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Rantanen R, Honkila M, Kämä HR, Pokka T, Pihkala J, Rahkonen O, Mattila I, Renko M, Helminen M, Heinonen S, Kekäläinen E, Kallio M, Ruuska TS. Pneumonia, wheezing and asthma were more common in children after thymectomy due to open-heart surgery. Acta Paediatr 2024; 113:1685-1693. [PMID: 38501561 DOI: 10.1111/apa.17205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
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AIM This nationwide study evaluated the clinical impact that an early thymectomy, during congenital heart defect (CHD) surgery, had on the health of children and adolescents. METHODS The subjects were patients aged 1-15 years who had undergone CHD surgery at the University Children's Hospital, Helsinki, where all CHD surgery in Finland is carried out, from 2006 to 2018. The parents or the cases and population-based controls, matched for sex, age and hospital district, completed electronic questionnaires. We excluded those with low birth weights or a known immunodeficiency. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated for prespecified outcomes. RESULTS We received responses relating to 260/450 (58%) cases and 1403/4500 (31%) controls and excluded 73 cases with persistent cardiac or respiratory complaints after surgery. The CHD group reported more recurrent hospitalisations due to infections (aOR 6.3, 95% CI 3.0-13) than the controls and more pneumonia episodes (aOR 3.5, 95% CI 2.1-5.6), asthma (aOR 2.5, 95% CI 1.5-4.1) and wheezing (aOR 2.1, 95% CI 1.5-2.9). CONCLUSION Hospitalisation due to infections, pneumonia, wheezing and asthma was more common in children after a thymectomy due to open-heart surgery than population-based controls, underlining the importance of immunological follow-ups.
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- Rea Rantanen
- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Centre (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Centre (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Centre (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Centre (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Research Service Unit, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Paediatric Cardiology, New Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Paediatric Cardiology, New Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Paediatric Cardiac and Transplantation Surgery, New Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- New Children's Hospital, Paediatric Research Centre, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Translational Immunology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- HUS Diagnostic Centre, Helsinki, Finland
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- Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Centre (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Paediatric Cardiology, New Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Centre (MRC) Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Serana F, Chiarini M, Zanotti C, Sottini A, Bertoli D, Bosio A, Caimi L, Imberti L. Use of V(D)J recombination excision circles to identify T- and B-cell defects and to monitor the treatment in primary and acquired immunodeficiencies. J Transl Med 2013; 11:119. [PMID: 23656963 PMCID: PMC3666889 DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-11-119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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T-cell receptor excision circles (TRECs) and kappa-deleting recombination excision circles (KRECs) are circular DNA segments generated in T and B cells during their maturation in the thymus and bone marrow. These circularized DNA elements persist in the cells, are unable to replicate, and are diluted as a result of cell division, thus are considered markers of new lymphocyte output. The quantification of TRECs and KRECs, which can be reliably performed using singleplex or duplex real-time quantitative PCR, provides novel information in the management of T- and B-cell immunity-related diseases. In primary immunodeficiencies, when combined with flow cytometric analysis of T- and B-cell subpopulations, the measure of TRECs and KRECs has contributed to an improved characterization of the diseases, to the identification of patients’ subgroups, and to the monitoring of stem cell transplantation and enzyme replacement therapy. For the same diseases, the TREC and KREC assays, introduced in the newborn screening program, allow early disease identification and may lead to discovery of new genetic defects. TREC and KREC levels can also been used as a surrogate marker of lymphocyte output in acquired immunodeficiencies. The low number of TRECs, which has in fact been extensively documented in untreated HIV-infected subjects, has been shown to increase following antiretroviral therapy. Differently, KREC number, which is in the normal range in these patients, has been shown to decrease following long-lasting therapy. Whether changes of KREC levels have relevance in the biology and in the clinical aspects of primary and acquired immunodeficiencies remains to be firmly established.
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- Federico Serana
- Inter-Departmental AIL Laboratory, Diagnostics Department, Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Lev A, Simon AJ, Bareket M, Bielorai B, Hutt D, Amariglio N, Rechavi G, Somech R. The kinetics of early T and B cell immune recovery after bone marrow transplantation in RAG-2-deficient SCID patients. PLoS One 2012; 7:e30494. [PMID: 22295088 PMCID: PMC3266259 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 12/16/2011] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The kinetics of T and B cell immune recovery after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is affected by many pre- and post-transplant factors. Because of the profoundly depleted baseline T and B cell immunity in recombination activating gene 2 (RAG-2)-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) patients, some of these factors are eliminated, and the immune recovery after BMT can then be clearly assessed. This process was followed in ten SCID patients in parallel to their associated transplant-related complications. Early peripheral presence of T and B cells was observed in 8 and 4 patients, respectively. The latter correlated with pre-transplant conditioning therapy. Cells from these patients carried mainly signal joint DNA episomes, indicative of newly derived B and T cells. They were present before the normalization of the T cell receptor (TCR) and the B cell receptor (BCR) repertoire. Early presentation of the ordered TCR gene rearrangements after BMT occurred simultaneously, but this pattern was heterogeneous over time, suggesting different and individual thymic recovery processes. Our findings early after transplant could suggest the long-term patients' clinical outcome. Early peripheral presence of newly produced B and T lymphocytes from their production and maturation sites after BMT suggests donor stem cell origin rather than peripheral expansion, and is indicative of successful outcome. Peripheral detection of TCR excision circles and kappa-deleting recombination excision circles in RAG-2-deficient SCID post-BMT are early markers of T and B cell reconstitution, and can be used to monitor outcome and tailor specific therapy for patients undergoing BMT.
