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Weber F, Huber S, Aloisi F, Meinl E. Human myelin basic protein specific T cell lines display differential cytotoxicity against astrocytes, but are consistently cytotoxic against monocytes. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 88:99-104. [PMID: 9688330 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00093-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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In experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) myelin basic protein (MBP) specific T cells differ in their encephalitogenic potential. To investigate the functional diversity of human MBP specific T cell lines, we analysed their cytotoxic activity against human astrocytes and monocytes. Five out of 14 MBP specific T cell lines killed astrocytes in the presence of MBP. Nevertheless, all lines lysed blood derived monocytes. T cell lines that lysed astrocytes efficiently in the presence of MBP, recognized peptide aa 80-99/86-105 in context with HLA-DRB5 * 0101, peptide aa 50-69/61-83 in context with HLA-DRB1 * 1501 and peptides aa 139-153, and aa 148-162 in context with HLA-DRB1 * 0101. There was no correlation of MBP-mediated lysis of astrocytes with TCR-Vbeta usage, HLA-restriction and the production of tumor-necrosis-factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), lymphotoxin (LT) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Different lysis of astrocytes, however, revealed a functional heterogeneity of MBP specific T cells, which was not observed by using monocytes as targets.
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- F Weber
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Martinsried, Germany.
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Ristori G, Laurenti F, Stacchini P, Gasperini C, Buttinelli C, Pozzilli C, Salvetti M. Serum amyloid A protein is elevated in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 88:9-12. [PMID: 9688318 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00037-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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In multiple sclerosis (MS), the signs of inflammation that can be detected in the central nervous system are not mirrored by unequivocal markers of activation of the immune system in the periphery. We performed a serial monitoring of serum amyloid A protein (SAA), a major acute phase reactant, in peripheral blood of patients with relapsing-remitting MS over a 3-month period. Patients were monitored in parallel with gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (Gd-MRI) of the brain. The results show that signs of ongoing peripheral inflammation, reflected by elevations of SAA levels, can be detected in MS patients.
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- G Ristori
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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de Rosbo NK, Ben-Nun A. T-cell responses to myelin antigens in multiple sclerosis; relevance of the predominant autoimmune reactivity to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein. J Autoimmun 1998; 11:287-99. [PMID: 9776706 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1998.0202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Until recently, the search for the 'culprit' autoantigen towards which deleterious autoimmunity is directed in multiple sclerosis (MS) centered mostly on myelin basic protein (MBP) and proteolipid (PLP), the two most abundant protein components of central nervous system (CNS) myelin, the target tissue for the autoimmune attack in MS. Although such research has yielded important data, furthering our understanding of the disease and opening avenues for possible immune-specific therapeutic approaches, attempts to unequivocally associate MS with MBP or PLP as primary target antigens in the disease have not been successful. This has led in recent years to a new perspective in MS research, whereby different CNS antigens are being investigated for their possible role in the initiation or progression of MS. Interesting studies in laboratory animals show that T-cells directed against certain non-myelin-specific CNS antigens are able to cause inflammation of the CNS, albeit without expression of clinical disease. However, reactivity to these antigens by MS T-cells has not been demonstrated. Conversely, reactivity by MS T-cells to non-myelin-specific antigens such as heat shock proteins, could be observed, but the pathogenic potential of such reactivity has not been corroborated with the encephalitogenicity of the antigen. More relevant to MS pathogenesis may be, as we outlined in this review, the autoimmune reactivity directed against minor myelin proteins, in particular the CNS-specific myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG). Here, we review the current knowledge gathered on T-cell reactivity to possible target antigens in MS in the context of their encephalitogenic potential, and underline the facets which make MOG a highly relevant contender as primary target antigen in MS, albeit not necessarily the only one.
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- N K de Rosbo
- Dept. of Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
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Bourdette DN, Chou YK, Whitham RH, Buckner J, Kwon HJ, Nepom GT, Buenafe A, Cooper SA, Allegretta M, Hashim GA, Offner H, Vandenbark AA. Immunity to T Cell Receptor Peptides in Multiple Sclerosis. III. Preferential Immunogenicity of Complementarity-Determining Region 2 Peptides from Disease-Associated T Cell Receptor BV Genes*. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.2.1034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Vaccination with synthetic TCR peptides from the BV5S2 complementarity-determining region 2 (CDR2) can boost significantly the frequency of circulating CD4+ peptide-specific Th2 cells in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, with an associated decrease in the frequency of myelin basic protein (MBP)-reactive Th1 cells and possible clinical benefit. To evaluate the immunogenicity of CDR2 vs other regions of the TCR, we vaccinated seven MS patients with overlapping BV5S2 peptides spanning amino acids 1–94. Six patients responded to at least one of three overlapping or substituted CDR2 peptides possessing a core epitope of residues 44–52, and one patient also responded to a CDR1 peptide. Of the CDR2 peptides, the substituted (Y49T)BV5S2-38–58 peptide was the most immunogenic but cross-reacted with the native sequence and had the strongest binding affinity for MS-associated HLA-DR2 alleles, suggesting that position 49 is an MHC rather than a TCR contact residue. Two MS patients who did not respond to BV5S2 peptides were immunized successfully with CDR2 peptides from different BV gene families overexpressed by their MBP-specific T cells. Taken together, these results suggest that a widely active vaccine for MS might well involve a limited set of slightly modified CDR2 peptides from BV genes involved in T cell recognition of MBP.
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- Dennis N. Bourdette
- *Neurology Service, and
- †Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207
- ‡Department of Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
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- †Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207
- ‡Department of Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
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- *Neurology Service, and
- †Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207
- ‡Department of Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
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- §Virginia Mason Research Center, Seattle, WA 98101 and the Departments of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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- ¶Department of Clinical Pathology, St. Paul’s Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- §Virginia Mason Research Center, Seattle, WA 98101 and the Departments of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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- †Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207
- ‡Department of Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
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- ‡Department of Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
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- †Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207
- ‡Department of Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
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- †Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207
- ‡Department of Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
- **Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201
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Takashima H, Smith DR, Fukaura H, Khoury SJ, Hafler DA, Weiner HL. Pulse cyclophosphamide plus methylprednisolone induces myelin-antigen-specific IL-4-secreting T cells in multiple sclerosis patients. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1998; 88:28-34. [PMID: 9683547 DOI: 10.1006/clin.1998.4558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a presumed cell-mediated Th1-type autoimmune disease. Thus therapies which decrease T cells secreting IFN-gamma production or increase IL-4 production would be expected to have an ameliorating effect on MS. We have previously reported increased anti-CD3-induced IL-4 secretion by T cells in progressive MS patients treated with cyclophosphamide plus methylprednisolone (CY/MP) which was associated with eosinophilia. To investigate whether the increased IL-4 secretion was myelin antigen specific, we generated 3990 short-term T cell lines to myelin basic protein (MBP), proteolipid protein (PLP), or tetanus toxoid (TT) from 31 progressive MS patients: 11 MS patients treated with CY/MP, 10 MS patients treated with MP alone, and 10 untreated MS patients. We found increased frequencies of both MBP- and PLP-specific IL-4-secreting T cell lines in CY/MP-treated patients compared to untreated MS patients. However, no change in the frequency of TT-specific IL-4-secreting T cells was observed. MP treatment alone did not increase the frequency of antigen-specific IL-4-secreting T cell lines. These results demonstrate immune deviation favoring Th2-type responses specific to autoantigens following pulse cyclophosphamide therapy in MS patients.
