactions in the thymus and reflected an increased capacity to be selected via interactions with MHC molecules on hematopoietic cells. Using bone marrow-chimeric mice, we have shown that MHC class Ib-restricted, but not MHC class Ia-restricted, CD8(+) T cells specific for Listeria monocytogenes were efficiently selected when MHC class I was expressed only on hematopoietic cells. Thus, the distinct functional properties of MHC class Ib-restricted versus MHC class Ia-restricted CD8(+) T cells may result, at least in part, from the different ways in which they are positively selected in the thymus.
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- Kevin B Urdahl
- Department of Immunology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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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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Mannoor MK, Halder RC, Morshed SRM, Ariyasinghe A, Bakir HY, Kawamura H, Watanabe H, Sekikawa H, Abo T. Essential role of extrathymic T cells in protection against malaria. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:301-6. [PMID: 12077258 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.1.301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Athymic nude mice carry neither conventional T cells nor NKT cells of thymic origin. However, NK1.1(-)TCR(int) cells are present in the liver and other immune organs of athymic mice, because these lymphocyte subsets are truly of extrathymic origin. In this study, we examined whether extrathymic T cells had the capability to protect mice from malarial infection. Although B6-nu/nu mice were more sensitive to malaria than control B6 mice, these athymic mice were able to survive malaria when a reduced number of parasitized erythrocytes (5 x 10(3) per mouse) were injected. At the fulminant stage, lymphocytosis occurred in the liver and the major expanding lymphocytes were NK1.1(-)TCR(int) cells (IL-2Rbeta(+)TCRalphabeta(+)). Unconventional CD8(+) NKT cells (V(alpha)14(-)) also appeared. Similar to the case of B6 mice, autoantibodies (IgM type) against denatured DNA appeared during malarial infection. Immune lymphocytes isolated from the liver of athymic mice which had recovered from malaria were capable of protecting irradiated euthymic and athymic mice from malaria when cell transfer experiments were conducted. In conjunction with the previous results in euthymic mice, the present results in athymic mice suggest that the major lymphocyte subsets associated with protection against malaria might be extrathymic T cells.
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- M Kaiissar Mannoor
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan
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Sullivan BA, Kraj P, Weber DA, Ignatowicz L, Jensen PE. Positive selection of a Qa-1-restricted T cell receptor with specificity for insulin. Immunity 2002; 17:95-105. [PMID: 12150895 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(02)00343-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The phenotype and development of T cells from transgenic mice expressing a T cell receptor with specificity for insulin presented by the MHC class Ib molecule Qa-1(b) was investigated. Peripheral T cells from the transgenic mice express CD8 and, after activation, kill Qa-1(b)-positive lymphoid target cells in the presence of soluble insulin. Thymic selection requires expression of Qa-1(b) but not the dominant Qa-1-associated peptide, Qdm. In contrast to conventional T cells, selection is at least as efficient when the selecting ligand is expressed only on hematopoietic lineage cells as compared to expression on epithelial cells in the thymus. Our findings suggest that there is a dedicated population of Qa-1-restricted T cells that are selected by interaction with Qa-1 and that the cellular requirements for selection may differ from conventional T cells.
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- Barbara A Sullivan
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Moody DB, Briken V, Cheng TY, Roura-Mir C, Guy MR, Geho DH, Tykocinski ML, Besra GS, Porcelli SA. Lipid length controls antigen entry into endosomal and nonendosomal pathways for CD1b presentation. Nat Immunol 2002; 3:435-42. [PMID: 11938350 DOI: 10.1038/ni780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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CD1 proteins present various glycolipid antigens to T cells, but the cellular mechanisms that control which particular glycolipids generate T cell responses are not understood. We show here that T cell recognition of glucose monomycolate antigens with long (C(80)) alkyl chains involves the delivery of CD1b proteins and antigens to late endosomes in a process that takes several hours. In contrast, analogs of the same antigen with shorter (C(32)) alkyl chains are rapidly, but inefficiently, presented by cell surface CD1b proteins. Dendritic cells (DCs) preferentially present long-chain glycolipids, which results, in part, from their rapid internalization and selective delivery of antigens to endosomal compartments. Nonprofessional antigen-presenting cells, however, preferentially present short-chain glycolipids because of their lack of prominent endosomal presentation pathways. Because long alkyl chain length distinguishes certain microbial glycolipids from common mammalian glycolipids, these findings suggest that DCs use a specialized endosomal-loading pathway to promote preferential recognition of glycolipids with a more intrinsically foreign structure.
