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Yoshioka Y, Kozaki T, Ishii K, Toyoda A, Hattori M, Yoshida T. Comprehensive analysis of epigenetically regulated genes in anergic T cells. Cell Immunol 2016; 311:71-79. [PMID: 27839672 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2016.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Revised: 09/27/2016] [Accepted: 10/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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T cell anergy is one of the important mechanisms for immune tolerance. The results of many studies investigating the mechanism for T cell anergy induction have revealed that the expression of several genes was up-regulated in anergic T cells. It has also been demonstrated that the molecules encoded on those genes played a critical role in anergy induction. However, the mechanism for their up-regulation has not previously been clarified. We examined in this study the changes in gene expression and DNA methylation status caused by anergy induction. Our results demonstrate that the expression of many genes was changed by anergy induction, and that the DNA methylation status of some of these genes was also changed. We show here by a GO analysis that the extent of the change in methylation status caused by anergy induction was distinct between the groups of genes that were categorized.
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- Yusuke Yoshioka
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Human Resource Development Program in Agricultural Genome Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Human Resource Development Program in Agricultural Genome Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
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Elizer SK, Marshall AF, Moore DJ. Dysregulation of T lymphocyte proliferative responses in autoimmunity. PLoS One 2014; 9:e106347. [PMID: 25171173 PMCID: PMC4149551 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 08/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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T cells are critically dependent on cellular proliferation in order to carry out their effector functions. Autoimmune strains are commonly thought to have uncontrolled T cell proliferation; however, in the murine model of autoimmune diabetes, hypo-proliferation of T cells leading to defective AICD was previously uncovered. We now determine whether lupus prone murine strains are similarly hyporesponsive. Upon extensive characterization of T lymphocyte activation, we have observed a common feature of CD4 T cell activation shared among three autoimmune strains-NOD, MRL, and NZBxNZW F1s. When stimulated with a polyclonal mitogen, CD4 T cells demonstrate arrested cell division and diminished dose responsiveness as compared to the non-autoimmune strain C57BL/6, a phenotype we further traced to a reliance on B cell mediated costimulation, which underscores the success of B cell directed immune therapies in preventing T cell mediated tissue injury. In turn, the diminished proliferative capacity of these CD4 T cells lead to a decreased, but activation appropriate, susceptibility to activation induced cell death. A similar decrement in stimulation response was observed in the CD8 compartment of NOD mice; NOD CD8 T cells were distinguished from lupus prone strains by a diminished dose-responsiveness to anti-CD3 mediated stimulation. This distinction may explain the differential pathogenetic pathways activated in diabetes and lupus prone murine strains.
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- Sydney K Elizer
- Department of Pediatrics, Ian Burr Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Ian Burr Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Ian Burr Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America; Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Regulation of T Cell Activation and Anergy by the Intensity of the Ca2+Signal in Cooperation with Other Signals. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 74:1788-93. [DOI: 10.1271/bbb.100107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Gianchecchi E, Palombi M, Fierabracci A. The putative role of the C1858T polymorphism of protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN22 gene in autoimmunity. Autoimmun Rev 2012; 12:717-25. [PMID: 23261816 DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2012.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2012] [Accepted: 12/05/2012] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Autoimmune diseases represent a heterogeneous group of conditions whose incidence is increasing worldwide. This has stimulated studies on their etiopathogenesis, derived from a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors, in order to improve prevention and treatment of these diseases. An increasing amount of epidemiologic investigations has associated the presence of the C1858T polymorphism in the protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 22 (PTPN22) gene to the onset of several autoimmune diseases including insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (Type 1 diabetes). PTPN22 encodes for the lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase Lyp. This belongs to non-receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatases involved in lymphocyte activation and differentiation. In humans, Lyp may have a role in the negative regulation of T cell receptor signaling. The single nucleotide polymorphism C1858T encodes for a more active phosphatase Lyp R620W. This has the ability to induce a higher negative regulation of T cell receptor signaling. Thus, C1858T could play an important role at the level of thymocyte polarization and escape of autoreactive T lymphocytes, through the positive selection of otherwise negatively selected autoimmune T cells. In this review we discuss the physiological role exerted by the PTPN22 gene and its encoded Lyp product in lymphocyte processes. We highlight the pathogenic significance of the C1858T PTPN22 polymorphism in human autoimmunity with special reference to Type 1 diabetes. Recently the genetic variation in PTPN22 was shown to induce altered function of T and B-lymphocytes. In particular BCR signaling defects and alterations in the B cell compartment were reported in T1D patients. We finally speculate on the possible development of novel therapeutic treatments in human autoimmunity aiming to selectively target the variant Lyp protein in autoreactive T and B lymphocytes.
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- Elena Gianchecchi
- Autoimmunity Laboratory, Immunology Area, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Loo EW, Krantz MJ, Agrawal B. High dose antigen treatment with a peptide epitope of myelin basic protein modulates T cells in multiple sclerosis patients. Cell Immunol 2012; 280:10-5. [PMID: 23246830 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2012.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2012] [Revised: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 11/06/2012] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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One of the auto-antigens aberrantly targeted in Multiple sclerosis is myelin basic protein (MBP). In this study, chronic progressive multiple sclerosis (CPMS) patients receiving the experimental drug MBP8298, on a compassionate care trial, were examined before and after high dose peptide treatment for their circulating regulatory T-cell numbers and their responses to the common mitogens, phytohemagglutinin and poke-weed mitogen. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) isolated from these patients before treatment displayed anergy upon stimulation with phytohemagglutinin; measured through reduced proliferation, IFN-γ and IL-17A secretion in an in vitro cell culture system. 6 Weeks and 6months after treatment their PBMCs displayed a reversal of anergy with phytohemagglutinin stimulation. There was also a marked increase in their CD4(+)CD25(+hi)FoxP3(+) T-cells regulatory T-cells. These results suggest that high dose MBP8298 treatment has a profound effect on the circulating T-cells of CPMS patients, capable of reversing peripheral anergy and establishing T regulation.
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- Eric W Loo
- Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Stanford SM, Krishnamurthy D, Falk MD, Messina R, Debnath B, Li S, Liu T, Kazemi R, Dahl R, He Y, Yu X, Chan AC, Zhang ZY, Barrios AM, Woods VL, Neamati N, Bottini N. Discovery of a novel series of inhibitors of lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase with activity in human T cells. J Med Chem 2011; 54:1640-54. [PMID: 21341673 PMCID: PMC3086468 DOI: 10.1021/jm101202j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase LYP, encoded by the PTPN22 gene, is a critical regulator of signaling in T cells and recently emerged as a candidate target for therapy of autoimmune diseases. Here, by library screening, we identified a series of noncompetitive inhibitors of LYP that showed activity in primary T cells. Kinetic analysis confirmed that binding of the compounds to the phosphatase is nonmutually exclusive with respect to a known bidentate competitive inhibitor. The mechanism of action of the lead inhibitor compound 4e was studied by a combination of hydrogen/deuterium-exchange mass spectrometry and molecular modeling. The results suggest that the inhibitor interacts critically with a hydrophobic patch located outside the active site of the phosphatase. Targeting of secondary allosteric sites is viewed as a promising yet unexplored approach to develop pharmacological inhibitors of protein tyrosine phosphatases. Our novel scaffold could be a starting point to attempt development of "nonactive site" anti-LYP pharmacological agents.
