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Zhang Z, Tao W, Cheng D, Qin M, Fu J, Liu D. Deciphering the crosstalk of immune dysregulation between COVID-19 and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1197493. [PMID: 37638007 PMCID: PMC10449257 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1197493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious threat to public health worldwide. Growing evidence reveals that there are certain links between COVID-19 and autoimmune diseases; in particular, COVID-19 and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) have been observed to be clinically comorbid. Hence, this study aimed to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of COVID-19 and IIM from a genomic perspective. Methods We obtained transcriptome data of patients with COVID-19 and IIM separately from the GEO database and identified common differentially expressed genes (DEGs) by intersection. We then performed functional enrichment, PPI, machine learning, gene expression regulatory network, and immune infiltration analyses of co-expressed genes. Results A total of 91 common genes were identified between COVID-19 and IIM. Functional enrichment analysis revealed that these genes were mainly involved in immune dysregulation, response to external stimuli, and MAPK signaling pathways. The MCODE algorithm recognized two densely linked clusters in the common genes, which were related to inflammatory factors and interferon signaling. Subsequently, three key genes (CDKN1A, IFI27, and STAB1) were screened using machine learning to predict the occurrence of COVID-19 related IIM. These key genes exhibited excellent diagnostic performance in both training and validation cohorts. Moreover, we created TF-gene and miRNA-gene networks to reveal the regulation of key genes. Finally, we estimated the relationship between key genes and immune cell infiltration, of which IFI27 was positively associated with M1 macrophages. Conclusion Our work revealed common molecular mechanisms, core genes, potential targets, and therapeutic approaches for COVID-19 and IIM from a genomic perspective. This provides new ideas for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 related IIM in the future.
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- Zhao Zhang
- Department of Orthopaedics, Xi-Jing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xi-Jing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xi-Jing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xi-Jing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xi-Jing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
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McMurray JL, von Borstel A, Taher TE, Syrimi E, Taylor GS, Sharif M, Rossjohn J, Remmerswaal EBM, Bemelman FJ, Vieira Braga FA, Chen X, Teichmann SA, Mohammed F, Berry AA, Lyke KE, Williamson KC, Stubbington MJT, Davey MS, Willcox CR, Willcox BE. Transcriptional profiling of human Vδ1 T cells reveals a pathogen-driven adaptive differentiation program. Cell Rep 2022; 39:110858. [PMID: 35613583 PMCID: PMC9533230 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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γδ T cells are generally considered innate-like lymphocytes, however, an ‘‘adaptive-like’’ γδ compartment has now emerged. To understand transcriptional regulation of adaptive γδ T cell immunobiology, we combined single-cell transcriptomics, T cell receptor (TCR)-clonotype assignment, ATAC-seq, and immunophenotyping. We show that adult Vδ1+ T cells segregate into TCF7+LEF1+Granzyme Bneg (Tnaive) or T-bet+Eomes+ BLIMP-1+Granzyme B+ (Teffector) transcriptional subtypes, with clonotypically expanded TCRs detected exclusively in Teffector cells. Transcriptional reprogramming mirrors changes within CD8+ αβ T cells following antigen-specific maturation and involves chromatin remodeling, enhancing cytokine production and cytotoxicity. Consistent with this, in vitro TCR engagement induces comparable BLIMP-1, Eomes, and T-bet expression in naive Vδ1+ and CD8+ T cells. Finally, both human cytomegalovirus and Plasmodium falciparum infection in vivo drive adaptive Vδ1 T cell differentiation from Tnaive to Teffector transcriptional status, alongside clonotypic expansion. Contrastingly, semi-invariant Vγ9+Vδ2+ T cells exhibit a distinct ‘‘innate-effector’’ transcriptional program established by early childhood. In summary, adaptive-like γδ subsets undergo a pathogen-driven differentiation process analogous to conventional CD8+ T cells. Using single-cell transcriptomics, TCR repertoire analysis, ATAC-seq, and immunophenotyping, McMurray et al. show naive Vδ1+ T cells can undergo transcriptional reprogramming to an effector state extremely similar to CD8 TEMRA cells. Infections, including CMV and malaria, drive both clonotypic Vδ1+ T cell expansion and differentiation to this highly conserved effector program.
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- Jack L McMurray
- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Infection and Immunity Program and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; Department of Haematology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Infection and Immunity Program and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; Institute of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Renal Transplant Unit, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; Infection and Immunity Program and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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Xu L, Zhong M, Wang Y, Wang Z, Song J, Zhao J, Yu H, Yang Z, Yan W, Zheng X. Case Report: Novel Arylsulfatase A ( ARSA) Gene Mutations in a Patient With Adult-Onset Metachromatic Leukodystrophy Misdiagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis. Front Neurol 2021; 11:576881. [PMID: 33505345 PMCID: PMC7830158 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.576881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disorder characterized by the accumulation of sulfatide in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Herein, we present the case of an adult patient with MLD who had mild cognitive and psychiatric dysfunctions and severe vision disturbance, who was initially misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis. Through genetic screening, this patient was later identified to have a full deletion of exon 4 and the novel p.P220L mutation in the arylsulfatase A (ARSA) gene. These mutations are reported for the first time in MLD. These data will help to update the mutation profiles of patients with MLD.
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- Lulu Xu
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Qingdao Eighth People's Hospital, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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Willcox CR, Mohammed F, Willcox BE. The distinct MHC-unrestricted immunobiology of innate-like and adaptive-like human γδ T cell subsets-Nature's CAR-T cells. Immunol Rev 2020; 298:25-46. [PMID: 33084045 DOI: 10.1111/imr.12928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Distinct innate-like and adaptive-like immunobiological paradigms are emerging for human γδ T cells, supported by a combination of immunophenotypic, T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, functional, and transcriptomic data. Evidence of the γδ TCR/ligand recognition modalities that respective human subsets utilize is accumulating. Although many questions remain unanswered, one superantigen-like modality features interactions of germline-encoded regions of particular TCR Vγ regions with specific BTN/BTNL family members and apparently aligns with an innate-like biology, albeit with some scope for clonal amplification. A second involves CDR3-mediated γδ TCR interaction with diverse ligands and aligns with an adaptive-like biology. Importantly, these unconventional modalities provide γδ T cells with unique recognition capabilities relative to αβ T cells, B cells, and NK cells, allowing immunosurveillance for signatures of "altered self" on target cells, via a membrane-linked γδ TCR recognizing intact non-MHC proteins on the opposing cell surface. In doing so, they permit cellular responses in diverse situations including where MHC expression is compromised, or where conventional adaptive and/or NK cell-mediated immunity is suppressed. γδ T cells may therefore utilize their TCR like a cell-surface Fab repertoire, somewhat analogous to engineered chimeric antigen receptor T cells, but additionally integrating TCR signaling with parallel signals from other surface immunoreceptors, making them multimolecular sensors of cellular stress.
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- Carrie R Willcox
- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Liapis K, Tsagarakis NJ, Panitsas F, Taparkou A, Liapis I, Roubakis C, Tsokanas D, Vasileiou P, Grigoriou E, Kakiopoulos G, Psarra K, Farmaki E, Paterakis G. Causes of double-negative T-cell lymphocytosis in children and adults. J Clin Pathol 2019; 73:431-438. [PMID: 31810993 DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2019-206255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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AIMS The causes and diagnosis of 'double-negative' (CD3+CD4-CD8-) T-cell lymphocytosis are not well studied. We aimed to define the causes of double-negative T-cell lymphocytosis in children and adults, and to identify simple clinical and laboratory features that would help to differentiate between the underlying conditions. METHODS We collected clinical and laboratory data on 10 children and 30 adults with significantly increased peripheral-blood double-negative T-cells (>10% of total lymphocytes). We identified conditions associated with double-negative T-lymphocytosis with flow cytometry, peripheral-blood morphology and T-cell receptor-gene rearrangement studies. Patients were assigned to diagnostic categories on the basis of these test results. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS The causes of double-negative T-cell lymphocytosis in children were autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) and reactive γ/δ Τ-lymphocytosis. T-cell large granular lymphocyte (T-LGL) leukaemia, reactive γ/δ T-lymphocytosis and hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTL) were the the most common disorders underlying double-negative T-cell lymphocytosis in adults. Less common causes included hypereosinophilic syndrome, peripheral T-cell lymphoma, ALPS and monoclonal, double-negative T-lymphocytosis of uncertain significance. CD5/CD7/Vδ2 expression and absolute double-negative lymphocyte count (<1.8×109/L) were useful discriminators for distinguishing patients with reactive γ/δ T-lymphocytosis from those with γ/δ lymphoproliferative disorders. Differentiating between γ/δ T-LGL and HSTL can be difficult. Expression of CD57 and cellular morphology (pale cytoplasm with distinct granules) would support a diagnosis of γ/δ T-LGL.
