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A Distinctive γδ T Cell Repertoire in NOD Mice Weakens Immune Regulation and Favors Diabetic Disease. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12101406. [PMID: 36291615 PMCID: PMC9599391 DOI: 10.3390/biom12101406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Previous studies in mice and humans suggesting that γδ T cells play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes have been inconsistent and contradictory. We attempted to resolve this for the type 1 diabetes-prone NOD mice by characterizing their γδ T cell populations, and by investigating the functional contributions of particular γδ T cells subsets, using Vγ-gene targeted NOD mice. We found evidence that NOD Vγ4+ γδ T cells inhibit the development of diabetes, and that the process by which they do so involves IL-17 production and/or promotion of regulatory CD4+ αβ T cells (Tregs) in the pancreatic lymph nodes. In contrast, the NOD Vγ1+ cells promote diabetes development. Enhanced Vγ1+ cell numbers in NOD mice, in particular those biased to produce IFNγ, appear to favor diabetic disease. Within NOD mice deficient in particular γδ T cell subsets, we noted that changes in the abundance of non-targeted T cell types also occurred, which varied depending upon the γδ T cells that were missing. Our results indicate that while certain γδ T cell subsets inhibit the development of spontaneous type 1 diabetes, others exacerbate it, and they may do so via mechanisms that include altering the levels of other T cells.
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β2 Integrins differentially regulate γδ T cell subset thymic development and peripheral maintenance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:22367-22377. [PMID: 32848068 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921930117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The γδ T cells reside predominantly at barrier sites and play essential roles in immune protection against infection and cancer. Despite recent advances in the development of γδ T cell immunotherapy, our understanding of the basic biology of these cells, including how their numbers are regulated in vivo, remains poor. This is particularly true for tissue-resident γδ T cells. We have identified the β2 family of integrins as regulators of γδ T cells. β2-integrin-deficient mice displayed a striking increase in numbers of IL-17-producing Vγ6Vδ1+ γδ T cells in the lungs, uterus, and circulation. Thymic development of this population was normal. However, single-cell RNA sequencing revealed the enrichment of genes associated with T cell survival and proliferation specifically in β2-integrin-deficient IL-17+ cells compared to their wild-type counterparts. Indeed, β2-integrin-deficient Vγ6+ cells from the lungs showed reduced apoptosis ex vivo, suggesting that increased survival contributes to the accumulation of these cells in β2-integrin-deficient tissues. Furthermore, our data revealed an unexpected role for β2 integrins in promoting the thymic development of the IFNγ-producing CD27+ Vγ4+ γδ T cell subset. Together, our data reveal that β2 integrins are important regulators of γδ T cell homeostasis, inhibiting the survival of IL-17-producing Vγ6Vδ1+ cells and promoting the thymic development of the IFNγ-producing Vγ4+ subset. Our study introduces unprecedented mechanisms of control for γδ T cell subsets.
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Marchitto MC, Dillen CA, Liu H, Miller RJ, Archer NK, Ortines RV, Alphonse MP, Marusina AI, Merleev AA, Wang Y, Pinsker BL, Byrd AS, Brown ID, Ravipati A, Zhang E, Cai SS, Limjunyawong N, Dong X, Yeaman MR, Simon SI, Shen W, Durum SK, O'Brien RL, Maverakis E, Miller LS. Clonal Vγ6 +Vδ4 + T cells promote IL-17-mediated immunity against Staphylococcus aureus skin infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:10917-10926. [PMID: 31088972 PMCID: PMC6561199 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818256116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
T cell cytokines contribute to immunity against Staphylococcus aureus, but the predominant T cell subsets involved are unclear. In an S. aureus skin infection mouse model, we found that the IL-17 response was mediated by γδ T cells, which trafficked from lymph nodes to the infected skin to induce neutrophil recruitment, proinflammatory cytokines IL-1α, IL-1β, and TNF, and host defense peptides. RNA-seq for TRG and TRD sequences in lymph nodes and skin revealed a single clonotypic expansion of the encoded complementarity-determining region 3 amino acid sequence, which could be generated by canonical nucleotide sequences of TRGV5 or TRGV6 and TRDV4 However, only TRGV6 and TRDV4 but not TRGV5 sequences expanded. Finally, Vγ6+ T cells were a predominant γδ T cell subset that produced IL-17A as well as IL-22, TNF, and IFNγ, indicating a broad and substantial role for clonal Vγ6+Vδ4+ T cells in immunity against S. aureus skin infections.
