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Sarkar SK, Willson AML, Jordan MA. The Plasticity of Immune Cell Response Complicates Dissecting the Underlying Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis. J Immunol Res 2024; 2024:5383099. [PMID: 38213874 PMCID: PMC10783990 DOI: 10.1155/2024/5383099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of the myelin sheath of the neuronal axon in the central nervous system. Many risk factors, including environmental, epigenetic, genetic, and lifestyle factors, are responsible for the development of MS. It has long been thought that only adaptive immune cells, especially autoreactive T cells, are responsible for the pathophysiology; however, recent evidence has indicated that innate immune cells are also highly involved in disease initiation and progression. Here, we compile the available data regarding the role immune cells play in MS, drawn from both human and animal research. While T and B lymphocytes, chiefly enhance MS pathology, regulatory T cells (Tregs) may serve a more protective role, as can B cells, depending on context and location. Cells chiefly involved in innate immunity, including macrophages, microglia, astrocytes, dendritic cells, natural killer (NK) cells, eosinophils, and mast cells, play varied roles. In addition, there is evidence regarding the involvement of innate-like immune cells, such as γδ T cells, NKT cells, MAIT cells, and innate-like B cells as crucial contributors to MS pathophysiology. It is unclear which of these cell subsets are involved in the onset or progression of disease or in protective mechanisms due to their plastic nature, which can change their properties and functions depending on microenvironmental exposure and the response of neural networks in damage control. This highlights the need for a multipronged approach, combining stringently designed clinical data with carefully controlled in vitro and in vivo research findings, to identify the underlying mechanisms so that more effective therapeutics can be developed.
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- Sujan Kumar Sarkar
- Department of Anatomy, Histology and Physiology, Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Biomedical Sciences and Molecular Biology, CPHMVS, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
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- Biomedical Sciences and Molecular Biology, CPHMVS, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
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Li Y, Zhang Y, Zeng X. γδ T Cells Participating in Nervous Systems: A Story of Jekyll and Hyde. Front Immunol 2021; 12:656097. [PMID: 33868300 PMCID: PMC8044362 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.656097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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γδ T cells are distributed in various lymphoid and nonlymphoid tissues, and act as early responders in many conditions. Previous studies have proven their significant roles in infection, cancer, autoimmune diseases and tissue maintenance. Recently, accumulating researches have highlighted the crosstalk between γδ T cells and nervous systems. In these reports, γδ T cells maintain some physiological functions of central nervous system by secreting interleukin (IL) 17, and neurons like nociceptors can in turn regulate the activity of γδ T cells. Moreover, γδ T cells are involved in neuroinflammation such as stroke and multiple sclerosis. This review illustrates the relationship between γδ T cells and nervous systems in physiological and pathological conditions.
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Zarobkiewicz MK, Kowalska W, Halczuk P, Woś J, Jodłowska-Jędrych B, Rejdak K, Roliński J, Bojarska-Junak AA. RORγT is overexpressed in iNKT and γδ T cells during relapse in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2019; 337:577046. [PMID: 31505409 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2019.577046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Revised: 08/24/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The aim of the current study is to evaluate IL-17 production and RORγT, and IL-23R expression by iNKT, Th17 and γδ T cells in the peripheral blood of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients. Samples of peripheral blood from 21 relapse patients and 12 remission patients, and 15 healthy volunteers were stained with monoclonal antibodies for flow cytometry analysis. No significant differences in iNKT, γδ T and Th17 percentages were noted. The significant overexpression of RORγT was observed in all three subpopulations - therefore, iNKT, γδ T and Th cells may be an important source of IL-17 shortly prior to the relapse.
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland; Department of Histology and Embryology with Experimental Cytology Unit, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Histology and Embryology with Experimental Cytology Unit, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Zarobkiewicz MK, Kowalska W, Roliński J, Bojarska-Junak AA. γδ T lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Neuroimmunol 2019; 330:67-73. [PMID: 30831520 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2019.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The aim of the current review is to summarize the results of studies on the role of γδ T cells in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and its animal model - the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Despite the fact that numerous studies have been performed, the role of γδ T is still not fully understood. It seems that there are two distinct subpopulations - one exacerbating the disease (IL-17-producing) and the other playing a protective role (IFN-γ-secreting). Nevertheless, future studies are required for an understanding of γδ T cells role in multiple sclerosis.