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- Konstantinos Liapis
- Department of Clinical Haematology, Peripheral General Hospital Athens Giorgos Gennimatas, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Peripheral General Hospital Athens Giorgos Gennimatas, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Haematology, General University Hospital of Larisa, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
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- Paediatric Immunology and Rheumatology Referral Center, First Department of Paediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Haematology, University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Haematology, Peripheral General Hospital Athens Giorgos Gennimatas, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Flow Cytometry, Flowdiagnosis Diagnostic Center, Athens, Greece
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- Flow Cytometry Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility, Evangelismos Athens General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Peripheral General Hospital Athens Giorgos Gennimatas, Athens, Greece
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- Flow Cytometry Laboratory, Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility, Evangelismos Athens General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Paediatric Immunology and Rheumatology Referral Center, First Department of Paediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Immunology, Peripheral General Hospital Athens Giorgos Gennimatas, Athens, Greece
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Miller FW, Lamb JA, Schmidt J, Nagaraju K. Risk factors and disease mechanisms in myositis. Nat Rev Rheumatol 2019; 14:255-268. [PMID: 29674613 DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2018.48] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Autoimmune diseases develop as a result of chronic inflammation owing to interactions between genes and the environment. However, the mechanisms by which autoimmune diseases evolve remain poorly understood. Newly discovered risk factors and pathogenic processes in the various idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) phenotypes (known collectively as myositis) have illuminated innovative approaches for understanding these diseases. The HLA 8.1 ancestral haplotype is a key risk factor for major IIM phenotypes in some populations, and several genetic variants associated with other autoimmune diseases have been identified as IIM risk factors. Environmental risk factors are less well studied than genetic factors but might include viruses, bacteria, ultraviolet radiation, smoking, occupational and perinatal exposures and a growing list of drugs (including biologic agents) and dietary supplements. Disease mechanisms vary by phenotype, with evidence of shared innate and adaptive immune and metabolic pathways in some phenotypes but unique pathways in others. The heterogeneity and rarity of the IIMs make advancements in diagnosis and treatment cumbersome. Novel approaches, better-defined phenotypes, and international, multidisciplinary consensus have contributed to progress, and it is hoped that these methods will eventually enable therapeutic intervention before the onset or major progression of disease. In the future, preemptive strategies for IIM management might be possible.
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- Frederick W Miller
- Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, UK
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
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Willcox BE, Willcox CR. γδ TCR ligands: the quest to solve a 500-million-year-old mystery. Nat Immunol 2019; 20:121-128. [PMID: 30664765 DOI: 10.1038/s41590-018-0304-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 12/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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γδ T cells have been retained as a lineage over the majority of vertebrate evolution, are able to respond to immune challenges in unique ways, and are of increasing therapeutic interest. However, one central mystery has endured: the identity of the ligands recognized by the γδ T cell antigen receptor. Here we discuss the inherent challenges in answering this question, the new opportunities provided by recent studies, and the criteria by which the field might judge success.
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- Benjamin E Willcox
- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, Cancer Research UK Birmingham Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
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Davey MS, Willcox CR, Hunter S, Oo YH, Willcox BE. Vδ2 + T Cells-Two Subsets for the Price of One. Front Immunol 2018; 9:2106. [PMID: 30319605 PMCID: PMC6167451 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Martin S Davey
- Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.,Centre for Liver Research and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Liver Research and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.,University Hospital of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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The human Vδ2 + T-cell compartment comprises distinct innate-like Vγ9 + and adaptive Vγ9 - subsets. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1760. [PMID: 29720665 PMCID: PMC5932074 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04076-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2017] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Vδ2+ T cells form the predominant human γδ T-cell population in peripheral blood and mediate T-cell receptor (TCR)-dependent anti-microbial and anti-tumour immunity. Here we show that the Vδ2+ compartment comprises both innate-like and adaptive subsets. Vγ9+ Vδ2+ T cells display semi-invariant TCR repertoires, featuring public Vγ9 TCR sequences equivalent in cord and adult blood. By contrast, we also identify a separate, Vγ9− Vδ2+ T-cell subset that typically has a CD27hiCCR7+CD28+IL-7Rα+ naive-like phenotype and a diverse TCR repertoire, however in response to viral infection, undergoes clonal expansion and differentiation to a CD27loCD45RA+CX3CR1+granzymeA/B+ effector phenotype. Consistent with a function in solid tissue immunosurveillance, we detect human intrahepatic Vγ9− Vδ2+ T cells featuring dominant clonal expansions and an effector phenotype. These findings redefine human γδ T-cell subsets by delineating the Vδ2+ T-cell compartment into innate-like (Vγ9+) and adaptive (Vγ9−) subsets, which have distinct functions in microbial immunosurveillance. Human Vδ2+ γδ T cells are thought to be an innate-like T-cell population. Here the authors show the Vδ2+ compartment contains both innate-like Vγ9+ and an adaptive Vγ9- subset that undergoes clonal expansion during viral infection and can infiltrate liver tissue.
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Hohlfeld R, Schulze-Koops H. Cytotoxic T cells go awry in inclusion body myositis. Brain 2018; 139:1312-4. [PMID: 27189577 DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Reinhard Hohlfeld
- Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Biomedical Centre and University Hospital, Campus Martinsried-Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany Munich Cluster of Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
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- Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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Hohlfeld R, Dornmair K, Meinl E, Wekerle H. The search for the target antigens of multiple sclerosis, part 2: CD8+ T cells, B cells, and antibodies in the focus of reverse-translational research. Lancet Neurol 2015; 15:317-31. [PMID: 26724102 DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(15)00313-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2015] [Revised: 10/13/2015] [Accepted: 10/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Interest in CD8+ T cells and B cells was initially inspired by observations in multiple sclerosis rather than in animal models: CD8+ T cells predominate in multiple sclerosis lesions, oligoclonal immunoglobulin bands in CSF have long been recognised as diagnostic and prognostic markers, and anti-B-cell therapies showed considerable efficacy in multiple sclerosis. Taking a reverse-translational approach, findings from human T-cell receptor (TCR) and B-cell receptor (BCR) repertoire studies provided strong evidence for antigen-driven clonal expansion in the brain and CSF. New methods allow the reconstruction of human TCRs and antibodies from tissue-infiltrating immune cells, which can be used for the unbiased screening of antigen libraries. Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) has received renewed attention as an antibody target in childhood multiple sclerosis and in a small subgroup of adult patients with multiple sclerosis. Furthermore, there is growing evidence that a separate condition in adults exists, tentatively called MOG-antibody-associated encephalomyelitis, which has clinical features that overlap with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and multiple sclerosis. Although CD8+ T cells and B cells are thought to have a pathogenic role in some subgroups of patients, their target antigens have yet to be identified.
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- Reinhard Hohlfeld
- Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Biomedical Center and University Hospital, Campus Martinsried-Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster of Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany.