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- Mark C Marchitto
- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817
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- Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231
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- The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
- The Center for Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
- The Center for Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502
- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
- Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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- Cytokines and Immunity Section, Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Cytokines and Immunity Section, Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Biomedical Research, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206
- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80206
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- Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231;
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Akitsu A, Iwakura Y. Interleukin-17-producing γδ T (γδ17) cells in inflammatory diseases. Immunology 2018; 155:418-426. [PMID: 30133701 PMCID: PMC6231014 DOI: 10.1111/imm.12993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Revised: 08/08/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Interleukin‐17 (IL‐17) is a pro‐inflammatory cytokine and is involved in the development of many diseases. Recent studies have revealed that IL‐17‐producing γδ T cells (γδ17 cells) in addition to IL‐17‐producing CD4+ T cells [T helper type 17 (Th17) cells] are often the main producers of IL‐17 in mouse models of inflammatory diseases. γδ T cells are functionally committed during intra‐thymic differentiation. γδ thymocytes capable of producing IL‐17, which express the transcription factor retinoic‐acid‐receptor‐related orphan receptor γt and the signature cytokine receptor IL‐23R, leave the thymus, and produce IL‐17 rapidly by the stimulation with IL‐1β and IL‐23 in the periphery. Therefore, γδ17 cells play important roles in the early phase of host defence against pathogens and in inflammatory diseases. γδ T cells that can produce IL‐17 are also increased in the skin of patients with psoriasis and in peripheral blood of patients with ankylosing sclerosis. Indeed, the therapy targeting IL‐17 has been approved or is in clinical trials, and proved to be very efficient to treat psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing sclerosis. In this review, we discuss recent knowledge about the pathophysiological function of γδ17 cells in infection and inflammatory diseases and therapeutic advances targeting IL‐17.
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- Aoi Akitsu
- Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Centre for Animal Disease Models, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan
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Akitsu A, Ishigame H, Kakuta S, Chung SH, Ikeda S, Shimizu K, Kubo S, Liu Y, Umemura M, Matsuzaki G, Yoshikai Y, Saijo S, Iwakura Y. IL-1 receptor antagonist-deficient mice develop autoimmune arthritis due to intrinsic activation of IL-17-producing CCR2(+)Vγ6(+)γδ T cells. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7464. [PMID: 26108163 PMCID: PMC4521288 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Interleukin-17 (IL-17)-producing γδ T (γδ17) cells have been implicated in inflammatory diseases, but the underlying pathogenic mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we show that both CD4+ and γδ17 cells are required for the development of autoimmune arthritis in IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra)-deficient mice. Specifically, activated CD4+ T cells direct γδ T-cell infiltration by inducing CCL2 expression in joints. Furthermore, IL-17 reporter mice reveal that the Vγ6+ subset of CCR2+ γδ T cells preferentially produces IL-17 in inflamed joints. Importantly, because IL-1Ra normally suppresses IL-1R expression on γδ T cells, IL-1Ra-deficient mice exhibit elevated IL-1R expression on Vγ6+ cells, which play a critical role in inducing them to produce IL-17. Our findings demonstrate a pathogenic mechanism in which adaptive and innate immunity induce an autoimmune disease in a coordinated manner. Control of γδ T-cell activation remains incompletely understood. Here the authors show that during autoimmune arthritis development αβ CD4+ T cells recruit a subset of IL-17-producing γδ T cells to the joints, and that both components are essential to cause pathology in a mouse model of the disease.
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- Aoi Akitsu
- 1] Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan [2] Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan [3] Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo 102-0083, Japan [4] Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan [5] Division of Experimental Animal Immunology, Center for Animal Disease Models, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba 278-0022, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- 1] Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan [2] Division of Experimental Animal Immunology, Center for Animal Disease Models, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba 278-0022, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- 1] Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan [2] Division of Experimental Animal Immunology, Center for Animal Disease Models, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba 278-0022, Japan
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- 1] Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan [2] Division of Experimental Animal Immunology, Center for Animal Disease Models, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba 278-0022, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
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- Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
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- Research Center for Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- 1] Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan [2] Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan [3] Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan [4] Division of Experimental Animal Immunology, Center for Animal Disease Models, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba 278-0022, Japan
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Kirby AC, Newton DJ, Carding SR, Kaye PM. Evidence for the involvement of lung-specific gammadelta T cell subsets in local responses to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Eur J Immunol 2008; 37:3404-13. [PMID: 18022862 PMCID: PMC2435423 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200737216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Although γδ T cells are involved in the response to many pathogens, the dynamics and heterogeneity of the local γδ T cell response remains poorly defined. We recently identified γδ T cells as regulators of macrophages and dendritic cells during the resolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae-mediated lung inflammation. Here, using PCR, spectratype analysis and flow cytometry, we show that multiple γδ T cell subsets, including those bearing Vγ1, Vγ4 and Vγ6 TCR, increase in number in the lungs of infected mice, but not in associated lymphoid tissue. These γδ T cells displayed signs of activation, as defined by CD69 and CD25 expression. In vivo BrdU incorporation suggested that local expansion, rather than recruitment, was the principal mechanism underlying this increase in γδ T cells. This conclusion was supported by the finding that pulmonary γδ T cells, but not αβ T cells, isolated from mice that had resolved infection exhibited lung-homing capacity in both naive and infected recipients. Together, these data provide novel insights into the origins of the heterogeneous γδ T cell response that accompanies lung infection, and the first evidence that inflammation-associated γδ T cells may exhibit distinct tissue-homing potential.