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- Chair and Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland
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- Chair and Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland
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Pranzatelli MR, Allison TJ, McGee NR, Tate ED. Cerebrospinal fluid γδ T cell frequency is age-related: a case-control study of 435 children with inflammatory and non-inflammatory neurological disorders. Clin Exp Immunol 2018; 193:103-112. [PMID: 29485697 DOI: 10.1111/cei.13122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Studies of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) γδ T cells in children are limited, due especially to the lack of control data. In adults, gamma/delta T cells (TCR-γδ) residing in the intrathecal space are sometimes involved in neuroinflammation. To evaluate the possible role of γδ T cells in paediatric neuroinflammation, we immunophenotyped cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood lymphocytes using flow cytometry in a case-control study of 100 children with non-inflammatory neurological disorders (NIND), 312 with opsoclonus-myoclonus (OMS) and 23 with other inflammatory neurological disorders (OIND). In NIND, the negative correlation between CSF γδ T cell frequency and patient age was striking: median frequency of 27% in infants and 3·3% in teens. Interindividual variations were largest in the youngest. There was no gender effect. In all OMS, after correcting for age, only a small effect of OMS severity remained. Measurement of markers for γδ T cell activation [human leucocyte antigen D-related (HLA-DR)], maturation (CD45RA, CD45RO) or intracellular cytokine staining [interleukin (IL)-4, interferon (IFN)-γ] failed to discriminate OMS and NIND groups. Of seven OMS immunotherapies/combinations, none altered the frequency of total CSF γδ T cells or subsets significantly. In OIND, the CSF γδ T cell frequency was < 10% for single samples of other paraneoplastic disorders [anti-neuronal nuclear antibody (ANNA)-1, PCA-1, teratoma-associated syndrome], cerebellar ataxia (post-infectious, ataxia-telangiectasia), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, neuroborreliosis and encephalitis. This study provides new insights into CSF γδ T cells in the paediatric population. Although their role in CSF remains elusive, the negative age correlation, resistance to immunotherapy and our age cut-off references for NIND are important findings for the design of future paediatric studies.
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- M R Pranzatelli
- National Pediatric Myoclonus Center, Orlando, FL, USA.,National Pediatric Neuroinflammation Organization, Inc., Orlando, FL, USA
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- National Pediatric Myoclonus Center, Orlando, FL, USA
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- National Pediatric Myoclonus Center, Orlando, FL, USA
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- National Pediatric Myoclonus Center, Orlando, FL, USA.,National Pediatric Neuroinflammation Organization, Inc., Orlando, FL, USA
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Lymphadenopathy driven by TCR-V γ8V δ1 T-cell expansion in FAS-related autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome. Blood Adv 2017; 1:1101-1106. [PMID: 29296752 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2017006411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2017] [Accepted: 04/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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FAS-dependent apoptosis in Vδ1 T cells makes the latter possible culprits for the lymphadenopathy observed in patients with FAS mutations.Rapamycin and methylprednisolone resistance should prompt clinicians to look for Vδ1 T cell proliferation in ALPS-FAS patients.
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Kumar V, Delovitch TL. Different subsets of natural killer T cells may vary in their roles in health and disease. Immunology 2014; 142:321-36. [PMID: 24428389 DOI: 10.1111/imm.12247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Revised: 01/08/2014] [Accepted: 01/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Natural killer T cells (NKT) can regulate innate and adaptive immune responses. Type I and type II NKT cell subsets recognize different lipid antigens presented by CD1d, an MHC class-I-like molecule. Most type I NKT cells express a semi-invariant T-cell receptor (TCR), but a major subset of type II NKT cells reactive to a self antigen sulphatide use an oligoclonal TCR. Whereas TCR-α dominates CD1d-lipid recognition by type I NKT cells, TCR-α and TCR-β contribute equally to CD1d-lipid recognition by type II NKT cells. These variable modes of NKT cell recognition of lipid-CD1d complexes activate a host of cytokine-dependent responses that can either exacerbate or protect from disease. Recent studies of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases have led to a hypothesis that: (i) although type I NKT cells can promote pathogenic and regulatory responses, they are more frequently pathogenic, and (ii) type II NKT cells are predominantly inhibitory and protective from such responses and diseases. This review focuses on a further test of this hypothesis by the use of recently developed techniques, intravital imaging and mass cytometry, to analyse the molecular and cellular dynamics of type I and type II NKT cell antigen-presenting cell motility, interaction, activation and immunoregulation that promote immune responses leading to health versus disease outcomes.
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- Vipin Kumar
- Laboratory of Autoimmunity, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, San Diego, CA, USA
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CD1d-lipid antigen recognition by the γδ TCR. Nat Immunol 2013; 14:1137-45. [DOI: 10.1038/ni.2713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 218] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2013] [Accepted: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Bai L, Picard D, Anderson B, Chaudhary V, Luoma A, Jabri B, Adams EJ, Savage PB, Bendelac A. The majority of CD1d-sulfatide-specific T cells in human blood use a semiinvariant Vδ1 TCR. Eur J Immunol 2012; 42:2505-10. [PMID: 22829134 PMCID: PMC3743557 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201242531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2012] [Revised: 05/01/2012] [Accepted: 05/23/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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αβ T-cell lines specific for sulfatide, an abundant myelin glycosphingolipid presented by various CD1 molecules, have been previously derived from PBMCs of patients with demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) but also from healthy subjects. Using an unbiased tetramer-based MACS enrichment method to enrich for rare antigen-specific cells, we confirmed the presence of CD1d-sulfatide-specific T cells in all healthy individuals examined. Surprisingly, the great majority of fresh sulfatide-specific T cells belonged to the γδ lineage. Furthermore, these cells used the Vδ1 TCR variable segment, which is uncommon in the blood but predominates in tissues such as the gut and specifically accumulates in MS lesions. Recombinant Vδ1 TCRs from different individuals were shown to bind recombinant CD1d-sulfatide complexes in a sulfatide-specific manner. These results provide the first direct demonstration of MHC-like-restricted, antigen-specific recognition by γδ TCRs. Together with previous reports, they support the notion that human Vδ1 T cells are enriched in CD1-specific T cells and suggest that the Vδ1 T-cell population that accumulates in MS lesions might be enriched in CD1-sulfatide-specific cells.