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- Atar Lev
- Cancer Research Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Pediatric Immunology Service, Jeffery Modell Foundation (JMF) Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Cancer Research Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Pediatric Immunology Service, Jeffery Modell Foundation (JMF) Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Pediatric Immunology Service, Jeffery Modell Foundation (JMF) Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Division and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Division and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Cancer Research Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Hematology Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Cancer Research Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Cancer Research Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Pediatric Immunology Service, Jeffery Modell Foundation (JMF) Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Function of Act1 in IL-17 family signaling and autoimmunity. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2012; 946:223-35. [PMID: 21948371 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0106-3_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The maintenance of immune homeostasis requires the delicate balance between response to foreign antigens and tolerance to self. As such, when this balance is disrupted, immunodeficiency or autoimmunity may manifest. The adaptor molecule known as Act1 is a critical mediator of IL-17 receptor receptor family signaling. This chapter will detail the current understanding of Act1 's role in signal transduction as well as address the fundamental role of Act1 in autoimmunity. At the molecular level Act1 interacts with IL-17 R through the conserved SEFIR domain, binds TRAF proteins and exerts E3 ubiquitin ligase activity. In in vivo models, Act1 deficiency provides protection against experimental autoimmune diseases, such as colitis and EAE. Yet mice lacking in Act1 develop spontaneous autoimmune diseases. Indeed, the utility of Act1 seems to rely on the specific cell type expression that may determine the pathway that Act1 mediates.
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Park SJ, Han CW. The Long Term Remission Effect of Rituximab in Two Patients with Autoimmune-associated Cytopenias that were Refractory to Standard Treatments. THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY 2005. [DOI: 10.5045/kjh.2005.40.2.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- Soo-Jeong Park
- Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Cohen Y, Nagler A. Treatment of refractory autoimmune diseases with ablative immunotherapy. Autoimmun Rev 2004; 3:21-9. [PMID: 15003184 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-9972(03)00083-1] [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] [Received: 03/28/2003] [Accepted: 06/02/2003] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Immunological manipulations are the basis of modern therapy for refractory autoimmune diseases (AID). Ablative chemotherapy with stem cell support (autotransplant) as well as targeted immunotherapy using specific monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab and campath 1-H have become acceptable second line therapy for severe refractory AID. Until now, more than 500 autotransplants have been performed worldwide for various autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), systemic sclerosis (SSc), systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with encouraging results, although transplant related mortality (TRM) in the range between 2 and 17% still remains one of the major limitations of the procedure. Immunotherapy is a relatively safe approach associating with sustained remissions in a considerable proportion of treated patients. Better selection of patients and earlier immunotherapy, preceded an irreversible organ damage might further improve the clinical outcome of patients with AID.
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- Yossi Cohen
- Departments of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan 52621, Israel
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The gastrointestinal tract is the central organ for uptake of fluids and nutrients, and at the same time it forms the main protective barrier between the sterile environment of the body and the outside world. In mammals, the intestine has further evolved to harbor a vast load of commensal bacteria that have important functions for the host. Discrimination by the host defense system of nonself from self can prevent invasion of pathogens, but equivalent responses to dietary or colonizing bacteria can lead to devastating consequences for the organism. This dilemma imposed by the gut environment has probably contributed significantly to the evolutionary drive that has led to sophisticated mechanisms and diversification of the immune system to allow for protection while maintaining the integrity of the mucosal barrier. The immense expansion and specialization of the immune system is particularly mirrored in the phylogeny, ontogeny, organization, and regulation of the adaptive intraepithelial lymphocytes, or IEL, which are key players in the unique intestinal defense mechanisms that have evolved in mammals.
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- Hilde Cheroutre
- Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
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Modern treatments of autoimmune diseases are based on immunological therapies. Rituximab induces a targeted B-cell depletion in the aim of eradicating autoreactive clones in various autoimmune disorders. Several studies are being undertaken and preliminary reports are very encouraging. The mechanism of action is not evident, but appears to be connected with the lowering of autoantibody levels, in the diseases where relevant antibody titres are relievable. Most of the patients treated were affected by idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, but also very rare diseases like acquired haemophilia are reported. Best results are described in autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, in many others there is clear evidence for efficacy; in all the diseases the number of complete or partial remission, though temporary, is much greater than 50%. Side effects are rarely reported, and immunosuppression is not a great problem. The persistence of clinical improvement for more than 1 year after B-lymphocyte repopulation supports the hypothesis of a stochastic generation of pathogenic B-cell subsets. Other studies and controlled trials are required to establish when and which patients are to be treated, and find the opportunity of the association of others drugs.
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- Luigi Virgolini
- Department of Medicine, U.O. Medicina 2, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone City Hospital, 33170 Pordenone, Italy.
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Burt RK, Slavin S, Burns WH, Marmont AM. Induction of tolerance in autoimmune diseases by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: getting closer to a cure? Int J Hematol 2002; 76 Suppl 1:226-47. [PMID: 12430858 DOI: 10.1007/bf03165251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the earliest cells of the immune system, giving rise to B and T lymphocytes, monocytes, tissue macrophages, and dendritic cells. In animal models, adoptive transfer of HSCs, depending on circumstances, may cause, prevent, or cure autoimmune diseases. Clinical trials have reported early remission of otherwise refractory autoimmune disorders after either autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). By percentage of transplantations performed, autoimmune diseases are the most rapidly expanding indication for stem cell transplantation. Although numerous editorials or commentaries have been previously published, no prior review has focused on the immunology of transplantation tolerance or development of phase 3 autoimmune HSCT trials. Results from current trials suggest that mobilization of HSCs, conditioning regimen, eligibility and exclusion criteria, toxicity, outcome, source of stem cells, and posttransplantation follow-up need to be disease specific. HSCT-induced remission of an autoimmune disease allows for a prospective analysis of events involved in immune tolerance not available in cross-sectional studies.