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- H Takashima
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA
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Leadbetter EA, Bourque CR, Devaux B, Olson CD, Sunshine GH, Hirani S, Wallner BP, Smilek DE, Happ MP. Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Induced with a Combination of Myelin Basic Protein and Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Is Ameliorated by Administration of a Single Myelin Basic Protein Peptide. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.1.504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system in which T cell reactivity to several myelin proteins, including myelin basic protein (MBP), proteolipid protein, and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), has been implicated in the perpetuation of the disease state. Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is used commonly as a model in which potential therapies for multiple sclerosis are evaluated. The ability of T cell epitope-containing peptides to down-regulate the disease course is well documented for both MBP- and proteolipid protein-induced EAE, and recently has been shown for MOG-induced EAE. In this study, we describe a novel EAE model, in which development of severe disease symptoms in (PL/J × SJL)F1 mice is dependent on reactivity to two different immunizing Ags, MBP and MOG. The disease is often fatal, with a relapsing/progressive course in survivors, and is more severe than would be predicted by immunization with either Ag alone. The MOG plus MBP disease can be treated postinduction with a combination of the MOG 41–60 peptide (identified as the major therapeutic MOG epitope for this strain) and the MBP Ac1–11[4Y] peptide. A significant treatment effect can also be obtained by administration of the MBP peptide alone, but this effect is strictly dose dependent. This MBP peptide does not treat the disease induced only with MOG. These results suggest that peptide immunotherapy can provide an effective means of mitigating disease in this model, even when the treatment is targeted to only one component epitope or one component protein Ag of a diverse autoimmune response.
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- ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation, Waltham, MA 02154
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- ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation, Waltham, MA 02154
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Stinissen P, Zhang J, Vandevyver C, Hermans G, Raus J. Gammadelta T cell responses to activated T cells in multiple sclerosis patients induced by T cell vaccination. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 87:94-104. [PMID: 9670850 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00060-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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To explore the hypothesis that gammadelta T cells may regulate activated alphabeta T cells, we studied gammadelta T cell responses to alphabeta T cell clones in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients who received attenuated autologous autoreactive T cells. We recently conducted a pilot study of T cell vaccination with myelin basic protein reactive T cells in MS. Since T cell vaccination upregulates the anti-vaccine T cell responses, we evaluated gammadelta T cell reactivity towards the vaccine in the vaccinated patients. Lymphocytes were stimulated in vitro with irradiated vaccine cells and the responding lines were checked for the presence of gammadelta T cells. Our data demonstrate that in the majority of vaccinated MS patients gammadelta T cells expand upon stimulation with the vaccine cells. The responding gammadelta T cells were predominantly Vdelta1+/Vgamma1+, and represented diverse clonal origins. The gammadelta T cells could not inhibit in vitro proliferation of the vaccine T cells and displayed low cytotoxic reactivity towards the vaccine clones. However, they produced high levels of IL2, TNFalpha and IL10. These results indicate that gammadelta T cells can be stimulated by activated alphabeta T cells, and that these gammadelta T cell responses are upregulated after T cell vaccination. These findings suggest that gammadelta T cells are involved in peripheral mechanisms to control activated autoreactive T cells.
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- P Stinissen
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit, Dr. L. Willems-Instituut, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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King WJ, Brooks CJ, Holder R, Hughes P, Adu D, Savage CO. T lymphocyte responses to anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA) antigens are present in patients with ANCA-associated systemic vasculitis and persist during disease remission. Clin Exp Immunol 1998; 112:539-46. [PMID: 9649227 PMCID: PMC1904981 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00615.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/05/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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ANCA with specificity for myeloperoxidase (MPO) and proteinase 3 (PR3) are present in patients with systemic vasculitis. The aim of this work was to determine whether such patients have T cell responses to these antigens and whether these responses are related to disease activity. Peripheral blood lymphocytes from 45 patients and 19 controls were cultured with ANCA antigens and proliferation measured. The antigens used were heat-inactivated (HI) MPO, HI PR3, native (non-HI) PR3, HI whole alpha-granules, and 25 overlapping peptides covering the entire PR3 sequence. Significant responses to both whole PR3 preparations were seen from patient and control groups, and to the alpha-granules from the patient group. Patients responded at all stages of disease: active, remitting, treated or untreated. Only two patients responded significantly to MPO. Responses were significantly higher with the patient group than the control group to all four whole ANCA antigens. Responses to those PR3 peptides containing epitopes known to be recognized by ANCA were detected from one patient. Thus, these studies demonstrate that T cells from vasculitis patients can proliferate to PR3 and occasionally to associated ANCA antigens. Further, responses may persist even after disease remission has been achieved.
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- W J King
- Renal Immunobiology, University of Birmingham, UK
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Kozovska M, Zang YC, Aebischer I, Lnu S, Rivera VM, Crowe PD, Boehme SA, Zhang JZ. T cell recognition motifs of an immunodominant peptide of myelin basic protein in patients with multiple sclerosis: structural requirements and clinical implications. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:1894-901. [PMID: 9645371 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199806)28:06<1894::aid-immu1894>3.0.co;2-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Myelin basic protein (MBP)-reactive T cells may play an important role in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). The T cell response to the 83-99 region of MBP represents a dominant autoreactive response to MBP in MS patients of DR2 haplotype. In this study, a large panel of DR2- and DR4-restricted T cell clones specific for the MBP83-99 peptide were examined for the recognition motifs and structural requirements for antigen recognition using alanine-substituted peptides. Our study revealed that although the recognition motifs of the T cell clones were diverse, the TCR contact residues within the 83-99 region of MBP were highly conserved. Two central residues (Phe90 and Lys91) served as the critical TCR contact points for both DR2- and DR4-restricted T cell clones. Single alanine substitution at residue 90 or residue 91 abolished the responses of 81-95 % of the T cell clones while a double alanine substitution rendered all T cell clones unresponsive. It was also demonstrated in this study that the substituted peptides altered the cytokine profile of some, but not all, T cell clones. Some MBP83-99-specific T cell clones were able to sustain alanine substitutions and were susceptible to activation by microbial antigens. The study has an important implication in designing a peptide-based therapy for MS.
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- M Kozovska
- Department of Neurology and Baylor/Methodist International Multiple Sclerosis Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Stinissen P, Medaer R, Raus J. Myelin reactive T cells in the autoimmune pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler 1998; 4:203-11. [PMID: 9762675 DOI: 10.1177/135245859800400322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) leading to demyelination. Although it is widely accepted that demyelination in MS results from an active inflammatory process, the cause of the inflammation is still not completely resolved. Findings in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of MS, and observations in human MS have led to the hypothesis that MS is an autoimmune disease mediated by autoreactive T cells with specificity for myelin antigens. The identity of the brain antigen(s) which is (are) the primary target(s) of the autoimmune process is not known, but current evidence indicates that myelin basic protein (MBP) is a likely candidate. In this paper we will overview some of the experimental evidence suggesting that MBP reactive T cells hold a central position in the pathogenesis of MS, and discuss some of the currently tested therapeutic strategies in MS which are directed towards the pathogenic MBP reactive T cells. Although there appears to be no direct correlation between anti-MBP T cell responses and clinical disease activity, some recent observations suggest that monitoring of anti-MBP T cell responses could be helpful to study immunological efficacy of experimental immunotherapies in MS.
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Calabresi PA, Fields NS, Farnon EC, Frank JA, Bash CN, Kawanashi T, Maloni H, Jacobson S, McFarland HF. ELI-spot of Th-1 cytokine secreting PBMC's in multiple sclerosis: correlation with MRI lesions. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 85:212-9. [PMID: 9630170 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00008-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The Th1-like cytokines, interleukin 2 (IL-2), interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), and lymphotoxin alpha (LT-alpha) have been implicated in the immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of immune mediated demyelination. These cytokines have been associated with opening of the blood brain barrier (BBB) in EAE and in vitro, but not in MS. We used an enzyme-linked immunospot (ELI-spot) assay to measure relative numbers of cytokine-secreting peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from eight MS patients who were followed with serial monthly contrast-enhanced head magnetic resonance imagings (MRI) and phlebotomy. We found a significant positive correlation between changes in IL-2 secreting cells and MRI lesions over a 6-month time period. There was a weaker association between contrast-enhancing MRI lesions and IFN-gamma or LT-alpha secreting cells. These data are the first to show a significant positive correlation between any cytokine and serial gadolinium (Gd-) MRI disease activity in MS patients. The association between IFN-gamma and LT-alpha secretion and MRI lesions is less clear.