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- Alun C Kirby
- Immunology and Infection Unit, Hull York Medical School and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK.
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Newton DJ, Andrew EM, Dalton JE, Mears R, Carding SR. Identification of novel gammadelta T-cell subsets following bacterial infection in the absence of Vgamma1+ T cells: homeostatic control of gammadelta T-cell responses to pathogen infection by Vgamma1+ T cells. Infect Immun 2006; 74:1097-105. [PMID: 16428757 PMCID: PMC1360339 DOI: 10.1128/iai.74.2.1097-1105.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Although gammadelta T cells are a common feature of many pathogen-induced immune responses, the factors that influence, promote, or regulate the response of individual gammadelta T-cell subsets to infection is unknown. Here we show that in the absence of Vgamma1+ T cells, novel subsets of gammadelta T cells, expressing T-cell receptor (TCR)-Vgamma chains that normally define TCRgammadelta+ dendritic epidermal T cells (DETCs) (Vgamma5+), intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (iIELs) (Vgamma7+), and lymphocytes associated with the vaginal epithelia (Vgamma6+), are recruited to the spleen in response to bacterial infection in TCR-Vgamma1-/- mice. By comparison of phenotype and structure of TCR-Vgamma chains and/or -Vdelta chains expressed by these novel subsets with those of their epithelium-associated counterparts, the Vgamma6+ T cells elicited in infected Vgamma1-/- mice were shown to be identical to those found in the reproductive tract, from where they are presumably recruited in the absence of Vgamma1+ T cells. By contrast, Vgamma5+ and Vgamma7+ T cells found in infected Vgamma1-/- mice were distinct from Vgamma5+ DETCs and Vgamma7+ iIELs. Functional analyses of the novel gammadelta T-cell subsets identified for infected Vgamma1-/- mice showed that whereas the Vgamma5+ and Vgamma7+ subsets may compensate for the absence of Vgamma1+ T cells by producing similar cytokines, they do not possess cytocidal activity and they cannot replace the macrophage homeostasis function of Vgamma1+ T cells. Collectively, these findings identify novel subsets of gammadelta T cells, the recruitment and activity of which is under the control of Vgamma1+ T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, gamma-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor gamma
- Homeostasis
- Humans
- Listeria monocytogenes/immunology
- Listeria monocytogenes/pathogenicity
- Listeriosis/immunology
- Listeriosis/microbiology
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
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- Darren J Newton
- Research Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Boucontet L, Sepúlveda N, Carneiro J, Pereira P. Mechanisms controlling termination of V-J recombination at the TCRgamma locus: implications for allelic and isotypic exclusion of TCRgamma chains. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:3912-9. [PMID: 15778346 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.7.3912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Analyses of Vgamma-Jgamma rearrangements producing the most commonly expressed TCRgamma chains in over 200 gammadelta TCR(+) thymocytes showed that assembly of TCRgamma V-region genes display properties of allelic exclusion. Moreover, introduction of functionally rearranged TCRgamma and delta transgenes results in a profound inhibition of endogenous TCRgamma rearrangements in progenitor cells. The extent of TCRgamma rearrangements in these cells is best explained by a model in which initiation of TCRgamma rearrangements at both alleles is asymmetric, occurs at different frequencies depending on the V or J segments involved, and is terminated upon production of a functional gammadelta TCR. Approximately 10% of the cells studied contained two functional TCRgamma chains involving different V and Jgamma gene segments, thus defining a certain degree of isotypic inclusion. However, these cells are isotypically excluded at the level of cell surface expression possibly due to pairing restrictions between different TCRgamma and delta chains.
