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Litjens NHR, van der List ACJ, Klepper M, Reijerkerk D, Prevoo F, Betjes MGH. Older age is associated with a distinct and marked reduction of functionality of both alloreactive CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. Front Immunol 2024; 15:1406716. [PMID: 39044836 PMCID: PMC11263037 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1406716] [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: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024] Open
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Introduction Older recipient age is associated with a significant decreased risk for rejection after kidney transplantation which is incompletely understood. Methods In a longitudinal study, circulating alloreactive T cells were assessed of young (≤45 years) and older (≥55 years) stable kidney transplant recipients. Alloreactive T-cells were identified by CD137-expression and phenotype, cytokine producing and proliferative capacity, were evaluated using multiparameter flowcytometry. Results The results show that before transplantation frequencies of alloreactive CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells in older KT-recipients are significantly higher and shifted towards an effector memory-phenotype. However, the frequency of polyfunctional (≥2 pro-inflammatory cytokines) CD4+ T-cells was significantly lower and less IL2 was produced. The frequency of polyfunctional alloreactive CD4+ T-cells and proliferation of alloreactive T-cells donor-specifically declined after transplantation reaching a nadir at 12 months after transplantation, irrespective of age. A striking difference was observed for the proliferative response of alloreactive CD8+ T-cells. This was not only lower in older compared to younger recipients but could also not be restored by exogenous IL2 or IL15 in the majority of older recipients while the response to polyclonal stimulation was unaffected. Conclusion In conclusion, older age is associated with a distinct and marked reduction of functionality of both alloreactive CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells.
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The microbiota and aging microenvironment in pancreatic cancer: Cell origin and fate. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer 2022; 1877:188826. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2022.188826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Thomas R, Oh J, Wang W, Su DM. Thymic atrophy creates holes in Treg-mediated immuno-regulation via impairment of an antigen-specific clone. Immunology 2021; 163:478-492. [PMID: 33786850 DOI: 10.1111/imm.13333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Age-related thymic atrophy results in reduced output of naïve conventional T (Tcon) cells. However, its impact on regulatory T (Treg) cells is insufficiently understood. Given evidence that thymic Treg (tTreg) cell generation is enhanced in the aged, atrophy thymus and that the aged periphery accumulates peripheral Treg (pTreg) cells, we asked why these Treg cells are unable to effectively attenuate increased autoreactivity-induced chronic inflammation in the elderly. We designed a mock-self-antigen chimera mouse model, in which membrane-bound ovalbumin (mOVA) transgenic mice, bearing a FoxN1-floxed gene for induction of conditional thymic atrophy, received OVA-specific (OT-II) T-cell receptor (TCR) transgenic progenitor cells. The chimeric mice with thymic atrophy exhibited a significant decrease in OVA-specific tTreg and pTreg cells but not polyclonal (pan)-Treg cells. These OVA-specific pTreg cells were significantly less able to suppress OVA-specific stimulation-induced proliferation in vitro and exhibited lower FoxP3 expression. Additionally, we conducted preliminary TCR repertoire diversity sequencing for Treg cells among recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) from RagGFP -FoxP3RFP dual-reporter mice and observed a trend for decreased diversity in mice with thymic atrophy compared to littermates with normal thymus. These data indicate that although the effects of age-related thymic atrophy do not affect pan-Treg generation, certain tissue-specific Treg clones may experience abnormal agonist selection. This, combined with enhanced pan-pTreg cells, may greatly contribute to age-related chronic inflammation, even in the absence of acute autoimmune disease in the elderly.
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- Rachel Thomas
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Heinbokel T, Quante M, Iske J, Nian Y, Maenosono R, Minami K, Liu Y, Azuma H, Elkhal A, Tullius SG. CTLA4-Ig prolongs graft survival specifically in young but not old mice. Am J Transplant 2021; 21:488-502. [PMID: 32717114 PMCID: PMC7855762 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.16218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Revised: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Elderly organ transplant recipients have remained underrepresented in clinical trials, despite representing a rapidly growing population. Here, we assessed age-specific effects of CTLA4-Ig (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4-Ig), a fusion protein blocking costimulatory signaling between antigen-presenting cells and T cells through CD28. Cardiac allografts in young mice (2-3 months) treated with CTLA4-Ig survived indefinitely, whereas 80% of old recipients (18 months) had lost their graft after 100 days. CTLA4-Ig was also significantly less effective in older recipients of skin transplants. CTLA4-Ig reduced CD4+ central memory and effector memory T cells and diminished systemic interferon-gamma levels only in young recipients. These differences corresponded to a reduced expression of CD28 on antigen-experienced CD4+ T cells in old mice. In support, adoptive transfer of old CD4+ T cells that were transfected with a lentiviral vector inducing constant expression of CD28 accelerated the rejection of allogeneic skin grafts in young RAG2-/- recipient mice. Regulatory T cells (Tregs), in contrast, demonstrated an increased expression of CD28 with aging and CTLA4-Ig treatment in old recipients resulted in reduced frequencies, compromised proliferation, and diminished suppressive capacity of Tregs. These findings may prove to have unique clinical consequences for immunosuppression in the growing population of elderly transplant recipients.
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- Timm Heinbokel
- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA,Department of Nephrology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA,Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Tuebingen University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA,Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA,Department of Urology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA,Department of Urology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Urology, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory and Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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Davenport B, Eberlein J, van der Heide V, Jhun K, Nguyen TT, Victorino F, Trotta A, Chipuk J, Yi Z, Zhang W, Clambey ET, Scott DK, Homann D. Aging of Antiviral CD8 + Memory T Cells Fosters Increased Survival, Metabolic Adaptations, and Lymphoid Tissue Homing. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2018; 202:460-475. [PMID: 30552164 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 11/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Aging of established antiviral T cell memory can foster a series of progressive adaptations that paradoxically improve rather than compromise protective CD8+ T cell immunity. We now provide evidence that this gradual evolution, the pace of which is contingent on the precise context of the primary response, also impinges on the molecular mechanisms that regulate CD8+ memory T cell (TM) homeostasis. Over time, CD8+ TM generated in the wake of an acute infection with the natural murine pathogen lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus become more resistant to apoptosis and acquire enhanced cytokine responsiveness without adjusting their homeostatic proliferation rates; concurrent metabolic adaptations promote increased CD8+ TM quiescence and fitness but also impart the reacquisition of a partial effector-like metabolic profile; and a gradual redistribution of aging CD8+ TM from blood and nonlymphoid tissues to lymphatic organs results in CD8+ TM accumulations in bone marrow, splenic white pulp, and, particularly, lymph nodes. Altogether, these data demonstrate how temporal alterations of fundamental homeostatic determinants converge to render aged CD8+ TM poised for greater recall responses.
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- Bennett Davenport
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Integrated Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver and National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80045.,Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Integrated Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver and National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80045
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029; and
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029; and
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- Bioinformatics Laboratory, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Bioinformatics Laboratory, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Integrated Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver and National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80045
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- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045; .,Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045.,Integrated Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver and National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80045.,Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.,Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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Pattabiraman G, Palasiewicz K, Galvin JP, Ucker DS. Aging-associated dysregulation of homeostatic immune response termination (and not initiation). Aging Cell 2017; 16:585-593. [PMID: 28371013 PMCID: PMC5418197 DOI: 10.1111/acel.12589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Immunosenescence is a state of unbalanced immune responsiveness, characterized by a diverse repertoire of seemingly discreet and paradoxical alterations in all aspects of immunity arising in an aging‐associated manner. We asked whether aging‐associated alterations in the ability of apoptotic cells to elicit immunomodulatory responses (innate apoptotic immunity; IAI) or in IAI responses themselves might underlie the confounding aging‐associated anomalies of immunosenescence. We explored this question by examining, as a function of animal age, responsiveness of murine macrophages on the single cell level. We monitored the expression of pro‐ and anti‐inflammatory cytokines cytofluorimetrically in response to pro‐inflammatory Toll‐like receptor (TLR) stimulation and anti‐inflammatory treatment with apoptotic cells. While we found no alterations with age in the potency of apoptotic cells or in the initiation and magnitude of IAI responses, we did identify a cell‐intrinsic deficiency in anti‐inflammatory IAI response termination linked with age and preceding manifestations of immunosenescence. Further, we found that an aging‐associated deficiency in response termination also is evident following TLR stimulation. These surprising observations reveal that a loss of homeostatic immune control with animal age results from the dysregulation of response termination (as distinct from response initiation) and is exerted on the level of transcription. We suggest that, with advancing age, cells become locked into relatively longer‐lived response states. Aging‐associated immune dysfunctions may reflect a diminution in the cellular nimbleness of immune responsiveness.