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- P A Calabresi
- Neuroimmunology Branch of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1400, USA.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is postulated to be a cell mediated autoimmune disease directed against central nervous system myelin components. Our understanding of the disease has been enhanced by a number of factors: 1) advances in our understanding of the immune system; 2) clinical trials which are beginning to identify treatments which can affect MS; 3) a better understanding of the clinical features of MS; and 4) advances in MRI imaging of the brain. Based on the current state of knowledge, this paper proposes a 21 point unifying hypothesis on the etiology and treatment of the disease. This hypothesis makes a series of assumptions, many of which are unproven, and is presented as a framework from which to investigate and treat the disease, not as a established biology. It is hypothesized that the underlying pathogenesis of MS is related to an inappropriate class of immune response against myelin antigens favoring proinflammatory Th1 versus anti-inflammatory Th2 or Th3 type responses. Environmental and genetic factors predispose toward MS by affecting the class of response and effectiveness of treatment is also related to how it impacts on this common final pathway. Because of epitope spreading, there is not one autoantigen involved in MS and the progressive form of MS differs immunologically from the relapsing remitting form. Viruses trigger and perpetuate MS, although MS is not related to a persistent viral infection. Because MS is a multifactorial disease, there are clinical and perhaps immunological subtypes of MS and a single type of treatment is unlikely to control the disease in all patients. Thus, there will be responders and non-responders to each effective therapy and ultimately combination therapy will be required to cure the disease.
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- H L Weiner
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 02115, USA
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Trotter JL, Pelfrey CM, Trotter AL, Selvidge JA, Gushleff KC, Mohanakumar T, McFarland HF. T cell recognition of myelin proteolipid protein and myelin proteolipid protein peptides in the peripheral blood of multiple sclerosis and control subjects. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 84:172-8. [PMID: 9628460 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00260-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) is a prime candidate autoantigen for multiple sclerosis. In order to define potential immunodominant epitopes, T cell lines (TCL) from the peripheral blood of HLA-DR 15(2) MS patients were established which responded to the intact molecule of PLP. These TCL were then tested in individual proliferation assays with a variety of PLP peptides spanning most of the PLP molecule. Multiple peptides were recognized by TCL from the MS population, with more than one peptide often recognized by lines from the same individual. Three immunodominant peptides were identified which were recognized by the majority of MS patients. Estimated frequency analyses were then performed on the peripheral blood of HLA-DR15(2)-positive MS and control subjects using TCL initiated by the three immunodominant peptides, 40-60, 95-117, and 185-206. TCL from HLA-DR15 MS subjects recognized peptide 95-117 significantly more often than TCL from control subjects.
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- J L Trotter
- Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110-1093, USA
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Godthelp BC, van Tol MJ, Vossen JM, van den Elsen PJ. Long-term T cell immune reconstitution in 2 SCID patients after BMT. Hum Immunol 1998; 59:225-38. [PMID: 9568798 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(98)00013-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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To evaluate the long-term reconstitution of the T cell immune repertoire in recipients of an allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation (allo-BMT), we have analyzed the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire in the periphery and the T cell response against tetanus toxoid in two T- B+ Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID) patients more than 11 years after HLA haplo-identical allo-BMT. Our studies demonstrate that in the periphery of allo-BMT recipients, on the basis of TCR V-gene segment usage, the T cell immune repertoire long after allo-BMT is diverse, as is that of the donor. However, when donor and allo-BMT recipient were compared, differences were noted in the TCR Complementarity Determining Region 3 (CDR3) size distributions and in the T cell response against tetanus toxoid. In particular, the tetanus toxoid specific T cell clones differed in their use of HLA restriction elements, and expressed different T cell receptors. Moreover, we have uncovered donor-type tetanus toxoid specific T cell clones which were established from allo-BMT recipient derived peripheral blood lymphocytes and were found to be restricted by the non-shared recipient allele. This observation suggests a role for recipient-mediated T cell selection processes, in the thymus or at extra-thymic sites.
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- B C Godthelp
- Department of Pediatrics, Blood Bank, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
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Chen Y, Hancock WW, Marks R, Gonnella P, Weiner HL. Mechanisms of recovery from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: T cell deletion and immune deviation in myelin basic protein T cell receptor transgenic mice. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 82:149-59. [PMID: 9585811 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00193-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is a Th1-type cell-mediated autoimmune disease directed against central nervous system (CNS) myelin antigens such as myelin basic protein (MBP). EaE is usually characterized by spontaneous remission of clinical disease and immune pathology despite the persistence of self myelin antigens in the central nervous system. Following induction of an acute episode of EAE, spontaneous remission also occurs in MBP T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic mice even through most T cells express a TCT specific for MBP. To investigate the mechanisms of recovery associated with EAE, we examined the behavior of MBP-specific T cells in the MBP TCR transgenic mouse model during disease progression and recovery. We found that recovery from EAE was associated with three major immunologic changes: (1) deletion of encephalitogenic T cells in the brain; (2) deviation of MBP-specific transgenic (Tg+) T cells both in the periphery and in the central nervous system from INF- gamma secretin Th1 type cells to cells that secrete IL-4, IL-10, and TGF- beta ; and (3) deletion of Tg+ T cells in the thymus through apoptosis. Thus spontaneous recovery from a classic Th1 type organ specific autoimmune disease is associated with two mechanisms of immune tolerance, deletion of autoreactive cells and immune deviation of autoreactive cells to a non-pathogenic phenotype.
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- Y Chen
- Center for Neurological Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Lovett-Racke AE, Trotter JL, Lauber J, Perrin PJ, June CH, Racke MK. Decreased dependence of myelin basic protein-reactive T cells on CD28-mediated costimulation in multiple sclerosis patients. A marker of activated/memory T cells. J Clin Invest 1998; 101:725-30. [PMID: 9466965 PMCID: PMC508618 DOI: 10.1172/jci1528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Although multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and healthy individuals have similar frequencies of myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific T cells, the activation state of these cells has not been well characterized. Therefore, we investigated the dependence of MBP-reactive T cells on CD28-mediated costimulation in MS patients, healthy controls, and stroke patients. MBP-reactive T cells from healthy controls and stroke patients failed to proliferate efficiently when costimulation was blocked using anti-CD28, consistent with a naive T cell response. In contrast, MBP-specific T cell proliferation was not inhibited, or was only partially inhibited when CD28-mediated costimulation was blocked in MS patients. Blockade of CD28 failed to inhibit tetanus toxoid-specific T cell proliferation in both the controls and MS patients, demonstrating that memory cells are not dependent on CD28-mediated costimulation. Limiting dilution analysis indicated that the frequency of MBP-reactive T cells was significantly decreased in healthy controls compared with MS patients when CD28-mediated costimulation was blocked. These data suggest that MBP-reactive T cells are more likely to have been activated in vivo and/or differentiated into memory T cells in MS patients compared with controls, indicating that these cells may be participating in the pathogenesis of MS.
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- A E Lovett-Racke
- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Mazzanti B, Vergelli M, Riccio P, Martin R, McFarland HF, Liuzzi GM, Amaducci L, Massacesi L. T-cell response to myelin basic protein and lipid-bound myelin basic protein in patients with multiple sclerosis and healthy donors. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 82:96-100. [PMID: 9526851 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00194-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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An autoimmune T-cell response to myelin proteins is thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and myelin basic protein (MBP) is the most widely studied potential target antigen. We investigated the T-cell response to MBP in MS patients and controls using two different molecular forms of the protein: the classical hydrophilic MBP (lipid-free MBP, LF-MBP) and a lipid-bound, native-like preparation of MBP isolated in a molecular form retaining the binding to all myelin lipids (lipid-bound-MBP, LB-MBP). Short term T-cell lines (TCL) were generated using either LF- or LB-MBP and tested for their reactivity to the in vitro stimulating antigen. No differences were detected between MS patients and healthy donors in the percentage of T-cell cultures responsive to the LF-MBP. In contrast, the number of LB-MBP reactive cultures was higher in MS patients than in controls. This difference was almost entirely due to the presence of high numbers of LB-MBP-specific TCL in MS patients which did not cross-react with LF-MBP and were not present in healthy subjects. LB-MBP may represent a novel antigen worth to be investigated in MS.
