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WEI FULING, CAO YONGMEI, ZHANG MENGRAN, HUANG RUI, CHENG JUN, XIANG GUOAN, ZHANG JINQIAN. Immunosuppression induced by apoptosis of mixed lymphocyte culture is associated with p53. Mol Med Rep 2013; 7:805-10. [DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2013.1292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2012] [Accepted: 01/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Varas A, Vicente A, Jiménez E, Alonso L, Moreno J, Muñoz JJ, Zapata AG. Interleukin-7 treatment promotes the differentiation pathway of T-cell-receptor-alpha beta cells selectively to the CD8+ cell lineage. Immunology 1997; 92:457-64. [PMID: 9497486 PMCID: PMC1364150 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00387.x] [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] Open
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In this report we have studied the influence of interleukin-7 (IL-7) on thymocyte differentiation by evaluating the effects of IL-7 on the generation of T-cell receptor-alpha beta (TCR-alpha beta) and TCR-gamma delta thymocyte subpopulations in rat fetal thymus organ culture. IL-7 enhanced the differentiation pathway of TCR alpha beta thymocytes, first increasing the numbers of immature CD8+ cells, and later those of both CD4+ CD8+ and mature thymocytes. The kinetics of thymocyte migration out of thymic lobes was also accelerated, and the average number of mature TCR-alpha beta phi emigrants per day was increased in the presence of IL-7. Moreover, mature CD4- CD8+ thymocytes were preferentially generated after IL-7 administration. This TCR-alpha beta hi cell population was not actively dividing, indicating that IL-7-promoted thymocyte differentiation was selective to the CD8 cell lineage. Distribution of some TCR-V alpha and TCR-V beta segments among mature thymocytes was also modified in IL-7-treated thymic lobes. On the contrary, the maturation of TCR-gamma delta was not affected by IL-7 addition during the first days of culture, but their numbers sharply increased by day 6 of culture. These results were confirmed with IL-7-treated cultures for 24 hr, showing that IL-7 responsiveness was acquired by TCR-gamma delta cells late in thymus ontogeny. The present results thus indicate a key role for IL-7 in the maturation of TCR-alpha beta thymocytes and the expansion of thymic TCR-gamma delta cells.
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- A Varas
- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Helgeland L, Brandtzaeg P, Rolstad B, Vaage JT. Sequential development of intraepithelial gamma delta and alpha beta T lymphocytes expressing CD8 alpha beta in neonatal rat intestine: requirement for the thymus. Immunology 1997; 92:447-56. [PMID: 9497485 PMCID: PMC1364149 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00379.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Previous studies in congenitally athymic nude rats have suggested that the thymus is important for the development of intestinal T cells. Here we have examined the effect of the nude mutation on intraepithelial lymphocyte (IEL) development from the perinatal period. By immunohistochemistry it was shown that CD3(-)CD8 alpha alpha + putative IEL precursors colonized the epithelium of both normal and athymic neonatal rats. Mature T cells, however, did not develop in athymic neonates. In normal rats, gamma delta T cells were present at birth and alpha beta T cells appeared within 8 days of postnatal life. At this age, the composition and relative number of intraepithelial T cells were similar to that in normal adult rats, with the exception that most neonatal T-cell receptor-gamma delta + and -alpha beta + IEL expressed CD8 beta. By contrast, extrathymic T-cell maturation in the gut of congenitally athymic rats occurred slowly, as CD3+ IEL did not appear until 4-6 months of age. These intraepithelial T cells displayed variable phenotypes and appeared to be induced by environmental antigens as they were not found in isolator-kept old nudes. In conclusion, the present results indicate that the major colonization of the gut epithelium with gamma delta and alpha beta T cells expressing CD8 alpha beta takes place perinatally and requires the presence of the thymus. The developmental relationship between these neonatal T cells and more immature CD3- CD8 alpha alpha +/- IEL remains elusive.
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- L Helgeland
- Laboratory for Immunohistochemistry and Immunopathology (LIIPAT), University of Oslo, Norway
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Payne CM, Bernstein C, Bernstein H. Apoptosis overview emphasizing the role of oxidative stress, DNA damage and signal-transduction pathways. Leuk Lymphoma 1995; 19:43-93. [PMID: 8574171 DOI: 10.3109/10428199509059662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Apoptosis (programmed cell death) is a central protective response to excess oxidative damage (especially DNA damage), and is also essential to embryogenesis, morphogenesis and normal immune function. An understanding of the cellular events leading to apoptosis is important for the design of new chemotherapeutic agents directed against the types of leukemias and lymphomas that are resistant to currently used chemotherapeutic protocols. We present here a review of the characteristic features of apoptosis, the cell types and situations in which it occurs, the types of oxidative stress that induce apoptosis, the signal-transduction pathways that either induce or prevent apoptosis, the biologic significance of apoptosis, the role of apoptosis in cancer, and an evaluation of the methodologies used to identify apoptotic cells. Two accompanying articles, demonstrating classic apoptosis and non-classic apoptosis in the same Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoid cell line, are used to illustrate the value of employing multiple criteria to determine the type of cell death occurring in a given experimental system. Aspects of apoptosis and programmed cell death that are not covered in this review include histochemistry, details of cell deletion processes in the sculpting of tissues and organs in embryogenesis and morphogenesis, and the specific pathways leading to apoptosis in specific cell types. The readers should refer to the excellent books and reviews on the morphology, biochemistry and molecular biology of apoptosis already published on these topics. Emphasis is placed, in this review, on a proposed common pathway of apoptosis that may be relevant to all cell types.