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- Goutham Pattabiraman
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology; University of Illinois College of Medicine; Chicago IL 60612 USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology; University of Illinois College of Medicine; Chicago IL 60612 USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology; University of Illinois College of Medicine; Chicago IL 60612 USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology; University of Illinois College of Medicine; Chicago IL 60612 USA
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Colvin MM, Smith CA, Tullius SG, Goldstein DR. Aging and the immune response to organ transplantation. J Clin Invest 2017; 127:2523-2529. [PMID: 28504651 DOI: 10.1172/jci90601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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An increasing number of older people receive organ transplants for various end-stage conditions. Although organ transplantation is an effective therapy for older patients (i.e., older than 65 years of age), such as in end-stage renal disease, this therapy has not been optimized for older patients because of our lack of understanding of the effect of aging and the immune response to organ transplantation. Here, we provide an overview of the impact of aging on both the allograft and the recipient and its effect on the immune response to organ transplantation. We describe what has been determined to date, discuss existing gaps in our knowledge, and make suggestions on necessary future studies to optimize organ transplantation for older people.
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- Monica M Colvin
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Namas R, Ghuma A, Hermus L, Zamora R, Okonkwo D, Billiar T, Vodovotz Y. The Acute Inflammatory Response in Trauma /Hemorrhage and Traumatic Brain Injury: Current State and Emerging Prospects. Libyan J Med 2016. [DOI: 10.3402/ljm.v4i3.4824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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- Martini Hospital, Department of Surgery, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery
- Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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Becklund BR, Purton JF, Ramsey C, Favre S, Vogt TK, Martin CE, Spasova DS, Sarkisyan G, LeRoy E, Tan JT, Wahlus H, Bondi-Boyd B, Luther SA, Surh CD. The aged lymphoid tissue environment fails to support naïve T cell homeostasis. Sci Rep 2016; 6:30842. [PMID: 27480406 PMCID: PMC4969611 DOI: 10.1038/srep30842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Aging is associated with a gradual loss of naïve T cells and a reciprocal increase in the proportion of memory T cells. While reduced thymic output is important, age-dependent changes in factors supporting naïve T cells homeostasis may also be involved. Indeed, we noted a dramatic decrease in the ability of aged mice to support survival and homeostatic proliferation of naïve T cells. The defect was not due to a reduction in IL-7 expression, but from a combination of changes in the secondary lymphoid environment that impaired naïve T cell entry and access to key survival factors. We observed an age-related shift in the expression of homing chemokines and structural deterioration of the stromal network in T cell zones. Treatment with IL-7/mAb complexes can restore naïve T cell homeostatic proliferation in aged mice. Our data suggests that homeostatic mechanisms that support the naïve T cell pool deteriorate with age.
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- Bryan R Becklund
- Department of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.,Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Immunity and Infection, University of Lausanne, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Immunity and Infection, University of Lausanne, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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- Department of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.,Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.,Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Immunity and Infection, University of Lausanne, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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- Department of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.,Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.,Academy of Immunology and Microbiology, Institute for Basic Science, Pohang, Republic of Korea.,Department of Integrative Biosciences and Biotechnology, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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Pattabiraman G, Palasiewicz K, Ucker DS. Toll-like Receptor function of murine macrophages, probed by cytokine induction, is biphasic and is not impaired globally with age. Mech Ageing Dev 2016; 157:44-59. [PMID: 27453067 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2016.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2016] [Revised: 06/08/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
Aging is associated with a waning of normal immune function. This "immunosenescence" is characterized by a diverse repertoire of seemingly discreet and unbalanced immune alterations. A number of studies have suggested that aging-associated alterations in innate immune responsiveness, especially responsiveness dependent on Toll-like Receptor (TLR) engagement, are causally involved. We find, however, that the magnitude and dose-dependency of responsiveness to TLR engagement (assessed with respect to cytokine production) in distinct populations of murine macrophages are not altered generally with animal age or as a consequence of immunosenescence. Responses elicited with a wide array of TLR agonists were examined by extensive functional analyses, principally on the level of the individual cell. These studies reveal an intriguing "all-or-nothing" response behavior of macrophages, independent of animal age. Although reports to the contrary have been cited widely, aging-associated immune decline cannot be attributed to widespread alterations in the extents of TLR-dependent innate immune macrophage responses.
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- Goutham Pattabiraman
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, United States.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, United States.
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CD8+ T cells play a cardinal feature in response to alloantigens and are able to generate effector/memory T cells independently from CD4+ T cells. To investigate the impact of aging on CD8 T cells, we used a fully mismatched mouse skin transplant model. Our findings showed a prolonged allograft survival in older recipients associated with a significant increase of CD4+ and CD8+ CD44high CD62Llow effector/memory T cells and a reduced systemic IFNγ production. When reconstituting young CBA Rag-1 mice that lack mature T and B cells with old CD8+ T cells expressing clonal anti-H2K T cell receptor (TCR) alloreactive for MHC I, graft survival was significantly prolonged and comparable to those receiving young CD8+ T cells. Moreover, our data showed that reduced systemic IFNγ levels observed in old recipients had been linked to a compromised expression of the IL-2R β subunit (CD122) by old CD8+ T cells. In addition, we observed an impaired IFNγ production on IL-2 receptor activation. At the same time, gene profiling analysis of old CD8 T cells demonstrated reduced chemokine ligand-3 and CD40L expression that resulted in compromised CD8+ T cell/dendritic cell communication, leading to impaired migratory and phagocytic activity of CD11c cells.Collectively, our study demonstrated that aging delays allograft rejection. CD8 T cells play a critical role in this process linked to a compromised production of IFNγ, in addition to a defective IL-2 receptor signaling machinery and a defective communication between CD8 T cells and dendritic cells.
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Al‐Chami E, Tormo A, Pasquin S, Kanjarawi R, Ziouani S, Rafei M. Interleukin-21 administration to aged mice rejuvenates their peripheral T-cell pool by triggering de novo thymopoiesis. Aging Cell 2016; 15:349-60. [PMID: 26762709 PMCID: PMC4783337 DOI: 10.1111/acel.12440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The vaccination efficacy in the elderly is significantly reduced compared to younger populations due to thymic involution and age‐related intrinsic changes affecting their naïve T‐cell compartment. Interleukin (IL)‐21 was recently shown to display thymostimulatory properties. Therefore, we hypothesized that its administration to ageing hosts may improve T‐cell output and thus restore a competent peripheral T‐cell compartment. Indeed, an increase in the production of recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) attributable to intrathymic expansion of early thymic progenitors (ETPs), double‐negative (DN), and double‐positive (DP) thymocytes as well as thymic epithelial cell (TEC) was observed in recombinant (r)IL‐21‐treated aged mice. In sharp contrast, no alterations in the frequency of bone marrow (BM)‐derived progenitors were detected following rIL‐21 administration. Enhanced production of naïve T cells improved the T‐cell receptor (TCR) repertoire diversity and re‐established a pool of T cells exhibiting higher levels of miR‐181a and diminished amounts of the TCR‐inhibiting phosphatases SHP‐2 and DUSP5/6. As a result, stimulation of T cells derived from rIL‐21‐treated aged mice displayed enhanced activation of Lck, ZAP‐70, and ERK, which ultimately boosted their IL‐2 production, CD25 expression, and proliferation capabilities in comparison with T cells derived from control aged mice. Consequently, aged rIL‐21‐treated mice vaccinated using a tyrosinase‐related protein 2 (Trp2)‐derived peptide exhibited a substantial delay in B16 tumor growth and improved survival. The results of this study highlight the immunorestorative function of rIL‐21 paving its use as a strategy for the re‐establishment of effective immunity in the elderly.