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Biomedical Center and University Hospital, Campus Martinsried-Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Biomedical Center and University Hospital, Campus Martinsried-Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- HERTIE Senior Professor Group Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
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De Libero G, Lau SY, Mori L. Phosphoantigen Presentation to TCR γδ Cells, a Conundrum Getting Less Gray Zones. Front Immunol 2015; 5:679. [PMID: 25642230 PMCID: PMC4295553 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 12/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The mechanistic requirements of antigen recognition by T cells expressing a γδ TCR has revealed important differences with those of αβ TCR cells and, despite impressive new data generated in the very recent years, they remain poorly understood. Based on the structure of the TCR chains and the tissue distribution, γδ cells are represented in a variety of populations. The major subset of human peripheral blood γδ cells express Vγ9Vδ2 TCR heterodimers and are all stimulated by phosphorylated metabolites (commonly called phosphoantigens). Phosphoantigens are molecules with a very small mass and only stimulate Vγ9Vδ2 cells in the presence of antigen-presenting cells, suggesting a strict requirement for dedicated antigen-presenting molecules. Recent studies have identified butyrophilin (BTN) 3A1 as the molecule necessary to stimulate Vγ9Vδ2 cells. BTN3A1 extracellular, transmembrane, and cytoplasmic domains have different functions, including cognate interaction with the Vγ9Vδ2 TCR, binding of the phosphoantigens, and interaction with cytoplasmic proteins. This review mainly discusses the known molecular mechanisms of BTN3A1-mediated antigen presentation to γδ cells and proposes a model of phosphoantigen presentation, which integrates past and recent studies.
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- Gennaro De Libero
- Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) , Singapore , Singapore ; Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland
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- Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) , Singapore , Singapore
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- Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) , Singapore , Singapore ; Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland
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γδ T cells represent a small population of overall T lymphocytes (0.5-5%) and have variable tissue distribution in the body. γδ T cells can perform complex functions, such as immune surveillance, immunoregulation, and effector function, without undergoing clonal expansion. Heterogeneous distribution and anatomic localization of γδ T cells in the normal and inflamed tissues play an important role in alloimmunity, autoimmunity, or immunity. The cross-talk between γδ T cells and other immune cells and phenotypic and functional plasticity of γδ T cells have been given recent attention in the field of immunology. In this review, we discussed the cellular and molecular interaction of γδ T cells with other immune cells and its mechanism in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases.
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- Sourav Paul
- National Centre for Cell Science, Pune University Campus, Pune, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, Pune University Campus, Pune, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, Pune University Campus, Pune, India
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Hidalgo JV, Bronsert P, Orlowska-Volk M, Díaz LB, Stickeler E, Werner M, Schmitt-Graeff A, Kayser G, Malkovsky M, Fisch P. Histological Analysis of γδ T Lymphocytes Infiltrating Human Triple-Negative Breast Carcinomas. Front Immunol 2014; 5:632. [PMID: 25540645 PMCID: PMC4261817 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 11/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women and the second most common cancer worldwide after lung cancer. The remarkable heterogeneity of breast cancers influences numerous diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic factors. Triple-negative breast carcinomas (TNBCs) lack expression of HER2 and the estrogen and progesterone receptors and often contain lymphocytic infiltrates. Most of TNBCs are invasive ductal carcinomas (IDCs) with poor prognosis, whereas prognostically more favorable subtypes such as medullary breast carcinomas (MBCs) are somewhat less frequent. Infiltrating T-cells have been associated with an improved clinical outcome in TNBCs. The prognostic role of γδ T-cells within CD3+ tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes remains unclear. We analyzed 26 TNBCs, 14 IDCs, and 12 MBCs, using immunohistochemistry for the quantity and patterns of γδ T-cell infiltrates within the tumor microenvironment. In both types of TNBCs, we found higher numbers of γδ T-cells in comparison with normal breast tissues and fibroadenomas. The numbers of infiltrating γδ T-cells were higher in MBCs than in IDCs. γδ T-cells in MBCs were frequently located in direct contact with tumor cells, within the tumor and at its invasive border. In contrast, most γδ T-cells in IDCs were found in clusters within the tumor stroma. These findings could be associated with the fact that the patient’s prognosis in MBCs is better than that in IDCs. Further studies to characterize these γδ T-cells at the molecular and functional level are in progress.
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- Jose Villacorta Hidalgo
- Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany ; Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany ; University Hospital "José de San Martin", University of Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany ; Comprehensive Cancer Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
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- University Hospital "José de San Martin", University of Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany ; Comprehensive Cancer Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health , Madison, WI , USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg Medical Center , Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
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Young NA, Sharma R, Friedman AK, Kaffenberger BH, Bolon B, Jarjour WN. Aberrant muscle antigen exposure in mice is sufficient to cause myositis in a Treg cell-deficient milieu. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 65:3259-70. [PMID: 24022275 PMCID: PMC4033530 DOI: 10.1002/art.38184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 08/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Objective Myositis is associated with muscle-targeted inflammation and is observed in some Treg cell–deficient mouse models. Because an autoimmune pathogenesis has been strongly implicated, the aim of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that abnormal exposure to muscle antigens, as observed in muscle injury, can induce autoimmune-mediated myositis in susceptible hosts. Methods FoxP3 mutant (scurfy) mice were mated to synaptotagmin VII (Syt VII) mutant mice, which resulted in a new mouse strain that combines impaired membrane resealing with Treg cell deficiency. Lymphocyte preparations from double-mutant mice were adoptively transferred intraperitoneally, with or without purified Treg cells, into recombination-activating gene 1 (RAG-1)–null recipients. Lymph node cells from mice with the FoxP3 mutation were transferred into RAG-1–null mice either 1) intraperitoneally in conjunction with muscle homogenate or purified myosin protein or 2) intramuscularly with or without cotransfer of purified Treg cells. Results FoxP3-deficient mouse lymph node cells transferred in conjunction with myosin protein or muscle homogenate induced robust skeletal muscle inflammation. The infiltrates consisted predominantly of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, a limited number of macrophages, and no B cells. Significant inflammation was also seen in similar experiments using lymph node cells from FoxP3/Syt VII double-mutant mice but was absent in experiments using adoptive transfer of FoxP3 mutant mouse cells alone. The cotransfer of Treg cells completely suppressed myositis. Conclusion These data, derived from a new, reproducible model, demonstrate the critical roles of Treg cell deficiency and aberrant muscle antigen exposure in the priming of autoreactive cells to induce myositis. This mouse system has multifaceted potential for examining the interplay in vivo between tissue injury and autoimmunity.
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Watanabe S, Takubo N, Hirai I, Hitsumoto Y. IgG and IgA antibody titers against human heat-shock protein (hsp60) in sera of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis patients. Mod Rheumatol 2014; 13:22-6. [PMID: 24387112 DOI: 10.3109/s101650300003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Abstract To learn whether heat-shock proteins (HSP) are involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), antirecombinant human heat-shock protein 60 (hsp60) IgG and IgA in sera of RA and osteoarthritis (OA) patients were investigated. Only the anti-hsp60 IgG titer of seropositive (RF-positive) patients was found to be elevated. Although RF titers of the sera of seropositive RA patients were increased, there was no correlation between the individual anti-hsp60 IgG titer and the corresponding RF titer. In contrast, all the anti-hsp60 IgA titers of the sera of OA, seronegative RA, and seropositive RA patients were found to be elevated. Among them, only the serum IgA concentration of seropositive RA patients was increased. Thus, it was suggested that the increased anti-hsp60 IgG reflects the pathogenesis of RA and its activity. It was also suggested that the increased anti-hsp60 IgA response reflects an involvement of hsp60 in the pathogenesis of arthritides rather than the pathogenesis of RA.
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- S Watanabe
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ehime University School of Medicine , Shitsukawa Shigenobu-cho, Onsen-gun, Ehime 791-0295 , Japan
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Aggarwal N, Fischer J, Swerdlow SH, Craig FE. Splenic lymphoid subsets with less well-recognized phenotypes mimic aberrant antigen expression. Am J Clin Pathol 2013; 140:787-94. [PMID: 24225744 DOI: 10.1309/ajcppibh3i1vrwxq] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES Flow cytometry can assist in the diagnosis of lymphoma by identifying aberrant antigen expression. Recognition of aberrancy requires knowledge of the phenotype of normal lymphoid cells. METHODS Lymphoid subsets were characterized in 20 spleens removed for traumatic rupture, using 8-color flow cytometry. RESULTS Normal variation in splenic lymphoid subsets was highlighted and several well-recognized subsets were identified: CD5+ B cells (20/20 specimens), CD7- T cells (20/20), and CD3 brightγδT cells (16/20). In addition, less well-recognized lymphoid subsets that resemble those described in lymphoma were identified in all specimens: CD5- T cells (4.5 ± 5.1% of T cells), CD2- natural killer (NK) cells (38 ± 7% of NK cells), and CD7dim+ NK cells. Similar populations were identified in 20 control peripheral blood specimens, where they represented a smaller proportion of total lymphoid cells. CONCLUSIONS Familiarity with the phenotype of normal lymphoid subsets can help prevent misinterpreting flow cytometric data. Furthermore, in the context of neoplastic cells, the phenotype may suggest expanded normal subsets rather than aberrant antigen expression.