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- Stephanie M. Stanford
- Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
- Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
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- CPCCG, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Immunology, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
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- Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
- Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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Meagher C, Beilke J, Arreaza G, Mi QS, Chen W, Salojin K, Horst N, Cruikshank WW, Delovitch TL. Neutralization of interleukin-16 protects nonobese diabetic mice from autoimmune type 1 diabetes by a CCL4-dependent mechanism. Diabetes 2010; 59:2862-71. [PMID: 20693344 PMCID: PMC2963545 DOI: 10.2337/db09-0131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The progressive infiltration of pancreatic islets by lymphocytes is mandatory for development of autoimmune type 1 diabetes. This inflammatory process is mediated by several mediators that are potential therapeutic targets to arrest development of type 1 diabetes. In this study, we investigate the role of one of these mediators, interleukin-16 (IL-16), in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS At different stages of progression of type 1 diabetes, we characterized IL-16 in islets using GEArray technology and immunoblot analysis and also quantitated IL-16 activity in cell migration assays. IL-16 expression was localized in islets by immunofluorescence and confocal imaging. In vivo neutralization studies were performed to assess the role of IL-16 in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. RESULTS The increased expression of IL-16 in islets correlated with the development of invasive insulitis. IL-16 immunoreactivity was found in islet infiltrating T-cells, B-cells, NK-cells, and dendritic cells, and within an insulitic lesion, IL-16 was derived from infiltrating cells. CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cells as well as B220(+) B-cells were identified as sources of secreted IL-16. Blockade of IL-16 in vivo protected against type 1 diabetes by interfering with recruitment of CD4(+) T-cells to the pancreas, and this protection required the activity of the chemokine CCL4. CONCLUSIONS IL-16 production by leukocytes in islets augments the severity of insulitis during the onset of type 1 diabetes. IL-16 and CCL4 appear to function as counterregulatory proteins during disease development. Neutralization of IL-16 may represent a novel therapy for the prevention of type 1 diabetes.
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- Craig Meagher
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- Laboratory of Autoimmune Diabetes, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- Laboratory of Autoimmune Diabetes, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Laboratory of Autoimmune Diabetes, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Laboratory of Autoimmune Diabetes, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Laboratory of Autoimmune Diabetes, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- Laboratory of Autoimmune Diabetes, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
- Corresponding author: Terry L. Delovitch,
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Moore DJ, Zienkiewicz J, Kendall PL, Liu D, Liu X, Veach RA, Collins RD, Hawiger J. In vivo islet protection by a nuclear import inhibitor in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes. PLoS One 2010; 5:e13235. [PMID: 20949090 PMCID: PMC2950856 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2010] [Accepted: 09/15/2010] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Background Insulin-dependent Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a devastating autoimmune disease that destroys beta cells within the pancreatic islets and afflicts over 10 million people worldwide. These patients face life-long risks for blindness, cardiovascular and renal diseases, and complications of insulin treatment. New therapies that protect islets from autoimmune destruction and allow continuing insulin production are needed. Increasing evidence regarding the pathomechanism of T1D indicates that islets are destroyed by the relentless attack by autoreactive immune cells evolving from an aberrant action of the innate, in addition to adaptive, immune system that produces islet-toxic cytokines, chemokines, and other effectors of islet inflammation. We tested the hypothesis that targeting nuclear import of stress-responsive transcription factors evoked by agonist-stimulated innate and adaptive immunity receptors would protect islets from autoimmune destruction. Principal Findings Here we show that a first-in-class inhibitor of nuclear import, cSN50 peptide, affords in vivo islet protection following a 2-day course of intense treatment in NOD mice, which resulted in a diabetes-free state for one year without apparent toxicity. This nuclear import inhibitor precipitously reduces the accumulation of islet-destructive autoreactive lymphocytes while enhancing activation-induced cell death of T and B lymphocytes derived from autoimmune diabetes-prone, non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice that develop T1D. Moreover, in this widely used model of human T1D we noted attenuation of pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production in immune cells. Conclusions These results indicate that a novel form of immunotherapy that targets nuclear import can arrest inflammation-driven destruction of insulin-producing beta cells at the site of autoimmune attack within pancreatic islets during the progression of T1D.
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- Daniel J Moore
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Early suppression of immune response pathways characterizes children with prediabetes in genome-wide gene expression profiling. J Autoimmun 2010; 35:70-6. [PMID: 20356713 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2010.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2009] [Revised: 02/05/2010] [Accepted: 03/01/2010] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells in the islets of Langerhans. Although defects in various T cell subsets have been linked to the disease pathogenesis, mechanisms initiating or enhancing the autoimmunity in prediabetes remain poorly understood. To unravel genes and molecular pathways affected by the diabetes-associated autoimmunity, we investigated transcriptomic profiles of prospective whole-blood samples from children who have developed T1D-associated autoantibodies and eventually clinical T1D. Gene-level investigation of the data showed systematic differential expression of 520 probesets. A network-based analysis revealed then a highly significant down-regulated network of genes involved in antigen presentation as well as T-cell receptor and insulin signaling. Finally, detection of dynamic changes in the affected pathways at the early or late phases of autoimmunity showed down-regulation of several novel T1D-associated pathways as well as known key components of immune response. The longitudinal genome-wide data generated in the present study allows the detection of dynamic changes relevant to the disease that may be completely missed in conventional cross-sectional studies or in genome-wide association studies. Taken together, our analysis showed systemic high-level repression of immune response pathways associated with T1D autoimmunity.
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Sun LX, Ren HY, Shi YJ, Wang LH, Qiu ZX. Recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor significantly decreases the expression of CXCR3 and CCR6 on T cells and preferentially induces T helper cells to a T helper 17 phenotype in peripheral blood harvests. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2009; 15:835-43. [PMID: 19539215 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2009] [Accepted: 03/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of chemokine receptors on T cells and functional changes of T helper (Th) cells in peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) harvests after treating healthy donors with recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF). Using multiparameter flow cytometry, we analyzed the expression of CXCR3 and CCR6 on T cells and the production of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), interleukin-4 (IL-4), and IL-17 by CD4(+) Th cells in PBSC grafts of healthy donors after in vivo rhG-CSF application. Alterations in the relative expression levels of T cell receptor beta variable (TCRBV) family members were determined using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). rhG-CSF mobilization significantly decreased the expression of CXCR3 and CCR6 on T cells. Treating donors with rhG-CSF resulted in decreased IFN-gamma production and dramatically increased IL-4 and IL-17 secretion by CD4(+) Th cells, leading to T cell polarization from the Th1 to the Th2 phenotype and a preferential increase in IL-17-producing CD4(+) Th cells. We did not observe any differences in the relative expression levels of TCRBV family members before and after in vivo rhG-CSF application. Our results suggest that the expression of CXCR3 and CCR6 on donor T cells was dramatically downregulated and an IL-17 phenotype of CD4(+) Th cells was preferentially induced in PBSC grafts after treating healthy donors with rhG-CSF. The observed effects of rhG-CSF on T cells may be independent of the relative expression levels of TCRBV family members.