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- E. Al‐Chami
- Department of Pharmacology Université de Montréal Montréal QC H3C 1J7 Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology Université de Montréal Montréal QC H3C 1J7 Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology Université de Montréal Montréal QC H3C 1J7 Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology Université de Montréal Montréal QC H3C 1J7 Canada
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- Université Paris‐Sud, Faculté de Pharmacie 5 rue J.B. Clément 92296 Châtenay‐Malabry Cedex France
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- Department of Pharmacology Université de Montréal Montréal QC H3C 1J7 Canada
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Frasca D, Diaz A, Romero M, Landin AM, Blomberg BB. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seropositivity decreases B cell responses to the influenza vaccine. Vaccine 2015; 33:1433-9. [PMID: 25659271 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.01.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2014] [Revised: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-seropositivity has been shown to have a negative effect on influenza vaccine-specific antibody responses. In this paper, we confirm and extend these results showing for the first time, a negative association between CMV-seropositivity and B cell predictive biomarkers of optimal vaccine responses. These biomarkers are switched memory B cells and AID in CpG-stimulated B cell cultures measured before vaccination which positively correlate with the serum response to the influenza vaccine. We also found that CMV-seropositivity is associated with increased levels of B cell-intrinsic inflammation and these both correlate with lower B cell function. Finally, CMV-seropositivity is associated with decreased percentages of individuals responding to the vaccine in both young and elderly individuals.
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- Daniela Frasca
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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Heinbokel T, Elkhal A, Liu G, Edtinger K, Tullius SG. Immunosenescence and organ transplantation. Transplant Rev (Orlando) 2013; 27:65-75. [PMID: 23639337 PMCID: PMC3718545 DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2013.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2012] [Revised: 12/17/2012] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Increasing numbers of elderly transplant recipients and a growing demand for organs from older donors impose pressing challenges on transplantation medicine. Continuous and complex modifications of the immune system in parallel to aging have a major impact on transplant outcome and organ quality. Both, altered alloimmune responses and increased immunogenicity of organs present risk factors for inferior patient and graft survival. Moreover, a growing body of knowledge on age-dependent modifications of allorecognition and alloimmune responses may require age-adapted immunosuppression and organ allocation. Here, we summarize relevant aspects of immunosenescence and their possible clinical impact on organ transplantation.
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- Timm Heinbokel
- Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Macaulay R, Akbar AN, Henson SM. The role of the T cell in age-related inflammation. AGE (DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS) 2013; 35:563-72. [PMID: 22252437 PMCID: PMC3636399 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-012-9381-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2011] [Accepted: 01/03/2012] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Ageing is accompanied by alterations to T-cell immunity and also by a low-grade chronic inflammatory state termed inflammaging. The significance of these phenomena is highlighted by their being predictors of earlier mortality. We have recently published that the proinflammatory cytokine TNFα is a strong inducer of CD4(+) T-cell senescence and T-cell differentiation, adding to the growing body of literature implicating proinflammatory molecules in mediating these critical age-related T-cell alterations. Moreover, the inflammatory process is also being increasingly implicated in the pathogenesis of many common and severe age-related diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, major age-related risk factors for poor health, such as obesity, stress and smoking, are also associated with an upregulation in systemic inflammatory markers. We propose the idea that the ensuing inflammatory response to influenza infection propagates cardiovascular diseases and constitutes a major cause of influenza-related mortality. While inflammation is not a negative phenomenon per se, this age-related dysregulation of inflammatory responses may play crucial roles driving age-related pathologies, T-cell immunosenescence and CMV reactivation, thereby underpinning key features of the ageing process.
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- Richard Macaulay
- Division of Infection and Immunity, Rayne Institute, University College London, 5 University Street, London, WC1E 6JF UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, Rayne Institute, University College London, 5 University Street, London, WC1E 6JF UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, Rayne Institute, University College London, 5 University Street, London, WC1E 6JF UK
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Pishel I, Shytikov D, Orlova T, Peregudov A, Artyuhov I, Butenko G. Accelerated aging versus rejuvenation of the immune system in heterochronic parabiosis. Rejuvenation Res 2012; 15:239-48. [PMID: 22533440 DOI: 10.1089/rej.2012.1331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The emergence of immune disorders in aging is explained by many factors, including thymus dysfunction, decrease in the proportion and function of naïve T cells, and so forth. There are several approaches to preventing these changes, such as thymus rejuvenation, stem cells recovery, modulation of hormone production, and others. Our investigations of heterochronic parabiosis have shown that benefits of a young immune system, e.g., actively working thymus and regular migration of young hematopoietic stem cells between parabiotic partners, appeared unable to restore the immune system of the old partner. At the same time, we have established a progressive immune impairment in the young heterochronic partners. The mechanism of age changes in the immune system in this model, which may lead to reduced life expectancy, has not been fully understood. The first age-related manifestation in the young partners observed 3 weeks after the surgery was a dramatic increase of CD8(+)44(+) cells population in the spleen. A detailed analysis of further changes revealed a progressive decline of most immunological functions observable for up to 3 months after the surgery. This article reviews possible mechanisms of induction of age-related changes in the immune system of young heterochronic partners. The data obtained suggest the existence of certain factors in the old organisms that trigger aging, thus preventing the rejuvenation process.
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- Iryna Pishel
- Institute of Gerontology NAMS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Schreiber K, Arina A, Engels B, Spiotto MT, Sidney J, Sette A, Karrison TG, Weichselbaum RR, Rowley DA, Schreiber H. Spleen cells from young but not old immunized mice eradicate large established cancers. Clin Cancer Res 2012; 18:2526-33. [PMID: 22415314 PMCID: PMC5354938 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-12-0127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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PURPOSE Solid tumors that have grown two weeks or longer in mice and have diameters larger than 1 cm are histologically indistinguishable from autochthonous human cancers. When experimental tumors reach this clinically relevant size, they are usually refractory to most immunotherapies but may be destroyed by adoptive T-cell transfer. However, TCR-transgenic T cells and/or tumor cells overexpressing antigens are frequently used in these experiments. Here we studied the requirements for destroying clinical size, unmanipulated 8101 tumors by adoptive cell therapy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN 8101 arose in an old mouse after chronic exposure to UV light. A cancer line was established, which was never serially transplanted. The immunodominant CD8(+) T cell-recognized antigen of this tumor is caused by a somatic tumor-specific mutation in the RNA helicase p68. 8101 tumors were treated with spleen cells from young naive, or young and old immunized mice to ascertain the characteristics of immune cells that lead to rejection. RESULTS Here we show that the mutant p68 peptide has an exceptionally high affinity to the presenting MHC class I molecule K(b) and that spleen cells from immunized young syngeneic mice adoptively transferred to Rag(-/-) or cancer-suppressed euthymic mice eradicate 8101 tumors larger than 1 cm in average diameter and established for several weeks. Spleen cells from naive young mice or from old and boosted (reimmunized) mice were ineffective. CONCLUSIONS Relapse-free destruction of large and long-established tumors expressing a genuine very high-affinity tumor-specific antigen can be achieved by using adoptive transfer of lymphocytes from immunized young individuals.
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- Karin Schreiber
- Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
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Leng J, Stout-Delgado HW, Kavita U, Jacobs A, Tang J, Du W, Tussey L, Goldstein DR. Efficacy of a vaccine that links viral epitopes to flagellin in protecting aged mice from influenza viral infection. Vaccine 2011; 29:8147-55. [PMID: 21854824 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.08.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2011] [Revised: 07/28/2011] [Accepted: 08/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Influenza vaccines are less effective in older people than younger people. This impaired ability to protect older people from influenza viral lung infection has important implications as older people suffer a higher morbidity and mortality from influenza viral lung infection than younger people. Therefore, the development of novel effective vaccines that induce protection from influenza viral infections in older people are urgently needed. We had previously shown that direct linking the TLR5 activator, flagellin, to viral peptides induces effective immunity to viral antigens in young mice and people, respectively. In this study, we tested the efficacy of this vaccine platform with the hemagglutinin peptide of the influenza A strain virus (vaccine denoted as STF2.HA1-2) in protecting aged mice from subsequent influenza viral lung infection. We found that a 3.0 μg dose of the vaccine was effective in reducing mortality and increasing clinical well-being during influenza viral lung infection in aged mice. However, this effect was inferior to the response induced in young mice. Defects in the adaptive immune system but not the innate immune system were associated with this reduced effectiveness of the vaccine with aging. Our results indicate that the STF2.HA1-2 vaccine is effective in protecting aged hosts from influenza lung infection, although defects in the adaptive immune system with aging may limit the effectiveness of this vaccine in older people.