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- Nidhi Aggarwal
- Department of Pathology, Division of Hematopathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, Division of Hematopathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, Division of Hematopathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pathology, Division of Hematopathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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Yamashita T, Ochi H, Ishizu N, Ohyagi Y, Mori Y, Arahata S, Ohshima K, Kira JI. [A case of myositis associated with clonal expansion of γδ T cells in peripheral blood and bone marrow]. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2013; 52:227-33. [PMID: 22531654 DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.52.227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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We report a 45-year-old man with myositis associated with clonal expansion of γδ T cells. He was referred to our hospital because of slowly progressive (over 10 years) muscle weakness. On neurological examination, weakness and muscle atrophy were noted in the proximal upper and lower limbs. The level of creatinine kinase (CK) was 1,436 U/L. Neutropenia and monoclonal gammopathy were found in the peripheral blood. Flow cytometric analysis of peripheral blood and bone marrow revealed proliferation of CD3(+)CD4(-)CD8(+) and CD3(+)CD4(-)CD8(-) γδ T cells, and Southern blotting demonstrated a clonally rearranged T-cell receptor Jγ gene in peripheral blood and bone marrow. A biopsy of the right quadriceps muscle showed variations in muscle fiber size, and endomysial mononuclear cell infiltration. The expression of MHC Class I antigen was increased on the surfaces of most of muscle fibers, and TCRδ1 positive-lymphocytes invaded nonnecrotic muscle fiber. After starting treatment with cyclosporin A and steroids, his muscle weakness gradually ameliorated, the CK level decreased and neutrophils increased. Although reports of myositis associated with clonal expansion of γδ T cells are extremely rare, the present case suggests that γδ T cells might play a role in mediating myositis.
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- Taiji Yamashita
- Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
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Born WK, Kemal Aydintug M, O'Brien RL. Diversity of γδ T-cell antigens. Cell Mol Immunol 2013; 10:13-20. [PMID: 23085946 PMCID: PMC4003174 DOI: 10.1038/cmi.2012.45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2012] [Accepted: 08/28/2012] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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In the last two decades, it has become clear that γδ T cells recognize a diverse array of antigens including self and foreign, large and small, and peptidic and non-peptidic molecules. In this respect, γδ antigens as a whole resemble more the antigens recognized by antibodies than those recognized by αβ T cells. Because of this antigenic diversity, no single mechanism-such as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restriction of αβ T cells-is likely to provide a basis for all observed T-cell antigen receptor (TCR)-dependent γδ T-cell responses. Furthermore, available evidence suggests that many individual γδ T cells are poly-specific, probably using different modes of ligand recognition in their responses to unrelated antigens. While posing a unique challenge in the maintenance of self-tolerance, this broad reactivity pattern might enable multiple overlapping uses of γδ T-cell populations, and thus generate a more efficient immune response.
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- Willi K Born
- Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206, USA.
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Preuße C, Goebel HH, Held J, Wengert O, Scheibe F, Irlbacher K, Koch A, Heppner FL, Stenzel W. Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy is characterized by a specific Th1-M1 polarized immune profile. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2012; 181:2161-71. [PMID: 23058368 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.08.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Revised: 08/21/2012] [Accepted: 08/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is considered one of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, comprising dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis. The heterogeneous group of necrotizing myopathies shows a varying amount of necrotic muscle fibers, myophagocytosis, and a sparse inflammatory infiltrate. The underlying immune response in necrotizing myopathy has not yet been addressed in detail. Affected muscle tissue, obtained from 16 patients with IMNM, was analyzed compared with eight non-IMNM (nIMNM) tissues. Inflammatory cells were characterized by IHC, and immune mediators were assessed by quantitative real-time PCR. We demonstrate that immune- and non-immune-mediated disease can be distinguished by a specific immune profile with significantly more prominent major histocompatibility complex class I expression and complement deposition and a conspicuous inflammatory infiltrate. In addition, patients with IMNM exhibit a strong type 1 helper T cell (T1)/classically activated macrophage M1 response, with detection of elevated interferon-γ, tumor necrosis factor-α, IL-12, and STAT1 levels in the muscle tissue, which may serve as biomarkers and aid in diagnostic decisions. Furthermore, B cells and high expression of the chemoattractant CXCL13 were identified in a subgroup of patients with defined autoantibodies. Taken together, we propose a diagnostic armamentarium that allows for clear differentiation between IMNM and nIMNM. In addition, we have characterized a Th1-driven, M1-mediated immune response in most of the autoimmune necrotizing myopathies, which may guide therapeutic options in the future.
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- Corinna Preuße
- Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Germany
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Bruder J, Siewert K, Obermeier B, Malotka J, Scheinert P, Kellermann J, Ueda T, Hohlfeld R, Dornmair K. Target specificity of an autoreactive pathogenic human γδ-T cell receptor in myositis. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:20986-95. [PMID: 22549773 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.356709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In polymyositis and inclusion body myositis, muscle fibers are surrounded and invaded by CD8-positive cytotoxic T cells expressing the αβ-T cell receptor (αβ-TCR) for antigen. In a rare variant of myositis, muscle fibers are similarly attacked by CD8-negative T cells expressing the γδ-TCR (γδ-T cell-mediated myositis). We investigated the antigen specificity of a human γδ-TCR previously identified in an autoimmune tissue lesion of γδ-T cell-mediated myositis. We show that this Vγ1.3Vδ2-TCR, termed M88, recognizes various proteins from different species. Several of these proteins belong to the translational apparatus, including some bacterial and human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (AA-RS). Specifically, M88 recognizes histidyl-tRNA synthetase, an antigen known to be also targeted by autoantibodies called anti-Jo-1. The M88 target epitope is strictly conformational, independent of post-translational modification, and exposed on the surface of the respective antigenic protein. Extensive mutagenesis of the translation initiation factor-1 from Escherichia coli (EcIF1), which served as a paradigm antigen with known structure, showed that a short α-helical loop around amino acids 39 to 42 of EcIF1 is a major part of the M88 epitope. Mutagenesis of M88 showed that the complementarity determining regions 3 of both γδ-TCR chains contribute to antigen recognition. M88 is the only known example of a molecularly characterized γδ-TCR expressed by autoaggressive T cells in tissue. The observation that AA-RS are targeted by a γδ-T cell and by autoantibodies reveals an unexpected link between T cell and antibody responses in autoimmune myositis.
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- Jessica Bruder
- Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig Maximilians University, D-81377 Munich, Germany
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Dalakas MC. Pathophysiology of inflammatory and autoimmune myopathies. Presse Med 2011; 40:e237-47. [PMID: 21411269 DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2011.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2010] [Accepted: 01/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The main subtypes of inflammatory myopathies include dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), necrotizing autoimmune myositis (NAM) and sporadic inclusion-body myositis (sIBM). The review provides an update on the main clinical characteristics unique to each subset, including fundamental aspects on muscle pathology helpful to assure accurate diagnosis, underlying immunopathomechanisms and therapeutic strategies. DM is a complement-mediated microangiopathy leading to destruction of capillaries, distal hypoperfusion and inflammatory cell stress on the perifascicular regions. NAM is an increasingly recognized subacute myopathy triggered by statins, viral infections, cancer or autoimmunity with macrophages as the final effector cells mediating fiber injury. PM and IBM are characterized by cytotoxic CD8-positive T cells which clonally expand in situ and invade MHC-I-expressing muscle fibers. In IBM, in addition to autoimmunity, there is vacuolization and intrafiber accumulation of degenerative and stressor molecules. Pro-inflammatory mediators, such as gamma interferon and interleukin IL1-β, seem to enhance the accumulation of stressor and amyloid-related misfolded proteins. Current therapies using various immunosuppressive and immunomodulating drugs are discussed for PM, DM and NAM, and the principles for effective treatment strategies in IBM are outlined.