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- Li Bai
- Committee on Immunology and Department of Pathology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 USA
- Institute of Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
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- Committee on Immunology and Department of Pathology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-5700, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-5700, USA
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- Committee on Immunology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Committee on Immunology and Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Committee on Immunology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-5700, USA
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- Committee on Immunology and Department of Pathology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 USA
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Pedemonte E, Mancardi G, Giunti D, Corcione A, Benvenuto F, Pistoia V, Uccelli A. Mechanisms of the adaptive immune response inside the central nervous system during inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Pharmacol Ther 2006; 111:555-66. [PMID: 16442633 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2005.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2005] [Accepted: 11/18/2005] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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In this review we will discuss the unique features that make the central nervous system (CNS) a specialized microenvironment where immune responses are tightly regulated in order to properly face pathogens without damaging the neural cells. We will show how every paradigm of this theoretical model has been addressed by the scientific literature over the past decades providing new insights on the immune response within the CNS. In particular, new light has been shed on the trafficking of the immune cells inside and outside the CNS. Dendritic cells (DCs) have been described in the context of structures in direct contact with the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and their migration, upon antigen encounter, outside the CNS into deep cervical lymph nodes (DCLNs) has been further clarified. T-cells, B-cells, and antibody-secreting cells (ASCs) have been found in the CSF and CNS parenchymal lesions of inflammatory disorders and their phenotype depicted. Moreover, in chronically inflamed CNS, ectopic lymphoid structures have been observed and a germinal center reaction similar to the one found in peripheral lymph nodes has been described. These structures may play a role in the maintenance and expansion of the local autoimmune response. Although the complex interactions between immune and neural cells still remain far to be elucidated, the data discussed here suggest that the physiopathology of the adaptive immune response inside the CNS mimics, although in a mitigated fashion, what occurs in other organs and tissues.
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- Enrico Pedemonte
- Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Ophthalmology and Genetics, University of Genoa, Italy
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) develops in young adults with a complex predisposing genetic trait and probably requires an inciting environmental insult such as a viral infection to trigger the disease. The activation of CD4+ autoreactive T cells and their differentiation into a Th1 phenotype are a crucial events in the initial steps, and these cells are probably also important players in the long-term evolution of the disease. Damage of the target tissue, the central nervous system, is, however, most likely mediated by other components of the immune system, such as antibodies, complement, CD8+ T cells, and factors produced by innate immune cells. Perturbations in immunomodulatory networks that include Th2 cells, regulatory CD4+ T cells, NK cells, and others may in part be responsible for the relapsing-remitting or chronic progressive nature of the disease. However, an important paradigmatic shift in the study of MS has occurred in the past decade. It is now clear that MS is not just a disease of the immune system, but that factors contributed by the central nervous system are equally important and must be considered in the future.
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- Mireia Sospedra
- Cellular Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1400, USA.
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Pranzatelli MR, Travelstead AL, Tate ED, Allison TJ, Moticka EJ, Franz DN, Nigro MA, Parke JT, Stumpf DA, Verhulst SJ. B- and T-cell markers in opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome: immunophenotyping of CSF lymphocytes. Neurology 2004; 62:1526-32. [PMID: 15136676 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.62.9.1526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Although many lines of evidence suggest an autoimmune etiology, the pathophysiology of opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS) remains poorly understood and no immunologic abnormalities have correlated with neurologic severity. Conventional immunotherapies often do not prevent relapse or permanent sequelae. OBJECTIVE To test the cellular immune hypothesis of OMS in a cross-sectional study and determine if CSF lymphocyte subset analysis provides biomarkers of disease activity. METHODS The expression of lymphocyte surface antigens was investigated in CSF and blood of 36 children with OMS and 18 control subjects, using a comprehensive panel of monoclonal antibodies to adhesion and activation proteins in combination with anti-CD3 and anti-CD45 antibodies in four-color fluorescence-activated cell sorting. RESULTS Although most children with OMS had normal CSF cell counts, they exhibited expansion of CD19+ B-cell (up to 29%) and gammadelta T-cell (up to 26%) subsets and a lower percentage of CD4+ T-cells and CD4/CD8 ratio, which persisted even years after disease onset and conventional treatments. The percentage of activated CSF T-cells was also higher. Abnormalities correlated with neurologic severity, as scored blinded from videotapes using a 12-item motor scale, and disease duration. No significant differences were found between tumor and no-tumor groups. In children with neuroblastoma, tumor resection or cancer chemotherapy did not alter immunologic abnormalities. CONCLUSIONS CSF B- and T-cell recruitment is linked to neurologic signs in pediatric OMS, which may relate to relapses and disease progression.
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- M R Pranzatelli
- Department of Neurology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794-9658, USA.