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- C M Payne
- Arizona Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724, USA
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Mitnacht R, Tacke M, Hünig T. Expression of cell interaction molecules by immature rat thymocytes during passage through the CD4+8+ compartment: developmental regulation and induction by T cell receptor engagement of CD2, CD5, CD28, CD11a, CD44 and CD53. Eur J Immunol 1995; 25:328-32. [PMID: 7533082 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830250204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Rat thymocytes of the T cell receptorlow (TcRlow) CD4+8+ subset which is the target of repertoire selection are heterogeneous with respect to expression of the cell interaction (CI) molecules CD2, CD5, CD11a/CD18 (LFA-1), CD28 and CD44. We show that this heterogeneity is due to the developmental regulation of these CI molecules during passage through the CD4+8+ compartment, and to up-regulation by TcR engagement. Thus, cohorts of CD4+8+ cells differentiating synchronously in vitro from their direct precursors, the immature CD4-8+ cells, were homogeneous with regard to CI molecule expression. Upon entry into the CD4+8+ compartment, they expressed relatively high levels of CD2 and CD44, and moderate levels of CD5, CD28 and CD11a. CD2, CD28 and CD44 were slightly down-regulated during the following 2 days, whereas CD5 slightly increased and CD11a remained constant. TcR stimulation using immobilized monoclonal antibodies resulted in rapid and dramatic up-regulation of CD2, CD5 and CD28 and, to a lesser extent, of CD11a and CD44. Finally CD53, a triggering structure absent from unstimulated CD4+8+ thymocytes was also rapidly induced by TcR stimulation. Inclusion of interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4, or IL-7 in this in vitro differentiation system did not affect the levels of CI molecules studied. Since the high levels of CI molecules induced by TcR-stimulation correspond to those found in vivo on TcRintermediate thymocytes known to be undergoing repertoire selection, these results suggest that upregulation of CI molecules by TcR engagement provides a mechanism by which thymocytes that have entered the selection process gain preferential access to further interactions with stromal and lymphoid cells in the thymus.
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- R Mitnacht
- Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Universität Würzburg, Germany
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- P Kisielow
- Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
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McCarthy NJ, Smith CA, Williams GT. Apoptosis in the development of the immune system: growth factors, clonal selection and bcl-2. Cancer Metastasis Rev 1992; 11:157-78. [PMID: 1394795 DOI: 10.1007/bf00048062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The mammalian immune system is essential for surviving challenge infections with a great range of potential pathogens. The protective effect produced is dependent on many different types of cells which require flexible and independent production and regulation. In particular, many important responses are carried out by lymphocytes, which recognise foreign antigen through exquisitely specific receptors: i.e. surface immunoglobulin (sIg) on B lymphocytes and the T cell receptor (TCR) on T lymphocytes. Each lymphocyte displays receptors with a single specificity, allowing cells with particular specificities to be regulated independently. Since millions of different Igs and TCRs are expressed, the precise selection and regulation of each T and B cell population to produce a useful self-tolerant repertoire is a very complex process. Control of cell populations can, in theory, be exercised at a number of levels, including modulation of active cell death by apoptosis. Recent research has demonstrated that regulation of apoptosis is indeed a crucial element in the control of the immune system in general, and in the development of the TCR and Ig repertoires in particular. The molecular analysis of apoptosis now takes a high priority and the proto-oncogene bcl-2 appears to be responsible for specific suppression of apoptosis in several important situations. It is also clear that malfunctions affecting apoptosis, and in particular bcl-2, can result in significant progression towards malignancy.