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- Benedetta Mazzanti
- Neuroimmuology Branch, Room 5B16, Building 10, NINDS, NIH, 10 Center DR MSC 1400, Bethesda, MD 20892-1400, USA; Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134 Firenze, Italy
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- Neuroimmuology Branch, Room 5B16, Building 10, NINDS, NIH, 10 Center DR MSC 1400, Bethesda, MD 20892-1400, USA; Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134 Firenze, Italy
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- Department of Biology DBAF, University of Basilicata, Via Anzio 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CSMME, C.N.R., Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Neuroimmuology Branch, Room 5B16, Building 10, NINDS, NIH, 10 Center DR MSC 1400, Bethesda, MD 20892-1400, USA
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- Neuroimmuology Branch, Room 5B16, Building 10, NINDS, NIH, 10 Center DR MSC 1400, Bethesda, MD 20892-1400, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CSMME, C.N.R., Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134 Firenze, Italy
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- Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134 Firenze, Italy
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Scholz C, Patton KT, Anderson DE, Freeman GJ, Hafler DA. Expansion of Autoreactive T Cells in Multiple Sclerosis Is Independent of Exogenous B7 Costimulation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.3.1532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the myelinated central nervous system that is postulated to be induced by myelin-reactive CD4 T cells. T cell activation requires an antigen-specific signal through the TCR and a costimulatory signal, which can be mediated by B7–1 or B7–2 engagement of CD28. To directly examine the activation state of myelin-reactive T cells in MS, the costimulation requirements necessary to activate myelin basic protein (MBP) or tetanus toxoid (TT)-reactive CD4 T cells were compared between normal controls and MS patients. Peripheral blood T cells were stimulated with Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected either with DRB1*1501/DRA0101 chains (t-DR2) alone, or in combination with, B7–1 or B7–2. In the absence of costimulation, T cells from normal subjects stimulated with the recall antigen TT p830–843 were induced to expand and proliferate, but stimulation with MBP p85–99 did not have this effect. In marked contrast, T cells from patients with MS stimulated with MBP p85–99 in the absence of B7–1 or B7–2 signals expanded and proliferated. Thus, MBP-reactive CD4 T cells in patients with MS are costimulation independent and have been previously activated in vivo. These experiments provide further direct evidence for a role of activated MBP-specific CD4 T cells in the pathogenesis of MS.
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- Christian Scholz
- *Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
- ‡Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- *Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- *Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
- ‡Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- †Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115
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- *Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
- ‡Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, and the most common neurological disease affecting young adults. Multiple sclerosis is a clinically heterogeneous disorder. It is believed to be an autoimmune disease, with cell-mediated and humoral responses directed against myelin proteins. This hypothesis largely comes from pathological parallels with an animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Autoimmunity to myelin proteins in humans may be inadvertently triggered by microbes which have structural homologies with myelin antigens (molecular mimicry). As with other autoimmune diseases, susceptibility to MS is associated with certain MHC genes/haplotypes. Full genomic screening of mutiplex families has underscored the role for MHC genes as exerting moderate but the most significant effects in susceptibility. The primary target autoantigen in MS has yet to be definitively identified, but as well as the major myelin proteins, it is now clear that minor myelin components, such as myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) may play a primary role in disease initiation. This review examines the current knowledge about the aetiology and pathogenesis of MS, and the important similarities with EAE. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of autoimmune pathology will provide the basis for more rational immunotherapies to treat MS.
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- C Ewing
- Neuroimmunology Laboratory, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
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Ciubotariu R, Liu Z, Colovai AI, Ho E, Itescu S, Ravalli S, Hardy MA, Cortesini R, Rose EA, Suciu-Foca N. Persistent allopeptide reactivity and epitope spreading in chronic rejection of organ allografts. J Clin Invest 1998; 101:398-405. [PMID: 9435312 PMCID: PMC508579 DOI: 10.1172/jci1117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The role of the indirect allorecognition pathway in acute allograft rejection has been documented both in organ recipients and in experimental models. However, it is unknown whether self-restricted recognition of donor alloantigens also contributes to chronic allograft rejection. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between allopeptide reactivity, epitope spreading, and chronic rejection. Using synthetic peptides corresponding to the hypervariable region of 32 HLA-DR alleles, we have followed the specificity of self-restricted T cell alloresponses to the donor in a population of 34 heart allograft recipients. T cells from sequential samples of blood collected from the patients up to 36 mo after transplantation were studied in limiting dilution analysis for allopeptide reactivity. The incidence of coronary artery vasculopathy (CAV) was significantly higher in patients who displayed persistent alloreactivity late after transplantation than in patients who showed no alloreactivity after the first 6 mo after transplantation. Both intra- and intermolecular spreading of epitopes was observed with an increased frequency in patients developing CAV in less than 2 yr, compared with patients without CAV; this suggests that diversification of the immune response against the graft contributes to chronic rejection. These data provide a strategy for identifying patients at risk of developing CAV and a rationale for therapeutic intervention aimed to prevent the progression of the rejection process.
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- R Ciubotariu
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York 10032, USA
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Biddison WE, Cruikshank WW, Center DM, Pelfrey CM, Taub DD, Turner RV. CD8+ Myelin Peptide-Specific T Cells Can Chemoattract CD4+ Myelin Peptide-Specific T Cells: Importance of IFN-Inducible Protein 10. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.1.444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The demyelination process that occurs in the central nervous system (CNS) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is due, in part, to an inflammatory response in which CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and macrophages infiltrate white matter. While it is thought that the inflammatory and demyelination process in MS is the product of Th1-associated cytokines secreted by CD4+ myelin protein-specific T cells present in the CNS, the mechanisms that are responsible for the recruitment and maintenance of these myelin-reactive CD4+ T cells in the CNS have not been elucidated. We have shown previously that CD8+CTL that recognize peptides derived from sequences of the myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) presented by HLA class I molecules can be generated in vitro, and that these PLP-specific CD8+CTL secrete the proinflammatory chemokines macrophage-inflammatory protein-1α and -1β, IL-16, and IP-10. In this study, we demonstrate that soluble products of these PLP-specific CD8+CTL can chemoattract CD4+ T cells that are specific for a myelin basic protein peptide and a PLP peptide, and that the majority of this chemotactic activity is mediated by IFN-inducible protein 10. These results demonstrate that PLP-specific CD8+ T cells can play a role in the recruitment and retention of myelin-derived peptide-specific CD4+ T cells, and indicate that they may play a proinflammatory role in the pathogenesis of MS.
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- William E. Biddison
- *Molecular Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- †The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02115
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- ‡Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106; and
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- §National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, SAIC-Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702
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- *Molecular Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Zipp F, Weller M, Calabresi PA, Frank JA, Bash CN, Dichgans J, McFarland HF, Martin R. Increased serum levels of soluble CD95 (APO-1/Fas) in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol 1998; 43:116-20. [PMID: 9450777 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410430120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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CD95/CD95 ligand interactions are critically involved in the negative regulation of peripheral T-cell responses. Here, we report that serum levels of soluble CD95 are significantly elevated in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. In a transectional study, CD95 levels did not correlate with clinical disability or lesion formation on magnetic resonance imaging. Longitudinally, Expanded Disability Status Scale changes were associated with high CD95 levels. Interferon-beta (IFNbeta) treatment led to an initial increase and subsequent decline of serum CD95 levels. Interestingly, patients generating neutralizing antibodies to the drug had significantly higher baseline CD95 levels before IFNbeta treatment than those without neutralizing antibodies.
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- F Zipp
- Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Birnbaum G, Kotilinek L. Heat shock or stress proteins and their role as autoantigens in multiple sclerosis. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1997; 835:157-67. [PMID: 9616771 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48627.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stress or heat shock proteins are constitutively expressed in normal CNS tissues, in a variety of cell types (oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and neurons). Their presence may protect cells from various stresses, such as hypoxia, anoxia, and excessive excitatory stimulation. Increased amounts of hsp are expressed in various cells of the CNS during acute toxic-metabolic states and in chronic degenerative and inflammatory diseases. Increased expression of hsp may lead to immune responses to these proteins. Antibodies to mycobacterial hsp bind to normal human myelin and to oligodendrocytes in regions of MS demyelination. Cellular immune responses to hsp occur with increased frequency and magnitude in persons with MS, especially those with recent onset of disease. In addition, there are populations of T cells expressing gamma/delta antigen receptors in the brains and spinal fluids of persons with MS, suggesting an in situ immune response to hsp. Humoral immune responses to hsp are found in CSF, but no disease specificity has been documented. Some myelin proteins have sequence homology with particular hsp. One instance is the homology between a peptide of mycobacterial HSP 65 and the myelin protein CNP. Our data in EAE suggest that immune responses to either cross-reactive epitopes or whole hsp can modify the course of both acute and chronic relapsing EAE. These data support the hypothesis that an immune response to an infectious agent's hsp could result in a cross-reactive immune response to CNS myelin, or to responses to endogenous, CNS-expressed hsp, resulting in demyelination. This may be an important mechanism in the pathogenesis of MS.