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- Richard K Burt
- Northwestern University Medical Center, Division of Immune Therapy and Autoimmune Disease, Chicago, IL, USA
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Hochberg EP, Chillemi AC, Wu CJ, Neuberg D, Canning C, Hartman K, Alyea EP, Soiffer RJ, Kalams SA, Ritz J. Quantitation of T-cell neogenesis in vivo after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in adults. Blood 2001; 98:1116-21. [PMID: 11493459 DOI: 10.1182/blood.v98.4.1116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Following myeloablative therapy, it is unknown to what extent age-dependent thymic involution limits the generation of new T cells with a diverse repertoire. Normal T-cell receptor gene rearrangement in T-cell progenitors results in the generation of T-cell receptor rearrangement excision circles (TRECs). In this study, a quantitative assay for TRECs was used to measure T-cell neogenesis in adult patients with leukemia who received myeloablative therapy followed by transplantation of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells. Although phenotypically mature T cells had recovered by 1 to 2 months after bone marrow transplantation (BMT), TREC levels remained low for 3 months after BMT. T-cell neogenesis became evident by 6 months, and normal levels of adult thymic function were restored at 6 to 12 months after BMT. Subsequent leukemia relapse in some patients was associated with reduced TREC levels, but infusion of mature donor CD4(+) T cells resulted in rapid restoration of thymic function. These studies demonstrate that T-cell neogenesis contributes to immune reconstitution in adult patients and suggest that thymic function can be manipulated in vivo. (Blood. 2001;98:1116-1121)
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- E P Hochberg
- Disease Center for Hematologic Oncology, Department of Adult Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA
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Yamada H, Matsuzaki G, Chen Q, Iwamoto Y, Nomoto K. Reevaluation of the origin of CD44(high) "memory phenotype" CD8 T cells: comparison between memory CD8 T cells and thymus-independent CD8 T cells. Eur J Immunol 2001; 31:1917-26. [PMID: 11433389 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200106)31:6<1917::aid-immu1917>3.0.co;2-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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CD44(high)CD8 T cells in naive mice, which increase with age, and are often referred to as memory CD8 T cells. However, since thymus-independent CD8 T cells have also been shown to be CD44(high), the origin of the CD44(high)CD8 T cells in naive mice remains unclear. In this study, we compared the characteristics of memory CD8 T cells and thymus-independent CD8 T cells in TCR transgenic mice to clarify the origin of the CD44(high)CD8 T cells in naive normal mice. The memory and thymus-independent CD8 T cells showed differences in surface molecules, spontaneous cell death, cytokine production, and response to IL-2R binding of cytokines. Importantly, the "memory phenotype" CD8 T cells in naive normal mice showed similar characteristics to the thymus-independent CD8 T cells, but differed greatly from "true" memory CD8 T cells in the TCR transgenic mice. Therefore, we conclude that a significant part of the CD44(high) memory phenotype CD8 T cells in naive normal mice represents thymus-independent CD8 T cells, which may participate in age-related changes in immune responses.
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- H Yamada
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Yamada H, Matsuzaki G, Iwamoto Y, Nomoto K. Unusual cytotoxic activities of thymus-independent, self-antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells. Int Immunol 2000; 12:1677-83. [PMID: 11099307 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/12.12.1677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We compared the cytotoxic activities of thymus-dependent and thymus-independent CD8(+) T cells. Thymus-dependent CD8(+) T cells, which are foreign antigen specific, acquired cytotoxic activity to tumor cells with a basal dose of the antigen peptides and to hybridoma cells expressing anti-TCR mAb only after differentiation into effector cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). In contrast, thymus-independent CD8(+) T cells, which have been shown to be self-antigen specific, never showed cytotoxic activity to the target cells with a basal dose of the self-antigen peptide, while they could lyse hybridoma cells expressing anti-TCR mAb even without prior antigenic stimulation. Furthermore, the ex vivo cytotoxic activity of thymus-independent CD8(+) T cells was also observed against the target cells with high doses of the antigen peptides, which were not lysed by freshly isolated thymus-dependent CD8(+) T cells. Thus it is revealed that thymus-independent, self-antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells already acquire mature CTL functions in situ but have an increased threshold of TCR-mediated signaling for activation. These differences in cytotoxic activities between thymus-dependent and thymus-independent CD8(+) T cells suggest distinct roles of the two subsets of CD8(+) T cells in vivo.