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- Jin Leng
- Department of Internal Medicine and Immunobiology, Yale University of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Plasmacytoid DC from aged mice down-regulate CD8 T cell responses by inhibiting cDC maturation after Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection. PLoS One 2011; 6:e20838. [PMID: 21695169 PMCID: PMC3112225 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2011] [Accepted: 05/12/2011] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Age associated impairment of immune function results in inefficient vaccination, tumor surveillance and increased severity of infections. Several alterations in adaptive immunity have been observed and recent studies report age related declines in innate immune responses to opportunistic pathogens including Encephalitozoon cuniculi. We previously demonstrated that conventional dendritic cells (cDC) from 9-month-old animals exhibit sub-optimal response to E. cuniculi infection, suggesting that age associated immune senescence begins earlier than expected. We focused this study on how age affects plasmacytoid DC (pDC) function. More specifically how aged pDC affect cDC function as we observed that the latter are the predominant activators of CD8 T cells during this infection. Our present study demonstrates that pDC from middle-aged mice (12 months) suppress young (8 week old) cDC driven CD8 T cell priming against E. cuniculi infection. The suppressive effect of pDC from older mice decreased maturation of young cDC via cell contact. Aged mouse pDC exhibited higher expression of PD-L1 and blockade of their interaction with cDC via this molecule restored cDC maturation and T cell priming. Furthermore, the PD-L1 dependent suppression of cDC T cell priming was restricted to effector function of antigen-specific CD8 T cells not their expansion. To the best of our knowledge, the data presented here is the first report highlighting a cell contact dependent, PD-L1 regulated, age associated defect in a DC subpopulation that results in a sub-optimal immune response against E. cuniculi infection. These results have broad implications for design of immunotherapeutic approaches to enhance immunity for aging populations.
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We have discovered a distinct mature B-cell subset that accumulates with age, which we have termed age-associated B cells. These cells comprise up to 30% of mature B cells by 22 months. Despite sharing some features with other mature B-cell subsets, they are refractory to BCR and CD40 stimulation. Instead, they respond to TLR9 or TLR7 stimulation and divide maximally on combined BCR and TLR ligation, leading to Ig production and preferential secretion of IL-10 and IL-4. Although similar to follicular B cells in both B-lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS) receptor expression and BLyS binding capacity, these cells do not rely on BLyS for survival. They are neither cycling nor the result of intrinsically altered B lymphopoiesis in aged BM, but instead appear to be generated from mature B cells that exhaustively expand during the individual's lifetime. Finally, they present Ag effectively and favor polarization to a TH17 profile. Together, these findings reveal that while the magnitude of the mature primary B-cell niche is maintained with age, it is increasingly occupied by cells refractory to BCR-driven activation yet responsive to innate receptor stimulation.
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Altered T cell memory and effector cell development in chronic lymphatic filarial infection that is independent of persistent parasite antigen. PLoS One 2011; 6:e19197. [PMID: 21559422 PMCID: PMC3084782 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2011] [Accepted: 03/22/2011] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Chronic lymphatic filarial (LF) infection is associated with suppression of parasite-specific T cell responses that persist even following elimination of infection. While several mechanisms have been implicated in mediating this T cell specific downregulation, a role for alterations in the homeostasis of T effector and memory cell populations has not been explored. Using multiparameter flow cytometry, we investigated the role of persistent filarial infection on the maintenance of T cell memory in patients from the filarial-endemic Cook Islands. Compared to filarial-uninfected endemic normals (EN), microfilaria (mf) positive infected patients (Inf) had a reduced CD4 central memory (TCM) compartment. In addition, Inf patients tended to have more effector memory cells (TEM) and fewer effector cells (TEFF) than did ENs giving significantly smaller TEFF ∶ TEM ratios. These contracted TCM and TEFF populations were still evident in patients previously mf+ who had cleared their infection (CLInf). Moreover, the density of IL-7Rα, necessary for T memory cell maintenance (but decreased in T effector cells), was significantly higher on memory cells of Inf and CLInf patients, although there was no evidence for decreased IL-7 or increased soluble IL7-Rα, both possible mechanisms for signaling defects in memory cells. However, effector cells that were present in Inf and CLInf patients had lower percentages of HLA-DR suggesting impaired function. These changes in T cell populations appear to reflect chronicity of infection, as filarial-infected children, despite the presence of active infection, did not show alterations in the frequencies of these T cell phenotypes. These data indicate that filarial-infected patients have contracted TCM compartments and a defect in effector cell development, defects that persist even following clearance of infection. The fact that these global changes in memory and effector cell compartments do not yet occur in infected children makes early treatment of LF even more crucial.
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Older people experience enhanced susceptibility to viral infections and subsequent superimposed bacterial infections. Based on both experimental and clinical studies, this susceptibility is thought to be due to declining immune responses. However, our work indicates that older people may succumb to viral infection due to exaggerated immune responses as aged mice produce higher serum levels of the inflammatory mediator IL-17 than younger mice upon herpes viral infection. These age-elevated IL-17 responses induce a lethal immune pathology during viral infection. Early during the course of infection natural killer T-cells (NKT-cells) are major contributors to the elevated IL-17 response in aged mice. These responses synergize with defective viral clearance with aging noted by impaired IFN-α responses by plasmacytoid DCs. Our results indicate that novel anti-inflammatory drugs may resolve imbalanced inflammation and improve outcomes in older people infected with viruses.
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- Daniel R Goldstein
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Tsukamoto H, Huston GE, Dibble J, Duso DK, Swain SL. Bim dictates naive CD4 T cell lifespan and the development of age-associated functional defects. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2010; 185:4535-44. [PMID: 20844198 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1001668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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With age, peripheral naive CD4 T cells become both longer lived and functionally impaired and they express reduced levels of Bim, a proapoptotic Bcl family member. In this study, we show that reduced Bim expression by naive CD4 T cells intrinsically mediates their longer lifespan in the periphery. Moreover, using mixed bone marrow chimeras reconstituted with Bim(+/+) and Bim(+/-) bone marrow cells, Bim(+/-) naive CD4 T cells exhibit accelerated development of age-associated dysfunctions, including reduced proliferation and IL-2 production and defective helper function for B cells, without any increase in their turnover. However, newly generated Bim(+/-) naive CD4 T cells in middle-aged mice are not defective, indicating an additional requirement for their persistence in the periphery. These age-associated immune defects develop independently of the "aged" host environment and without extensive division, distinguishing them from classic "senescence." We suggest that the reduction of Bim levels with age in naive CD4 T cell is the initiating step that leads to increased cellular lifespan and development of age-associated functional defects.
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Kohlmeier JE, Connor LM, Roberts AD, Cookenham T, Martin K, Woodland DL. Nonmalignant clonal expansions of memory CD8+ T cells that arise with age vary in their capacity to mount recall responses to infection. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2010; 185:3456-62. [PMID: 20720204 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1001745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Immune responsiveness declines with age in part due to the development of CD8(+) T cell clonal expansions (TCEs) that can dominate the peripheral T cell pool. Although some TCEs arise due to persistent Ag stimulation from chronic infections, others arise in the apparent absence of chronic infection. We have recently shown that this latter class of TCEs can arise over time from the memory CD8(+) T cell pool established by an acute viral infection. Unlike TCEs driven by chronic infections, these age-related TCEs do not display the phenotypic and in vitro functional characteristics of exhausted cells. However, the rate at which these age-related TCEs develop from the memory CD8(+) T cell pool, as well as their ability to mount a recall response to secondary pathogen challenge in vivo, is not known. In this study, we analyzed large cohorts of mice over time for the development of TCE following Sendai virus infection and found a progressive increase in the appearance of TCEs, such that most mice showed evidence of TCE within the memory T cell pool by 2 y postinfection. Using a dual adoptive transfer approach to address the recall potential of virus-specific TCEs, we also demonstrate that most TCEs examined are poorly responsive to a secondary infection. Therefore, we provide evidence that the development of TCE is a common occurrence due to the progressive dysregulation of the virus-specific memory T cell pool with age, but many TCEs are profoundly defective in their ability to mediate recall responses.