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- Marinos C Dalakas
- National University of Athens Medical School, Department of Pathophysiology, 11527 Athens, Greece.
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Born WK, Yin Z, Hahn YS, Sun D, O'Brien RL. Analysis of gamma delta T cell functions in the mouse. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2010; 184:4055-61. [PMID: 20368285 PMCID: PMC4476288 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Mouse models of disease and injury have been invaluable in investigations of the functional role of gammadelta T cells. They show that gammadelta T cells engage in immune responses both early and late, that they can function both polyclonally and as peripherally selected clones, and that they can be effector cells and immune regulators. They also suggest that functional development of gammadelta T cells occurs stepwise in thymus and periphery, and that it is governed by gammadelta TCR-signaling and other signals. Finally, they indicate that gammadelta T cell functions often segregate with TCR-defined subsets, in contrast to conventional T cells. From the functional studies in mice and other animal models, gammadelta T cells emerge as a distinct lymphocyte population with a unique and broad functional repertoire, and with important roles in Ab responses, inflammation and tissue repair. They also are revealed as a potentially useful target for immune intervention.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Inflammation Mediators/physiology
- Mice
- Models, Animal
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/classification
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/physiology
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/classification
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/pathology
- Thymus Gland/embryology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/pathology
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- Willi K Born
- Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206, USA.
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Nian H, Shao H, Zhang G, Born WK, O'Brien RL, Kaplan HJ, Sun D. Regulatory effect of gammadelta T cells on IL-17+ uveitogenic T cells. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2010; 51:4661-7. [PMID: 20375337 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-5045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To characterize the regulatory effect of gammadelta T cells in the activation of IL-17+ uveitogenic T cells. METHODS The authors administered the gammadelta TCR-specific antibody GL3 to B6 mice before or after antigen immunization and examined Th1- or Th17-polarized T-cell responses. The intensity of Th17 responses was also examined in responder T cells containing varying numbers of gammadelta T cells. RESULTS GL3 treatment resulted in varying degrees of depletion of circulating gammadelta T cells, depending on when the antibody was administered. The intensity of the alphabetaTCR+IL-17+, but not the alphabetaTCR+IFN-gamma+, IRBP-specific T-cell responses was correlated to the percentage of gammadelta T cells in the responder T cells. Kinetic studies showed that early IL-17+ T cells were primarily gammadelta T cells, with a later gradual shift to alphabeta T cells. A close association was seen between the intensity of the IL-17+ autoreactive T-cell response and the percentage of gammadelta T cells in the responder T cells. Although a modest increase in gammadelta T cells among the responder T cells promoted the expansion of IL-17+ alphabetaTCR+ T cells, a higher proportion of gammadelta T cells inhibited it. CONCLUSIONS gammadelta T cells are actively involved in the generation of alphabetaTCR+IL-17+ T cells. The number of gammadelta T cells and the alphabeta/gammadelta T-cell ratio in the responder T cells regulate the intensity of the Th17-type autoreactive T-cell response.
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- Hong Nian
- Doheny Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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Effects of 15-deoxy-delta12,14-prostaglandin J2 (15d-PGJ2) and rosiglitazone on human gammadelta2 T cells. PLoS One 2009; 4:e7726. [PMID: 19888466 PMCID: PMC2766831 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2009] [Accepted: 10/09/2009] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Thiazolidinediones (TZD) class of drugs, and 15-deoxy-D12,14-prostaglandin J2 (15d-PGJ2) are immune regulators predicted to modulate human autoimmune disease. Their effects on gammadelta T cells, which are involved in animal model and human and animal autoimmune diseases, are unknown. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We characterized the activity of rosiglitazone (from the TZD class of drugs) and 15d-PGJ2 in human Vdelta2 T cells. We found that 15d-PGJ2 and rosiglitazone had different effects on Vdelta2 T cell functions. Both 15d-PGJ2 and rosiglitazone suppressed Vdelta2 T cell proliferation in response to IPP and IL2. However, only 15d-PGJ2 suppressed functional responses including cytokine production, degranulation and cytotoxicity against tumor cells. The mechanism for 15d-PGJ2 effects on Vdelta2 T cells acts through inhibiting Erk activation. In contrast, rosiglitazone did not affect Erk activation but the IL2 signaling pathway, which accounts for rosiglitazone suppression of IL2-dependent, Vdelta2 T cell proliferation without affecting TCR-dependent functions. Rosiglitazone and 15d-PGJ2 are designed to be peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) ligands and PPARgamma was expressed in Vdelta2 T cell. Surprisingly, when PPARgamma levels were lowered by specific siRNA, 15d-PGJ2 and rosiglitazone were still active, suggesting their target of action induces cellular proteins other than PPARgamma. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE The current findings expand our understanding of how the immune system is regulated by rosiglitazone and 15d-PGJ2 and will be important to evaluate these compounds as therapeutic agents in human autoimmune disease.
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Dornmair K, Meinl E, Hohlfeld R. Novel approaches for identifying target antigens of autoreactive human B and T cells. Semin Immunopathol 2009; 31:467-77. [PMID: 19763575 PMCID: PMC2845891 DOI: 10.1007/s00281-009-0179-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2009] [Accepted: 08/13/2009] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Antigen-specific immune responses in multiple sclerosis have been studied for decades, but the target antigens of the putatively autoaggressive B and T cells still remain elusive. Here, we summarize recent strategies which are based on the direct analysis of biopsy or autopsy specimens from patients. Since this material is extremely scarce, the experimental methods need to be exceptionally sensitive. We describe technologies to distinguish (auto) aggressive T cells from irrelevant bystander lymphocytes by analyzing clonal expansions in relation to the morphological location of the cells in the tissue lesions. We then discuss approaches to clone matching α- and β-chains of the antigen-specific T cell receptor (TCR) molecules from single T cells. This is necessary because usually, several clones are expanded and are diluted by many irrelevant cells. The matching TCR chains from individual T cells can be resurrected in hybridoma cells which may then be used for antigen searches. We discuss strategies to identify antigens of γδ- and αβ-TCR molecules, such as biochemical methods, candidate antigens, human leukocyte antigen requirements, synthetic peptide, and cDNA libraries. These strategies are tailored to characterize the antigens of the membrane-anchored, low-affinity TCR molecules. The strategies to identify (auto) reactive B cells or immunoglobulin (Ig) molecules are fundamentally different, because Ig molecules are water-soluble and have high affinities. We further discuss proteome-based approaches, techniques that analyze Ig-chains from single B cells, and a repertoire-based method that compares Ig-proteomes and Ig-transcriptomes. The first method detects Ig antigens directly, whereas the latter two methods allow reconstruction of Ig molecules, which can be used for antigen searches.
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- Klaus Dornmair
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Martinsried, Germany.
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Born WK, O'Brien RL. Antigen-restricted gammadelta T-cell receptors? Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz) 2009; 57:129-35. [PMID: 19333730 DOI: 10.1007/s00005-009-0017-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2008] [Accepted: 02/03/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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After more than two decades of investigation, the biological role of the gammadelta T-cell receptors (TCRs) remains elusive. In fact, a theory of ligand recognition is still lacking that accounts for their adaptable structure, their peripheral selection, and the observed responses of gammadelta T cells, which do not require immunization but only include cells sharing germline-encoded components of the TCR. Assuming that all gammadelta T cells recognize ligands by a common mechanism, we now propose that germline-encoded components of the gammadelta TCRs provide for the specific recognition of a select set of antigenic determinants (Ags) which appear on the cell surface in various molecular associations. Furthermore, we hypothesize that the adaptivity of the gammadelta TCRs serves to increase affinity for the molecules with which these Ags associate rather than for the Ags themselves. Here we outline this hypothetical mechanism and discuss its possible implications for thymic selection and potential for complementing known innate and adaptive mechanisms of immune defense.
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- Willi K Born
- Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA.