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- D Branch Moody
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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CD1d-restricted autoreactive natural killer (NK1.1+) T cells function as regulatory cells in various disease conditions. Using improved tetramer tracking methodology, we identified a NK1.1- thymic precursor and followed its differentiation and emigration to tissues by direct cell transfer and in situ cell labeling studies. A major lineage expansion occurred within the thymus after positive selection and before NK receptor expression. Surprisingly, cytokine analysis of the developmental intermediates between NK and NK+ stages showed a T helper cell TH2 to TH1 conversion, suggesting that the regulatory functions of NK T cells may be developmentally controlled. These findings characterize novel thymic and postthymic developmental pathways that expand autoreactive cells and differentiate them into regulatory cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens/analysis
- Antigens, CD1/analysis
- Antigens, CD1/immunology
- Antigens, CD1d
- Antigens, Ly
- Antigens, Surface
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Cell Lineage
- Hyaluronan Receptors/analysis
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Interleukins/biosynthesis
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Lectins, C-Type
- Liver/cytology
- Liver/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mice
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily B
- Proteins/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Immunologic/analysis
- Receptors, Immunologic/immunology
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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- Kamel Benlagha
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Pellicci DG, Hammond KJL, Uldrich AP, Baxter AG, Smyth MJ, Godfrey DI. A natural killer T (NKT) cell developmental pathway iInvolving a thymus-dependent NK1.1(-)CD4(+) CD1d-dependent precursor stage. J Exp Med 2002; 195:835-44. [PMID: 11927628 PMCID: PMC2193721 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20011544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 308] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The development of CD1d-dependent natural killer T (NKT) cells is poorly understood. We have used both CD1d/alpha-galactosylceramide (CD1d/alphaGC) tetramers and anti-NK1.1 to investigate NKT cell development in vitro and in vivo. Confirming the thymus-dependence of these cells, we show that CD1d/alphaGC tetramer-binding NKT cells, including NK1.1(+) and NK1.1(-) subsets, develop in fetal thymus organ culture (FTOC) and are completely absent in nude mice. Ontogenically, CD1d/alphaGC tetramer-binding NKT cells first appear in the thymus, at day 5 after birth, as CD4(+)CD8(-)NK1.1(-)cells. NK1.1(+) NKT cells, including CD4(+) and CD4(-)CD8(-) subsets, appeared at days 7-8 but remained a minor subset until at least 3 wk of age. Using intrathymic transfer experiments, CD4(+)NK1.1(-) NKT cells gave rise to NK1.1(+) NKT cells (including CD4(+) and CD4(-) subsets), but not vice-versa. This maturation step was not required for NKT cells to migrate to other tissues, as NK1.1(-) NKT cells were detected in liver and spleen as early as day 8 after birth, and the majority of NKT cells among recent thymic emigrants (RTE) were NK1.1(-). Further elucidation of this NKT cell developmental pathway should prove to be invaluable for studying the mechanisms that regulate the development of these cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Antigens, CD1/genetics
- Antigens, CD1/immunology
- Antigens, CD1d
- CD4 Antigens/genetics
- CD4 Antigens/immunology
- Cytokines/analysis
- Fetus
- Flow Cytometry
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Leukocytes/immunology
- Liver/growth & development
- Liver/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Organ Culture Techniques
- Protein Precursors/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Spleen/embryology
- Spleen/growth & development
- Spleen/immunology
- Thymus Gland/embryology
- Thymus Gland/growth & development
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- Daniel G Pellicci
- Department of Immunology and Pathology, Monash University Medical School, Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia
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Wang R, Wang-Zhu Y, Grey H. Interactions between double positive thymocytes and high affinity ligands presented by cortical epithelial cells generate double negative thymocytes with T cell regulatory activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:2181-6. [PMID: 11842216 PMCID: PMC122339 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.042692799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Previous studies on thymocyte differentiation by using reaggregate cultures (RC) of double positive T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic thymocytes and the thymic epithelial cell line ANV indicated that low concentrations of high affinity ligands for the TCR were efficient inducers of thymocyte maturation to CD4 single positive (SP) functional cells. In this study, it is demonstrated that, when high concentrations of high affinity ligands are used in this RC system, double positive (DP) cells down-modulate expression of both coreceptors and that, as a result, large numbers of double negative (DN) cells are generated. These DN cells proliferated modestly in response to stimulation by antigen, and this response was considerably augmented by the addition of IL-2 to the cultures. Notably, these antigen-stimulated DN cells produced large amounts of IL-10. When the DN cells generated in RC were cocultured with naive TCR transgenic T cells in the presence of antigen, they suppressed the proliferative response of the naive T cells. Thus, high affinity ligands, when presented to DP thymocytes by cortical thymic epithelial cells in reaggregate cultures, rather than causing deletion of the immature thymocytes, induce their differentiation into immunoregulatory DN cells, suggesting a distinct mechanism by which self tolerance may be maintained.