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Pon RA, Freedman MS. Study of Herpesvirus saimiri immortalization of gammadelta T cells derived from peripheral blood and CSF of multiple sclerosis patients. J Neuroimmunol 2003; 139:119-32. [PMID: 12799029 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(03)00157-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Human gammadelta T cells are an integral part of the innate immune system and have been difficult to study owing primarily to their relatively low abundance and their fastidious culture properties associated with short in vitro lifespan. Their increased presence within multiple sclerosis (MS) white matter plaques compared to peripheral blood (PB) suggests a specific interaction with central nervous system (CNS) tissues. This fact, together with their innate ability to lyse human oligodendrocytes in culture implicate them possibly in the pathogenesis of MS. To further investigate their potential role in MS, we studied whether gammadelta T cells could be effectively immortalized using Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS), so that they could be studied in longer-term cultures. Effective culture conditions were established resulting in efficient HVS growth transformation of multiple PB and CSF gammadelta T cell lines and clones that could exist in IL-2-dependent culture for periods in excess of 2 years. Phenotypic and functional comparison studies with parental nontransformed gammadelta T cells were performed to characterize the changes that possibly induced by viral transformation. Using panels of transformed gammadelta T cell clones representing discrete gammadelta TcR subtypes, there was no apparent correlation between intracytoplasmic cytokine expression or tumor cell cytotoxicity with a specific TcR. All transformed gammadelta T cells analyzed, regardless of their compartment of origin, strongly expressed intracytoplasmic IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha, but little IL-2 or anti-inflammatory IL-4 or IL-10. These results indicate that HVS transformation of gammadelta T cells can be used to generate lines and clones from both the CSF and PB compartments for further study and elucidation of their potential role in MS pathogenesis.
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- Robert A Pon
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital-General Campus, 501 Smyth Rd., K1H 8L6, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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Terao A, Apte-Deshpande A, Dousman L, Morairty S, Eynon BP, Kilduff TS, Freund YR. Immune response gene expression increases in the aging murine hippocampus. J Neuroimmunol 2002; 132:99-112. [PMID: 12417439 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(02)00317-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Using GeneChips, basal and lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced gene expression was examined in the hippocampus of 3-, 12-, 18- and 24-month-old male C57BL/6 mice to identify genes whose altered expression could influence hippocampal function in advanced age. Gene elements that changed with age were selected with a t-statistic and specific expression patterns were confirmed with real-time quantitative PCR. Basal expression of 128 gene elements clearly changed with age in the hippocampus. Fourteen gene elements showed increased expression with age and these increases were validated after LPS stimulation. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) TL region and thymic shared antigen (TSA-1) gene expression increased, suggesting T cell activation in the hippocampus with age. Cytokine (interleukin (IL)-1beta, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha) and chemokine (macrophage chemotactic protein-1) expression increased sharply in 24-month-old mice. These findings are in contrast to a decrease in the peripheral immune response, documented by decreased T cell proliferation and decreased ratios of naive to memory T cells. Age-related increases in inflammatory potential in the brain may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases of the aged.
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- Akira Terao
- SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Murzenok PP, Matusevicius D, Freedman MS. gamma/delta T cells in multiple sclerosis: chemokine and chemokine receptor expression. Clin Immunol 2002; 103:309-16. [PMID: 12173306 DOI: 10.1006/clim.2001.5213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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gamma/delta T cells are enriched in multiple sclerosis (MS) brain lesions and have been postulated to contribute to the pathogenesis of the disease. Increased expression of the chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR3 on T cells and raised amounts of the chemokines RANTES and IP-10 have been noted in the CSF and brain tissue of MS patients, but the contribution of gamma delta T cells to these increases is unknown. We therefore compared intracellular RANTES and IP-10 production as well as CCR5, CXCR3, and CXCR1 expression by gamma delta T cells derived from the blood and CSF of patients with MS and healthy controls (HC). We observed higher RANTES production by MS gamma delta than by alpha beta T cell lines. Most of the MS as well as the HC gamma delta and alpha beta T cell lines expressed CXCR3, while expression of CXCR1 was low. Interestingly, MS gamma delta T cell lines, compared to lines from HC, expressed lower levels of CCR5. Furthermore, CSF-derived gamma delta T cells had even lower CCR5 expression than blood-derived ones. The higher RANTES production by MS gamma delta T cell lines, together with a lower expression of CCR5, may reflect an autoregulatory loop, caused by an increased production of its ligands (RANTES, MIP-1 alpha, and MIP-1 beta) or due to other pro-inflammatory cytokines. Alternatively, we show that lower CCR5 expression could also reflect the result of repeated in vivo stimulation of gamma delta T cells by autoantigens.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Chemokine CCL5/blood
- Chemokine CCL5/cerebrospinal fluid
- Chemokine CCL5/immunology
- Chemokine CXCL10/blood
- Chemokine CXCL10/immunology
- Chemokines/biosynthesis
- Chemokines/immunology
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive/blood
- Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive/cerebrospinal fluid
- Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/blood
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/cerebrospinal fluid
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Receptors, Chemokine/blood
- Receptors, Chemokine/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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- Piotr P Murzenok