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- H Yamada
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences and Department of Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Huang Y, Ildstad ST, Neipp M, Shirwan H. Mouse xenoantigens contribute to rat T-cell Vbeta repertoire generation in mixed xenogeneic bone marrow chimeras. Immunology 2000; 100:317-25. [PMID: 10929053 PMCID: PMC2327025 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2000.00049.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: 11/20/2022] Open
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We previously demonstrated that rat bone-marrow-derived cells in mixed xenogeneic chimeras (rat + mouse --> mouse) contribute to peripheral selection of mouse T-cell receptor (TCR) variable betas (Vbetas) repertoire. In this study, we analysed rat T cells that developed in the chimeras to assess the contribution of mouse xenoantigens to the development of rat TCR repertoire. The expression of rat Vbetas was analysed using flow cytometry and a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method that allows for both semiquantitative analysis of rat Vbeta gene expression and size heterogeneity of the complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3) domain. Three distinct patterns of Vbeta expression were detected. Partial deletion was observed for Vbeta5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 17 and 20 that exhibited reduced levels of peripheral expression by 3.4-, 1.8-, 8.7-, 2.0-, 7.8-, 9.5- and 1.8-fold, respectively, compared with the levels of Vbetas in naYve rats. Higher levels of peripheral expression were detected for three rat Vbeta genes; Vbeta6 (2.2-fold), Vbeta8.2 (3.2-fold), and Vbeta9 (1.7-fold). The relative expression of the other 10 known rat Vbeta families in chimeras was unchanged as compared with that of normal rats. We did not observe detectable changes in the pattern of CDR3 expression in chimeras, suggesting that the mouse xenogeneic environment exerted its influence on the development of rat T cells via the Vbeta-encoded CDR1/2 domains. Our data demonstrate that the rat T-cell repertoire in chimeras is shaped by both contractions as well as expansions of selected Vbetas and suggest that mouse xenoantigens and/or superantigens of endogenous mouse retroviruses may contribute as ligands for these selection processes
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- Y Huang
- Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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Yamada H, Nakamura T, Matsuzaki G, Iwamoto Y, Nomoto K. TCR-independent activation of extrathymically developed, self antigen-specific T cells by IL-2/IL-15. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:1746-52. [PMID: 10657620 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.4.1746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Naive intrathymically developed T cells, which express foreign Ag-specific TCR, do not express IL-2R. After antigenic stimulation, they express high affinity IL-2R, which enables IL-2 to be used as an autocrine growth factor. On the contrary, extrathymically developed T cells, which express self Ag-specific TCR but are unresponsive to antigenic stimulation, spontaneously express low affinity IL-2R. In this study, we compared the responses of these two subsets of T cells to IL-2R stimulation and examined the influences of TCR-mediated signaling on the responses. IL-2 or IL-15 augmented the proliferative response of Ag-stimulated, intrathymically developed T cells. On the other hand, extrathymically developed T cells proliferated in response to IL-2 or IL-15, independently of Ag stimulation. Furthermore, both IL-2 and IL-15 induced IFN-gamma production of these T cells, which is strikingly augmented by the presence of IL-12. These results revealed functional differences between intrathymically developed, foreign Ag-specific T cells and extrathymically developed, self Ag-specific T cells. The latter can be activated by some inflammatory cytokines, in an Ag-independent manner, similar to NK cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Apoptosis/immunology
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Division/genetics
- Cell Division/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Female
- H-Y Antigen/genetics
- H-Y Antigen/immunology
- Immunophenotyping
- Interleukin-15/pharmacology
- Interleukin-2/pharmacology
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Lymphocyte Count
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Nude
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
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- H Yamada
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Colson YL, Abou El-Ezz AY, Gaines BA, Ildstad ST. Positive and negative selection of alphabetaTCR+ T cells in thymectomized adult radiation bone marrow chimeras. Transplantation 1999; 68:403-10. [PMID: 10459545 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199908150-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The mature T-cell repertoire is characterized by the negative selection of potentially autoreactive T cells and the positive selection of T cells restricted to antigen-recognition in the context of self-MHC molecules. It is currently believed that the thymus is critical for these selection events. Although alpha(beta)T cell receptor (TCR)+ T cells have been reported in thymectomized recipients, whether this represents clonal expansion of residual T cells or de novo generation of new T cells in the absence of a thymus has not been definitively evaluated. METHODS In the current study, development of the T cell repertoire was evaluated in adult radiation bone marrow chimeras prepared after complete surgical thymectomy. RESULTS CD4+ and CD8+ T cells were present and exhibited donor-specific TCR-Vbeta expression and self-tolerance, indicative of negative selection. Positive selection was confirmed with the demonstration of host MHC restriction and the presence of donor-derived CD8+ T cells after the transplantation of marrow from Class I deficient donors into normal recipients. CONCLUSIONS These data provide evidence, for the first time, that the development of a functional T-cell repertoire can occur in adult recipients without the thymic microenvironment.
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- Y L Colson
- The Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Mosley RL, Koker MM, Miller RA. Idiosyncratic alterations of TCR size distributions affecting both CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets in aging mice. Cell Immunol 1998; 189:10-8. [PMID: 9758689 DOI: 10.1006/cimm.1998.1369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have used a spectratyping method, which displays the size distribution for the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) for T cells utilizing a specific TCR-Vbeta gene, to examine the effects of aging on the TCR repertoire of (BALB/c x C57BL/6)F1 hybrid mice. Although the size distributions from T cells of 8-month-old mice were typically symmetrically shaped around one or two bands of intermediate size, spectratypes from mice 16 or 24 months of age were frequently distorted, with specific size classes either over- or underrepresented compared to normal young controls. Each of 12 mice tested at 16 or 24 months of age had a skewed spectratype for at least one of the 24 Vbeta families examined, and some mice had more than 50% of their spectratypes skewed significantly, as judged by a chi2 test. Comparable age-associated skewing of the T cell repertoire occurred in the CD4 and CD8 subsets, and every mouse over 16 months of age exhibited at least one skewed Vbeta family in both the CD4 and CD8 populations. Although the mice were genetically identical and raised in common facilities, their spectratype patterns were nonetheless idiosyncratic: i.e., the specific set of abnormalities was distinct for each individual old mouse. Whether these distortions of the TCR repertoire in middle-aged and older mice lead to alterations in immune function remains to be determined.
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- R L Mosley
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5660, USA
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Yamada H, Ninomiya T, Hashimoto A, Tamada K, Takimoto H, Nomoto K. Positive selection of extrathymically developed T cells by self-antigens. J Exp Med 1998; 188:779-84. [PMID: 9705960 PMCID: PMC2213362 DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.4.779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Most T cells develop through the thymus, where they undergo positive and negative selection. Some peripheral T cells are known to develop in the absence of thymus, but there is insufficient information about their selection. To analyze the selection of extrathymically developed T cells, we reconstituted thymectomized male or female recipient mice with bone marrow cells of mice transgenic for male H-Y antigen-specific T cell receptor (TCR). It was revealed that the T cells bearing self-antigen-specific TCR were not deleted in thymectomized male recipients. More importantly, the absence of H-Y antigen-specific T cells in thymectomized female recipients suggests positive selection of extrathymically developed T cells by the self-antigen. The extrathymically developed T cells in male mice expressed interleukin (IL)-2 receptor beta chain (IL-2Rbeta) and intermediate levels of CD3 (CD3(int)) but were natural killer cell (NK)1.1(-). They rapidly produced interferon gamma but not IL-4 after TCR cross-linking. Furthermore, a similar pattern of cytokine production was observed in CD3(int)IL-2Rbeta+NK1.1(-) cells in normal mice which have been shown to develop extrathymically. These results suggest that extrathymically developed CD3(int)IL-2Rbeta+NK1. 1(-) cells in normal mice are also positively selected by self-antigens.