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Cheng L, Cui Y, Shao H, Han G, Zhu L, Huang Y, O'Brien RL, Born WK, Kaplan HJ, Sun D. Mouse gammadelta T cells are capable of expressing MHC class II molecules, and of functioning as antigen-presenting cells. J Neuroimmunol 2009; 203:3-11. [PMID: 18774183 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2008.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2008] [Revised: 05/30/2008] [Accepted: 06/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Although human and bovine gammadelta T cells were shown to express MHC class II antigen and function as APCs, attempts to determine if mouse gammabeta T cells have similar functions remained unsuccessful. We now show that gammadelta T cells derived from immunized mice also can be induced to express MHC class II and co-stimulatory molecules after activation in vitro, and are capable of antigen presentation. Using highly purified gammadelta T cells, we found that, unlike human gammadelta T cells, the expression of MHC class II molecules by mouse gammadelta T cells is limited to newly activated cells. Highest levels of MHC class II expression were seen on activated gammadelta T cells that had lost most surface-expressed gammadelta TCR while exhibiting increased levels of intracellular gammadelta TCR. In the absence of further stimulation, MHC class II expression gradually declined with the gammadelta T cells regaining their surface TCR. We also show that cytokine-activated gammadelta T cells can also express MHC class II antigen and exercise antigen-presenting activity.
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- Lan Cheng
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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Serratrice J, Figarella-Branger D, Schleinitz N, Pellissier JF, Serratrice G. Miopatie infiammatorie. Neurologia 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1634-7072(08)70522-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Verity MA. Diagnostic uncertainty in the inflammatory myopathies. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol 2007; 21:1051-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.10.004] [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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Chandesris MO, Crétel-Durand E, Jean R, Rey J, Figarella-Branger D, Sainty D, Durand JM. Lymphome T gamma delta avec atteinte méningée exclusive révélé par une dermatomyosite. Rev Med Interne 2007; 28:552-5. [PMID: 17559983 DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2007.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2007] [Accepted: 04/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Peripheral T cell lymphomas are a heterogeneous group of post-thymic, mature lymphoid malignancies, accounting for approximately 10-15% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. A rare entity within this group is represented by hepatosplenic T cell lymphoma, characterized by primary extranodal disease with infiltration of the liver and the spleen and by expression of the T cell receptor gamma delta chain. EXEGESIS A 64-year old man with dermatomyositis developed rapid-onset paraparesia and deafness. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis revealed large granular lymphomatous cells with CD3+ CD4- CD8- CD7+ CD16- CD56- surface antigens, expressing the gamma delta T-cell receptor. There was no evidence of skin or bone marrow infiltration by lymphoma or any other involvement. This is the first report of dermatomyositis associated with a gamma delta T-cell lymphoma (GDTL). Moreover, primitive and isolated meningeal involvement of such lymphomas has never been described before. CONCLUSION GDTL should be added to the differential list of neoplasia associated with dermatomyositis. Physiopathological mechanisms implicated in the neurological involvement of such lymphomas need to be elucidated.
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- M-O Chandesris
- Service de médecine interne, CHU de La Conception, 147, boulevard Baille, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
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Takeda N, Seko Y, Oriuchi N, Nagai R. Gamma-delta T-cell-mediated dilated cardiomyopathy. Int J Cardiol 2007; 125:130-2. [PMID: 17433841 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2006] [Accepted: 01/01/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Gamma-delta T-cells are usually minor component of peripheral blood and lymphoid tissues, but may play an important role in autoimmune diseases. We here describe the first case of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) with heart infiltration by mostly gamma-delta T-cells, who improved significantly by steroid therapy. In general, steroid therapy has only a little effect on DCM, however these findings might have implications with respect to the selection of patients who might respond to immunosuppressive therapy.
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Born WK, Jin N, Aydintug MK, Wands JM, French JD, Roark CL, O'Brien RL. gammadelta T lymphocytes-selectable cells within the innate system? J Clin Immunol 2007; 27:133-44. [PMID: 17333410 DOI: 10.1007/s10875-007-9077-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2007] [Accepted: 01/22/2007] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Lymphocytes expressing gammadelta T cell receptors (TCR) constitute an entire system of functionally specialized subsets that have been implicated in the regulation of immune responses, including responses to pathogens and allergens, and in tissue repair. The gammadelta TCRs share structural features with adaptive receptors and peripheral selection of gammadelta T cells occurs. Nevertheless, their specificities may be primarily directed at self-determinants, and the responses of gammadelta T cells exhibit innate characteristics. Continuous cross talk between gammadelta T cells and myeloid cells is evident in histological studies and in in vitro co-culture experiments, suggesting that gammadelta T cells play a functional role as an integral component of the innate immune system.
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- Willi K Born
- Department of Immunology at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, Colorado 80206, USA.
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Seitz S, Schneider CK, Malotka J, Nong X, Engel AG, Wekerle H, Hohlfeld R, Dornmair K. Reconstitution of paired T cell receptor alpha- and beta-chains from microdissected single cells of human inflammatory tissues. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:12057-62. [PMID: 16882720 PMCID: PMC1567696 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604247103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We describe a strategy to "revive" putatively pathogenic T cells from frozen specimens of human inflammatory target organs. To distinguish pathogenic from irrelevant bystander T cells, we focused on cells that were (i) clonally expanded and (ii) in direct morphological contact with a target cell. Using CDR3 spectratyping, we identified clonally expanded T cell receptor (TCR) beta-chains in muscle sections of patients with inflammatory muscle diseases. By immunohistochemistry, we identified those Vbeta-positive T cells that fulfilled the morphological criteria of myocytotoxicity and isolated them by laser microdissection. Next, we identified coexpressed pairs of TCR alpha- and beta-chains by a multiplex PCR protocol, which allows the concomitant amplification of both chains from single cells. This concomitant amplification had not been achieved previously in histological sections, mainly because of the paucity of available anti-alpha-chain antibodies and the great heterogeneity of the alpha-chain genes. From muscle tissue of a patient with polymyositis, we isolated 64 T cells that expressed an expanded Vbeta1 chain. In 23 of these cells, we identified the corresponding alpha-chain. Twenty of these 23 alpha-chains were identical, suggesting antigen-driven selection. After functional reconstitution of the alphabeta-pairs, their antigen-recognition properties could be studied. Our results open avenues for combined analysis of the full TCR alpha- and beta-chain repertoire in human inflammatory tissues.
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- Sabine Seitz
- Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig Maximilians University, D-81377 Munich, Germany
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany; and
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- Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig Maximilians University, D-81377 Munich, Germany
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany; and
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- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany; and
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- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany; and
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- Department of Neurology and Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905
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- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany; and
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- Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig Maximilians University, D-81377 Munich, Germany
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany; and
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- Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig Maximilians University, D-81377 Munich, Germany
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany; and
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Neumann J, Bilzer T. Evidence for MHC I–restricted CD8+ T-cell–mediated immunopathology in canine masticatory muscle myositis and polymyositis. Muscle Nerve 2006; 33:215-24. [PMID: 16270307 DOI: 10.1002/mus.20456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Masticatory muscle myositis (MMM) is the most common inflammatory myopathy (IM) in dogs, associated with antibodies against myosin. To further elucidate the immunopathogenesis, we investigated muscles of 53 dogs with MMM, 32 dogs with polymyositis (PM), and 4 dogs suffering from both, with regard to the presence and location of CD4(+) and CD8(+)T cells, B cells, macrophages, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II antigens, and autoantibodies. CD8(+)T cells were found in MMM (91%) and PM (75%), mostly paralleled (68% and 61%) by enhanced expression of MHC class I antigen on muscle fibers. CD8(+)T cells invading intact and neighboring necrotic muscle fibers were present in MMM (39%) and PM (42%). Dogs with MMM lacking intramuscular (26%) and circulating (36%) autoantibodies also had CD8(+) T-cell infiltrations and muscle-fiber lesions. Since MHC class I antigen and CD8(+) T cells were detected in the presence of CD4(+) T cells, regardless of antimuscular antibodies, we consider MMM and PM in the dog as a CD8(+) T-cell-mediated immunopathological disease that initiates muscle-fiber destruction and leads to production of myosin autoantibodies.