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- G Birnbaum
- Multiple Sclerosis Research and Treatment Center, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis 55455, USA.
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Boots AM, Verheijden GF, Schöningh R, van Staveren CJ, Bos E, Elewaut D, de Keyser F, Veys E, Joosten I, Rijnders AW. Selection of self-reactive peptides within human aggrecan by use of a HLA-DRB1*0401 peptide binding motif. J Autoimmun 1997; 10:569-78. [PMID: 9451596 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1997.0164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The pathogenesis of joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis remains ill-defined. Joint destruction is thought to be the result of tissue damage mediated by T cells. The mere presence of articular cartilage appears responsible for sustaining chronic synovitis and thereby forwards a role for cartilage-responsive T cells in RA. Taking advantage of the positive DRB1*0401 association with RA susceptibility, we reasoned that T-cell recognition of autoantigens in RA would be restricted by DRB1*0401-encoded molecules. A DR4 (B1*0401) peptide binding motif was used for the identification of putative T-cell epitopes within human aggrecan, a candidate autoantigen. Thirteen peptides were synthesized and tested for binding DRB1*0401 or 0404-encoded molecules. Selected binders were tested for induction of proliferative responses in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from donors carrying the DR4 or DR1 specificity. Both healthy and RA donors responded to human aggrecan-derived peptides, thereby identifying these sequences as T-cell epitopes. Interestingly, responses to aggrecan-derived epitopes were significantly decreased in RA patients compared to controls. This was not due to an overall hyporesponsiveness of RA patients since responses to a recall antigen or mitogen did not differ from controls. The data suggest that in RA, aggrecan-specific T cells may exist in a different stage of activation or may have left the periphery to home to the joint.
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- A M Boots
- Department of Immunology, NV Organon, Oss, The Netherlands
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- J Hammer
- Roche Milano Ricerche, Milan, Italy
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Kerlero de Rosbo N, Hoffman M, Mendel I, Yust I, Kaye J, Bakimer R, Flechter S, Abramsky O, Milo R, Karni A, Ben-Nun A. Predominance of the autoimmune response to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) in multiple sclerosis: reactivity to the extracellular domain of MOG is directed against three main regions. Eur J Immunol 1997; 27:3059-69. [PMID: 9394837 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830271144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Our previous analysis of the T cell reactivity to myelin antigens in a group of 24 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 16 control individuals revealed that the autoimmune response to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) predominates in MS over that to myelin basic protein (MBP), proteolipid protein or myelin-associated glycoprotein, suggesting a prevalent role for the autoimmune response to MOG in the pathogenesis of MS. Using a recombinant human MOG (rhMOG) preparation corresponding to the extracellular immunoglobulin-like domain of the MOG molecule, we have now analyzed another group of 52 MS patients and 49 control individuals for reactivity of their peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) to rhMOG and to MBP concomitantly. Of the 52 MS patients tested 24 responded to MOG and 10 out of 49 responded to MBP, whereas only 5 MOG-reactive and 4 MBP-reactive control individuals were detected out of the 49 tested. These results are therefore highly confirmatory of the predominant reactivity to MOG in MS. The analysis of the primary proliferative response to 11 synthetic overlapping peptides (phMOG) spanning the extracellular domain of human MOG by PBL from 9 MS patients and 15 control individuals (9 healthy controls and 6 patients with neurological diseases other than MS) further supports a prevalent role for the autoimmune response to MOG in MS, as only 1 of the 15 controls tested showed reactivity to any of the phMOG, whilst 5 out of the 9 patients studied reacted to at least 1 of the phMOG. PBL from 10 MS patients, and from 4 controls, were selected in vitro with each of the phMOG. Of the 10 patients studied 7 reacted to at least 1 phMOG upon secondary stimulation and the reactivity was mostly directed to epitopes localized within three main regions (amino acids 1-22, 34-56 and 64-96), as was observed for the primary response of PBL. The predominant response to MOG of PBL from MS patients as demonstrated in two separate studies using native MOG and rhMOG as antigens, and the high incidence of reactivity of these PBL compared to the lack of response to phMOG by control PBL, emphasize the relevance of MOG in MS pathogenesis and support a primary role for the autoimmune T cell response to MOG in disease development.
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- N Kerlero de Rosbo
- Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Genain CP, Gritz L, Joshi N, Panicali D, Davis RL, Whitaker JN, Letvin NL, Hauser SL. Inhibition of allergic encephalomyelitis in marmosets by vaccination with recombinant vaccinia virus encoding for myelin basic protein. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 79:119-28. [PMID: 9394784 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00109-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A primary demyelinating form of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) resembling human multiple sclerosis (MS) occurs in Callithrix jacchus marmosets following immunization with human white matter. Participation of a T-cell immune response against myelin basic protein (MBP) in this disease model is supported by observations of increased reactivity against MBP in PBMC and of adoptive transfer of an inflammatory form of EAE by MBP-reactive T-cells. To evaluate the effects of ectopic presentation of MBP on marmoset EAE, animals were vaccinated prior to induction of EAE by subcutaneous injection of attenuated strains of vaccinia virus genetically engineered to contain either the entire coding sequence for human MBP (vT15) or the equine herpes virus glycoprotein gH gene (vAbT249). Vaccination with vT15 was followed by transient cytoplasmic and surface membrane expression of MBP in circulating PBMC (15-45 days). The onset of clinical EAE after immunization (pi) was markedly delayed in vT15-vaccinated animals (37-97 days pi, n = 4) compared to vAbT249-vaccinated controls (14-18 days pi, n = 3). Proliferative responses against MBP but not against vaccinia antigens or phytohemagglutinin were suppressed in protected animals. Thus, development of attenuated live viruses carrying genes for myelin antigens could be useful for induction of immunologic tolerance and for modulation of autoimmune demyelination.
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- C P Genain
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0435, USA.
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Elliott EA, Cofiell R, Wilkins JA, Raine CS, Matis LA, Mueller JP. Immune tolerance mediated by recombinant proteolipid protein prevents experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 79:1-11. [PMID: 9357441 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00093-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Proteolipid protein (PLP), a transmembrane protein expressed only in the central nervous system (CNS), is a candidate target autoantigen for autoimmune-mediated demyelination. We have evaluated the effect of a recombinant form of the PLP protein, delta PLP4, in a murine model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). PLP-specific T-cell responses were observed following immunization of SJL/J, PL/J and SWR mice with delta PLP4, demonstrating processing of the protein to several distinct antigenic epitopes. Clinical EAE associated with inflammation and demyelination in the CNS also developed after sensitization of mice with delta PLP4 in adjuvant. Conversely, tolerance to delta PLP4 in adult mice and prevention of PLP peptide 139-151-induced EAE was induced by intravenous injection of soluble delta PLP4. The prevention of disease onset was paralleled by a significant reduction in demyelination and CNS inflammatory cell infiltration and diminished PLP139-151-specific T-cell proliferative responses. These results are consistent with the establishment of peripheral T-cell tolerance and reinforce the notion that recombinant myelin antigens and intravenous tolerance induction may prove useful in the modulation of the human demyelinating disease, multiple sclerosis (MS).