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- Li-Xia Sun
- Department of Hematology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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BLASINI ANAM, RODRíGUEZ MARTA. ALTERED SIGNALING TRIGGERED BY LIGATION OF THE TCR/CD3 RECEPTOR IN T LYMPHOCYTES FROM PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS: THE ROAD FROM ANERGY TO AUTOIMMUNITY. Int Rev Immunol 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/08830180490452594-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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García-Castro J, Trigueros C, Madrenas J, Pérez-Simón JA, Rodriguez R, Menendez P. Mesenchymal stem cells and their use as cell replacement therapy and disease modelling tool. J Cell Mol Med 2009; 12:2552-65. [PMID: 19210755 PMCID: PMC3828873 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2008.00516.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from adult somatic tissues may differentiate in vitro and in vivo into multiple mesodermal tissues including bone, cartilage, adipose tissue, tendon, ligament or even muscle. MSCs preferentially home to damaged tissues where they exert their therapeutic potential. A striking feature of the MSCs is their low inherent immunogenicity as they induce little, if any, proliferation of allogeneic lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells. Instead, MSCs appear to be immunosuppressive in vitro. Their multi-lineage differentiation potential coupled to their immuno-privileged properties is being exploited worldwide for both autologous and allo-geneic cell replacement strategies. Here, we introduce the readers to the biology of MSCs and the mechanisms underlying immune tolerance. We then outline potential cell replacement strategies and clinical applications based on the MSCs immunological properties. Ongoing clinical trials for graft-versus-host-disease, haematopoietic recovery after co-transplantation of MSCs along with haematopoietic stem cells and tissue repair are discussed. Finally, we review the emerging area based on the use of MSCs as a target cell subset for either spontaneous or induced neoplastic transformation and, for modelling non-haematological mesenchymal cancers such as sarcomas.
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- J García-Castro
- Andalusian Stem Cell Bank (BACM), University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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Vang T, Miletic AV, Arimura Y, Tautz L, Rickert RC, Mustelin T. Protein tyrosine phosphatases in autoimmunity. Annu Rev Immunol 2008; 26:29-55. [PMID: 18303998 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.26.021607.090418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are important regulators of many cellular functions and a growing number of PTPs have been implicated in human disease conditions, such as developmental defects, neoplastic disorders, and immunodeficiency. Here, we review the involvement of PTPs in human autoimmunity. The leading examples include the allelic variant of the lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase (PTPN22), which is associated with multiple autoimmune diseases, and mutations that affect the exon-intron splicing of CD45 (PTPRC). We also find it likely that additional PTPs are involved in susceptibility to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Finally, we discuss the possibility that PTPs regulating the immune system may serve as therapeutic targets.
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- Torkel Vang
- Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Nakano K, Saito K, Mine S, Matsushita S, Tanaka Y. Engagement of CD44 up-regulates Fas ligand expression on T cells leading to activation-induced cell death. Apoptosis 2007; 12:45-54. [PMID: 17136494 DOI: 10.1007/s10495-006-0488-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Activation-induced cell death (AICD) plays a pivotal role in self-tolerance by deleting autoreactive T cells, but a defect of AICD results in expansion of autoreactive T cells and is deeply involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. Although the process of AICD is mainly mediated by Fas Ligand (FasL)/Fas signaling, it remains unclear what induces FasL expression on T cells. In the present study, we found that CD44 was the most potent stimulator of FasL expression on human peripheral T cells. CD44 cross-linking rapidly up-regulated FasL expression on the T cell surface by delivery from the cytoplasm without new FasL protein synthesis. This up-regulation of FasL was mediated by activation of a tyrosine kinase, IP3 receptor-dependent Ca(2+) mobilization and actin cytoskeletal rearrangements. Furthermore, AICD induced by CD3 restimulation was inhibited by hyaluronidase as well as by soluble Fas, indicating an interaction between membrane-bound hyaluronan and the cell surface CD44 was involved in the up-regulation of FasL expression on T cells and subsequent AICD. We therefore propose that the engagement of CD44 on T cells can eliminate autoreactive T cells by expression of FasL and FasL-mediated AICD.
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- Kazuhisa Nakano
- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
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Yamamoto T, Hattori M, Yoshida T. Induction of T-cell activation or anergy determined by the combination of intensity and duration of T-cell receptor stimulation, and sequential induction in an individual cell. Immunology 2007; 121:383-91. [PMID: 17376194 PMCID: PMC2265954 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2007.02586.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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It has been shown that anergic T cells have important roles in peripheral tolerance, although the precise mechanism for inducing anergy is still unclear. We analysed the kinetics of anergy induction at an individual cell level by flow cytometry. We first successfully obtained T helper type 1 (Th1) cells that had been made uniform with the level of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production induced by antigen stimulation. We then used these Th1 cells to evaluate the degree of anergy for each Th1 cell treated with an anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody according to the level of IFN-gamma secretion. Our results demonstrate that anergic stimulation could induce both activation and anergy, depending on the duration and intensity of stimulation at the level of an individual cell. Each Th1 cell was first activated and then gradually became anergic depending on the duration of stimulation. The duration of the stimulus required for inducing anergy became shorter as the intensity of stimulation became stronger. We also show that the calcineurin signal controlled the induction of activation or anergy depending on the activity. This study contributes to better understanding of the precise mechanism for inducing T-cell anergy.
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- Tomohiro Yamamoto
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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Pavón EJ, Muñoz P, Navarro MDC, Raya-Alvarez E, Callejas-Rubio JL, Navarro-Pelayo F, Ortego-Centeno N, Sancho J, Zubiaur M. Increased association of CD38 with lipid rafts in T cells from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and in activated normal T cells. Mol Immunol 2006; 43:1029-39. [PMID: 15964076 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2005.05.002] [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: 03/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In this study we have determined whether there is a relationship between CD38 expression on T cells, its distribution in different membrane microdomains, and T cell activation in SLE patients. The data show that CD38 expression is augmented in ex vivo CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, and CD25+ SLE T cells, which correlates with its increased insolubility in Brij 98 detergent, and its translocation into lipid rafts. Moreover, SLE T cells show an altered CD4:CD8 ratio, which is due to a decreased proportion of CD4+ T cells and a concomitant increase in the proportion of CD8+ T cells. These data are consistent with the increased CD38 expression and lipid raft formation, and the significant reduction in the CD4:CD8 ratio observed in mitogen-stimulated normal T cells as compared with that in ex vivo untouched normal T cells. Increased expression of CD38 in floating rafts from SLE T cells, or from activated normal T cells may modulate TCR signaling by providing or sequestering signaling molecules to the engaged TCR.
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- Esther J Pavón
- Departamento de Biología Celular e Inmunología, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, CSIC, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud, Avenida del Conocimiento s/n, 18100 Armilla, Granada, Spain
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Vang T, Congia M, Macis MD, Musumeci L, Orrú V, Zavattari P, Nika K, Tautz L, Taskén K, Cucca F, Mustelin T, Bottini N. Autoimmune-associated lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase is a gain-of-function variant. Nat Genet 2005; 37:1317-9. [PMID: 16273109 DOI: 10.1038/ng1673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 522] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2005] [Accepted: 09/02/2005] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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A SNP in the gene PTPN22 is associated with type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Graves thyroiditis, Addison disease and other autoimmune disorders. T cells from carriers of the predisposing allele produce less interleukin-2 upon TCR stimulation, and the encoded phosphatase has higher catalytic activity and is a more potent negative regulator of T lymphocyte activation. We conclude that the autoimmune-predisposing allele is a gain-of-function mutant.