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- Laurent Boucontet
- Unité du Développement des Lymphocytes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 1961, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Dalton JE, Howell G, Pearson J, Scott P, Carding SR. Fas-Fas ligand interactions are essential for the binding to and killing of activated macrophages by gamma delta T cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:3660-7. [PMID: 15356111 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.6.3660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Gammadelta T cells have a direct role in resolving the host immune response to infection by eliminating populations of activated macrophages. Macrophage reactivity resides within the Vgamma1/Vdelta6.3 subset of gammadelta T cells, which have the ability to kill activated macrophages following infection with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). However, it is not known how gammadelta T cell macrophage cytocidal activity is regulated, or what effector mechanisms gammadelta T cells use to kill activated macrophages. Using a macrophage-T cell coculture system in which peritoneal macrophages from naive or Lm-infected TCRdelta-/- mice were incubated with splenocytes from wild-type and Fas ligand (FasL)-deficient mice (gld), the ability of Vgamma1 T cells to bind macrophages was shown to be dependent upon Fas-FasL interactions. Combinations of anti-TCR and FasL Abs completely abolished binding to and killing of activated macrophages by Vgamma1 T cells. In addition, confocal microscopy showed that Fas and the TCR colocalized on Vgamma1 T cells at points of contact with macrophages. Collectively, these studies identify an accessory or coreceptor-like function for Fas-FasL that is essential for the interaction of Vgamma1 T cells with activated macrophages and their elimination during the resolution stage of pathogen-induced immune responses.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Adhesion/genetics
- Cell Adhesion/immunology
- Cell Communication/genetics
- Cell Communication/immunology
- Cell Death/genetics
- Cell Death/immunology
- Cell Line
- Cells, Cultured
- Coculture Techniques
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/immunology
- Fas Ligand Protein
- Listeria monocytogenes/immunology
- Macrophage Activation/genetics
- Macrophage Activation/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/metabolism
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/microbiology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/biosynthesis
- Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Perforin
- Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- fas Receptor/biosynthesis
- fas Receptor/metabolism
- fas Receptor/physiology
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- Jane E Dalton
- School of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Pereira P, Boucontet L. Rates of recombination and chain pair biases greatly influence the primary gammadelta TCR repertoire in the thymus of adult mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:3261-70. [PMID: 15322188 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.5.3261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Analyses of the rearrangement status of the TCRgamma and TCRdelta chain loci in progenies of individual gammadelta thymocytes showed a hierarchy of the different Vgamma and Vdelta gene segments to participate in a recombination reaction. Moreover, individual TCRgamma chains only pair efficiently with a variable number of TCRdelta chains. Interestingly, these two parameters are inversely correlated such that the TCRgamma and TCRdelta chains that rearrange more often show a higher level of restriction in their pairing capabilities. Our data suggest that these mechanisms, together with a natural variation affecting the expected frequencies at which rearrangement of different Vgamma gene segments give raise to functional TCRgamma chains, have coevolved to maximize the diversity of the gammadelta TCR repertoire minimizing the risk that a gammadelta T cell will express more than one TCR specificity at the cell surface, despite the fact that multiple TCRgamma rearrangements take place in the same progenitor cell.
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- Pablo Pereira
- Unité du Développement des Lymphocytes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 1961, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
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Krotkova A, Smith E, Nerz G, Falk I, Eichmann K. Delayed and restricted expression limits putative instructional opportunities of Vgamma1.1/Vgamma2 gammadelta TCR in alphabeta/gammadelta lineage choice in the thymus. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:25-32. [PMID: 15210755 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.1.25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Development of alphabeta and gammadelta T cells depends on productive rearrangement of the appropriate TCR genes and their subsequent expression as proteins. TCRbeta and TCRgammadelta proteins first appear in DN3 and DN4 thymocytes, respectively. So far, it is not clear whether this is due to a delayed expression of TCRgammadelta proteins or to a more rapid progression to DN4 of thymocytes expressing TCRgammadelta. The answer to this question bears on the distinction between instructive and stochastic models of alphabeta/gammadelta lineage decision. To study this question, we first monitored initial TCR protein expression in wild-type and TCR transgenic mice in reaggregate thymic organ cultures. A TCRbeta transgene was expressed in nearly all DN3 and DN4 cells, accelerated DN3 to DN4 transition, and strongly diminished the number of cells that express TCRgammadelta proteins. In contrast, TCRgammadelta transgenes were expressed only in a fraction of DN4 cells, did not accelerate DN3 to DN4 transition, and did not reduce the number of DN4 cells expressing TCRbeta proteins. The TCRbeta transgene partially inhibited endogenous TCRgamma rearrangements, whereas the TCRgammadelta transgenes did not inhibit endogenous TCRbeta rearrangements. Second, we analyzed frequencies of productive TCRbeta and TCRgammadelta V(D)J junctions in DN3 and DN4 subsets. Most importantly, frequencies of productive TCRgammadelta rearrangements (Vdelta5, Vgamma1.1, and Vgamma2) appeared unselected in DN3. The results suggest a late and restricted expression of the corresponding gammadeltaTCR, severely limiting their putative instructional opportunities in alphabeta/gammadelta divergence.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Lineage
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor beta
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/physiology
- T-Lymphocytes/physiology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- Anna Krotkova
- Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Stübeweg 541, 79108 Freiburg, Germany
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Aydintug MK, Roark CL, Yin X, Wands JM, Born WK, O'Brien RL. Detection of Cell Surface Ligands for the γδ TCR Using Soluble TCRs. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:4167-75. [PMID: 15034029 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.7.4167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The natural ligands recognized by gammadelta TCRs are still largely unknown, in part because immunization does not normally result in Ag-specific gammadelta T cell responses. Taking advantage of an established ligand for a particular gammadelta TCR, we demonstrated that a multimerized recombinant form of this gammadelta TCR can be used like a mAb to specifically detect its own ligand. Using the same approach for more common gammadelta TCRs whose ligands remain unknown, we detected on certain cell lines molecules that appear to be ligands for three additional gammadelta TCRs. One of these represents the mouse Vgamma6/Vdelta1 invariant gammadelta TCR, which predominates in the female reproductive tract, the tongue, and the lung, and other tissues during inflammation. The second represents the closely related Vgamma5/Vdelta1 invariant gammadelta TCR expressed by most epidermal T cells. The third is a Vgamma1/Vdelta6.3 TCR, representative of a variable type frequently found on lymphoid gammadelta T cells. We found evidence that ligands for multiple gammadelta TCRs may be simultaneously expressed on a single cell line, and that at least some of the putative ligands are protease sensitive. This study suggests that soluble versions of gammadelta TCRs can be as tools to identify and characterize the natural ligands of gammadelta T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/analysis
- Binding Sites, Antibody
- Binding, Competitive/immunology
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Membrane/immunology
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Endopeptidases/metabolism
- Epithelial Cells/immunology
- Epithelial Cells/metabolism
- Humans
- Hybridomas
- Ligands
- Mice
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/isolation & purification
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Solubility
- Staining and Labeling/methods
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Affiliation(s)
- M Kemal Aydintug
- Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206, USA
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Dalton JE, Pearson J, Scott P, Carding SR. The Interaction of γδ T Cells with Activated Macrophages Is a Property of the Vγ1 Subset. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 171:6488-94. [PMID: 14662848 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.12.6488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Immunoregulation is an emerging paradigm of gammadelta T cell function. The mechanisms by which gammadelta T cells mediate this function, however, are not clear. Studies have identified a direct role for gammadelta T cells in resolving the host immune response to infection, by eliminating populations of activated macrophages. The aim of this study was to identify macrophage-reactive gammadelta T cells and establish the requirements/outcomes of macrophage-gammadelta T cell interactions during the immune response to the intracellular bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). Using a macrophage-T cell coculture system in which peritoneal macrophages from naive or Lm-infected TCRdelta(-/-) mice were incubated with splenocytes from naive and Lm-infected alphabeta/gammadelta T cell-deficient and wild-type mice, the ability to bind macrophages was shown to be restricted to gammadelta T cells and the GV5S1 (Vgamma1) subset of gammadelta T cells. Macrophage adherence resulted in a 4- to 10-fold enrichment of Vgamma1(+) T cells. Enrichment of Vgamma1 T cells was dependent upon the activation status of macrophages, but independent of the activation status of gammadelta T cells. Vgamma1 T cells were cytotoxic for activated macrophages with both the binding to and killing of macrophages being TCR dependent because anti-TCRgammadelta Abs inhibited both Vgamma1 binding and killing activities. These studies establish the identity of macrophage cytotoxic gammadelta T cells, the conditions under which this interaction occurs, and the outcome of this interaction. These findings are concordant with the involvement of Vgamma1 T cells in macrophage homeostasis during the resolution of pathogen-mediated immune responses.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Adhesion/immunology