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- N J McCarthy
- Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham Medical School, Edgbaston, UK
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Cuende E, Kroemer G, Alonso JM, Nemazee D, Martínez C, Alés-Martínez JE. Inability of IL-2 and IL-10 to counteract B cell clonal deletion. Cell Immunol 1992; 142:94-102. [PMID: 1586962 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(92)90271-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The B cell antigen receptor (BCR) delivers inhibitory signals in nascent B cells leading to the establishment of tolerance via clonal deletion or clonal anergy depending upon the type of antigen to which the B cells are exposed. In previous work, it has been demonstrated that activated Th2 cells, as well as some recombinant lymphokines, prevent the inhibition of growth and subsequent cell death induced through the BCR in model B cell lymphomas. Herein, we extend this work to another Th2 lymphokine, IL-10, that in contrast to IL-4 does not interfere with the deletion promoted by IgM crosslinking. The effect of individual lymphokines has also begun to be analyzed in a transgenic model of B cell clonal deletion. To this end, we have administered a recombinant vaccinia virus producing human IL-2 to mice expressing an autoreactive H-2Kk,b-specific transgenic IgMk and found that IL-2 does not abrogate B cell deletion in vivo.
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- E Cuende
- Centro de Biología Molecular (CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Migliorati G, Pagliacci C, Moraca R, Crocicchio F, Nicoletti I, Riccardi C. Interleukins modulate glucocorticoid-induced thymocyte apoptosis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL & LABORATORY RESEARCH 1992; 21:300-3. [PMID: 1591384 DOI: 10.1007/bf02591666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Glucocorticoid hormones, calcium ionophores and anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies induce apoptosis in mouse thymocytes. This type of cell death, which is characterized by an extensive DNA fragmentation into oligonucleosomal subunits, occurs in the intrathymic process of negative selection, and is involved in the deletion of autoreactive T-cells during thymic maturation. A number of cytokines are able to modulate apoptosis, and interleukins, including interleukin-1, interleukin-2, and interleukin-4, play a crucial role in thymic maturation and T-cell development. We tested the effects of several cytokines on the glucocorticoid hormone-induced apoptosis of mouse thymocytes in vitro, and demonstrated that interleukin-1 alpha, interleukin-2, and interleukin-4 inhibit the apoptosis induced by dexamethasone, but that interleukin-3 and interleukin-6 exert no noteworthy effect. Dose-response experiments indicated that interleukin-4 is more potent than interleukin-1 alpha and interleukin-2 in inhibiting dexamethasone-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, interleukin-4 fully inhibited the DNA fragmentation induced by the protein kinase-C activator 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate, but was ineffective against apoptosis induced by the calcium ionophore A23187. These results suggest that interleukins regulate the thymic selection process by acting as modulators of the negative selection process.
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- G Migliorati
- Institute of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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The work reviewed in this article separates T cell development into four phases. First is an expansion phase prior to TCR rearrangement, which appears to be correlated with programming of at least some response genes for inducibility. This phase can occur to some extent outside of the thymus. However, the profound T cell deficit of nude mice indicates that the thymus is by far the most potent site for inducing the expansion per se, even if other sites can induce some response acquisition. Second is a controlled phase of TCR gene rearrangement. The details of the regulatory mechanism that selects particular loci for rearrangement are still not known. It seems that the rearrangement of the TCR gamma loci in the gamma delta lineage may not always take place at a developmental stage strictly equivalent to the rearrangement of TCR beta in the alpha beta lineage, and it is not clear just how early the two lineages diverge. In the TCR alpha beta lineage, however, the final gene rearrangement events are accompanied by rapid proliferation and an interruption in cellular response gene inducibility. The loss of conventional responsiveness is probably caused by alterations at the level of signaling, and may be a manifestation of the physiological state that is a precondition for selection. Third is the complex process of selection. Whereas peripheral T cells can undergo forms of positive selection (by antigen-driven clonal expansion) and negative selection (by abortive stimulation leading to anergy or death), neither is exactly the same phenomenon that occurs in the thymic cortex. Negative selection in the cortex appears to be a suicidal inversion of antigen responsiveness: instead of turning on IL-2 expression, the activated cell destroys its own chromatin. The genes that need to be induced for this response are not yet identified, but it is unquestionably a form of activation. It is interesting that in humans and rats, cortical thymocytes undergoing negative selection can still induce IL-2R alpha expression and even be rescued in vitro, if exogenous IL-2 is provided. Perhaps murine thymocytes are denied this form of rescue because they shut off IL-2R beta chain expression at an earlier stage or because they may be uncommonly Bcl-2 deficient (cf. Sentman et al., 1991; Strasser et al., 1991). Even so, medullary thymocytes remain at least partially susceptible to negative selection even as they continue to mature.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- CD3 Complex
- Cell Death
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Cell Movement
- Chick Embryo
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology
- Humans
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunity, Cellular
- Interleukin-2/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-2/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Lymphokines/biosynthesis
- Lymphokines/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Nude/immunology
- Mice, SCID/genetics
- Mice, SCID/immunology
- Models, Biological
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Signal Transduction
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/growth & development
- Transcription Factors/physiology
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- E V Rothenberg
- Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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