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MESH Headings
- Alleles
- Antibodies/pharmacology
- Autoimmune Diseases/enzymology
- Autoimmune Diseases/genetics
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Catalysis
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/enzymology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Interleukin-2/metabolism
- Italy
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Male
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 22
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/drug effects
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes/enzymology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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- Torkel Vang
- Program on Inflammatory Disease Research, Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, The Burnham Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Moore DJ, Noorchashm H, Lin TH, Greeley SA, Naji A. NOD B-cells are insufficient to incite T-cell-mediated anti-islet autoimmunity. Diabetes 2005; 54:2019-25. [PMID: 15983202 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.54.7.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Although it is well established that B-cells are required for the development of diabetes in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse, the nature of their role remains unknown. Herein, we investigate the hypothesis that B-cells in this autoimmune background actively disrupt the tolerant state of those T-cells with which they interact. We demonstrate that NOD B-cells express elevated levels of crucial molecules involved in antigen presentation (including CD21/35, major histocompatibility complex class II, and CD40), alterations that invite the possibility of inappropriate T-cell activation. However, when chimeric animals are generated in which all B-cells are NOD-derived, a tolerant state is maintained. These data demonstrate that although B-cells are required for the development of autoimmunity, they are not sufficient to disrupt established tolerance. Moreover, non-B-cell antigen-presenting cells may be the critical actors in the establishment of the tolerant state; this function may be absent in NOD mice as they are characterized by deficient professional antigen-presenting cell function.
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- Daniel J Moore
- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Piccirillo CA, Tritt M, Sgouroudis E, Albanese A, Pyzik M, Hay V. Control of Type 1 Autoimmune Diabetes by Naturally Occurring CD4+CD25+Regulatory T Lymphocytes in Neonatal NOD Mice. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2005; 1051:72-87. [PMID: 16126946 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1361.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice serve as a model of spontaneous type 1 diabetes (T1D), a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease leading to the destruction of pancreatic insulin-producing beta islet cells. A possible deficiency in regulatory T (T(reg)) cell development or function may promote the activation, expansion, and recruitment of autoreactive T cells and the onset of T1D. Naturally occurring CD4(+)CD25(+) T(reg) (nT(reg)) cells, which typically display potent inhibitory effects on T cell functions in vitro and in vivo, may be defective at controlling autoimmunity in T1D. We have examined the relative contribution of CD4(+)CD25(+) nT(reg) cells in the immune regulation of T1D in the NOD mouse model. CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells represent 5-10% of CD4(+) thymocytes or peripheral T cells from prediabetic neonatal NOD mice, are anergic to TCR signals, and potently suppress activated T cells in a contact-dependent and cytokine-independent fashion in vitro. Unlike total CD4(+) T cells, prediabetic CD25(+)-depleted CD4(+) T cells are potently diabetogenic when transferred in immunodeficient NOD mice. Co-transfer of CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells from thymocytes or peripheral lymphoid tissues of neonatal NOD mice dramatically halts disease development and beta-islet cell lymphocytic infiltration, even when T1D is induced by CD4(+) T cells from BDC2.5 transgenic or diabetic NOD mice. Finally, we show that CD4(+)CD25(+) T(reg) preferentially accumulate in inflamed pancreatic environments, where they potently inhibit the antigen-specific expansion and cytokine effector functions of diabetogenic T cells. Thus, CD4(+)CD25(+) T cell-mediated regulation is operative in the prediabetic neonatal T cell repertoire and can suppress the diabetogenic process and control the onset of T1D.
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- C A Piccirillo
- Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, 3775 University Street, Room 408, Lyman Duff Medical Building, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2B4.
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Takeuchi T, Tsuzaka K, Abe T. Altered expression of the T cell receptor-CD3 complex in systemic lupus erythematosus. Int Rev Immunol 2005; 23:273-91. [PMID: 15204089 DOI: 10.1080/08830180490452594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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SLE T cells may play a key role in autoantibody production in SLE B cells. In addition, accumulating evidence has shown that SLE T cells participate in the attack on target cells or tissues through the overproduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines or an increase in cell-to-cell adhesion. Thus, the functional abnormality of SLE T cells appears to be pivotal to an understanding of SLE pathogenesis. Accumulating evidence suggests that potential defects may reside in the proximal signal transduction around the TCR-CD3 complex. We have demonstrated that the expression of TCR zeta chain is significantly decreased in peripheral blood T cells from SLE patients. To explore the mechanism of defective expression of TCR zeta chain, we examined mRNA of TCR zeta, and found that two alternatively spliced variants such as exon 7 (-) and short 3'-UTR are detected in SLE. We review the possible role of the TCR zeta defects in autoimmunity and discuss how the splicing variants lead to downregulated protein expression of TCR zeta chain.
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MESH Headings
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/immunology
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/pathology
- Autoimmunity
- Collagen Diseases/immunology
- Collagen Diseases/metabolism
- Humans
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/immunology
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/immunology
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/chemistry
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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- Tsutomu Takeuchi
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical School, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.
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Yang W, Hussain S, Mi QS, Santamaria P, Delovitch TL. Perturbed Homeostasis of Peripheral T Cells Elicits Decreased Susceptibility to Anti-CD3-Induced Apoptosis in Prediabetic Nonobese Diabetic Mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:4407-16. [PMID: 15383571 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.7.4407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Activation-induced cell death (AICD) plays a key role in the homeostasis of the immune system. Autoreactive T cells are eliminated through AICD both from the thymus and periphery. In this study, we show that NOD peripheral T cells, especially CD8(+) T cells, display a decreased susceptibility to anti-CD3-induced AICD in vivo compared with T cells from diabetes-resistant B6, nonobese diabetes-resistant, and NOD.B6Idd4 mice. The susceptibility of NOD CD8(+) T cells to AICD varies in an age- and dose-dependent manner upon stimulation in vivo with either a mitogenic or nonmitogenic anti-CD3. NOD T cells preactivated by anti-CD3 in vivo are less susceptible than B6 T cells to TCR-induced AICD. Treatment of NOD mice with a mitogenic anti-CD3 depletes CD4(+)CD25(-)CD62L(+) but not CD4(+)CD25(+)CD62L(+) T cells, thereby resulting in an increase of the latter subset in the spleen. Treatment with a nonmitogenic anti-CD3 mAb delays the onset of T1D in 8.3 TCR transgenic NOD mice. These results demonstrate that the capacity of anti-CD3 to protect NOD mice from T1D correlates with its ability to perturb T cell homeostasis by inducing CD8(+) T cell AICD and increasing the number of CD4(+)CD25(+)CD62L(+) T cells in the periphery.
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MESH Headings
- Aging/genetics
- Aging/immunology
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Apoptosis/immunology
- CD3 Complex/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- Cell Death/genetics
- Cell Death/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/prevention & control
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Homeostasis/genetics
- Homeostasis/immunology
- Humans
- Interferon-gamma/antagonists & inhibitors
- Interferon-gamma/metabolism
- Interleukin-10/antagonists & inhibitors
- Interleukin-10/metabolism
- Interleukin-4/antagonists & inhibitors
- Interleukin-4/metabolism
- L-Selectin/biosynthesis
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, Transgenic
- Prediabetic State/genetics
- Prediabetic State/immunology
- Prediabetic State/pathology
- Prediabetic State/prevention & control
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Interleukin-2/biosynthesis
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/pathology
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/antagonists & inhibitors
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/metabolism
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/antagonists & inhibitors
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/metabolism
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- Wen Yang
- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
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Howe CJ, LaHair MM, Robinson PJ, Rodriguez-Mora O, McCubrey JA, Franklin RA. Models of anergy in the human Jurkat T cell line. Assay Drug Dev Technol 2004; 1:537-44. [PMID: 15090250 DOI: 10.1089/154065803322302790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We investigated two model systems to study anergy in a human T cell line. OKT3 or calcium ionophore stimulation of Jurkat cells, in the absence of costimulation, resulted in a steep reduction in the transcription and secretion of IL-2 in response to subsequent stimulation via CD3 and CD28. Treatment of anergic Jurkat cells with the combination of the phorbol ester, PMA, and ionomycin restored IL-2 production in cells rendered anergic by both mechanisms. However, hydrogen peroxide, which also stimulates kinases downstream of the proposed block that occurs in anergic murine cells, did not reverse the anergic state of these cells induced by either stimulus. The cause of unresponsiveness in these two models was found to differ. OKT3-induced anergy resulted in a substantial down-regulation of the CD3 on these cells. In contrast, anergy induced by treatment with a calcium ionophore did not result in CD3 down-regulation. These data indicate that the Jurkat cell line may serve as a suitable model for studying anergy in human T cells; however, the mechanism by which anergy is induced may vary dramatically in response to these two commonly used anergy-inducing strategies. Understanding the similarities and differences between these two models of anergy may lead to a better overall understanding of the anergic state of the T cell.