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- E A Elliott
- Department of Immunobiology, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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HONEYMAN MC. T cell responses in autoantibody-associated disease. Nephrology (Carlton) 1997. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.1997.tb00305.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lovett-Racke AE, Martin R, McFarland HF, Racke MK, Utz U. Longitudinal study of myelin basic protein-specific T-cell receptors during the course of multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 78:162-71. [PMID: 9307241 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00097-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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This study analyzed the stability of the myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire during the course of multiple sclerosis (MS) in three patients who were monitored for three years by gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Bulk-culture T-cell lines (TCLs) were generated from 3-4 time points for each patient, including times of active and quiescent disease. TCR analysis of these TCLs indicated that both the V alpha and V beta usage was similar over time for each patient. Sequencing of TCRs demonstrated conserved complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) sequences within TCLs that expressed the same V alpha segment over time, although the J alpha usage was different for each TCR. This indicates that the population of MBP-reactive T-cells is changing during the course of MS, but that host and/or environmental factors may be selecting T-cells with particular MHC/peptide binding domains.
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- A E Lovett-Racke
- Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Weiner HL. Oral tolerance: immune mechanisms and treatment of autoimmune diseases. IMMUNOLOGY TODAY 1997; 18:335-43. [PMID: 9238837 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5699(97)01053-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 584] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- H L Weiner
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Hermans G, Stinissen P, Hauben L, Van den Berg-Loonen E, Raus J, Zhang J. Cytokine profile of myelin basic protein-reactive T cells in multiple sclerosis and healthy individuals. Ann Neurol 1997; 42:18-27. [PMID: 9225681 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Myelin basic protein (MBP)-reactive T cells have been implicated in the autoimmune pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). In this study, we examined the cytokine profile of 531 primary MBP-reactive T-cell lines and 72 independently established clones from 32 patients with MS and 18 healthy controls (NS) by using highly sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. An increased number of primary T-cell lines producing interferon-gamma (IFN gamma) and/or interleukin-4 (IL-4) in response to MBP were found in patients with MS compared with controls. No distinct Th1 or Th2 subtypes could be demonstrated among the MBP-reactive clones. IL-4 was more frequently observed among MS-derived clones. Clones derived from MS patients produced increased levels of IL-2, IL-4, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha), IFN gamma, and IL-10, but not IL-6. It is interesting that MBP-reactive T cells from MS patients expressing the disease-associated HLA-DRB1*15 allele produced increased quantities of TNF alpha, a cytokine suggested to play an important role in inflammation and demyelination. When challenged with either MBP or a bacterial superantigen, the clones expressed similar levels of the proinflammatory cytokine IFN gamma. Our study suggests a functional difference in T-cell responses to MBP in patients with MS compared with healthy individuals, and provides further insights into the role of MBP-reactive T cells and their cytokine profile in the inflammatory processes of MS.
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- G Hermans
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit, Dr L. Willems-Instituut and Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Wilson DB, Golding AB, Smith RA, Dafashy T, Nelson J, Smith L, Carlo DJ, Brostoff SW, Gold DP. Results of a phase I clinical trial of a T-cell receptor peptide vaccine in patients with multiple sclerosis. I. Analysis of T-cell receptor utilization in CSF cell populations. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 76:15-28. [PMID: 9184629 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00028-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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To identify a panel of multiple sclerosis patients (MS) for a phase I clinical trial of a T-cell receptor (TCR) peptide vaccine we characterized the T-cell populations present in the cerebrospinal fluids (CSF) of a large group of patients with respect to surface phenotype and state of activation, TCR beta chain utilization, features of the CDR3 junctional region, the extent of clonality and persistence of selected clonotypes over time. These CSF cell populations consist of approximately 60% CD4+ T-cells, half of which bear IL-2 receptors, indicating these activated T-cells may be part of the pathogenic process in MS. When these activated CD4+ T-cells were selectively expanded in IL-2/IL-4 supplemented cultures, an over-representation of several TCRV beta families was noted in 39/47 patients, the most frequent being V beta 6.5, V beta 6.7, V beta 2, V beta 5 and V beta 4. Biased expression of various members of the V beta 6 family was seen in 21 of this group of 39 patients. Clonal analysis of TCR beta 6 CDR3 sequences, revealed two notable features: clonal dominance and clonal persistence. CSF cells from two-thirds of MS patients contained a dominant clone comprising 50% or more of sequences and the same patient-specific clone could be shown to persist for up to 18 months. This clonal prevalence and over representation of V beta 6+TCR raises the possibility that immunization with a V beta 6 peptide vaccine may produce a regulatory immune response leading to a clinical benefit.
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- D B Wilson
- Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
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Dangond F, Windhagen A, Groves CJ, Hafler DA. Constitutive expression of costimulatory molecules by human microglia and its relevance to CNS autoimmunity. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 76:132-8. [PMID: 9184642 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00043-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Human microglia constitute the primary residential antigen presenting cells (APCs) in the central nervous system (CNS) and have the capacity of activating myelin reactive T-cells. T-cell activation requires two signals: first is the interaction of the T-cell receptor with the MHC-antigen complex and, secondly, contact of the CD28/CTLA4 T-cell surface molecules with the B7 family of costimulatory molecules on the APCs. We have previously shown high expression of B7.1 in early multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques, suggesting that acute T-cell-mediated CNS inflammation may require local B7.1 upregulation. We have now examined the expression of B7.1 and B7.2 costimulatory molecules on resting ex-vivo human microglia isolated directly from biopsy specimens. We found constitutive expression of B7.2 but not B7.1 on resting microglia, suggesting that B7.2 expression may lead to downregulation of pro-inflammatory Th1 T-cell responses in the normal brain.
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- F Dangond
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Bieganowska KD, Ausubel LJ, Modabber Y, Slovik E, Messersmith W, Hafler DA. Direct ex vivo analysis of activated, Fas-sensitive autoreactive T cells in human autoimmune disease. J Exp Med 1997; 185:1585-94. [PMID: 9151896 PMCID: PMC2196290 DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.9.1585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/1996] [Revised: 02/21/1997] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The frequency of clonally expanded and persistent T cells recognizing the immunodominant autoantigenic peptide of myelin basic protein (MBP)p85-99 was directly measured ex vivo in subjects with typical relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). T cells expressing mRNA transcripts encoding T cell receptor (TCR)-alpha and -beta chains found in T cell clones previously isolated from these subjects recognizing the MBPp85-99 epitope were examined. In contrast to frequencies of 1 in 10(5)-10(6) as measured by limiting dilution analysis, estimates of the T cell frequencies expressing MBPp85-99-associated TCR chain transcripts were as high as 1 in 300. These high frequencies were confirmed by performing PCR on single T cells isolated by flow cytometry. MBPp85-99 TCR transcripts were present in IL-2 receptor alpha-positive T cells which were induced to undergo Fas-mediated cell death upon antigen stimulation. These data demonstrate that at least a subpopulation of patients with MS can have a very high frequency of activated autoreactive T cells.
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- K D Bieganowska
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Trotter JL, Damico CA, Cross AH, Pelfrey CM, Karr RW, Fu XT, McFarland HF. HPRT mutant T-cell lines from multiple sclerosis patients recognize myelin proteolipid protein peptides. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 75:95-103. [PMID: 9143242 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00007-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Mutation of the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) gene in a T-cell is believed to be an indication that the T-cell has been activated and has proliferated in vivo. HPRT mutant T-cell lines were generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with MS and control subjects. More lines were isolated from the MS patients than from the control subjects. Using stringent criteria for recognition, none of the lines from MS-affected or control subjects recognized intact myelin basic protein (MBP) or myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) molecules. Using stringent criteria, two of the 10 MS patients harbored mutant lines each recognizing distinct PLP peptides (PLP peptide 40-60 recognized by 3 lines from one patient and PLP peptide 178-191 recognized by 2 lines from the other patient). A single line recognizing PLP peptide 89-106 was derived from 1 of 7 normal controls. HPRT mutant lines recognizing multiple epitopes of PLP which spanned much of the molecule could be isolated from MS patients, and to a lesser extent, normal subjects.
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- J L Trotter
- Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Kinne RW, Palombo-Kinne E, Emmrich F. T-cells in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis villains or accomplices? BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1360:109-41. [PMID: 9128178 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4439(96)00079-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- R W Kinne
- Institute of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany.