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Desai A, Grolleau-Julius A, Yung R. Leukocyte function in the aging immune system. J Leukoc Biol 2010; 87:1001-9. [PMID: 20200405 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0809542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Aging is associated with a progressive dysregulation of immune responses. Whether these changes are solely responsible for the observed increased mortality and morbidity amongst the elderly is uncertain. Recent advances have highlighted the age-associated changes that occur beyond T and B lymphocytes. Additionally, multiple human and animal studies have identified a relationship between chronic low-grade inflammation and geriatric syndromes, such as frailty, suggesting that the phenomenon of "inflamm-aging" may provide a rationale for the increased vulnerability to chronic inflammatory diseases in older adults. In the present review, we broadly summarize our current understanding of age-dependent changes in leukocyte function and their contribution to aging-related disease processes.
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- Anjali Desai
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Huang MC, Patel K, Taub DD, Longo DL, Goetzl EJ. Human CD4- 8- T cells are a distinctive immunoregulatory subset. FASEB J 2010; 24:2558-66. [PMID: 20154266 DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-153148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Human CD4(-)8(-) T cells are a minor subset quantitatively but potentially important in immunity because they are predominantly distributed at body surfaces, and their number and activities increase in autoimmune diseases and decrease with aging. Distinguishing characteristics of CD4(-)8(-) T cells are found to include a unique profile of cytokines, including Serpin E1, which is not generated by other T cells, MIF, and TGF-beta. At 2-5% of the total in mixtures with CD4 + CD8 T cells, CD4(-)8(-) T cells enhance the generation of IFN-gamma and IL-17 by up to 12- and 5-fold, respectively, without contributing either cytokine or affecting cytokine production by NK/NKT cells. CD4(-)8(-) T cell-derived MIF is their major enhancer and TGFbeta their principal inhibitor of CD4 and CD8 T cell cytokine production. Decreases in CD4(-)8(-) T cell effects may diminish protective immunity in aging, whereas increases may augment the severity of autoimmune diseases.
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- Mei-Chuan Huang
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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Age-associated increase in lifespan of naive CD4 T cells contributes to T-cell homeostasis but facilitates development of functional defects. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:18333-8. [PMID: 19815516 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910139106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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With age, T-cell generation from the thymus is much reduced, yet a substantial naïve T-cell pool is maintained even in aged animals, suggesting that naïve T cells either persist longer or turn over faster to maintain T-cell homeostasis. We found that with age, naïve CD4 T cells became progressively longer-lived. Their longer lifespan did not depend on recognition of self-peptide/class II. Newly generated naïve T cells derived from aged stem cells had a shorter lifespan, like that of young naïve T cells. Conversely, naïve CD4 T cells derived from middle-aged thymectomized mice were longer-lived in vivo, and their development of functional defects was accelerated. These observations suggest that naïve T cells develop their longer lifespan during their sojourn in the periphery. Increased longevity of naïve CD4 T cells correlated well with reduced expression of proapoptotic molecule Bim. We suggest that the intrinsic increase in longevity helps maintain naïve T-cell homeostasis but facilitates the development of functional defects in mice.
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Mattoo H, Faulkner M, Kandpal U, Das R, Lewis V, George A, Rath S, Durdik JM, Bal V. Naive CD4 T cells from aged mice show enhanced death upon primary activation. Int Immunol 2009; 21:1277-89. [PMID: 19748905 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxp094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Poor T cell immunity is one of the many defects seen in elderly humans and aged (Ad) mice. We report that naive CD4 T cells from aged mice (ANCD4 cells) showed greater apoptosis upon primary activation than those from young (Yg) mice, with loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, poor activation of Rel family transcription factors and increased DNA damage. Their ability to enhance glycolysis, produce lactate and induce autophagy following activation was also compromised. ANCD4 cells remained susceptible to death beyond first cell division. Activated ANCD4 cells also showed poor transition to a 'central memory' (CM) CD44(high), CD62L(high) phenotype in vitro. This correlated with low proportions of CM cells in Ad mice in vivo. Functionally, too, IFN-gamma responses recalled from T cells of immunized Ad mice, poor to begin with, worsened with time as compared with Yg mice. Thus, ANCD4 cells handle activation-associated stress very poorly due to multiple defects, possibly contributing to poor formation of long-lasting memory.
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- Hamid Mattoo
- National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali, New Delhi, India
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Namas R, Ghuma A, Hermus L, Zamora R, Okonkwo DO, Billiar TR, Vodovotz Y. The acute inflammatory response in trauma / hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury: current state and emerging prospects. Libyan J Med 2009; 4:97-103. [PMID: 21483522 PMCID: PMC3066737 DOI: 10.4176/090325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Traumatic injury/hemorrhagic shock (T/HS) elicits an acute inflammatory response that may result in death. Inflammation describes a coordinated series of molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, and systemic responses that drive the pathology of various diseases including T/HS and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Inflammation is a finely tuned, dynamic, highly-regulated process that is not inherently detrimental, but rather required for immune surveillance, optimal post-injury tissue repair, and regeneration. The inflammatory response is driven by cytokines and chemokines and is partially propagated by damaged tissue-derived products (Damage-associated Molecular Patterns; DAMP's). DAMPs perpetuate inflammation through the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, but may also inhibit anti-inflammatory cytokines. Various animal models of T/HS in mice, rats, pigs, dogs, and non-human primates have been utilized in an attempt to move from bench to bedside. Novel approaches, including those from the field of systems biology, may yield therapeutic breakthroughs in T/HS and TBI in the near future.
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Bauer ME, Jeckel CMM, Luz C. The role of stress factors during aging of the immune system. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2009; 1153:139-52. [PMID: 19236337 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03966.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This manuscript reviews current evidence suggesting that aging of the immune system (immunosenescence) may be closely related to chronic stress and stress factors. Healthy aging has been associated with emotional distress in parallel to increased cortisol to dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) ratio. The impaired DHEA secretion together with the increase of cortisol results in an enhanced exposure of lymphoid cells to deleterious glucocorticoid actions. The lack of appropriated growth hormone signaling during immunosenescence is also discussed. It follows that altered neuroendocrine functions could be underlying several immunosenescence features. Indeed, changes in both innate and adaptive immune responses during aging are also similarly reported during chronic glucocorticoid exposure. In addition, chronically stressed elderly subjects may be particularly at risk of stress-related pathology because of further alterations in both neuroendocrine and immune systems. The accelerated senescent features induced by chronic stress include higher oxidative stress, reduced telomere length, chronic glucocorticoid exposure, thymic involution, changes in cellular trafficking, reduced cell-mediated immunity, steroid resistance, and chronic low-grade inflammation. These senescent features are related to increased morbidity and mortality among chronically stressed elderly people. Overall, these data suggest that chronic stress leads to premature aging of key allostatic systems involved in the adaptation of the organisms to environmental changes. Stress management and psychosocial support may thus promote a better quality of life for elderly people and at the same time reduce hospitalization costs.
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- Moisés E Bauer
- Faculdade de Biociências and Instituto de Pesquisas Biomédicas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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Shen H, Tesar BM, Du W, Goldstein DR. Aging impairs recipient T cell intrinsic and extrinsic factors in response to transplantation. PLoS One 2009; 4:e4097. [PMID: 19119314 PMCID: PMC2606020 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2008] [Accepted: 11/26/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background As increasing numbers of older people are listed for solid organ transplantation, there is an urgent need to better understand how aging modifies alloimmune responses. Here, we investigated whether aging impairs the ability of donor dendritic cells or recipient immunity to prime alloimmune responses to organ transplantation. Principal Findings Using murine experimental models, we found that aging impaired the host environment to expand and activate antigen specific CD8+ T cells. Additionally, aging impaired the ability of polyclonal T cells to induce acute allograft rejection. However, the alloimmune priming capability of donor dendritic cells was preserved with aging. Conclusion Aging impairs recipient responses, both T cell intrinsic and extrinsic, in response to organ transplantation.