- Division of Neurology, Ottawa Hospital General Campus, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Characterising the factors that control the entry of leucocytes into tissue in response to inflammatory or microbial insult continues to generate considerable interest. Of all the tissues studied it is probably that of the CNS which is the most fascinating because of the specialised properties of its blood vessel walls, which constitute the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In health, very few leucocytes penetrate the BBB but in disorders such as MS the barrier becomes compromised with the result that there is an intense infiltration of the CNS by T lymphocytes whose subsequent activity appears to underlie the onset and progression of disease. The purpose of this article is to summarise and assess recent literature pertaining to how lymphocytes bind to cerebral endothelial cells, migrate across the blood vessel walls and enter the CNS parenchyma. Particular emphasis is devoted to the cellular and molecular aspects of these events and addressing the questions of whether certain subsets of circulating T lymphocytes are more favourably disposed than others to CNS infiltration and whether entry is dependent upon the initial expression of distinct groups of adhesion molecules and upon the generation of chemotactic factors. This article also focuses upon identifying the key stages of lymphocyte migration across the BBB and their susceptibility to antagonism by therapeutic agents. It is intended that the review will provide a useful source of information and offer additional insights into the mechanisms controlling lymphocyte passage across the BBB during pathological disturbance.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation
- Astrocytes/pathology
- Autoimmune Diseases/blood
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Autoimmune Diseases/pathology
- Blood-Brain Barrier
- Brain/blood supply
- Brain/immunology
- Callithrix
- Cell Adhesion
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/physiology
- Chemokines/physiology
- Chemotaxis, Leukocyte/drug effects
- Chemotaxis, Leukocyte/physiology
- Cytokines/physiology
- Drug Design
- Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/blood
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Endothelium, Vascular/immunology
- Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism
- Endothelium, Vascular/pathology
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins/physiology
- Forecasting
- Humans
- Immunologic Memory
- Immunophenotyping
- Immunosuppressive Agents/pharmacology
- Immunosuppressive Agents/therapeutic use
- Interferon-gamma/metabolism
- Interleukin-2/metabolism
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Metalloendopeptidases/physiology
- Mice
- Microcirculation
- Multiple Sclerosis/blood
- Multiple Sclerosis/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis/pathology
- Myelin Sheath/immunology
- Myelin Sheath/pathology
- Rats
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/pathology
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Affiliation(s)
- K A Brown
- Department of Immunobiology, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
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Selin LK, Santolucito PA, Pinto AK, Szomolanyi-Tsuda E, Welsh RM. Innate immunity to viruses: control of vaccinia virus infection by gamma delta T cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2001; 166:6784-94. [PMID: 11359837 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.11.6784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The existence of gammadelta T cells has been known for over 15 years, but their significance in innate immunity to virus infections has not been determined. We show here that gammadelta T cells are well suited to provide a rapid response to virus infection and demonstrate their role in innate resistance to vaccinia virus (VV) infection in both normal C57BL/6 and beta TCR knockout (KO) mice. VV-infected mice deficient in gammadelta T cells had significantly higher VV titers early postinfection (PI) and increased mortality when compared with control mice. There was a rapid and profound VV-induced increase in IFN-gamma-producing gammadelta T cells in the peritoneal cavity and spleen of VV-infected mice beginning as early as day 2 PI. This rapid response occurred in the absence of priming, as there was constitutively a significant frequency of VV-specific gammadelta T cells in the spleen in uninfected beta TCR KO mice, as demonstrated by limiting dilution assay. Also, like NK cells, another mediator of innate immunity to viruses, gammadelta T cells in uninfected beta TCR KO mice expressed constitutive cytolytic activity. This cytotoxicity was enhanced and included a broader range of targets after VV infection. VV-infected beta TCR KO mice cleared most of the virus by day 8 PI, the peak of the gammadelta T cell response, but thereafter the gammadelta T cell number declined and the virus recrudesced. Thus, gammadelta T cells can be mediators of innate immunity to viruses, having a significant impact on virus replication early in infection in the presence or absence of the adaptive immune response.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Movement/genetics
- Cell Movement/immunology
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/analysis
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor beta
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Immunity, Cellular/genetics
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Kinetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Count
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, SCID
- Peritoneal Cavity/cytology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Survival Rate
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/virology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Vaccinia/genetics
- Vaccinia/immunology
- Vaccinia/mortality
- Vaccinia/virology
- Vaccinia virus/immunology
- Virus Replication/genetics
- Virus Replication/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- L K Selin
- Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Seko Y, Takahashi N, Tada Y, Yagita H, Okumura K, Nagai R. Restricted usage of T-cell receptor Vgamma-Vdelta genes and expression of costimulatory molecules in Takayasu's arteritis. Int J Cardiol 2000; 75 Suppl 1:S77-83; discussion S85-7. [PMID: 10980341 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5273(00)00194-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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To further investigate the immunological mechanisms involved in Takayasu's arteritis, we analyzed the T-cell receptor (TCR) Vgamma and Vdelta gene usage by infiltrating gammadelta T-cells and the expression of costimulatory molecules B7-1, B7-2, CD40, CD27 ligand (CD27L), CD30L, OX40L in the arterial tissue of a patient with Takayasu's arteritis. We found that the repertoires of TCR Vgamma as well as Vdelta gene transcripts of the infiltrating cells were restricted as compared with those of peripheral blood lymphocytes from a patient with Takayasu's arteritis. This strongly suggests that gammadelta T-cells as well as alphabeta T-cells, as we previously reported, were specifically involved in the pathogenesis of Takayasu's arteritis. We also found that B7-1, B7-2, CD40, CD27L, CD30L, and OX40L were expressed in the arterial tissue, suggesting the roles for these costimulatory molecules in T-cell-mediated vascular injury in Takayasu's arteritis. Our findings strongly support the involvement of T-cell-mediated immunological mechanisms in the pathogenesis of Takayasu's arteritis.