- Cell Communication/immunology
- Cell Death/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Coculture Techniques
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/immunology
- Listeria monocytogenes/growth & development
- Listeria monocytogenes/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Macrophage Activation/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/cytology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Jane E Dalton
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Azuara V, Grigoriadou K, Lembezat MP, Nagler-Anderson C, Pereira P. Strain-specific TCR repertoire selection of IL-4-producing Thy-1 dull gamma delta thymocytes. Eur J Immunol 2001; 31:205-14. [PMID: 11265636 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200101)31:1<205::aid-immu205>3.0.co;2-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Thy-1 dull gamma delta thymocytes constitute an unusual subset of mature TCR gamma delta cells which share with NK T cells the expression of cell surface markers usually associated with activated or memory cells and the simultaneous production of high levels of IL-4 and IFN-gamma upon activation. In DBA / 2 mice, Thy-1 dull gamma delta thymocytes express a restricted repertoire of TCR that are composed of the V1 gene product mainly associated with V6.4 chains exhibiting very limited junctional sequence diversity. In this study we have characterized this gamma delta T cell population in different strains of mice and show that Thy-1 dull gamma delta thymocytes are present in every strain tested, albeit at different frequencies. Moreover IL-4 production by gamma delta thymocytes is mainly confined to the Thy-1 dull population in every strain tested. Finally, the repertoire of TCR expressed by Thy-1 dull gamma delta thymocytes varies in different strain of mice, although a biased expression of Vgamma1 and Vdelta6 chains was observed in all strains studied. However, the extent of junctional diversity of the V1 and V6 chains expressed by Thy-1 dull gamma delta thymocytes varied from oligoclonal in DBA/2 mice to polyclonal in FVB/N mice. Thy-1 dull gamma delta thymocytes from mouse strains such as C3H/HeJ and BALB/c contain cells with diverse Vdelta6(D)Jdelta junctions together with cells with relatively homogeneous Vdelta6(D)Jdelta junctions, similar to those found in DBA/2. Thus, the Thy-1 dull gamma delta population appears to contain two subsets of cells which differ in the diversity of their TCR.
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Affiliation(s)
- V Azuara
- Unité du Développement des Lymphocytes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique URA 1961, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Arck PC, Ferrick DA, Steele-Norwood D, Egan PJ, Croitoru K, Carding SR, Dietl J, Clark DA. Murine T cell determination of pregnancy outcome. Cell Immunol 1999; 196:71-9. [PMID: 10527558 DOI: 10.1006/cimm.1999.1535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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At the fetomaternal interface, maternal effector cells come in intimate contact with fetal trophoblast cells which express paternal antigens. Failure of fetal trophoblast cells to activate maternal Th1 immune responses has been attributed in part to the absence of classical Class I and Class II major histocompatibilty complex (MHC) antigen expression and elaboration of factors which reduce TcR expression and shift any immune responses which may occur to Th2. Classical TcR alphabeta(+) T cells have not been found to be able to respond to trophoblasts. Recently, TcR gammadelta(+) T cells have been characterized in the low-abortion-rate pregnant C57Bl/10 mouse decidua, and the Vgamma1(+) subset may be able to respond to trophoblasts in a non-MHC-dependent manner. Trophoblast-recognizing T cells with Vgamma1 receptors are also present in the decidua of CBA/J mice pregnant by DBA/2, an abortion-prone mating combination. To test the role of the Vgamma1 subset of decidual gammadelta T cells in abortion-prone pregnancies, we altered this subset by injecting monoclonal anti-Vgamma1.1 antibody on gestation day 5.5, 1 day after implantation. This reduced detectability of a Vgammadelta subset producing TNF-alpha and reduced the abortion rate. Anti-Vgamma2, which reacts with a similar proportion of decidual gammadelta T cells as anti-Vgamma1.1, failed to prevent abortions. Vdelta6.3(+) cells are prominent at the fetomaternal interface, and anti-Vdelta6 antibody injected on day 5.5 prevented abortions. TGF-beta2(+) gammadelta cells first appear on day 8.5 of pregnancy; anti-Vgamma1.1 antibody injection on day 8.5 depleted these cells and boosted abortions; anti-Vdelta6.3 given on day 8.5 boosted abortions to the same level. These results suggest that two populations of Vgamma1.1(+)delta6.3(+) T cells may arise in the decidua: an early population that is Th1, abortogenic, and present during the time of implantation, and a Th2/3 cell subset that is present in the decidua later during pregnancy and which is pregnancy-protective.