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- H Yamada
- Department of Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
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Zhao YX, Brunsberg U, Holmdahl R, Tarkowski A. V beta 11+ T-lymphocyte expansion by toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 differs in mice bearing H-2q versus H-2b haplotypes. Immunology 1998; 94:1-4. [PMID: 9708179 PMCID: PMC1364323 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00484.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We have recently demonstrated that toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) expanded V beta 11+ T lymphocytes contribute to Staphylococcus aureus arthritis and sepsis-induced mortality. Interestingly, V beta 11+ T-cell mediated joint pathology varies in different mouse strains. In this study, we characterized the in vitro pattern of V beta 11+ T-cell expansion by TSST-1 in mice with various genetic backgrounds. Mice expressing major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II I-E molecules did not expand V beta 11+ T cells upon stimulation with TSST-1. Using B10 congeneic I-E negative mouse strains, we found that the TSST-1-expanded V beta 11+ T cells in B10Q (H-2q) and B10M (H-2f) mice but not in B10B (H-2b) mice. Antigen-presenting cells (APC) from B10Q mice, L cells and lymphoma cell line transfected with a q gene did not restore the deficient V beta 11+ T-cell expansion by TSST-1 in purified T cells from B10B mice. In contrast, I-Ab APC were able to stimulate V beta 11+ T cells from H-2q mice. Furthermore, V beta 11+ T cells in H-2b mice did expand when exposed to staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA). These findings suggest that the T-cell repertoire, skewed by clonal deletion and inactivation of self-reactive T cells, accounts for the different magnitude of V beta 11+ T-cell expansion among the different mouse strains.
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- Y X Zhao
- Department of Rheumatology, University of Göteborg, Sweden
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Mocchegiani E, Verbanac D, Santarelli L, Tibaldi A, Muzzioli M, Radosevic-Stasic B, Milin C. Zinc and metallothioneins on cellular immune effectiveness during liver regeneration in young and old mice. Life Sci 1997; 61:1125-45. [PMID: 9315504 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(97)00646-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Partial hepatectomy in young mice (pHx) induces thymic atrophy, disregulation of thymocytes subsets and a strong accumulation of zinc in thymic tissue after 1-2 days of liver regeneration. Zinc is relevant for good immune functioning. Restoration of zinc into both the thymus and thymocytes subsets in the late period of liver regeneration is observed in young pHx mice. These findings have suggested a link between the thymus and the liver influencing T-cell functions and involving zinc. This kind of link could be relevant in aging because thymic involution, negative crude zinc balance and crippled immune functions are constant events. The preminence of a liver extrathymic T-cell pathway after pHx or during aging has been suggested. Thus the study of pHx in young and old mice may offer a good model to better understand the role played both by thymic involution and by liver extrathymic T-cell pathway and the role of zinc in these physiological processes during aging. Young pHx mice after 1-2 days of liver regeneration show: reduced thymic endocrine activity, increment of double negative (DN) thymocytes subsets, impairment of peripheral immune efficiency (PHA, NK activity and IL-2) and negative crude zinc balance, which are all restored in the late period of liver regeneration. By contrast the thymic and peripheral immune defects and the negative crude zinc balance, already present in old sham mice, are not modified during liver regeneration in old pHx mice. Circulating leukocytes and lymphocytes are not significantly modified both in young and old pHx mice as compared to respective sham controls. Zinc may also be crucial for extrathymic T-cells pathway, being preminent in aging, rather than in young age, due to its metallothioneins (MT) binding capacity. MT are significantly increased in young pHx and in aging inducing a low zinc-free quota for thymic and peripheral immune efficiency in young pHx mice, and for extrathymic T-cell pathway, in old age. Thus low zinc bioavailability, due to MT, may play a pivotal role, not only for thymocytes but also for liver extrathymic T-cell pathway.
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- E Mocchegiani
- Immunology Ctr., Res. Dept, Institute National Research Centers on Aging, Ancona, Italy
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Khan A, Sergio JJ, Zhao Y, Pearson DA, Sachs DH, Sykes M. Discordant xenogeneic neonatal thymic transplantation can induce donor-specific tolerance. Transplantation 1997; 63:124-31. [PMID: 9000673 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199701150-00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The limited supply of human organs for transplantation necessitates the development of methods leading to acceptance of xenografts. To avoid the hazards of the high-dose chronic immunosuppressive pharmacotherapy which would otherwise be required for successful xenografting, it would be desirable to induce permanent tolerance to xenogeneic donors. We have recently demonstrated that xenogeneic donor-specific tolerance can be induced by transplanting fetal pig thymic and hematopoietic tissue into thymectomized, T cell-depleted, and natural killer-cell-depleted mice, or into natural killer cell-depleted nude mice. We have now extended these studies by replacing fetal tissue with neonatal pig thymic and hematopoietic tissue, and by examining the in vivo responses of reconstituted mice to pig skin grafts. Neonatal tissue was studied because it might be more practicable than fetal tissue for the purpose of transplantation to primates. BALB/c nu/nu mice transplanted with neonatal (<24-hr-old) pig thymus and spleen fragments developed circulating mouse CD4+ cells. The pig thymus grafts were necessary for mouse T-cell development, as CD4 recovery did not occur in recipients of neonatal pig splenic tissue alone. The CD4+ cells that developed included Vbeta8.1/2+ T cells in similar proportions as in BALB/c mice, and Vbeta11+ and Vbeta5+ CD4 T cells were deleted almost as completely as in normal BALB/c mice. This deletion was detected among CD4 single-positive graft thymocytes. In 9 of 12 evaluable animals, mixed lymphocyte responses demonstrated tolerance to donor-type pig SLA antigens, with responsiveness to alloantigens and/or third-party pig xenoantigens. Furthermore, grafting of neonatal pig thymus conferred the ability to reject allogeneic mouse skin in 7 of 10 animals. In addition, 7 of 10 animals accepted paternal (donor SLA-matched) skin (median survival time [MST] > 100 days), whereas 4 of 4 animals rejected third-party SLA-mismatched pig skin (MST=40.5 days). We conclude that neonatal pig thymi transplanted to BALB/c nu/nu mice can support the development of mouse CD4+ cells that are functional and specifically tolerant to donor-type pig antigens.