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- Rongfang Wang
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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Chiu YH, Park SH, Benlagha K, Forestier C, Jayawardena-Wolf J, Savage PB, Teyton L, Bendelac A. Multiple defects in antigen presentation and T cell development by mice expressing cytoplasmic tail-truncated CD1d. Nat Immunol 2002; 3:55-60. [PMID: 11731798 DOI: 10.1038/ni740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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For members of the CD1 family of beta(2)-microglobulin-associated lipid-presenting molecules, tyrosine-based motifs in the cytoplasmic tail and invariant chain (Ii) govern glycoprotein trafficking through endosomal compartments. Little is known about the intracellular pathways of CD1 trafficking and antigen presentation. However, in vitro studies with cells transfected with mutant CD1 that had a truncated cytoplasmic tail have suggested a role for these tyrosine motifs in some, but not all, antigenic systems. By introducing a deletion of the tyrosine motif into the germ line, and through homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells, we now describe knock-in mice with the CD1d cytoplasmic tail deleted. Despite adequate surface CD1d expression and the presence of Ii, these mutant mice showed multiple and selective abnormalities in intracellular trafficking, antigen presentation and T cell development, demonstrating the critical functions of the CD1d cytoplasmic tail motif in vivo.
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- Ya-Hui Chiu
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Jayawardena-Wolf J, Benlagha K, Chiu YH, Mehr R, Bendelac A. CD1d endosomal trafficking is independently regulated by an intrinsic CD1d-encoded tyrosine motif and by the invariant chain. Immunity 2001; 15:897-908. [PMID: 11754812 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(01)00240-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Endosomal trafficking is an essential component of the CD1 pathway of lipid antigen presentation to T cells. We demonstrate that CD1d access to endosomal compartments is under dual regulation by an intrinsic tyrosine-based motif, which governs intense recycling between the plasma membrane and the endosome, and by the invariant chain, with which CD1d associates in the endoplasmic reticulum. Both pathways independently enhance antigen presentation to V(alpha)14(+) NKT cells, the main subset of CD1d-restricted T cells. These results reveal the complexity of CD1d trafficking and suggest that the invariant chain was a component of ancestral antigen presentation pathways prior to the evolution of MHC and CD1.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/physiology
- Antigens, CD1/chemistry
- Antigens, CD1/genetics
- Antigens, CD1/metabolism
- Antigens, CD1d
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/physiology
- Antigens, Surface/metabolism
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Biotinylation
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured/metabolism
- Dendritic Cells/metabolism
- Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism
- Endosomes/metabolism
- Evolution, Molecular
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Glycosylation
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/physiology
- Hybridomas/metabolism
- Kinetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/pathology
- Lysosomes/metabolism
- Mice
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Protein Binding
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Protein Transport
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Subcellular Fractions/metabolism
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/metabolism
- Tyrosine/chemistry
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Affiliation(s)
- J Jayawardena-Wolf
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Gapin L, Matsuda JL, Surh CD, Kronenberg M. NKT cells derive from double-positive thymocytes that are positively selected by CD1d. Nat Immunol 2001; 2:971-8. [PMID: 11550008 DOI: 10.1038/ni710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 314] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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CD1d-reactive NKT cells are a separate T cell sublineage. Instructive models propose that NKT cells branch off the mainstream developmental pathway because of their T cell antigen receptor specificity, whereas stochastic models would propose that they develop from precursor cells committed to this sublineage before variable-gene rearrangement. We show here that immature double-positive (DP) thymocytes form the canonical rearranged Valpha gene of NKT cells at nearly equivalent frequencies in the presence or absence of CD1d expression. After interacting with CD1d in the thymus, these cells give rise to expanded populations of NKT cells-including both CD4+ and double-negative lymphocytes in the thymus and periphery-that express this alpha chain. These results confirm the existence of a DP intermediate for CD1d-reactive NKT cells. They also show that the early developmental stages of these T cells are not governed by a distinct mechanism, which is consistent with the TCR-instructive model of differentiation.