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MESH Headings
- Abortion, Spontaneous/etiology
- Abortion, Spontaneous/immunology
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/toxicity
- Crosses, Genetic
- Cytokines/physiology
- Decidua/immunology
- Female
- Fetal Resorption/immunology
- Flow Cytometry
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications
- Pregnancy Outcome
- Pregnancy, Animal/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/analysis
- Stress, Physiological/complications
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Th1 Cells/immunology
- Th2 Cells/immunology
- Trophoblasts/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- P C Arck
- Medizinische Fakultat der Humbolt, Universitat zu Berlin, Augustenburger Platz, Berlin, 13353, Germany
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Mukasa A, Born WK, O’Brien RL. Inflammation Alone Evokes the Response of a TCR-Invariant Mouse γδ T Cell Subset. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.8.4910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Whether γδ T lymphocytes respond to microbial Ags or to inducible host Ags remains a matter of controversy. Using several different disease models and mouse strains, we and others have seen that Vγ6/Vδ1 γδ T cells preferentially increase among the γδ T cells infiltrating inflamed tissues. However, it was not clear whether bacteria are necessary to bring about this response. Therefore, we have reexamined this question using a disease model in which inflammation is induced by a purely autoimmune process involving no bacteria, bacterial products, or other foreign material: testicular cell-induced autoimmune orchitis. Using this model we found that γδ T cells were still plentiful among the infiltrating T lymphocytes, being 9- to 10-fold more prevalent than in spleen, and that Vγ6/Vδ1+ cells again represented the predominant γδ T cell type. This finding shows that the response of the Vγ6/Vδ1+ subset does not, in fact, depend upon the presence of bacteria or bacterial products. The stimulus triggering the response of the Vγ6/Vδ1 γδ T cells appears to be neither foreign nor organ-specific in origin, but instead consists of a self-derived host Ag or signal induced during the inflammatory process.
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- Akiko Mukasa
- * National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206; and
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- * National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206; and
- †Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262
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- * National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206; and
- †Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262
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Kodaira Y, Ikuta K, Tanaka S, Yokomuro K. Antigen-driven clonal accumulation of peritoneal gammadelta T cells in vivo. Immunol Invest 1999; 28:137-48. [PMID: 10484679 DOI: 10.3109/08820139909061143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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How the clonality of gammadelta T cells changes in response to exogenous antigens is uncertain. Here we analyzed kinetics of Vgamma1.1 and Vgamma2 T cell clonality after intraperitoneal injection of purified protein derivatives (PPD) by the heterogeneity of the third complementarity determining region (CDR3) length in Vgamma1.1-Jgamma4-Cgamma4 and Vgamma2-Jgamma1-Cgamma1 junctions. The V-J junctions were analyzed in intrahepatic lymphocytes (IHL), spleen cells, and peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Gammadelta T cells expressing Vgamma1.1 and Vgamma2 genes were heterogeneous in normal mice. Accumulation of specific Vgamma1.1 T cell clones was transiently detected 7 days after the injection in PEC, but no accumulation was observed in IHL and spleen cells. The accumulated clones disappeared by 4 weeks. Transient accumulation of Vgamma2 T cell clones was also observed in PEC at the early phase after the injection. These results suggest that gammadelta T cells with specific TCR respond to PPD and temporary accumulate in the peritoneal cavity, but not in liver and spleen.
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- Y Kodaira
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sun Y, Chen Z, Chung SW, Zeng H, Gorczynski RM. TCR diversity in gammadeltaTCR+ hybridomas derived from mice given portal vein donor-specific pre-immunization and skin allografts. Immunol Lett 1998; 64:85-95. [PMID: 9870659 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2478(98)00087-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Portal venous (p.v.) immunization with multiple minor histoincompatible cells leads to antigen-specific increased skin allograft survival. GammadeltaTCR+ hybridoma cells, prepared from mesenteric lymphocytes of p.v. immunized animals, can adoptively transfer this increased graft survival to naive animals. We have analyzed VgammaVdelta gene usage, and TCR gamma-chain junctional diversity in gammadeltaTCR+ hybridomas from mice immunized with different antigen combinations by p.v. or conventional lateral tail vein (i.v.) immunization. Following p.v. immunization two independent sets of hybridoma cells were derived, one expressing a common gamma-chain junctional sequence which was also found in > 85% of the hybridomas derived following i.v. immunization, while the other set showed remarkable gamma-chain junctional sequence diversity. The diversity seen in these latter hybridomas was associated with the antigen specificity of the hybridoma cells. Cells expressing these 'unique' TCR junctional sequences were stimulated to produce cytokines both by hsp and by minor-histocompatibility-specific irradiated peritoneal cells. Cells expressing TCR with a common gamma-chain junctional sequence were stimulated to cytokine production by MHC-matched but minor-histocompatibility mismatched (as well as matched) peritoneal cells, but not by hsp. We suggest that p.v. immunization results in stimulation of both antigen-specific and non-specific regulatory gammadeltaTCR+ cells, which can be distinguished by gamma-chain TCR sequence diversity.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer/methods