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- Christopher J Howe
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
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Zhang J. Ubiquitin ligases in T cell activation and autoimmunity. Clin Immunol 2004; 111:234-40. [PMID: 15183144 DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2004.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2004] [Accepted: 02/05/2004] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Ubiquitination-mediated protein modifications are increasingly recognized as key regulatory events in many basic cell biology processes. A key class of enzymes called ubiquitin ligases, which has been shown to play a crucial role in the ubiquitination process, can positively or negatively regulate T cell responses. This review summarizes the recent advances defining the roles of several ubiquitin ligases in T cell activation and autoimmunity.
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- Jian Zhang
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
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Moore DJ, Huang X, Lee MK, Lian MM, Chiaccio M, Chen H, Koeberlein B, Zhong R, Markmann JF, Deng S. Resistance to anti-CD45RB-induced tolerance in NOD mice: mechanisms involved. Transpl Int 2004. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2004.tb00440.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Jury EC, Kabouridis PS, Flores-Borja F, Mageed RA, Isenberg DA. Altered lipid raft–associated signaling and ganglioside expression in T lymphocytes from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. J Clin Invest 2004. [DOI: 10.1172/jci200420345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Jury EC, Kabouridis PS, Flores-Borja F, Mageed RA, Isenberg DA. Altered lipid raft-associated signaling and ganglioside expression in T lymphocytes from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. J Clin Invest 2004; 113:1176-87. [PMID: 15085197 PMCID: PMC385405 DOI: 10.1172/jci20345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2003] [Accepted: 02/17/2004] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by abnormalities in T lymphocyte receptor-mediated signal transduction pathways. Our previous studies have established that lymphocyte-specific protein tyrosine kinase (LCK) is reduced in T lymphocytes from patients with SLE and that this reduction is associated with disease activity and parallels an increase in LCK ubiquitination independent of T cell activation. This study investigated the expression of molecules that regulate LCK homeostasis, such as CD45, C-terminal Src kinase (CSK), and c-Cbl, in lipid raft domains from SLE T cells and investigated the localization of these proteins during T cell receptor (TCR) triggering. Our results indicate that the expression of raft-associated ganglioside, GM1, is increased in T cells from SLE patients and LCK may be differentially regulated due to an alteration in the association of CD45 with lipid raft domains. CD45 tyrosine phosphatase, which regulates LCK activity, was differentially expressed and its localization into lipid rafts was increased in T cells from patients with SLE. Furthermore, T cells allowed to "rest" in vitro showed a reversal of the changes in LCK, CD45, and GM1 expression. The results also revealed that alterations in the level of GM1 expression and lipid raft occupancy cannot be induced by serum factors from patients with SLE but indicated that cell-cell contact, activating aberrant proximal signaling pathways, may be important in influencing abnormalities in T cell signaling and, therefore, function in patients with SLE.
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- Elizabeth C Jury
- Centre for Rheumatology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
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Autoimmune conditions caused by injurious immune responses against self-antigens can be ameliorated if the inappropriate responses to self-components that cause tissue injury can be modulated by regulatory cells or shut off via the induction of anergy or via deletion of pathogenic immune responses. Antigen encounter at the gut mucosa can lead to suppression of injurious immune responses to self-antigen via these mechanisms. This type of immunological event is termed oral tolerance. In this review, we examine the mechanisms behind the induction of oral tolerance and provide findings from its use as a form of treatment for autoimmune diseases.
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- Henry Yim Wu
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Fülöp T, Larbi A, Dupuis G, Pawelec G. Ageing, autoimmunity and arthritis: Perturbations of TCR signal transduction pathways with ageing - a biochemical paradigm for the ageing immune system. Arthritis Res Ther 2003; 5:290-302. [PMID: 14680505 PMCID: PMC333419 DOI: 10.1186/ar1019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2003] [Revised: 10/01/2003] [Accepted: 10/13/2003] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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It is widely accepted that cell-mediated immune functions decline with age, rendering an individual more susceptible to infection and possibly cancer, as well as to age-associated autoimmune diseases. The exact causes of T-cell functional decline are not known. One possible cause could be the development of defects in the transduction of mitogenic signals following TCR stimulation. This T-cell hyporesponsiveness due to defects of signalling through the TCR either from healthy elderly subjects or from individuals with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus results in an impaired ability to mount efficient immune responses and to maintain responsiveness to foreign antigens. This implies that a high proportion of autoreactive T cells might accumulate either intrathymically or in the periphery. T-cell anergy and differential TCR signalling could thus also be key players in the disruption of tolerance and the onset of autoimmune diseases. The increasing number of the elderly may lead to an increase of clinically important autoimmune diseases. We will review the signal transduction changes through the TCR-CD3 complex in T lymphocytes from healthy elderly subjects, which result in a modification of the activation of transcription factors involved in IL-2 gene expression leading to decreased IL-2 production. The putative contribution of altered T-cell signalling with ageing in the development of autoimmune diseases will be also discussed.
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- Tamàs Fülöp
- Research Center on Ageing, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
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Arreaza G, Salojin K, Yang W, Zhang J, Gill B, Mi QS, Gao JX, Meagher C, Cameron M, Delovitch TL. Deficient activation and resistance to activation-induced apoptosis of CD8+ T cells is associated with defective peripheral tolerance in nonobese diabetic mice. Clin Immunol 2003; 107:103-15. [PMID: 12763479 DOI: 10.1016/s1521-6616(03)00049-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Activation-induced cell death (AICD) is a mechanism of homeostasis that limits the clonal expansion of autoreactive T cells and regulates central and peripheral tolerance. In nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice, defects in central and peripheral tolerance are associated with a proliferative hyporesponsiveness of thymocytes and peripheral T cells elicited upon TCR activation. We investigated whether these defects in tolerance induction and hyporesponsiveness of NOD T cells manifest in an altered susceptibility to TCR-induced AICD. TCR-activated NOD splenic CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are more resistant to AICD than control strain C57BL/6, BALB/c, and NOR T cells. NOR CD4+ but not CD8+ T cells are resistant to TCR-induced AICD. Whereas c-FLIP expression is reduced in activated T cells from control strains, it persists in activated NOD CD8+ T cells and is accompanied by diminished activity of caspase-3 and -8. IL-4 reduces this c-FLIP expression and increases caspase-3 and -8 activity in activated NOD CD8+ T cells. Moreover, IL-4 and CD28 costimulation restores the susceptibility of NOD CD8+ T cells to AICD, and this is associated with increased expression of CD25, CD95, CD95L, and TNFR2. Thus, deficient activation of CD8+ T cells and their greater resistance to TCR-induced AICD may mediate defective peripheral tolerance and the development of T1D in NOD mice.