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- L Gapin
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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Kameyama H, Kawamura T, Naito T, Bannai M, Shimamura K, Hatakeyama K, Abo T. Size of the population of CD4+ natural killer T cells in the liver is maintained without supply by the thymus during adult life. Immunology 2001; 104:135-41. [PMID: 11683952 PMCID: PMC1783301 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2001.01289.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Given that there are few natural killer T (NKT) cells in the liver of athymic nude mice and in neonatally thymectomized mice, it is still controversial whether all NKT cells existing in the liver are supplied by the thymus or if some such cells develop in the liver. To determine whether or not NKT cells are consistently supplied from the thymus during adult life, thymectomy was conducted in mice at the age of 8 weeks. Interestingly, the proportion and number of CD4+ NKT cells increased or remained unchanged in the liver after adult thymectomy and this phenomenon continued for up to 6 months after thymectomy. The administration of alpha-galactosylceramide induced severe cytopenia (due to apoptosis) of CD4+ NKT cells in the liver on day 1, but subsequent expansion of these NKT cells occurred in thymectomized mice similar to the case in normal mice. However, in thymectomized mice given lethal irradiation (9.5 Gy) and subsequent bone marrow transfer, the population of CD4+ NKT cells no longer expanded in the liver, although that of CD8+ NKT cells did. These results suggest that thymic CD4+ NKT cells, or their progenitors, may migrate to the liver at a neonatal stage but are not supplied from the thymus in the adult stage under usual conditions. CD8+ NKT cells can be generated in the liver.
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- H Kameyama
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan
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Baur N, Nerz G, Nil A, Eichmann K. Expression and selection of productively rearranged TCR beta VDJ genes are sequentially regulated by CD3 signaling in the development of NK1.1(+) alpha beta T cells. Int Immunol 2001; 13:1031-42. [PMID: 11470773 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/13.8.1031] [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: 01/14/2023] Open
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The generation of thymic NK1.1(+)alpha beta T (NKT) cells involves positive selection of cells enriched for V(alpha)14/V(beta)8 TCR by CD1d MHC class I molecules. However, it has not been determined whether positive selection is preceded by pre-TCR-dependent beta selection. Here we studied NKT cell development in CD3 signaling-deficient mice (CD3 zeta/eta(-/-) and/or p56(lck-/-)) and TCR alpha-deficient mice. In contrast to wild-type mice, NK1.1(+) thymocytes in CD3 signaling-deficient mice are approximately 10-fold reduced in number, do not exhibit V(alpha)14-J(alpha)281 rearrangements and fail to express alpha beta TCR at the cell surface. However, they exhibit TCR beta VDJ rearrangements and pre-T alpha mRNA, suggesting that they contain pre-NKT cells. Strikingly, pre-NKT cells of CD3 zeta/Lck double-deficient mice fail to express TCR beta mRNA and protein. Whereas in wild-type NKT cells TCR beta VDJ junctions are selected for productive V(beta)8 and against productive V(beta)5 rearrangements, V(beta)8 and V(beta)5 rearrangements are non-selected in pre-NKT cells of CD3 signaling-deficient mice. Thus, pre-NKT cell development in CD3 signaling-deficient mice is blocked after rearrangement of TCR beta VDJ genes but before expression of TCR beta proteins. Most NKT cells of TCR alpha-deficient mice exhibit cell surface gamma delta TCR. In contrast to pre-NKT cells of CD3 signaling-deficient mice, approximately 25% of NKT cells of TCR alpha-deficient mice exhibit intracellular TCR beta polypeptide chains. Moreover, both V(beta)8 and V(beta)5 families are selected for in-frame VDJ joints in the TCR beta(+) NKT cell subset of TCR alpha-deficient mice. The data suggest that CD3 signals regulate initial TCR beta VDJ gene expression prior to beta selection in developing pre-NKT cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Flow Cytometry
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Hyaluronan Receptors/metabolism
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Congenic
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mice, Transgenic
- RNA Precursors/metabolism
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/deficiency
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- N Baur
- Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Stübeweg 51, 79108 Freiburg, Germany
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