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cytokines/metabolism
- DNA, Complementary
- Genetic Variation
- Graft Survival
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Immunization
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Portal Vein
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Skin Transplantation
- Transplantation, Homologous
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Affiliation(s)
- Y Sun
- The Toronto Hospital, Department of Surgery and Immunology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
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Six A, Rast JP, McCormack WT, Dunon D, Courtois D, Li Y, Chen CH, Cooper MD. Characterization of avian T-cell receptor gamma genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:15329-34. [PMID: 8986811 PMCID: PMC26404 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.26.15329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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In birds and mammals T cells develop along two discrete pathways characterized by expression of either the alpha beta or the gamma delta T-cell antigen receptors (TCRs). To gain further insight into the evolutionary significance of the gamma delta T-cell lineage, the present studies sought to define the chicken TCR gamma locus. A splenic cDNA library was screened with two polymerase chain reaction products obtained from genomic DNA using primers for highly conserved regions of TCR and immunoglobulin genes. This strategy yielded cDNA clones with characteristics of mammalian TCR gamma chains, including canonical residues considered important for proper folding and stability. Northern blot analysis with the TCR gamma cDNA probe revealed 1.9-kb transcripts in the thymus, spleen, and a gamma delta T-cell line, but not in B or alpha beta T-cell lines. Three multimember V gamma subfamilies, three J gamma gene segments, and a single constant region C gamma gene were identified in the avian TCR gamma locus. Members of each of the three V gamma subfamilies were found to undergo rearrangement in parallel during the first wave of thymocyte development. TCR gamma repertoire diversification was initiated on embryonic day 10 by an apparently random pattern of V-J gamma recombination, nuclease activity, and P-and N-nucleotide additions to generate a diverse repertoire of avian TCR gamma genes early in ontogeny.
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- A Six
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
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Tsujimura K, Takahashi T, Morita A, Hasegawa-Nishiwaki H, Iwase S, Obata Y. Positive selection of gamma delta CTL by TL antigen expressed in the thymus. J Exp Med 1996; 184:2175-84. [PMID: 8976173 PMCID: PMC2196386 DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.6.2175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/1996] [Revised: 09/17/1996] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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To elucidate the funciton of the mouse TL antigen in the thymus, we have derived two TL transgenic mouse strains by introducing Tl alpha 2-3 of A strain origin with its own promoter onto a C3H background with no expression of TL in the thymus. These transgenic mouse strains, both of which express high levels of Tla2-3-TL antigen in their thymus, were analyzed for their T cell function with emphasis on cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) generation. A T cell response against TL was induced in Tg. Tla2-3-1, Tg. Tla2-3-2, and control C3H mice by skin grafts from H-2Kb/T3b transgenic mice, Tg.Con.3-1, expressing T3b-TL ubiquitously. Spleen cells from mice that had rejected the T3b-TL positive skin grafts were restimulated in vitro with Tg. Con.3-1 irradiated spleen cells. In mixed lymphocyte cultures (MLC), approximately 20% and 15% of Thy-1+ T cells derived from Tg.Tla2-3-1 and Tg.Tla2-3-2, respectively, expressed TCR gamma delta, whereas almost all those from C3H expressed TCR alpha beta. The MLC from Tg. Tla2-3-2 and C3H demonstrated high CTL activity against TL, while those from Tg. Tla2-3-1 had little or none. The generation of gamma delta CTL recognizing TL in Tg. Tla2-3-2, but not C3H mice, was confirmed by the establishment of CTL clones. A total of 14 gamma delta CTL clones were established from Tg. Tla2-3-2, whereas none were obtained from C3H. Of the 14 gamma delta CTL clones, 8 were CD8+ and 6 were CD4-CD8- double negative. The CTL activity of all these clones was TL specific and inhibited by anti-TL, but not by anti-H-2 antibodies, demonstrating that they recognize TL directly without antigen presentation by H-2. The CTL activity was blocked by antibodies to TCR gamma delta and CD3, and also by antibodies to CD 8 alpha and CD8 beta in CD8+ clones, showing that the activity was mediated by TCR gamma delta and coreceptors. The thymic origin of these gamma delta CTL clones was indicated by the expression of Thy-1 and Ly-1 (CD5), and also CD8 alpha beta heterodimers in CD8+ clones on their surfaces and by the usage of TCR V gamma 4 chains in 12 of the 14 clones. Taken together, these results suggest that Tla2-3-TL antigen expressed in the thymus engages in positive selection of a sizable population of gamma delta T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- CD8 Antigens/biosynthesis
- Clone Cells
- Graft Rejection/immunology
- Immunity, Cellular
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed
- Lymphocyte Transfusion
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Skin Transplantation/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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- K Tsujimura
- Laboratory of Immunology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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