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- Guillermo Arreaza
- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, NG6 2V4, London, ON, Canada
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von Herrath MG. Regulation of virally induced autoimmunity and immunopathology: contribution of LCMV transgenic models to understanding autoimmune insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2002; 263:145-75. [PMID: 11987813 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-56055-2_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- M G von Herrath
- Division of Virology, Department of Neuropharmacology, IMM6, Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Pang M, Setoyama Y, Tsuzaka K, Yoshimoto K, Amano K, Abe T, Takeuchi T. Defective expression and tyrosine phosphorylation of the T cell receptor zeta chain in peripheral blood T cells from systemic lupus erythematosus patients. Clin Exp Immunol 2002; 129:160-8. [PMID: 12100036 PMCID: PMC1906428 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2002.01833.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have reported that tyrosine phosphorylation and expression of the T cell receptor zeta chain (TCR zeta) was decreased in two systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with an abnormal TCR zeta lacking exon-7. To examine further the TCR zeta defect and any possible relationship with specific clinical features, we studied the expression of TCR zeta in peripheral blood T cells from 44 patients with SLE, 53 with other rheumatic diseases (30 rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 11 systemic sclerosis (SSc) and 12 primary Sjögren's syndrome(SjS)) and 39 healthy individuals. Flow cytometric analysis demonstrated a significant decrease in the expression of TCR zeta in SLE (P < 0.001), but not in the other rheumatic diseases. Immunoprecipitation experiments confirmed that the expression of TCR zeta in SLE T cells was decreased dramatically (normal: 111.4 +/- 22.6%, SLE: 51.6 +/- 37.4%, P < 0.0001). The decrease in TCR zeta did not correlate with disease activity, or with the dose of prednisolone (PSL). There were, however, three SLE patients in whom the level of TCR zeta expression normalized after treatment, suggesting that mechanisms responsible for the TCR zeta defect appear to be heterogeneous. These results confirm the defective expression and altered tyrosine phosphorylation of TCR zeta in a large proportion of SLE patients, suggesting that it may play an important role in T cell dysfunction in SLE.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/blood
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/immunology
- Autoimmune Diseases/blood
- Autoimmune Diseases/drug therapy
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Autoimmunity
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Immunosuppressive Agents/therapeutic use
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/blood
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/drug therapy
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/immunology
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/pathology
- Membrane Proteins/deficiency
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Middle Aged
- Phosphorylation
- Prednisolone/therapeutic use
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Sjogren's Syndrome/blood
- Sjogren's Syndrome/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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- M Pang
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical School, Kawagoe, Japan
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Gringhuis SI, Papendrecht-van der Voort EAM, Leow A, Nivine Levarht EW, Breedveld FC, Verweij CL. Effect of redox balance alterations on cellular localization of LAT and downstream T-cell receptor signaling pathways. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:400-11. [PMID: 11756537 PMCID: PMC139732 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.2.400-411.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The integral membrane protein linker for activation of T cells (LAT) is a central adapter protein in the T-cell receptor (TCR)-mediated signaling pathways. The cellular localization of LAT is extremely sensitive to intracellular redox balance alterations. Reduced intracellular levels of the antioxidant glutathione (GSH), a hallmark of chronic oxidative stress, resulted in the membrane displacement of LAT, abrogated TCR-mediated signaling and consequently hyporesponsiveness of T lymphocytes. The membrane displacement of LAT is accompanied by a considerable difference in the mobility of LAT upon native and nonreducing denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis, a finding indicative of a conformational change. Targeted mutation of redox-sensitive cysteine residues within LAT created LAT mutants which remain membrane anchored under conditions of chronic oxidative stress. The expression of redox-insensitive LAT mutants allows for restoration of TCR-mediated signal transduction, whereas CD28-mediated signaling pathways remained impaired. These results are indicative that the membrane displacement of LAT as a result of redox balance alterations is a consequence of a conformational change interfering with the insertion of LAT into the plasma membrane. Conclusively, the data suggest a role for LAT as a crucial intermediate in the sensitivity of TCR signaling and hence T lymphocytes toward chronic oxidative stress.
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- Sonja I Gringhuis
- Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Rosmalen JGM, van Ewijk W, Leenen PJM. T-cell education in autoimmune diabetes: teachers and students. Trends Immunol 2002; 23:40-6. [PMID: 11801453 DOI: 10.1016/s1471-4906(01)02088-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a classical example of a T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease. Several aberrations in immune regulation have been described in both human diabetes patients and animal models of type 1 diabetes. In this review, we summarize how proposed immune defects might be implicated in the loss of T-cell tolerance towards self in autoimmune diabetes in humans, nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice and Biobreeding (BB) rats. For this purpose, we will discuss the tolerance-inducing mechanisms that an autoreactive T cell should encounter from its genesis to its pathogenic role in the pancreas, in order of appearance. These comprise central tolerance mechanisms (i.e. positive and negative selection in the thymus) and those mechanisms operative in the periphery (i.e. activation-induced cell death and regulatory T cells).
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- Judith G M Rosmalen
- Dept of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Diamond B, Bluestone J, Wofsy D. The immune tolerance network and rheumatic disease: immune tolerance comes to the clinic. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 2001; 44:1730-5. [PMID: 11508422 DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200108)44:8<1730::aid-art307>3.0.co;2-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The development of effective, new, biologically based therapies for RA has created real excitement and justifiable optimism in recent years among rheumatologists and among patients with rheumatic diseases. Recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of immune activation and immune tolerance provide further cause for optimism. Against this background, the establishment of the ITN is an important step. However, significant hurdles remain to be cleared. First, despite dramatic scientific progress, restoration of immune tolerance in the face of an established autoimmune response is still an elusive goal, even in the laboratory. Not only does the ITN face this fundamental scientific challenge, but it also faces daunting practical and political challenges. For example, can the ITN influence the research agenda of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries? This question and other important questions will only be answered as the ITN matures. Autoimmune disease, although individually uncommon, affects more than 2% of Americans. The rheumatologist is especially aware of the devastating potential of autoimmune diseases. If the ITN succeeds in linking basic research into the mechanisms of autoimmunity with clinical trials of promising new therapies, it can be expected to play a critical role in advancing the practice of clinical rheumatology.
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- B Diamond
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Zhang J, Salojin KV, Delovitch TL. CD28 co-stimulation restores T cell responsiveness in NOD mice by overcoming deficiencies in Rac-1/p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling and IL-2 and IL-4 gene transcription. Int Immunol 2001; 13:377-84. [PMID: 11222507 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/13.3.377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previously, we reported that T cell hyporesponsiveness induced by TCR ligation is causal to autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. Neonatal CD28 co-stimulation reverses T cell hyporesponsiveness and protects NOD mice from diabetes by an IL-4-mediated mechanism, indicating that a deficiency in TCR signaling may be overcome by CD28/B7-2 co-stimulation in NOD T cells. To investigate which co-stimulation-induced signaling events mediate this protection, we analyzed the activity of Ras, Rac-1, mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) and several transcription factors in TCR-activated NOD T cells in the presence or absence of CD28 co-stimulation. We show that CD28 co-stimulation restores normal TCR-induced activation of Rac-1 and p38 MAPK in NOD T cells. Deficiencies in TCR-induced nuclear expression of activating protein (AP)-1 binding proteins as well as activation of AP-1 and NF-AT in the IL-2 and IL-4 P1 promoters are also corrected by CD28 co-stimulation. Thus, CD28 co-stimulation reverses NOD T cell hyporesponsiveness by restoring TCR signaling leading to the activation of AP-1 and NF-AT during IL-2 and IL-4 gene transcription. Our findings provide additional evidence that CD28 co-stimulation amplifies signals delivered by the TCR and further explain the mechanism by which CD28 co-stimulation may protect against autoimmune diabetes.