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- J Neumann
- Institut für Neuropathologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Battistini L, Caccamo N, Borsellino G, Meraviglia S, Angelini DF, Dieli F, Cencioni MT, Salerno A. Homing and memory patterns of human γδ T cells in physiopathological situations. Microbes Infect 2005; 7:510-7. [PMID: 15804491 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2004.12.008] [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: 09/29/2004] [Accepted: 12/14/2004] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Vgamma9Vdelta2 are a heterogeneous population of T cells and comprise distinct naive, memory and effector populations that can be distinguished on the basis of surface marker expression and effector functions. We review here these recently studied features of Vgamma9Vdelta2 T lymphocyte biology and the roles they play in infectious and autoimmune diseases.
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- Luca Battistini
- Neuroimmunology Unit, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, 00179 Rome, Italy
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Dornmair K, Schneider CK, Malotka J, Dechant G, Wiendl H, Hohlfeld R. Antigen recognition properties of a Vgamma1.3Vdelta2-T-cell receptor from a rare variant of polymyositis. J Neuroimmunol 2004; 152:168-75. [PMID: 15223249 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2003] [Revised: 03/22/2004] [Accepted: 03/24/2004] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Previously we partially characterized an autoreactive human Vgamma1.3Vdelta2-T-cell receptor (TCR) that had originally been identified in muscle of a patient with an unusual form of polymyositis. This TCR recognizes a muscle-associated auto-antigen in a CDR3-dependent, MHC non-restricted way. Here we show that this TCR also recognizes an antigen from Escherichia coli. Like the muscle-associated mammalian antigen, the bacterial antigen is recognized in a CDR3-dependent, but MHC-non-restricted way. Both antigens have strikingly similar molecular characteristics suggesting that their epitopes are at least very similar. The dissociation kinetics of the bacterial antigen-TCR complexes was investigated by surface plasmon resonance using soluble single-chain TCR molecules produced in COS-7 cells. The measured dissociation rate constant (k(off)=5.7 x 10(-3) s(-1)) shows that the complexes dissociate more slowly than most previously described antigen/alphabeta-TCR complexes, but much faster than antibody/antigen pairs. These results (a) provide further insight into the molecular properties of this unusual TCR, and (b) should help in future attempts to identify the elusive target antigen(s).
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Bacterial/immunology
- Autoimmunity/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Escherichia coli/immunology
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Humans
- Polymyositis/immunology
- Protein Binding
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
- Surface Plasmon Resonance
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- Klaus Dornmair
- Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18a, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.
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Scelsa SN, Ghali V, Herskovitz S, Bieri P, Shank DL, MacGowan DDJ, Liau S. Blood ?? T cells,Campylobacter jejuni, and GM1 titers in Guillain-Barr� syndrome. Muscle Nerve 2004; 30:423-32. [PMID: 15372439 DOI: 10.1002/mus.20105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The gammadelta T cells participate in microbial defense, are prevalent in intestinal epithelia, and are activated in autoimmune diseases. We studied whether peripheral blood gammadelta cells and gammadelta subsets are increased in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and whether elevations are associated with Campylobacter jejuni infection or GM1 elevations. In 20 GBS patients, we performed serial flow cytometry studies of blood gammadelta, Vdelta1, and Vdelta2 cells (+/- CD8+), C jejuni, and ganglioside titers. There was no significant difference in median gammadelta T-cell percentages between GBS patients and controls at onset and at convalescence. However, 5 patients had marked Vdelta1/CD8+ elevations. Elevated Vdelta1 or Vdelta1/CD8+ cells occurred in 3 of 6 patients with C jejuni or GM1 titer elevations. A minority of GBS patients have elevations of Vdelta1/CD8+ cells, possibly associated with elevated C jejuni or GM1 titers. The gammadelta T cells may have a cytotoxic (or suppressor) role in the disease.
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- Stephen N Scelsa
- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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Pumarola M, Moore PF, Shelton GD. Canine inflammatory myopathy: Analysis of cellular infiltrates. Muscle Nerve 2004; 29:782-9. [PMID: 15170610 DOI: 10.1002/mus.20043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Inflammatory myopathies (IMs) occur relatively frequently in dogs, and, with the exception of masticatory muscle myositis (MMM), have not been characterized. This study analyzed the distribution and types of cellular infiltrates in 21 cases of generalized IM, 3 cases of focal IM (MMM), and 1 case with features of both generalized and focal IM, using a panel of monoclonal antibodies to cell surface markers. In generalized IM, mononuclear cells showed an endomysial and perimysial distribution with invasion of non-necrotic fibers similar to human IM. T lymphocytes with T-cell receptor (TCR)alphabeta predominated. Distinct differences were seen in MMM including prominent B-cell infiltration, dendritic cells and macrophages in greater numbers than T cells, and numerous T cells with TCRgammadelta. Thus, generalized IM and MMM appear to be distinct diseases with different mechanisms. Canine generalized IM may be an important animal model for human IM.
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- Marti Pumarola
- Department Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Facultat de Veterinaria, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Dornmair K, Goebels N, Weltzien HU, Wekerle H, Hohlfeld R. T-cell-mediated autoimmunity: novel techniques to characterize autoreactive T-cell receptors. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2003; 163:1215-26. [PMID: 14507631 PMCID: PMC1868314 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)63481-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Histological samples of autopsy or biopsy tissue provide the best available evidence that autoreactive T cells are involved in the immunopathogenesis of many autoimmune diseases. However, morphology alone does not provide information on the antigen-specific T-cell receptor (TCR) of these cells, let alone on their antigen specificity. In this review article we discuss a number of emerging possibilities for identifying TCR sequences directly from biopsy tissue. We also review the methods for expressing presumably autoreactive TCR molecules and speculate on how the expressed TCR might be used to identify target antigens. Such information should eventually provide new insights into disease pathogenesis which lead to better therapies.
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- Klaus Dornmair
- Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany.
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The inflammatory myopathies, commonly described as idiopathic, are the largest group of acquired and potentially treatable myopathies. On the basis of unique clinical, histopathological, immunological, and demographic features, they can be differentiated into three major and distinct subsets: dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion-body myositis. Use of new diagnostic criteria is essential to discriminate between them and to exclude other disorders. Dermatomyositis is a microangiopathy affecting skin and muscle; activation and deposition of complement causes lysis of endomysial capillaries and muscle ischaemia. In polymyositis and inclusion-body myositis, clonally expanded CD8-positive cytotoxic T cells invade muscle fibres that express MHC class I antigens, which leads to fibre necrosis via the perforin pathway. In inclusion-body myositis, vacuolar formation with amyloid deposits coexists with the immunological features. The causative autoantigen has not yet been identified. Upregulated vascular-cell adhesion molecule, intercellular adhesion molecule, chemokines, and their receptors promote T-cell transgression, and various cytokines increase the immunopathological process. Early initiation of therapy is essential, since both polymyositis and dermatomyositis respond to immunotherapeutic agents. New immunomodulatory agents currently being tested in controlled trials may prove promising for difficult cases.
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- Marinos C Dalakas
- Neuromuscular Diseases Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1382, USA.
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Gammadelta T lymphocytes from cystic fibrosis patients and healthy donors are high TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma-producers in response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Respir Res 2003; 4:9. [PMID: 14525626 PMCID: PMC203157 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-4-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2003] [Accepted: 09/08/2003] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Gammadelta T cells have an important immunoregulatory and effector function through cytokine release. They are involved in the responses to Gram-negative bacterium and in protection of lung epithelium integrity. On the other hand, they have been implicated in airway inflammation. METHODS The aim of the present work was to study intracytoplasmic IL-2, IL-4, IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha production by gammadelta and alphabeta T lymphocytes from cystic fibrosis patients and healthy donors in response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA). Flow cytometric detection was performed after peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) culture with a cytosolic extract from PA and restimulation with phorbol ester plus ionomycine. Proliferative responses, activation markers and receptor usage of gammadelta T cells were also evaluated. RESULTS The highest production of cytokine was of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma, gammadelta being better producers than alphabeta. No differences were found between patients and controls. The Vgamma9delta2 subset of gammadelta T cells was preferentially expanded. CD25 and CD45RO expression by the alphabeta T subset and PBMC proliferative response to PA were defective in cystic fibrosis lymphocytes. CONCLUSION Our results support the hypothesis that gammadelta T lymphocytes play an important role in the immune response to PA and in the chronic inflammatory lung reaction in cystic fibrosis patients. They do not confirm the involvement of a supressed Th1 cytokine response in the pathogenesis of this disease.