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Gaur A, Boehme SA, Chalmers D, Crowe PD, Pahuja A, Ling N, Brocke S, Steinman L, Conlon PJ. Amelioration of relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis with altered myelin basic protein peptides involves different cellular mechanisms. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 74:149-58. [PMID: 9119968 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(96)00220-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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T-cells specific for a region of human myelin basic protein, amino acids 87-99 (hMBP87-99), have been implicated in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Administration of soluble altered peptide ligand (APL), made by substituting native residues with alanine at either positions 91(91K > A or A91) or 97 (97R > A or A97) in the hMBP87-99 peptide, blocked the development of chronic relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (R-EAE), in the SJL mouse. The non-encephalitogenic APL A91, appears to induce cytokine shifts from Th1 to Th2 in the target T-cells, whereas the encephalitogenic superagonist APL A97 causes deletion of the MBP87-99 responsive cells. Thus, single amino acid changes at different positions in the same peptide epitope can lead to APL capable of controlling auto-immune disease by different mechanisms.
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- A Gaur
- Neurocrine Biosciences, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
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Legge KL, Min B, Potter NT, Zaghouani H. Presentation of a T cell receptor antagonist peptide by immunoglobulins ablates activation of T cells by a synthetic peptide or proteins requiring endocytic processing. J Exp Med 1997; 185:1043-53. [PMID: 9091578 PMCID: PMC2196232 DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.6.1043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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T cell receptor (TCR) antagonism is being considered for inactivation of aggressive T cells and reversal of T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. TCR antagonist peptides silence aggressive T cells and reverse experimental allergic encephalomyelitis induced with free peptides. However, it is not clear whether free antagonist peptides could reverse natural disease where the antigen is presumably available for endocytic processing and peptides gain access to newly synthesized class II MHC molecules. Using an efficient endocytic presentation system, we demonstrate that a proteolipid protein (PLP) TCR antagonist peptide (PLP-LR) presented on an Ig molecule (Ig-PLP-LR) abrogates the activation of T cells stimulated with free encephalitogenic PLP peptide (PLP1), native PLP, or an Ig containing PLP1 peptide (Ig-PLP1). Free PLP-LR abolishes T cell activation when the stimulator is free PLP1 peptide, but has no measurable effect when the stimulator is the native PLP or Ig-PLP1. In vivo, Ig-PLP1 induces a T cell response to PLP1 peptide. However, when coadministered with Ig-PLP-LR, the response to PLP1 peptide is markedly reduced whereas the response to PLP-LR is normal. Free PLP-LR coadministered with Ig-PLP1 has no effect on the T cell response to PLP1. These findings indicate that endocytic presentation of an antagonist peptide by Ig outcompete both external and endocytic agonist peptides whereas free antagonist hinders external but not endocytic agonist peptide. Direct contact with antagonist ligand and/or trans-regulation by PLP-LR-specific T cells may be the operative mechanism for Ig-PLP-LR-mediated downregulation of PLP1-specific T cells in vivo. Efficient endocytic presentation of antagonist peptides, which is the fundamental event for either mechanism, may be critical for reversal of spontaneous T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases where incessant endocytic antigen processing could be responsible for T cell aggressivity.
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- K L Legge
- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996, USA
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Colombo E, Banki K, Tatum AH, Daucher J, Ferrante P, Murray RS, Phillips PE, Perl A. Comparative analysis of antibody and cell-mediated autoimmunity to transaldolase and myelin basic protein in patients with multiple sclerosis. J Clin Invest 1997; 99:1238-50. [PMID: 9077532 PMCID: PMC507938 DOI: 10.1172/jci119281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Antibody and T cell-mediated immune responses to oligodendroglial autoantigens transaldolase (TAL) and myelin basic protein (MBP) were examined in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Immunohistochemical studies of postmortem brain sections revealed decreased staining by MBP- and TAL-specific antibodies in MS plaques, indicating a concurrent loss of these antigens from demyelination sites. By Western blot high titer antibodies to human recombinant TAL were found in 29/94 sera and 16/23 cerebrospinal fluid samples from MS patients. Antibodies to MBP were undetectable in sera or cerebrospinal fluid of these MS patients. Proliferative responses to human recombinant TAL (stimulation index [SI] = 2.47+/-0.3) were significantly increased in comparison to MBP in 25 patients with MS (SI = 1.37+/-0.1; P < 0.01). After a 7-d stimulation of PBL, utilization of any of 24 different T cell receptor Vbeta gene segments in response to MBP was increased less than twofold in the two control donors and six MS patients investigated. In response to TAL-H, while skewing of individual Vbeta genes was also less than twofold in healthy controls, usage of specific Vbeta gene segments was differentially increased ranging from 2.5 to 65.9-fold in patients with MS. The results suggest that TAL may be a more potent immunogen than MBP in MS.
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- E Colombo
- Department of Medicine, State University of New York College of Medicine, Syracuse 13210, USA
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Honma K, Parker KC, Becker KG, McFarland HF, Coligan JE, Biddison WE. Identification of an epitope derived from human proteolipid protein that can induce autoreactive CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes restricted by HLA-A3: evidence for cross-reactivity with an environmental microorganism. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 73:7-14. [PMID: 9058754 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(96)00161-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The demyelination process that occurs in the central nervous system (CNS) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is in part due to an inflammatory response in which CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and macrophages infiltrate white matter. In this study, we have identified a peptide sequence derived from the CNS-specific myelin protein proteolipid protein (PLP) which could bind to HLA-A3 and induce a HLA-A3-restricted CD8+ CTL response from HLA-A3+ donors. These PLP peptide-specific CTL could lyse HLA-A3+ target cells pulsed with a homologous peptide derived from the CRM1 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisae. These findings demonstrate the immunogenic potential of a PLP-derived peptide for generation of autoreactive HLA-A3-restricted CD8+ CTL, and further show that these CTL can be activated by a peptide derived from a common environmental microorganism.
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- K Honma
- Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Orally administered autoantigens suppress autoimmunity in animal models, including experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, collagen and adjuvant-induced arthritis, uveitis, and diabetes in the non-obese diabetic mouse. Low doses of oral antigen induce antigen-specific regulatory T-cells in the gut, which act by releasing inhibitory cytokines such as transforming growth factor-beta, interleukin-4, and interleukin-10 at the target organ. Thus, one can suppress inflammation at a target organ by orally administering an antigen derived from the site of inflammation, even if it is not the target of the autoimmune response. Initial human trials of orally administered antigen have shown positive findings in patients with multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III multi-center trial of oral myelin in 515 relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients is in progress, as are phase II clinical trials investigating the oral administration of type II collagen in rheumatoid arthritis, S-antigen in uveitis, and insulin in type I diabetes.
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- H L Weiner
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Martin R. Genetics of multiple sclerosis--how could disease-associated HLA-types contribute to pathogenesis? JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION. SUPPLEMENTUM 1997; 49:177-94. [PMID: 9266427 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6844-8_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Multiple sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system in young adults. It is considered a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease which is probably triggered by exogenous events, e.g. infectious agents, in susceptible individuals. Population, family and twin studies indicate that genetic factors and most likely several genes are associated with disease, but it is clear from the concordance rates of identical twins (25-30%) that genetic background as well as exogenous or somatic events are required to develop disease. Among many candidate genes which have been analyzed during recent years, the strongest association was shown for genes of the HLA-class II complex, in particular HLA-DR15 Dw2 and -DQw6. At present, it is not clear how the expression of a particular HLA-class II gene translates into susceptibility to develop an organ-specific autoimmune disease. Potential explanations how this could occur will be discussed.