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- J Zhang
- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
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Nervi S, Atlan-Gepner C, Kahn-Perles B, Lecine P, Vialettes B, Imbert J, Naquet P. Specific deficiency of p56lck expression in T lymphocytes from type 1 diabetic patients. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 165:5874-83. [PMID: 11067948 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.10.5874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Peripheral T lymphocyte activation in response to TCR/CD3 stimulation is reduced in type 1 diabetic patients. To explore the basis of this deficiency, a comprehensive analysis of the signal transduction pathway downstream of the TCR/CD3 complex was performed for a cohort of patients (n = 38). The main result of the study shows that T cell hyporesponsiveness is positively correlated with a reduced amount of p56(lck) in resting T lymphocytes. Upon CD3-mediated activation, this defect leads to a hypophosphorylation of the CD3zeta-chain and few other polypeptides without affecting the recruitment of ZAP70. Other downstream effectors of the TCR/CD3 transduction machinery, such as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase p85alpha, p59(fyn), linker for activation of T cells (LAT), and phospholipase C-gamma1, are not affected. In some patients, the severity of this phenotypic deficit could be linked to low levels of p56(lck) mRNA and resulted in the failure to efficiently induce the expression of the CD69 early activation marker. We propose that a primary deficiency in human type 1 diabetes is a defect in TCR/CD3-mediated T cell activation due to the abnormal expression of the p56(lck) tyrosine kinase.
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- S Nervi
- UPRES-EA2193, Institut Fédiratif de Recherche 35, Physiopathologie Métabolique et Nutritionnelle, Université de la Méditerranée, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Timone, Marseille, France
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Stimulation of the T-cell lymphocyte surface receptor (TCR) initiates a cascade of intracellular signaling events leading to proliferation, anergy, cytokine secretion, or apoptosis. In prediabetic NOD mice, T cell proliferative hyporesponsiveness has been correlated to decreased TCR-mediated signal transduction along the PKC/p21ras/p42mapk pathway. Limited data regarding T cell signaling defects are available in patients with autoimmune diabetes mellitus. Some but not all investigators have found decreased in vitro proliferative hyporesponsiveness to lectin mitogens or anti-CD3 mAb associated with impaired PKC activation and cytokine production. More recently, defective expression and function of the p21ras cascade was reported in these patients. Taken together, these data suggest that lymphocytes from animals and patients with autoimmune diabetes have defective TCR mediated signaling which may result in aberrant T cell activation and proliferation. This may lead to an imbalance of Th1/Th2 cytokine secretory pattern and thereby promote disease development.
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- A E Buchs
- Department of Medicine C, Assaf Harofe Medical Center, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Monneaux F, Muller S. Laboratory protocols for the identification of Th cell epitopes on self-antigens in mice with systemic autoimmune diseases. J Immunol Methods 2000; 244:195-204. [PMID: 11033032 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1759(00)00256-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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T cells play a critical role in both the immunological and clinical manifestations of systemic autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although in normal mice multiple T cell epitopes have been characterized in several self-proteins, there is little information on the fine specificity of autoreactive T cells in lupus model mice and humans. In SLE-prone mice and humans, the only Th cell epitopes identified at the molecular level in self-antigens concern histones and nucleosomes, and the 70-kD U1-snRNP protein. T cell characterization in certain autoimmune mice such as MRL lpr/lpr and NZB/NZW mice has been largely impaired by their hyporesponsiveness in response to mitogen and minimal IL-2 secretion. In addition, MRL lpr/lpr mice also develop lymphadenopathy characterized by the progressive accumulation of functionally immature CD4(-) CD8(-) T cells. It is therefore important to optimize the methods used to measure T cell proliferation and cytokine production ex vivo in order to identify minimal activation in the presence of appropriate antigen. The protocol described in this article has been used for identifying in young MRL lpr/lpr and NZB/NZW mice a CD4(+) T cell epitope in the murine 70-kD U1-RNP protein.
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- F Monneaux
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UPR 9021 CNRS, 15 rue R. Descartes, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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Guarnotta G, Burgio VL, Triolo G. Do immune complexes formed with autoantibodies have a role in the maintenance of immune homeostasis through interaction with FC receptors. Autoimmunity 2000; 32:153-60. [PMID: 11092694 DOI: 10.3109/08916930008994087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Natural autoantibodies play an important regulatory role in the maintenance of immune homeostasis. They act as a first line of defense against environmental pathogens like toxins, bacteria and erythrocytes. In humans they are mainly produced by CD5+ B cells that are under the control of a regulatory T cell population. Fc-gamma receptors are involved in antigen recognition and signal transduction and tuning, and some of the members of the FcR family have structural similarity to MHC molecules; they may interact with multiple Ig ligands and with non-Ig ligands. We discuss the interactions between immune-complexes formed with natural autoantibodies and Fc-gamma receptors and suggest that such interactions may affect self-recognition in the thymus and regulate immune homeostasis.
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- G Guarnotta
- Cattedra di Immunologia Clinica ed Allergologia, Clinica Medica I, University of Palermo, Italy.
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Dosreis GA. The role of tissue-infiltrating T cells in immunopathology of Chagas disease. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2000; 94 Suppl 1:279-80. [PMID: 10677734 DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761999000700048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- G A Dosreis
- Programa de Imunobiologia, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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T cell anergy is one of the mechanisms leading to the establishment and maintenance of peripheral tolerance. Recent data from our and other laboratories indicate that anergic T cells are not functionally inert but in fact are capable of regulating the immune response in an active manner. In this review, we describe our viewpoint on how anergic self-reactive T cells could contribute to regulation of the immune response.
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- L S Taams
- Institute of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Immunology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Möttönen M, Isomäki P, Luukkainen R, Toivanen P, Punnonen J, Lassila O. Interleukin-15 up-regulates the expression of CD154 on synovial fluid T cells. Immunology 2000; 100:238-44. [PMID: 10886401 PMCID: PMC2326998 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2000.00023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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To investigate the role of the CD40-CD154 interaction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we analysed the expression of CD154 on CD3+ and CD4+ T cells in synovial fluid (SF) from patients with RA and in peripheral blood (PB) from patients and normal controls. As interleukin (IL)-15 is a potent activator of synovial T cells we wanted to study whether IL-15 also regulated the expression of CD154 on these T cells. Freshly isolated synovial T cells did not express significant levels of CD154, as evaluated using flow cytometry, whereas the expression of CD86 and human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-DR was significantly elevated on SF T cells when compared with PB T cells from patients or controls. Synovial T cells could up-regulate their CD154 expression following activation with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) + ionomycin or anti-CD3 + anti-CD28 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), but the maximal level of expression remained lower than in control T cells. IL-15 significantly increased the expression of CD154 on SF and PB T cells from patients, whereas IL-2 had minimal effects. Furthermore, IL-15 induced extensive proliferation in SF T cells. Our results show that SF T cells up-regulate the expression of CD154 in the presence of IL-15, a cytokine present in the synovium of patients with RA. These results further emphasize the role of IL-15 in the pathogenesis of RA.