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- A Khan
- Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston 02129, USA
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Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus: Immunological Interplays between Virus and Host **This article was accepted for publication on 1 October 1996. Adv Immunol 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(08)60743-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Payne CM, Bernstein H, Bernstein C, Garewal H. Role of apoptosis in biology and pathology: resistance to apoptosis in colon carcinogenesis. Ultrastruct Pathol 1995; 19:221-48. [PMID: 7571081 DOI: 10.3109/01913129509064227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The overview of apoptosis presented here emphasizes cell deletion in the immune system, with particular reference to T- and B-lymphocyte development, and the in vivo and in vitro senescence of human neutrophils. Some biochemical criteria that are used to identify apoptotic cells are described. Pitfalls in using agarose gel electrophoresis as the sole method for the identification of apoptotic cells are discussed. There are multiple modes of cell death that can be identified at the morphologic level. Thus the central role of microscopic methods, and in particular, electron microscopy, as an important tool in the study of cell death mechanisms, is presented. Apoptosis has a protective role against disease and could, a priori, have an important role in either the initiation or progression of cancer. Two paradoxes concerning the relationship of tumor aggressiveness at the clinical level to mitotic activity have been explained by an evaluation of apoptotic index. In the first case, basal cell carcinomas grow slowly but show a high rate of mitosis. Here, the apoptotic rate is quite high, but just below the mitotic rate, thereby accounting for the slow rate of growth. A second instance is follicular lymphoma, which has a low rate of mitosis that is less than that described for reactive germinal centers. However, apoptosis is markedly reduced in follicular lymphomas compared with that seen in reactive germinal centers, thus providing an explanation for the progressive growth of the follicle. We present a brief description of recent work from our laboratory that indicates that apoptosis may play an important role in colon carcinogenesis. We have shown that sodium deoxycholate, the particular bile salt present in highest concentration in the colon, induces apoptosis in the goblet cells of the human colonic mucosa in an in vitro assay. The intriguing finding is that cells of the normal-appearing mucosa of colon cancer patients are resistant to bile salt-induced apoptosis. This suggests a novel hypothesis about the etiologic role of bile salts in colon cancer. The chronic presence of bile salts that accompany a high-fat diet could select for apoptosis-resistant epithelial cells in the colon over time. Thus, a resistance-to-apoptosis bioassay may prove useful as an intermediate biomarker for determining which individuals are at high risk for colon cancer.
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- C M Payne
- Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724, USA
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The thymic lesion of the nude mouse causes a profound block in T cell development. The failure of most T cells to mature in nude mice is likely to reflect a requirement for signals elaborated in the normal thymus. Interleukin 7 (IL-7), a lymphokine that is normally expressed in the thymus and has been implicated in T cell maturation, might be central to this process. To test this possibility, we introduced a transgene directing lymphoid expression of IL-7 into nude mice and found that it substantially alleviates the block in T cell maturation caused by the thymic defect. IL-7 transgenic nude mice have increased numbers of peripheral cells expressing the T cell marker Thy-1, the T cell antigen receptor complex, and the co-receptors CD4 and CD8. The IL-7 transgene also restores T cell-specific proliferation and activation responses to the peripheral cells of transgene-rescued nude mice. Such findings point toward a fundamental role for IL-7 in the thymic maturation of T cells.
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- B E Rich
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Woo J, Thomson AW, Ildstad ST. Effects of FK 506 on chimerism and the induction of donor-specific unresponsiveness following fully allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in mice. Transpl Immunol 1995; 3:86-90. [PMID: 7551985 DOI: 10.1016/0966-3274(95)80012-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- J Woo
- Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA
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Woo J, Ildstad ST, Thomson AW. FK506 inhibits the differentiation of developing thymocytes but not negative selection of T cell receptor V beta 5+ and V beta 11+ T lymphocytes in vivo. Transpl Immunol 1994; 2:11-21. [PMID: 7521743 DOI: 10.1016/0966-3274(94)90072-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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To examine the influence of FK506 on lymphocyte development, we employed a syngeneic bone marrow transplantation model using MHC-disparate B10 (H-2b, I-Ab) and B10.BR (H-2k, I-Ak, I-Ek) mice. B10 mice, which do not express class II I-E, do not delete any known T cell receptor (TCR)-V beta, while B10.BR mice (MHC class II I-Ek, I-Ak) delete V beta 5+ and V beta 11+ TCR. Continuous daily treatment of syngeneically reconstituted B10 mice with FK506 delayed the development of thymocytes from the CD4+CD8+ to CD4+CD8- stage, while no effect was observed at the earlier CD4-CD8- to CD4+CD8+ stage. At the same time, there was a significant reduction in TCRhigh thymocytes compared with untreated, syngeneically reconstituted controls. These results suggest that FK506 treatment interfered with thymic positive selection. We also examined whether FK506 treatment would influence negative selection. Levels of expression of V beta 5+ and V beta 11+ T cells in FK506-treated B10.BR-->B10.BR recipients were similar to those observed in unmanipulated, syngeneically reconstituted B10.BR-->B10.BR controls. This was not due to the inhibition of clonal proliferation by FK506, since 35 days after drug withdrawal complete recovery of the peripheral Thy1.2+ population was observed, while the percentages of V beta 5+ and V beta 11+Thy1.2+ T cells were maintained at values similar to controls. Surprisingly, clonal proliferation stimulated by monoclonal antibody against V beta 5 and V beta 11 TCRs was observed in CsA-treated, syngeneically reconstituted B10.BR mice but not in FK506-treated mice, suggesting that CsA may be more likely to induce autoreactivity. Differences in thymic architecture between FK506- and CsA-treated animals further suggested that the drugs may differ in their effects on T cell development in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- CD4 Antigens/analysis
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8 Antigens/analysis
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- Clone Cells/drug effects
- Cyclosporine/pharmacology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology
- Immunophenotyping
- Lymphoid Tissue/pathology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Radiation Chimera/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Spleen/pathology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/chemistry