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- Y Seko
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 113-8655, Tokyo, Japan.
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Borsellino G, Koul O, Placido R, Tramonti D, Luchetti S, Galgani S, Salvetti M, Gasperini C, Ristori G, Bonetti B, Bach S, Cipriani B, Battistini L. Evidence for a role of gammadelta T cells in demyelinating diseases as determined by activation states and responses to lipid antigens. J Neuroimmunol 2000; 107:124-9. [PMID: 10854646 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(00)00220-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this report we review current information on the phenotypic and functional properties of gammadelta T cells in demyelinating disorders. The results support the conclusion that although gammadelta T cells show evidence of activation in patients with either multiple sclerosis (MS) or Guillain Barrè syndrome (GBS), differences exist in the phenotypic and functional properties of these cells between the two diseases. In particular, our data indicate that in patients with MS the Vdelta2 subset is activated and that these cells can be induced to secrete high levels of proinflammatory cytokines. In contrast, in patients with GBS, the Vdelta1 subset is expanded and can be induced to secrete cytokines more associated with a humoral response.
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- G Borsellino
- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, IRCCS Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179, Rome, Italy
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Takayasu arteritis is an acute and sometimes chronic form of vasculitis involving the aorta, its main branches and pulmonary arteries. Although its etiology is still unknown, immunopathologic analyses revealed that the infiltrating cells mainly consisted of gammadelta T-cells as well as alphabeta T-cells and NK cells. The infiltrating gammadelta T-cells, cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs), and natural killer (NK) cells directly injured the vascular cells by releasing a cytolytic factor, perforin. Expression of heat-shock protein (HSP)-65 as well as human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and II was enhanced in Takayasu arteritis lesions, supporting the pathogenic role of gammadelta T-cells and alphabeta T-cells. T-cell receptor (TCR) alphabeta gene usage by the infiltrating cells was restricted, strongly suggesting that a specific antigen was targeted. TCR gammadelta gene usage by the infiltrating cells was also restricted. Furthermore, it has been reported that a strong association with a specific haplotype of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I chain-related (MIC), MICA gene with Takayasu arteritis, suggesting that the HLA-linked gene susceptible to the disease is mapped near the MICA gene. This also supports a pathogenic role of gammadelta T-cells in Takayasu arteritis because gammadelta T-cells were shown to recognize MICA molecule, which can be stress-induced. These findings suggest that unknown stress, such as infection, may trigger the autoimmune process of inflammation involved in Takayasu arteritis.
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- Y Seko
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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De Libero G. Tissue distribution, antigen specificity and effector functions of gamma delta T cells in human diseases. SPRINGER SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 2000; 22:219-38. [PMID: 11116954 DOI: 10.1007/s002810000043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation
- Carbohydrates/immunology
- Cell Differentiation
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular
- Ligands
- Peptides/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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Moss P, Bell J. T cell receptor usage in autoimmune disease. SPRINGER SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1999; 21:5-17. [PMID: 10389229 DOI: 10.1007/bf00815175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- P Moss
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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Predominance of Vγ9/Vδ2 T Lymphocytes in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Children with Tuberculous Meningitis: Reversal after Chemotherapy. Mol Med 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03402066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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Zeine R, Pon R, Ladiwala U, Antel JP, Filion LG, Freedman MS. Mechanism of gammadelta T cell-induced human oligodendrocyte cytotoxicity: relevance to multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 87:49-61. [PMID: 9670845 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00047-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Gammadelta T cells may contribute to the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) via cytotoxicity directed at the myelin-oligodendrocyte unit. We have previously demonstrated that peripheral blood-derived gammadelta T cells lyse fresh human oligodendrocytes in vitro. The present work extends these observations to gammadelta T cells derived from both peripheral blood (PBL) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of MS and non-MS neurological disease controls and addresses the mechanism of cellular cytotoxicity. We found that MS patients contained increased proportions of Vdelta1+ gammadelta T cells in both CSF and PBL samples compared to other neurological disease (OND) controls. Although gammadelta T cells from all patients were cytotoxic towards Daudi, RPMI 8226, U937, Jurkat, oligodendroglioma and fresh human oligodendrocyte targets, OND-derived, Vdelta2+ rich, populations derived from the CSF exhibited greater cytotoxicity towards cell lines (Daudi, RPMI 8226) known to express high levels of heat shock proteins (hsp). To clarify the mechanism(s) of cytotoxicity used by gammadelta T cells, we first showed that cell-target contact was necessary by the use of physical barriers (transwells), which reduced target cell lysis by at least 75%. The use of Ca2+-free media reduced lysis by up to 50%, but fully blocking gammadelta T cell Perforin release and function by either Ca2+ chelation (Mg2EGTA) or the H+-ATPase inhibitor Concanamycin-A (CMA), completely abrogated the lysis of Fas-/hsp60high expressing targets (Daudi, U937). However, additional treatment with Brefeldin A was required for the complete inhibition of gammadelta T cell mediated killing of Fas+ expressing Jurkat targets and fresh human brain-derived oligodendrocytes. Inhibition of granzyme activity by an isocoumarin compound reduced cytolysis only slightly. The use of either Brefeldin A or an anti-Fas antibody alone did not significantly affect lysis. These findings suggest that in MS, gammadelta T cells may utilize either the Fas-mediated or Perforin-based cell cytotoxicity pathways in exerting oligodendrocyte damage, though the Perforin pathway is predominant.