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- Hua Shen
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Frieman M, Baric R. Mechanisms of severe acute respiratory syndrome pathogenesis and innate immunomodulation. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2008; 72:672-85, Table of Contents. [PMID: 19052324 PMCID: PMC2593566 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00015-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The modulation of the immune response is a common practice of many highly pathogenic viruses. The emergence of the highly pathogenic coronavirus severe acute respiratory virus (SARS-CoV) serves as a robust model system to elucidate the virus-host interactions that mediate severe end-stage lung disease in humans and animals. Coronaviruses encode the largest positive-sense RNA genome of approximately 30 kb, encode a variety of replicase and accessory open reading frames that are structurally unique, and encode novel enzymatic functions among RNA viruses. These viruses have broad or specific host ranges, suggesting the possibility of novel strategies for targeting and regulating host innate immune responses following virus infection. Using SARS-CoV as a model, we review the current literature on the ability of coronaviruses to interact with and modify the host intracellular environment during infection. These studies are revealing a rich set of novel viral proteins that engage, modify, and/or disrupt host cell signaling and nuclear import machinery for the benefit of virus replication.
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- Matthew Frieman
- University of North Carolina, 210 McGaveran-Greenberg Hall, CB 7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Messaoudi I, Fischer M, Warner J, Park B, Mattison J, Ingram DK, Totonchy T, Mori M, Nikolich-Zugich J. Optimal window of caloric restriction onset limits its beneficial impact on T-cell senescence in primates. Aging Cell 2008; 7:908-19. [PMID: 19032694 DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2008.00440.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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We have recently shown in non-human primates that caloric restriction (CR) initiated during adulthood can delay T-cell aging and preserve naïve CD8 and CD4 T cells into advanced age. An important question is whether CR can be initiated at any time in life, and whether age at the time of onset would modulate the beneficial effects of CR. In the current study, we evaluated the impact of CR started before puberty or during advanced age on T-cell senescence and compared it to the effects of CR started in early adulthood. Our data demonstrate that the beneficial effects of adult-onset CR on T-cell aging were lost by both early and late CR onset. In fact, some of our results suggest that inappropriate initiation of CR may be harmful to the maintenance of T-cell function. This suggests that there may be an optimal window during adulthood where CR can delay immune senescence and improve correlates of immunity in primates.
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- Ilhem Messaoudi
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR, USA
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Welte T, Lamb J, Anderson JF, Born WK, O'Brien RL, Wang T. Role of two distinct gammadelta T cell subsets during West Nile virus infection. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 53:275-83. [PMID: 18513355 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.2008.00430.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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gammadelta T cells respond rapidly following West Nile virus (WNV) infection, limiting viremia and invasion of the central nervous system and thereby protecting the host from lethal encephalitis. Here, we investigated the role of two major subpopulations of peripheral gammadelta T cells, Vgamma1(+) and Vgamma4(+) cells, in host immunity against WNV infection. We found initially that aged mice were more susceptible to WNV infection than young mice. Following WNV challenge, Vgamma1(+) cells in young mice expanded significantly whereas Vgamma4(+) cells expanded modestly. In contrast, aged mice exhibited a slower and reduced response of Vgamma1(+) cells but maintained a higher content of Vgamma4(+) cells. Vgamma1(+) cells were the major gammadelta subset producing IFN-gamma during WNV infection. Mice depleted of Vgamma1(+) cells had an enhanced viremia and higher mortality to WNV encephalitis. Vgamma4(+) cells had a higher potential for producing tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), a cytokine known to be involved in blood-brain barrier compromise and WNV entry into the brain. Depletion of Vgamma4(+) cells reduced TNF-alpha level in the periphery, accompanied by a decreased viral load in the brain and a lower mortality to WN encephalitis. These results suggest that Vgamma1(+) and Vgamma4(+) cells play distinct roles in protection and pathogenesis during WNV infection.
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- Thomas Welte
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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The improvements of socio-environmental conditions, medical care and quality of life have caused a general improvement in the health status of the population and a consequent reduction of morbidity and mortality, resulting in an overall increased life-expectancy. The role of immunosenescence was negligible in the past, when the human lifespan was 40–50 years, and its impact on morbidity and mortality has emerged in combination with the extension of lifespan. Immunosenescence results from multifactorial processes that act on all components of the immune system. The changes associated with immunosenescence are playing an increasingly important role in the emergence of a series of age-related pathologies, conditioning the present epidemiology of old people.
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Li W, Yamada H, Yajima T, Nakagawa R, Shimoda K, Nakayama K, Yoshikai Y. Tyk2 Signaling in Host Environment Plays an Important Role in Contraction of Antigen-Specific CD8+T Cells following a Microbial Infection. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 178:4482-8. [PMID: 17372006 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.7.4482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Tyrosine kinase 2 (Tyk2), a member of JAK signal transducer family contributes to the signals triggered by IL-12 for IFN-gamma production. To elucidate potential roles of Tyk2 in generation and maintenance of Ag-specific CD8+ T cells, we followed the fate of OVA-specific CD8+ T cells in Tyk2-deficient (-/-) mice after infection with recombinant Listeria monocytogenes expressing OVA (rLM-OVA). Results showed that the numbers of OVA(257-264)/K(b) tetramer-positive CD8+ T cells in Tyk2(-/-) mice were almost the same as those in Tyk2(+/+) mice at the expansion phase on day 7 but were significantly larger in Tyk2(-/-) mice than those in Tyk2(+/+) mice at the contraction phase on day 10 and at the memory phase on day 60 after infection. The intracellular expression level of active caspase-3 was significantly decreased in the OVA-specific CD8+ T cells of Tyk2(-/-) mice on day 7 compared with those of Tyk2(+/+) mice. Adaptive transfer experiments revealed that Tyk2 signaling in other factors rather than CD8+ T cells played a regulatory role in CD8+ T cell contraction following infection. Administration of exogenous IFN-gamma from day 6 to day 9 restored the CD8+ T cell contraction in Tyk2(-/-) mice after infection with rLM-OVA. These results suggest that Tyk2 signaling for IFN-gamma production in host environment plays an important role in contraction of effector CD8+ T cells following a microbial infection.
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- Wei Li
- Division of Host Defense and Digital Medicine Initiative, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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Capri M, Monti D, Salvioli S, Lescai F, Pierini M, Altilia S, Sevini F, Valensin S, Ostan R, Bucci L, Franceschi C. Complexity of Anti-immunosenescence Strategies in Humans. Artif Organs 2006; 30:730-42. [PMID: 17026572 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2006.00295.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Immunosenescence is characterized by three main aspects: (i) the shrinkage of the T cell repertoire and the accumulation of oligoclonal expansions (megaclones) of memory/effector cells directed toward ubiquitary infectious agents; (ii) the involution of the thymus and the exhaustion of naïve T cells; and (iii) a chronic inflammatory status called inflamm-aging. We present here possible strategies to counteract these main aspects of immunosenescence in humans with particular attention to the reduction of antigenic load by pathogens, such as CMV, and the normalization of intestinal microflora, the possible utilization of IL-7 to reverse thymic involution, the purging of megaclones, the forced expression of CD28 on T lymphocytes, the reduction of inflamm-aging and the administration of nutrients such as vitamin D. Possible drawbacks of all these strategies are discussed. Finally, the complexity of a rejuvenation approach is stressed, with particular attention to the inhibitory role played by the "old microenvironment" on the performance of progenitor cells, the best candidate to counteract the decline in regenerative potential characteristic of organs and tissues from old organisms.
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- Miriam Capri
- Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Linton PJ, Lustgarten J, Thoman M. T cell function in the aged: Lessons learned from animal models. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cair.2006.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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De Martinis M, Franceschi C, Monti D, Ginaldi L. Inflammation markers predicting frailty and mortality in the elderly. Exp Mol Pathol 2006; 80:219-27. [PMID: 16460728 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2005.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2005] [Revised: 10/27/2005] [Accepted: 11/30/2005] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Greater numbers of individuals are living to older ages. A major concern at both individual and population levels is how to live these years at a high functional level. If we had physiological markers to identify those at risk for progressive functional decline and impeding death, therapies could be targeted towards these individuals to prevent adverse outcomes. Senescence is presently considered as the consequence of lifelong antigenic stress impinging upon the individual genetic background. We might consider inflammation markers as synthetic measures of lifelong attrition combined with genetic tendency to develop an inflammatory phenotype. Such biomarkers are the most powerful predictors of frailty and mortality in the elderly available today. The aim of this review is to translate results from the research on ageing into a practical view, suggesting new tools for the clinical approach to older people.