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/drug effects
- Tacrolimus/pharmacology
- Thymus Gland/drug effects
- Thymus Gland/pathology
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- J Woo
- Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582
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Abo T, Watanabe H, Iiai T, Kimura M, Ohtsuka K, Sato K, Ogawa M, Hirahara H, Hashimoto S, Sekikawa H. Extrathymic pathways of T-cell differentiation in the liver and other organs. Int Rev Immunol 1994; 11:61-102. [PMID: 8057045 DOI: 10.3109/08830189409061717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- T Abo
- Department of Immunology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan
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Kenai H, Matsuzaki G, Nakamura T, Yoshikai Y, Nomoto K. Thymus-derived cytokine(s) including interleukin-7 induce increase of T cell receptor alpha/beta+ CD4-CD8- T cells which are extrathymically differentiated in athymic nude mice. Eur J Immunol 1993; 23:1818-25. [PMID: 8344343 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830230813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Extrathymic T cell differentiation pathways have been reported, although the thymus is the main site of T cell differentiation. The thymus is also known to produce several cytokines that induce proliferation of thymocytes. In the present study, we investigated the influence of thymus-derived cytokines on extrathymic T cell differentiation by intraperitoneal implantation with a diffusion chamber which encloses fetal thymus (we named it fetal thymus-enclosed diffusion chamber, FTEDC) in athymic BALB/c nu/nu mice. Increase in number of T cells bearing T cell receptor (TcR) alpha/beta was detected in lymph nodes and spleens of FTEDC-implanted nude mice 1 week after implantation, whereas no such increase was detected in control nude mice implanted with a diffusion chamber without thymus. The FTEDC-induced increase of T cells was suppressed by intraperitoneal injection of anti-interleukin-7 monoclonal antibody (mAb). The TcR alpha/beta T cells in FTEDC-implanted BALB/c nu/nu mice preferentially expressed V beta 11, although V beta 11-positive T cells are deleted in the thymus of euthymic BALB/c mice by clonal elimination of self-super-antigen Dvb11-specific T cells. TcR alpha/beta T cells in FTEDC-implanted nude mice were of CD4-CD8- phenotype and showed no proliferative response against anti-TcR monoclonal antibody stimulation. These results suggest that the thymus can induce extrathymic T cell differentiation through the influence of thymus-derived cytokine(s) including interleukin-7, and that such extrathymically differentiated T cells have acquired only a little or no ability for proliferation when they recognize antigen by their TcR.
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- H Kenai
- Department of Immunology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Geenen V, Martens H, Robert F, Benhida A, Cormann-Goffin N, Legros JJ, Martial J, Franchimont P. The dual role of thymic neurohypophysial-related self peptides in T cell selection. Physiological and pharmacological implications. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1993; 689:320-9. [PMID: 8396868 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1993.tb55557.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- V Geenen
- Department of Endocrinology, Institute of Pathology B23, University of Liège-Sart Tilman, Belgium
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Geenen V, Cormann-Goffin N, Martens H, Vandersmissen E, Robert F, Benhida A, Legros JJ, Martial J, Franchimont P. Thymic neurohypophysial-related peptides and T cell selection. REGULATORY PEPTIDES 1993; 45:273-8. [PMID: 8511356 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(93)90219-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- V Geenen
- Institute of Pathology B23, University of Liège-Sart Tilman, Belgium
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The periphery of the immune system--as opposed to the central lymphoid organs--contains inhomogeneously distributed B and T cells whose phenotype, repertoire, developmental origin, and function are highly divergent. Nonconventional lymphocytes bearing a phenotype that is rare in the blood, spleen, or lymph nodes of undiseased individuals are encountered at high frequency in different localizations, e.g., alpha/beta TCR+CD4-CD8- cells in the bone marrow and gut epithelium, particular invariant gamma/delta TCR+CD4-CD8 alpha+CD8 beta- and gamma/delta TCR+CD4-CD8 alpha-CD8 beta- T cells in various epithelia, or CD5+ B cells in the peritoneum. The antigen receptor repertoire is different in each localization. Thus, different gamma/delta TCR gene products dominant in each site, and the proportion of cells expressing transgenic and endogenous alpha/beta TCR and immunoglobulin gene products follows a gradient, with a maximum of endogenous gene expression in the peritoneum, intermediate values in other peripheral lymphoid organs (spleen, lymph nodes), and minimum values in thymus and bone marrow. Forbidden T cells that bear self-superantigen-reactive V beta gene products are physiologically detected among alpha/beta TCR+CD4-CD8- lymphocytes of the bone marrow, as well as in the gut. Violating previous ideas on self-tolerance preservation, self-peptide-specific gamma/delta T cells are present among intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes, and CD5+ B cells produce low-affinity crossreactive autoantibodies in a physiological fashion. It appears that, in contrast to the bulk of T and B lymphocytes, certain gamma/delta and alpha/beta T cells found in the periphery, as well as most CD5+ B cells, do not depend on the thymus or bone marrow for their development, respectively, but arise from different, nonconventional lineages. In addition to divergent lineages that are targeted to different organs guided by a spatiotemporal sequence of tissue-specific homing receptors, local induction or selection processes may be important in the diversification of peripheral lymphocyte compartments. Selection may be exerted by local antigens, antigen-presenting cells whose function varies in each anatomical localization, cytokines, and cell-matrix interactions, thus leading to the expansion and maintenance of some clones, whereas others are diluted out or deleted. The spatial compartmentalization of lymphocytes in different microenvironments has major functional consequences and leads to a partial fragmentation of immunoregulatory circuits at the local level. Lymphocytes residing in certain antigen-exposed compartments are likely to combat tissue-specific pathogens or self-proteins.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- G Kroemer
- Centro de Biología Molecular (CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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In normal mice, not all T-lineage cells are generated and selected in the thymus; an alternative, extrathymic, development pathway exists. Extrathymic T cells are rare in the spleen and lymph nodes, but are abundant in some tissues, such as the gut. Here, Benedita Rocha, Pierre Vassalli and Delphine Guy-Grand discuss the rules of selection of extrathymic T cells, assess the possible role of these cells in the defence of epithelial integrity and their potential role in autoimmune disease.