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- R Zeine
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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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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Shen J, Andrews DM, Pandolfi F, Boyle LA, Kersten CM, Blatman RN, Kurnick JT. Oligoclonality of Vδ1 and Vδ2 Cells in Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells: TCR Selection Is Not Altered by Stimulation with Gram-Negative Bacteria. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.6.3048] [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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Despite the enormous potential repertoire of γδ T cells, there are several observations which suggest that the expressed γδ repertoire in the periphery of normal individuals is often quite restricted. To assess selective expansions among γδ T cells from both adult and newborn blood samples, PBMC from 12 normal adults and cord blood from 15 normal newborns were analyzed for TCRDV1 and TCRDV2 junctional diversity by CDR3 size spectratyping and single-strand conformational polymorphism. Although TCRBV usage showed extensive heterogeneity in adults and newborns, both populations often showed CDR3 region restriction for TCRDV1 and TCRDV2. Analysis of the CDR3 spectratype patterns of newborn twins suggested that clonal selection for TCRDV is independent of genetic background. The possible role of Gram-negative bacteria in driving selective responsiveness of γδ T cells in PBMCs from adults was examined by in vitro stimulation with Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Donors whose TCRDV repertoire was highly clonal in the unstimulated blood cells showed the same predominant clones among the bacteria-stimulated cultures. In individuals whose γδ T cells were less restricted, in vitro stimulation did not select for clonality; rather, the TCRDV repertoires were similar before and after bacterial stimulation. Together, these data indicate that γδ T cells are often clonally restricted in adults as well as in newborns and suggest that the prominent stimulatory activity of Gram-negative bacteria does not by itself account for the restriction or diversity of the γδ T cell repertoire.
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- Jian Shen
- *Pathology Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129
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- *Pathology Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129
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- †Chair of Semeiotica Medica, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
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- *Pathology Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129
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- *Pathology Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129
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- ‡Vincent Memorial Obstetrical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114
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- *Pathology Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129
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Recently there has been evidence suggesting that gamma delta receptor-bearing T cells may play a role in both multiple sclerosis (MS) and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). We have recently described approaches for the generation of encephalitogenic T-cell populations from EAE-resistant strains of mice. Using encephalitogenic T-cell lines and clones generated from wild-type C57BL/6 mice we have studied adoptively transferred EAE in C57BL/6-TCR delta-knockout mice. We now report that the adoptive transfer of encephalitogenic T cells into TCR delta T-knockout mice leads to clinical EAE that is not significantly different in severity or time course than that seen after transfer into wild-type C57BL/6 mice. We conclude that gamma delta T cells do not play an integral role in the mediation or regulation of the effector-phase mechanisms in EAE.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer/methods
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Clone Cells
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/physiopathology
- Female
- Heart
- Injections
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Myelin Basic Protein/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Swine
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/transplantation
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- R B Clark
- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatic Diseases, University of Connecticut Medical School, Farmington 06032, USA
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Freedman MS, Bitar R, Antel JP. gamma delta T-cell-human glial cell interactions. II. Relationship between heat shock protein expression and susceptibility to cytolysis. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 74:143-8. [PMID: 9119967 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(96)00218-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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gamma delta T-cells have been implicated in the immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), possibly through interaction with heat shock proteins (hsp). We have previously demonstrated that human oligodendrocytes (OGC) express hsp on their surface and induce the proliferation and expansion of gamma delta T-cells. We also showed that gamma delta T-cells are highly cytolytic to OGC in vitro. The current study addresses whether gamma delta T-cell-induced cytotoxicity to OGC involves the recognition of hsp on OGC or some other ligand. We first compared the lytic potential for different human glial cells and found that gamma delta T-cells lysed OGC, microglia and human fetal astrocytes to the same extent, despite the preferential expression of hsp only on OGC. This suggested that either hsp was not involved in cytolytic recognition or that more than one ligand exists. To address this we used cell lines that either shared OGC properties of hsp expression and the ability to stimulate gamma delta T-cells (RPMI 8226, Daudi) or did not (U937) in cold target competition assays with OGC. Results demonstrated that although all the cell lines were effectively killed by gamma delta T-cells, only the RPMI 8226 and Daudi cells were able to effectively compete for lysis with the OGC. These results support the notion that probably more than one ligand for gamma delta T-cell cytotoxic recognition exists but hsp could still be involved in gamma delta T-cell-induced lysis of OGC. Regulating the expression of hsp on OGC might therefore be a way of interfering with potential gamma delta T-cell-induced damage in MS.