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- Massimo De Martinis
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Via S.Sisto, 22/E, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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Bianchi T, Gasser S, Trumpp A, MacDonald HR. c-Myc acts downstream of IL-15 in the regulation of memory CD8 T-cell homeostasis. Blood 2006; 107:3992-9. [PMID: 16449532 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-09-3851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A subset of CD8 T cells in normal mice, expressing high levels of activation markers such as CD44, shares many properties with antigen-specific memory CD8 T cells. Homeostasis of CD44(high) CD8 T cells depends upon cytokines such as interleukin-15 (IL-15); however, the downstream signaling pathways regulating IL-15-dependent homeostatic proliferation are poorly defined. Surprisingly, we show here that haploinsufficiency of the protooncogene c-myc leads to a highly selective decrease in CD44(high) CD8 T cells in mice. Although steady-state proliferation and survival of CD44(high) CD8 T cells appeared not to be dependent on c-Myc, homeostatic proliferation of c-myc(+/-) CD44(high) CD8 T cells in lymphopenic hosts was strongly reduced, and the residual homeostatic proliferation of these cells appeared to occur independently of IL-15. Moreover, c-myc(+/-) CD44(high) CD8 T cells responded very poorly to purified IL-15 in vitro. Backcrossing of c-myc(+/-) mice to IL-15(-/-) mice revealed that the number of CD44(high) CD8 T cells decreased in an additive fashion in mice heterozygous for c-myc and IL-15. Finally homeostatic proliferation of antigen-specific memory CD44(high) CD8 T cells was also impaired in c-myc(+/-) mice. Collectively, our data identify c-Myc as a novel downstream component of the IL-15-dependent pathway controlling homeostatic proliferation of memory CD44(high) CD8 T cells.
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- Teresa Bianchi
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), Ch. des Boveresses 155, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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Global growth of the elderly population is requiring healthcare providers to cater for an expanding elderly cancer subpopulation. The aggression with which cancer should be treated in this subpopulation is an ethical dilemma and is an ongoing debate, as surgeons have feared increases in postoperative morbidity and mortality. As a result elderly patients often receive suboptimal cancer treatment. The need for standardization of cancer surgery is well recognized despite the difficulties in view of heterogeneity of the group. In this article, epidemiological changes, tumor biology specific to elderly cancer are visited, operative risk assessment tools are discussed, and interim results of ongoing multinational investigation ie, PACE (Preoperative Assessment of Cancer Elderly) revealed.
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- Hodigere SJ Ramesh
- Department of Surgery, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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- Department of Surgery, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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Jiang J, Gross D, Nogusa S, Elbaum P, Murasko DM. Depletion of T cells by type I interferon: differences between young and aged mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 175:1820-6. [PMID: 16034124 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.3.1820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Type I IFN (IFN-I or IFN-alphabeta) plays an important role in the innate immune response against viral infection. Here we report that a potent inducer of IFN-alphabeta, polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid [poly(I:C)], led to the depletion of T cells in young, but not aged mice, and that this depletion was limited to central memory, but not effector memory, T cells. Although early activation of T cells in vivo by poly(I:C), as demonstrated by CD69, was not impaired with aging, the expression of active caspase-3 was higher in young compared with aged mice. This depletion of T cells and induction of active caspase-3 in young mice and of CD69 in both young and aged mice by poly(I:C) were blocked by anti-IFN-alphabeta Ab. Although poly(I:C) stimulated lower circulating levels of IFN-alphabeta in aged mice, administration of IFN-alphabeta after poly(I:C) did not induce depletion of T cells in aged mice. These results indicate that IFN-alphabeta plays a critical role in the depletion of T cells of young mice, and further suggest that the lower level of functional IFN-alphabeta and decreased induction of active caspase-3 in T cells of aged mice after poly(I:C) may be responsible for the increased resistance of T cells of aged mice to depletion.
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- Jiu Jiang
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA
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Kim HJ, Nel AE. The role of phase II antioxidant enzymes in protecting memory T cells from spontaneous apoptosis in young and old mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 175:2948-59. [PMID: 16116181 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.5.2948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Aging is associated with a functional decline and change in the phenotypic distribution of T cell subsets. The free radical theory of aging is widely promoted as the mechanistic basis for cellular senescence, including the immune system. Although the exact molecular explanation for the role of oxidative stress in cellular senescence is unclear, there is a connection to altered mitochondrial function, both as a contributor and as a target of oxidative stress. In this study we demonstrate that splenic T lymphocytes from old C57BL/6 mice exhibit a significant decline in mitochondrial membrane potential (deltapsi(m)). However, despite this change, there is a lower rate of withdrawal apoptosis in the memory CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. To explain the survival of these long-lived cells against a background of increased oxidative stress, we demonstrate increased glutathione production and phase II enzyme expression, which combine to protect memory T cells against oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cell death. The accumulation of memory T cells with aging explains higher phase II enzyme expression in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from old mice. Compared with wild-type mice, mice lacking the expression of NF-E2-related factor-2, the transcription factor that regulates phase II enzyme expression, had a significantly enhanced rate of apoptosis in the presence of an oxidative stress stimulus. NF-E2-related factor-2-deficient T cells exhibit a bigger decline in deltapsi(m) and increased reactive oxygen species production than cells from wild-type animals. Taken together, we suggest that phase II enzyme expression and the accompanying increase in intracellular thiol levels protect memory T cells from mitochondrial dysfunction and spontaneous apoptosis.
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- Hyon-Jeen Kim
- Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Hasler P, Zouali M. Immune receptor signaling, aging, and autoimmunity. Cell Immunol 2005; 233:102-8. [PMID: 15936745 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2005.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2005] [Accepted: 04/21/2005] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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With advancing age, the immune system undergoes changes that predispose to autoimmune reactivity. Aging reduces the efficiency of physical barriers, decreasing protection against invasive pathogens, and exposing previously hidden antigens in the body's own tissues. Self-antigens acquire alterations that increase their immunogenicity. In addition, the ability of innate immunity to eliminate infectious agents deteriorates, resulting in inappropriate persistence of immune stimulation and antigen levels exceeding the threshold for the activation of B or T cells. B cell turnover is reduced and numbers of naïve T cells decline to the advantage of increasing numbers of memory T cells. In parallel, the loss of co-stimulatory T cell molecules may increase reactivity of T cells, and render them less susceptible to downregulation. Since optimal immune reactivity requires a tight balance of transduction pathways in both T and B lymphocytes, and because these pathways are altered in systemic autoimmune diseases, we would like to propose that, with age, alterations of the immune receptor signaling machinery underlie the higher incidence of autoimmune phenomena in the elderly. Consistently, aging is associated with alterations in several components of the signaling complex in B cells, memory and naïve T cells, and a reduced activation of several lipid rafts-associated proteins. Because the coincidence of autoimmune disease with other ailments increases the burden of disease and limits therapeutic options in the aged, further investigation of these pathways in the elderly represents a challenge that will need to be addressed in order to devise effective preventive and therapeutic interventions.