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- M Möttönen
- Turku Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Turku Immunology Centre, Department of Medical Microbiology, Turku, Finland
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Zhang J, Gao JX, Salojin K, Shao Q, Grattan M, Meagher C, Laird DW, Delovitch TL. Regulation of fas ligand expression during activation-induced cell death in T cells by p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase. J Exp Med 2000; 191:1017-30. [PMID: 10727463 PMCID: PMC2193110 DOI: 10.1084/jem.191.6.1017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Activation-induced cell death (AICD) is a mechanism of peripheral T cell tolerance that depends upon an interaction between Fas and Fas ligand (FasL). Although c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) may be involved in apoptosis in various cell types, the mode of regulation of FasL expression during AICD in T cells by these two MAPKs is incompletely understood. To investigate the regulatory roles of these two MAPKs, we analyzed the kinetics of TCR-induced p38 MAPK and JNK activity and their regulation of FasL expression and AICD. We report that both JNK and p38 MAPK regulate AICD in T cells. Our data suggest a novel model of T cell AICD in which p38 MAPK acts early to initiate FasL expression and the Fas-mediated activation of caspases. Subsequently, caspases stimulate JNK to further upregulate FasL expression. Thus, p38 MAPK and downstream JNK converge to regulate FasL expression at different times after T cell receptor stimulation to elicit maximum AICD.
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- Jian Zhang
- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
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- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
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- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada
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- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
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- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada
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- Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada
- Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada
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Bouhdoud L, Villain P, Merzouki A, Arella M, Couture C. T-cell receptor-mediated anergy of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) gp120-specific CD4(+) cytotoxic T-cell clone, induced by a natural HIV type 1 variant peptide. J Virol 2000; 74:2121-30. [PMID: 10666241 PMCID: PMC111692 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.5.2121-2130.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection triggers a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response mediated by CD8(+) and perhaps CD4(+) CTLs. The mechanisms by which HIV-1 escapes from this CTL response are only beginning to be understood. However, it is already clear that the extreme genetic variability of the virus is a major contributing factor. Because of the well-known ability of altered peptide ligands (APL) to induce a T-cell receptor (TCR)-mediated anergic state in CD4(+) helper T cells, we investigated the effects of HIV-1 sequence variations on the proliferation and cytotoxic activation of a human CD4(+) CTL clone (Een217) specific for an epitope composed of amino acids 410 to 429 of HIV-1 gp120. We report that a natural variant of this epitope induced a functional anergic state rendering the T cells unable to respond to their antigenic ligand and preventing the proliferation and cytotoxic activation normally induced by the original antigenic peptide. Furthermore, the stimulation of Een217 cells with this APL generated altered TCR-proximal signaling events that have been associated with the induction of T-cell anergy in CD4(+) T cells. Importantly, the APL-induced anergic state of the Een217 T cells could be prevented by the addition of interleukin 2, which restored their ability to respond to their nominal antigen. Our data therefore suggest that HIV-1 variants can induce a state of anergy in HIV-specific CD4(+) CTLs. Such a mechanism may allow a viral variant to not only escape the CTL response but also facilitate the persistence of other viral strains that may otherwise be recognized and eliminated by HIV-specific CTLs.
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- L Bouhdoud
- Molecular Oncology Group, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Gringhuis SI, Leow A, Papendrecht-Van Der Voort EA, Remans PH, Breedveld FC, Verweij CL. Displacement of linker for activation of T cells from the plasma membrane due to redox balance alterations results in hyporesponsiveness of synovial fluid T lymphocytes in rheumatoid arthritis. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:2170-9. [PMID: 10657671 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.4.2170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The T lymphocytes that reside in the synovium of the inflamed joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis display severe hyporesponsiveness upon antigenic stimulation, which is probably due to their constant subjection to high levels of oxidative stress. Here we report that the synovial fluid T lymphocytes exert severely impaired phosphorylation of the adaptor protein linker for activation of T cells (LAT), a crucial component of the TCR-mediated signaling pathways. In healthy T lymphocytes, LAT is a membrane-bound protein and becomes phosphorylated by zeta-associated protein of 70 kDa (ZAP-70) upon TCR engagement. The molecular basis underlying the deficient phosphorylation of LAT and consequently the hyporesponsiveness of the synovial fluid T lymphocytes lies in the membrane displacement of LAT. We demonstrate that the subcellular localization of LAT is sensitive to changes in the intracellular levels of the antioxidant glutathione. The membrane anchorage of LAT, and consequently the phosphorylation of LAT and the cellular activation of the synovial fluid T lymphocytes upon TCR engagement, is restored in synovial fluid T lymphocytes after supplementation of the intracellular glutathione levels with N-acetyl-l -cysteine. These data suggest a role for the membrane displacement of LAT in the hyporesponsiveness of the synovial fluid T lymphocytes as a consequence of oxidative stress.
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- S I Gringhuis
- Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Nervi S, Atlan-Gepner C, Fossat C, Vialettes B. Constitutive impaired TCR/CD3-mediated activation of T cells in IDDM patients co-exist with normal co-stimulation pathways. J Autoimmun 1999; 13:247-55. [PMID: 10479393 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1999.0313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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IDDM is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease which is paradoxically associated with T cell functional deficiencies. The proliferative response of PBMC under CD3-, Vbeta2-, Vbeta8- and Vbeta7-stimulation was investigated in IDDM and NIDDM patients, non-diabetic first-degree relatives and control subjects. Despite normal surface expression of the TCR/CD3 complex, the TCR/CD3-mediated proliferation of PBMC from IDDM patients was significantly impaired compared to control subjects (P<0.05). This defect was specific for the autoimmune disease, constitutive and not linked to the class II MHC genotype, to metabolic disturbances or to presence of specific autoantibodies. Inefficient activation of T cells was not related to a lower capacity of CD28 to transduce co-stimulative signals because proliferative responses under CD2/CD28 stimulations were similar in IDDM and control groups. The IL-2/IL-2 receptor system was functional because unstimulated PBMC proliferated in response to increasing amounts of IL-2. Nevertheless, despite normal expression of CD25, addition of IL-2 did not normalize the proliferative defect linked to IDDM. In conclusion, excluding a faulty co-stimulation pathway, these results are in favour of a constitutive defect in the CD3/TCR transduction machinery, increasing sensitivity to apoptosis or anergy in T cells from IDDM patients.
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- S Nervi
- Laboratoire de Diabétologie, UPRES-EA 2193, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Araga S, Kishimoto M, Doi S, Nakashima K. A Complementary Peptide Vaccine That Induces T Cell Anergy and Prevents Experimental Allergic Neuritis in Lewis Rats. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.1.476] [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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We have developed and described a new method of altering T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases by immunization with the complementary peptide against T cell epitopes. The complementary peptide (denoted NAE 07-06) to the bovine P2 protein, residues 60–70 (denoted EAN 60–70), was tested in the Lewis rat model of experimental allergic neuritis (EAN). Immunization with NAE 07-06 induced polyclonal and monoclonal Abs that inhibited the proliferation of the P2-specific T cell line, stimulated with EAN 60–70, and recognized Vβ, but not Vα, of TCRs. Proliferation of T cells treated with anti-NAE 07-06 Abs could be partially restored by treatment with rIL-2, in accordance with an anergy model. A homologous sequence was found between NAE 07-06 and the VDJ junction of the TCR β-chain from an EAN 60–70-specific T cell line. Rats preimmunized with NAE 07-06 in vivo before EAN induction showed less disease severity clinically and histologically. These data suggest a new therapeutic approach for T cell-mediated autoimmune disorders through the induction of anti-TCR Abs with complementary peptide Ags.
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- Shigeru Araga
- Division of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan
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