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- R Martin
- Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen Medical School, Federal Republic of Germany
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Voskuhl RR, Farris RW, Nagasato K, McFarland HF, Dalcq MD. Epitope spreading occurs in active but not passive EAE induced by myelin basic protein. J Neuroimmunol 1996; 70:103-11. [PMID: 8898718 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(96)00054-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Using experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, EAE, as a model for the study of autoimmune demyelinating disease in the CNS, previous studies have indicated that spread may occur with respect to the specificity of T cell responses during disease. This phenomenon, known as epitope spreading, is central to therapeutic strategies in multiple sclerosis (MS). However, in EAE, the clinical course, neuropathology and immunopathogenesis vary depending upon host factors and the method of disease induction. Since passive EAE in SJL/J mice resembles MS clinically and neuropathologically, this model was chosen to study the immune phenomenon of epitope spreading. T cells specific for whole 18.5 kDa MBP were used to initiate disease since MBP or one of its naturally occurring cleavage fragments may initiate a more physiological immune response than one generated to an artificially designed synthetic peptide. While a progressive increase in T cell responsiveness specific for the immunodominant MBP 87-106 region was observed during disease, there was no evidence of either intermolecular epitope spreading to the immunodominant region of proteolipid protein (PLP) 139-151 or of intramolecular epitope spreading to the exon 2 encoded region of MBP, which is spliced out of 18.5 kDa MBP. In addition there was no shift in immunodominance toward the subdominant MBP 16-35 region during disease. In contrast during active EAE induced by MBP, epitope spreading to the immunodominant epitope of PLP, 139-151, was observed. These data demonstrate that immune responses generated during passive versus active EAE may differ, and suggest that significant epitope spreading does not occur in chronic relapsing demyelinating disease initiated with T cells specific for whole MBP in the absence of exogenous antigen, complete Freund's adjuvant and pertussis. Implications of these findings with regard to epitope spreading in MS are discussed.
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- R R Voskuhl
- Laboratory of Viral and Molecular Pathogenesis, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Musette P, Bequet D, Delarbre C, Gachelin G, Kourilsky P, Dormont D. Expansion of a recurrent V beta 5.3+ T-cell population in newly diagnosed and untreated HLA-DR2 multiple sclerosis patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:12461-6. [PMID: 8901604 PMCID: PMC38014 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.22.12461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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We have used a PCR-based technology to study the V beta 5 and V beta 17 repertoire of T-cell populations in HLA-DR2 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. We have found that the five MS DR2 patients studied present, at the moment of diagnosis and prior to any treatment, a marked expansion of a CD4+ T-cell population bearing V beta 5-J beta 1.4 beta chains. The sequences of the complementarity-determining region 3 of the expanded T cells are highly homologous. One shares structural features with that of the T cells infiltrating the central nervous system and of myelin basic protein-reactive T cells found in HLA-DR2 MS patients. An homologous sequence was not detectable in MS patients expressing DR alleles other than DR2. However, it is detectable but not expanded in healthy DR2 individuals. The possible mechanisms leading to its in vivo proliferation at the onset of MS are discussed.
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- P Musette
- Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U277, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Elliott EA, McFarland HI, Nye SH, Cofiell R, Wilson TM, Wilkins JA, Squinto SP, Matis LA, Mueller JP. Treatment of experimental encephalomyelitis with a novel chimeric fusion protein of myelin basic protein and proteolipid protein. J Clin Invest 1996; 98:1602-12. [PMID: 8833909 PMCID: PMC507593 DOI: 10.1172/jci118954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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It has been shown that peripheral T cell tolerance can be induced by systemic antigen administration. We have been interested in using this phenomenon to develop antigen-specific immunotherapies for T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. In patients with the demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis (MS), multiple potentially autoantigenic epitopes have been identified on the two major proteins of the myelin sheath, myelin basic protein (MBP) and proteolipid protein (PLP). To generate a tolerogenic protein for the therapy of patients with MS, we have produced a protein fusion between the 21.5-kD isoform of MBP (MBP21.5) and a genetically engineered form of PLP (deltaPLP4). In this report, we describe the effects of treatment with this agent (MP4) on clinical disease in a murine model of demyelinating disease, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Treatment of SJL/J mice with MP4 after induction of EAE either by active immunization or by adoptive transfer of activated T cells completely prevented subsequent clinical paralysis. Importantly, the administration of MP4 completely suppressed the development of EAE initiated by the cotransfer of both MBP- and PLP-activated T cells. Prevention of clinical disease after the intravenous injection of MP4 was paralleled by the formation of long-lived functional peptide-MHC complexes in vivo, as well as by a significant reduction in both MBP- and PLP-specific T cell proliferative responses. Mice treated with MP4 were resistant to disease when rechallenged with an encephalitogenic PLP peptide emulsified in CFA, indicating that MP4 administration had a prolonged effect in vivo. Administration of MP4 was also found to markedly ameliorate the course of established clinical disease. Finally, MP4 therapy was equally efficacious in mice defective in Fas expression. These results support the conclusion that MP4 protein is highly effective in suppressing disease caused by multiple neuroantigen epitopes in experimentally induced demyelinating disease.
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- E A Elliott
- Department of Immunobiology, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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Vandenbark AA, Chou YK, Whitham R, Mass M, Buenafe A, Liefeld D, Kavanagh D, Cooper S, Hashim GA, Offner H. Treatment of multiple sclerosis with T-cell receptor peptides: results of a double-blind pilot trial. Nat Med 1996; 2:1109-15. [PMID: 8837609 DOI: 10.1038/nm1096-1109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A T-cell receptor (TCR) peptide vaccine from the V beta 5.2 sequence expressed in multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques and on myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific T cells boosted peptide-reactive T cells in patients with progressive MS. Vaccine responders had a reduced MBP response and remained clinically stable without side effects during one year of therapy, whereas nonresponders had an increased MBP response and progressed clinically. Peptide-specific T helper 2 cells directly inhibited MBP-specific T helper 1 cells in vitro through the release of interleukin-10, implicating a bystander suppression mechanism that holds promise for treatment of MS and other autoimmune diseases.
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- A A Vandenbark
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA
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Liu Z, Colovai AI, Tugulea S, Reed EF, Fisher PE, Mancini D, Rose EA, Cortesini R, Michler RE, Suciu-Foca N. Indirect recognition of donor HLA-DR peptides in organ allograft rejection. J Clin Invest 1996; 98:1150-7. [PMID: 8787678 PMCID: PMC507537 DOI: 10.1172/jci118898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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To determine whether indirect allorecognition is involved in heart allograft rejection T cells obtained from peripheral blood and graft biopsy tissues were expanded in the presence of IL-2 and tested in limiting dilution analysis (LDA) for reactivity to synthetic peptides corresponding to the hypervariable regions of the mismatched HLA-DR antigen(s) of the donor. Serial studies of 32 patients showed that T cell reactivity to donor allopeptides was strongly associated with episodes of acute rejection. The frequency of allopeptide reactive T cells was 10-50-fold higher in the graft than in the periphery indicating that T cells activated via the indirect allorecognition pathway participate actively in acute allograft rejection. In recipients carrying a graft differing by two HLA-DR alleles the response appeared to target only one of the mismatched antigens of the donor. Indirect allorecognition was restricted by a single HLA-DR antigen of the host and directed against one immunodominant peptide of donor HLA-DR protein. However, intermolecular spreading was demonstrated in patients with multiple rejection episodes by showing that they develop allopeptide reactivity against the second HLA-DR antigen. These data imply that early treatment to suppress T cell responses through the indirect pathway of allorecognition, such as tolerance induction to the dominant donor determinant, may be required to prevent amplification and perpetuation of the rejection process.
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- Z Liu
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York 10032, USA
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Pitchekian-Halabi H, Campagnoni CW, Skinner E, Kampf K, Campagnoni AT, Voskuhl RR. Strain-related differences in the ability of T lymphocytes to recognize proteins encoded by the golli-myelin basic protein gene. J Neuroimmunol 1996; 68:121-9. [PMID: 8784268 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(96)00084-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Protein products of the golli-MBP gene complex, expressed in the nervous and lymphoid systems, contain sequences in common with sequences in 'classic' MBP, expressed exclusively in the nervous system. In this report, it was determined whether T cell lines (TCLs) specific for encephalitogenic epitopes of 'classic' MBP were able to recognize sequences within golli-MBP. TCLs derived from SJL mice specific for the immunodominant 83-102 sequence and the subdominant 19-27 sequence of 'classic' MBP recognized golli-MBP J37 and BG21, respectively. In contrast, TCLs derived from PL and B10.PL mice specific for the immunodominant 1-9 sequence of 'classic' MBP did not recognize this sequence within either J37 or BG21. These strain-related differences in the ability of golli-MBP proteins to stimulate 'classic' MBP-specific TCLs are discussed with respect to a possible influence on whether the course of EAE is relapsing (SJL) or monophasic (PL and B10.PL).
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