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Roessner K, Wolfe J, Shi C, Sigal LH, Huber S, Budd RC. High expression of Fas ligand by synovial fluid-derived gamma delta T cells in Lyme arthritis. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:2702-10. [PMID: 12594300 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.5.2702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Gamma delta T cells accumulate at epithelial barriers and at sites of inflammation in various infectious and autoimmune diseases, yet little is understood about the function of tissue-infiltrating gamma delta T cells. We observe that gamma delta T cells of the V delta 1 subset accumulate in synovial fluid of human Lyme arthritis and are intensely cytolytic toward a wide array of target cells. Particularly striking is that the cytolytic activity is highly prolonged, lasting for at least 3 wk after stimulation of the gamma delta T cells with Borrelia burgdorferi. Cytolysis is largely Fas dependent and results from very high and prolonged expression of surface Fas ligand, which is transcriptionally regulated. This also manifests in a substantial level of self-induced apoptosis of the gamma delta T cells. In this capacity, certain gamma delta T cell subsets may serve as cytolytic sentinels at sites of inflammation, and perhaps at epithelial barriers.
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- Karen Roessner
- Department of Medicine (Immunobiology), The University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Immune-mediated disorders of each of the structural subdivisions of the nervous and neuromuscular system have been described. Despite the immune privilege of the central nervous system, and to a lesser extent the peripheral nervous system, immune dysregulation is not uncommon. Environmental, genetic, and immunologic factors have been postulated to be involved in the development of these disorders. Major immune-mediated neurologic diseases of the central nervous system include multiple sclerosis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Immune-mediated diseases of the peripheral nervous system include myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, idiopathic polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and inclusion body myositis. Some of these disorders, such as myasthenia gravis and certain forms of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, are clearly autoimmune in nature, whereas the immune system plays an important role in pathogenesis in others. Understanding the immune mechanisms of disease and uncovering potential therapeutic targets are essential for the design of new treatments. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, and current therapeutic approaches to the major neuroimmunologic diseases are reviewed.
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- Tanuja Chitnis
- Center for Neurologic Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Louis Pasteur Avenue, LMRC 1st Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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The limitations associated with the different approaches into the pathogenesis of the IIM have resulted in incomplete knowledge of disease mechanisms in myositis. In most research, in which muscle tissue was used to study the different aspects of disease, biopsies with inflammatory infiltrates have been selected. Although inflammatory cell infiltrates are a characteristic feature of myositis, selecting patients with inflammatory cell infiltrates for investigations naturally introduces a selection bias. Only a few studies have been published on patients without inflammatory infiltrates but with muscle weakness, and few studies have included follow-up biopsies after different therapies. The heterogeneity of the population of patients with myositis is another limitation of the studies of pathogenic mechanisms. Although most studies classify patients according to the Bohan and Peter criteria [118, 119], some studies used histopathologic criteria [6], and only a few studies included characterization with myositis-specific autoantibodies. Because myositis-specific autoantibodies are often associated with certain clinical profiles, classification according to autoantibody profiles could be important to define differences in the pathogenesis of different phenotypes [3]. From available data on pathogenic mechanisms it is evident that cellular and humoral immune responses are involved in disease mechanisms of myositis, but whether there is a muscle-specific immune response cannot be answered by current studies. It is likely that other mechanisms are important for development of muscle weakness, including metabolic disturbances, and muscle weakness could be caused by different mechanisms in different IIM subsets or in patients in different phases of the disease. There could be early changes, which reversibly affect the metabolism, and later, irreversible changes, that could be dependent on muscle fiber damage and replacement of muscle tissue by connective tissue and fat. Current findings suggest that cytokines, which are produced in muscle tissue from different cell sources including inflammatory cells, endothelial cells, and muscle fibers, could affect muscle function. Careful follow-up studies, including the effect of therapies targeting different molecules on molecular expression in muscle tissue, are likely to increase our knowledge on disease mechanisms. A better understanding of which molecules and mechanisms affect muscle function is likely to lead to improved, less toxic therapies in patients with myositis. Many possible target molecules for blocking therapies, especially the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1 and TNF-alpha, have been identified and should be studied in appropriate clinical settings given the currently poor outcomes of many patients with IIM.
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- Ingrid E Lundberg
- Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Hospital, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Morita T, Shimada A, Yashiro S, Takeuchi T, Hikasa Y, Okamoto Y, Mabuchi Y. Myofiber expression of class I major histocompatibility complex accompanied by CD8+ T-cell-associated myofiber injury in a case of canine polymyositis. Vet Pathol 2002; 39:512-5. [PMID: 12126158 DOI: 10.1354/vp.39-4-512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A 7-year-old female Labrador Retriever dog showed extreme muscular weakness, muscle wasting, dysbasia, and mild dysphagia. An elevated value of creatine kinase (335 IU/liter) in the serum was detected. Electromyographic findings included increased insertional activity, fibrillation potentials, and bizarre high-frequency repetitive potentials. Histopathologic examination of skeletal muscles revealed myofiber necrosis and phagocytosis, regeneration of myofibers, and perivascular, perimysial, and endomysial infiltrations of lymphocytes, macrophages and plasma cells. Immunohistochemical evaluation demonstrated that infiltrative cells in the early stage of myositis were CD8+ T-cells and that an increased expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I was apparent on the surface of nonnecrotic muscle fibers. In contrast, many CD3+ cells (T cells) and HLA-DR-positive macrophages and B lymphocytes were found in the severely affected areas. These results suggest that both expression of MHC class I and CD8+ T-cell infiltration may play an important role in initiation of myositis. These histopathologic findings resemble those reported in naturally occurring polymyositis in humans.
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- T Morita
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Tottori University, Japan.
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Wiendl H, Malotka J, Holzwarth B, Weltzien HU, Wekerle H, Hohlfeld R, Dornmair K. An autoreactive gamma delta TCR derived from a polymyositis lesion. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:515-21. [PMID: 12077283 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.1.515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
To investigate the role of gammadelta T cells in human autoimmune disease we expressed and characterized a gammadelta TCR from an autoimmune tissue lesion. The TCR was first identified in a rare form of polymyositis characterized by a monoclonal infiltrate of gammadelta T cells which invaded and destroyed skeletal muscle fibers. The Vgamma1.3-Jgamma1-Cgamma1/Vdelta2-Jdelta3 TCR cDNA of the original muscle invasive gammadelta T cell clone was reconstructed from unrelated cDNA and transfected into the mouse hybridoma BW58alpha(-)beta(-). Appropriate anti-human gammadelta TCR Abs stimulated the TCR transfectants to produce IL-2, thus demonstrating that the human gammadelta TCR functionally interacted with murine signaling components. The transfected Vgamma1.3/Vdelta2 TCR recognized a cytosolic protein expressed in cultured human myoblasts and TE671 rhabdomyosarcoma cells. The Ag was recognized in the absence of presenting cells. Using a panel of control gammadelta TCR transfectants with defined exchanges in different positions of both TCR chains, we showed that the gammadelta TCR recognized its Ag in a TCR complementarity-determining region 3-dependent way. To our knowledge, this is the first example of a molecularly defined gammadelta TCR directly derived from an autoimmune tissue lesion. The strategy used in this study may be applicable to other autoimmune diseases.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Autoantigens/genetics
- Autoantigens/immunology
- Autoantigens/metabolism
- Autoimmune Diseases/genetics
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Autoimmune Diseases/pathology
- Clone Cells
- Complementarity Determining Regions/genetics
- Complementarity Determining Regions/physiology
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/physiology
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle Proteins/immunology
- Muscle Proteins/metabolism
- Polymyositis/genetics
- Polymyositis/immunology
- Polymyositis/pathology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/pathology
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Affiliation(s)
- Heinz Wiendl
- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
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