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- Paul Hasler
- Institut National de Santé et de Recherche Médicale, INSERM U430, Immunopathologie Humaine, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France
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Nikolich-Zugich J, Messaoudi I. Mice and flies and monkeys too: caloric restriction rejuvenates the aging immune system of non-human primates. Exp Gerontol 2005; 40:884-93. [PMID: 16087306 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2005.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2005] [Revised: 06/28/2005] [Accepted: 06/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Humanity has been obsessed with extending life span and reversing the aging process throughout recorded history and this quest most likely preceded the invention of the written word. The search for eternal youth has spurred holy wars and precipitated the discovery of the new world (the 'Fountain of youth'). It therefore comes as no surprise that an increasingly greater amount of research effort is dedicated to improve our understanding of the aging process and finding interventions to moderate its impact on health. Caloric restriction (CR) is the only intervention in biology that consistently extends maximal and median life span in a variety of short-lived species. Several theories to explain the mechanisms of action of CR have been put forth, including the possibility that CR acts by retarding immune senescence. The question remains, however, whether CR will have the same beneficial impact on human aging, and, if so, how long does CR need to last to produce beneficial effects. To address this question, several groups initiated long-term studies in Rhesus macaques (RM) in the 1980s. Here, we review published data describing the impact of CR on the aging immune system of mice and primates, and discuss our unpublished data that delineate similarities and differences in the effects of CR upon T cell aging and homeostasis between these two models.
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- Janko Nikolich-Zugich
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and the Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA.
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Aging is associated with an increased morbidity to virus infections as well as a delay in clearance of symptoms after infection. Studies of sublethal virus infections of aged mice closely mirror the human situation: there is a delay in clearance of virus. The delay in virus clearance is accompanied by a delay and a decrease in T-cell response, particularly of CD8(+) T cells. Intrinsic alterations of T cells of aged mice contribute to this decrease in virus-specific T-cell response; however, evidence suggests that environmental or innate components of the aged host also influence this age-associated decline in clearance of virus. While the changes in the adaptive immune response have been carefully described, the early events in the generation of the T-cell response after virus infection have received limited attention. Importantly, age-associated changes in the innate response to virus infection, particularly production of and response to interferon (IFN)-alpha/beta, cytotoxicity and IFN-gamma production by natural killer cells, interleukin-12 induction, and depletion of non-specific T cells early during virus infection need further evaluation.
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- Donna M Murasko
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Clambey ET, van Dyk LF, Kappler JW, Marrack P. Non-malignant clonal expansions of CD8+ memory T cells in aged individuals. Immunol Rev 2005; 205:170-89. [PMID: 15882353 DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2005.00265.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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CD8(+) T cells provide a major line of defense against intracellular pathogens. Upon encounter with antigen, CD8(+) T cells go through three distinct phases involving proliferation, contraction, and differentiation to become eventually long-lived CD8(+) memory T cells. CD8(+) memory T cells provide long-term protection against infection by intracellular pathogens. CD8(+) memory T-cell proliferation and survival are regulated by many factors, including cytokines, and CD8(+) memory T cells are stably maintained over a period of months to years. In aged humans and mice, however, there are significant alterations to the CD8(+) memory T-cell compartment with frequent development of monoclonal expansions of CD8(+) memory T cells in healthy individuals. Interestingly, CD8(+) clonal expansions are not malignant and do not progress to lymphomas, suggesting that these cells must still be under certain constraints. In this review, we discuss our current understanding of factors that contribute to and regulate these CD8(+) clonal expansions as well as the impact of CD8(+) clonal expansions on immune function of the aged. In addition, we discuss similarities and differences between CD8(+) clonal expansions observed in humans and mice, and we postulate that CD8(+) clonal expansions represent a spectrum of biological outcomes ranging from antigen-driven to antigen-independent phenomena.
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- Eric T Clambey
- Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Research & Medical Center, Denver, CO 80206, USA
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Linton PJ, Li SP, Zhang Y, Bautista B, Huynh Q, Trinh T. Intrinsic versus environmental influences on T-cell responses in aging. Immunol Rev 2005; 205:207-19. [PMID: 15882355 DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2005.00266.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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A decline in T-cell responses and a switch to memory T-cell predominance occur with aging. We have used the T-cell receptor (TCR) transgenic mouse model to study age-associated changes in T-cell responses that are a consequence of shifts in subset representation versus changes intrinsic to T cells versus changes in the 'aged' microenvironment. We found that naive transgene-expressing (Tg(+)) CD4(+) T cells from aged mice respond to antigen with reduced interleukin-2 (IL-2) production, decreased cell expansion, and limited differentiation to effectors. Comparable to the characteristic accumulation of memory phenotype T cells in aged humans and conventional rodents, Tg(+) CD4(+) T cells from old OTII and 6.5 TCR transgenic mice acquire a memory phenotype without immunization and become hyporesponsive. The naive Tg(+) CD8(+) T cells from aged 2C mice expressed activation markers, produced IL-2, proliferated, and differentiated into cytotoxic T lymphocytes as efficiently as their young counterparts. Responses by adoptive transferred Tg(+) cells from young mice, immunized in young and old conventional hosts, indicated that the host age influences the onset of cell division, level of cell expansion, and number of cytokine-producing cells. Co-transfer of dendritic cells (DCs) from young and less so from aged conventional mice partially restored responses. Furthermore, DCs and T-cell migration to draining lymphoid organs was reduced due to deficiencies intrinsic to aged cells and the aged environment. Thus, alterations in T-cell responses in aging are attributable to intrinsic and environmental influences.
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Wilson EL, King AM, Sherwood EM, Riley RL. Pre-B cell loss in senescence coincides with preferential development of immature B cells characterized by partial activation and altered Vh repertoire. Exp Gerontol 2005; 40:67-79. [PMID: 15664734 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2004.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2004] [Revised: 11/17/2004] [Accepted: 11/17/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Senescent mice show decline in B lymphopoiesis marked by reduced pre-B cells. Analysis of bone marrow from aged (approximately 2 years old) BALB/c mice indicates that, in senescence, an increased proportion of immature B cells exhibit a CD43/S7+ surface phenotype. This results from continued production of new CD43/S7+ B cells in aged mice from their limited pre-B cell pool while production of CD43/S7- immature B cells is highly reduced. CD43/S7 is ordinarily observed on a minor subset of immature B cells in young mice and is indicative of their partial activation. Senescent immature B cells, both ex vivo and derived in vitro, also demonstrate increased expression of VhS107 concomitant with CD43/S7. These alterations in the phenotype and Vh repertoire among senescent immature B cells likely originate prior to surface Ig expression. In aged mice with depleted pre-B and immature B cells in vivo, pre-B and immature B cells exhibited increased apoptosis in vitro. Dexamethasone-induced apoptosis among B lineage cells in young adult mice also resulted in pre-B cell loss and increased expression of CD43/S7 and VhS107 among immature B cells similar to that observed spontaneously in aged mice. These results suggest that old age, possibly due to increased apoptosis, results in loss of pre-B cells and alterations in the phenotype and Vh repertoire of newly derived B cells.
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- Emily L Wilson
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960 (R138), Miami, FL 33101, USA
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Messaoudi I, Lemaoult J, Guevara-Patino JA, Metzner BM, Nikolich-Zugich J. Age-related CD8 T cell clonal expansions constrict CD8 T cell repertoire and have the potential to impair immune defense. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 200:1347-58. [PMID: 15545358 PMCID: PMC2211915 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20040437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Peripheral T cell diversity is virtually constant in the young, but is invariably reduced in aged mice and humans. CD8+ T cell clonal expansions (TCE) are the most drastic manifestation of, and possible contributors to, this reduced diversity. We show that the presence of TCE results in reduced CD8+, but not CD4+, T cell diversity, and in functional inability to mobilize parts of the CD8+ T cell repertoire affected by TCE. In the model of herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 infection of B6 mice, >90% of the responding CD8+ T cells use Vbeta10 or Vbeta8 and are directed against a single glycoprotein B (gB498-505) epitope, gB-8p. We found that old animals bearing CD8+ TCE within Vbeta10 or Vbeta8 families failed to mount an effective immune response against HSV-1, as judged by reduced numbers of peptide-major histocompatibility complex tetramer+ CD8 T cells and an absence of antiviral lytic function. Furthermore, Vbeta8 TCE experimentally introduced into young mice resulted in lower resistance to viral challenge, whereas Vbeta5+ TCE induced in a similar fashion did not impact viral resistance. These results demonstrate that age-related TCE functionally impair the efficacy of antiviral CD8+ T cell immunity in an antigen-specific manner, strongly suggesting that TCE are not the mere manifestation of, but are also a contributing factor to, the immunodeficiency of senescence.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ilhem Messaoudi
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, West Campus, 505 NW 185th Ave., Beaverton, OR 97006, USA
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