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- M S Freedman
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ont., Canada.
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Freedman MS, D'Souza S, Antel JP. gamma delta T-cell-human glial cell interactions. I. In vitro induction of gammadelta T-cell expansion by human glial cells. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 74:135-42. [PMID: 9119966 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(96)00217-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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gamma delta T-cells are found in increased proportion in multiple sclerosis (MS) white matter plaque infiltrates compared with peripheral blood or spleen, raising the possibility that they are either specifically attracted to lesion sites or, once present, are stimulated to expand. We have previously shown that human oligodendrocytes (OGC) preferentially express heat shock proteins (hsp), molecules to which gamma delta T-cells have been known to react and that in vitro expanded gamma delta T-cells can lyse OGC. We therefore investigated whether human glial cells, that differentially express hsp, could stimulate gamma delta T-cell expansion from peripheral blood. We compared the glial cell-induced expansion to cell lines which also differentially express hsp and have been shown to selectively stimulate gamma delta T-cell expansion (e.g. RPMI 8226, Daudi). We found that both OGC and human fetal astrocytes (hFA) expressed hsp and stimulated the preferential expansion of gamma delta T-cells to about the same extent as the hsp expressing cell lines RPMI 8226 or Daudi, in the presence of exogenous interleukin-2 (IL-2) but without any T-cell mitogen. Furthermore, the type of gamma delta T-cells expanded were of the V delta 2 subtype known to be particularly reactive to hsp. Microglia, U937 cell lines or purified myelin membranes, which express little or no hsp, did not support gamma delta T-cell growth. These results therefore suggest that OGC may contribute to the local expansion of gamma delta T-cells within MS plaques. Potential harmful effects of gamma delta T-cells on OGC may thereby contribute to the immunopathogenesis of MS demyelination.
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- M S Freedman
- University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine, Ont., Canada.
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Bieganowski P, Bieganowska K, Zaborski J, Członkowska A. Oligoclonal expansion of gamma delta T cells in cerebrospinal fluid of multiple sclerosis patients. Mult Scler 1996; 2:78-82. [PMID: 9345384 DOI: 10.1177/135245859600200203] [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: 02/05/2023]
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We have used a PCR based method to analyse TCR gamma chain repertoire and clonality of gamma delta T cells in the CSF and blood of II MS patients. Samples collected from nine patients with other neurological diseases were used as a control. Five controls had central nervous system inflammation and four had non-inflammatory processes. We have observed a decreased percentage of gamma delta T cells expressing TCR gamma with V gamma 9 and J gamma P fragments in the CSF samples in comparison with the blood. We did not final clonal expansion of the gamma delta T cells in any control case. Clonal expansion of gamma delta T cells occurred in five of II MS cases in the CSF but not in the blood. Two of these clones expressed TCR gamma rearranged with V gamma 9 and J gamma 1 fragments, two others used V gamma 10 and J gamma P1, and one used V gamma 9 and J gamma P fragments. We found no correlation between clonality and clinical state of patients, duration of the disease or number of cells in CSF. Our study provides additional evidence for the possible role of the gamma delta T cells in the MS pathogenesis.
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- P Bieganowski
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Wawelska, Poland
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Bürk MR, Mori L, De Libero G. Human V gamma 9-V delta 2 cells are stimulated in a cross-reactive fashion by a variety of phosphorylated metabolites. Eur J Immunol 1995; 25:2052-8. [PMID: 7621879 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830250737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Many different pathogens stimulate cells bearing the V gamma 9-V delta 2 T cell receptor (TCR), which represent the most abundant population of human gamma delta cells. The antigens responsible for the stimulation of these gamma delta cells are not well characterized. Here, we describe six non-peptidic molecules which share this property: isopentenylpyrophosphate, dimethylallylpyrophosphate, 2,3-diphosphoglyceric acid, glycerol-3-phosphoric acid, xylose-1-phosphate, and ribose-1-phosphate. All these molecules are naturally occurring metabolites in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, and stimulate freshly isolated gamma delta cells from peripheral blood of different donors as well as established gamma delta clones. Comparison of their structure with that of similar but inactive molecules showed that both the number and position of the phosphate groups, as well as the residues connected with the carbon backbone are required for stimulation. The CD3-TCR complex is involved in cell triggering as shown by inhibition with anti-CD3 Fab fragments. However, all gamma delta clones were broadly cross-reactive and we could not isolate cells specific for only one ligand. The capacity of this frequent subset of gamma delta cells to recognize common bacterial metabolites confers the advantage to react rapidly to different invading pathogens.
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- M R Bürk
- Department of Research, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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