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- B Rocha
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
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Gutierrez-Ramos JC, Moreno de Alboran I, Martínez C. In vivo administration of interleukin-2 turns on anergic self-reactive T cells and leads to autoimmune disease. Eur J Immunol 1992; 22:2867-72. [PMID: 1425912 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830221117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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One major mechanism of self tolerance involves the deletion of T cell clones in the thymus. In athymic mice, tolerance to self antigens must be generated extrathymically. T cells with self-reactive receptors undergo either peripheral clonal deletion or become unresponsive (i.e. anergic). The unresponsive state of human and mouse T cell clones in vitro can be reversed by the addition of exogenous interleukin (IL)-2, thus transforming anergic T cells to an activated state. Here it is shown that the in vivo delivery of IL-2 to athymic BALB/c nu/nu mice abrogates the anergic state of self-reactive V beta 3+ and V beta 11+ T cells [which are normally deleted in the minor lymphocyte stimulatory (Mls)-1b-, I-E(+)-expressing euthymic counterparts]. Thus, V beta 3+ and V beta 11+ T cells from IL-2-treated nude mice proliferate in response to T cell receptor cross-linking and acquire effector functions as measured by their ability to deliver aid to B cells upon specific stimulation. This activation correlates with the development of autoimmune manifestations (DNA autoantibodies, rheumatoid factors, erythroleukopenia and minimal change nephritis) in these IL-2-treated mice.
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Clonal deletion or clonal anergy establish tolerance in T cells that bear potentially autoreactive antigen receptors. Here we report that concomitant infection with the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis breaks an established T-cell tolerance induced by injection of mice with Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB). CD4+ T cells from SEB-tolerant mice did not produce either interleukin-2 or interleukin-4 when challenged in vitro with SEB. N. brasiliensis infection of SEB-primed animals resulted in a normal expansion of SEB-tolerant CD4+V beta 8+ T cells in vivo as well as an equivalent increase of SEB-reactive, interleukin-4-producing CD4+V beta 8+ T cells both in SEB-tolerant and in normal animals. Thus, infection with N. brasiliensis circumvented the tolerance established with SEB. Activation of anergic, potentially autoreactive CD4+ T cells by infectious agents seems to be a major pathway for the initiation of autoimmune diseases. Our results suggest that infectious agents may break tolerance in potentially autoreactive CD4+ T cells by activation of alternative reaction pathways.
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- M Röcken
- Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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The present review deals with the role(s) of thymus-eicosanoids in the immune response. It reports the production of cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase metabolites of arachidonic acid by cells of the thymus microenvironment and the role(s) of these eicosanoids in the differentiation and the maturation of immature T-cells. The possibility that these products may be involved in tolerance to self is discussed. Briefly, it is likely that cells from the monocyte-macrophage lineage which constitute a part of the thymus microenvironment could contribute to the education of immature thymocytes by both presenting self-antigens and producing eicosanoids. Tolerance to self might result from PGE2-driven apoptosis and/or LTB4-induced generation of suppressor cells.
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- M Juzan
- CNRS URA 1456 Université de Bordeaux II, France
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Using cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses to the class I histocompatibility antigen Qa1 and to the minor histocompatibility antigen H-Y, we show that the immune system maintains a peripheral screening process that is able to tolerize a wide variety of potentially autoimmune CTL. The critical factor is the presence or absence of specific T helper cells. If T help is available, CTL precursors that recognize antigen are activated. In the absence of help, they are tolerized. Thus, T helper cells are guardians of peripheral tolerance in CTL.
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- S Guerder
- Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
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Fisher AG, Waltzinger C, Ceredig R. Selection of murine T cell receptor alpha beta and gamma delta cells in organ cultures established from 14-day embryos. Eur J Immunol 1992; 22:1765-71. [PMID: 1385575 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830220715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The expression of minor lymphocyte stimulatory locus (Mls) determinants in combination with murine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules, leads to the destruction of lymphocytes bearing specific V region-encoded T cell receptor (TcR) products. A much studied example is the elimination of V beta 6+ cells in IE+/Mls-1a mice, in which deletion can be detected 7-10 days after birth but is not fully operational earlier in embryonic life. Here we investigate this transitional period in development and show that selective deletion of V beta 6 occurs in vitro, approximately 1 week after organ cultures are established from 14 day embryos. These unmanipulated organ cultures receive no additional cell immigrants after day 14, suggesting that the cellular elements mediating negative selection (or their direct precursors), are already resident in the fetal thymus by day 14 of gestation. Hence, the developmental timing of the outset of rigorous negative selection of V beta 6 is not dictated by the postnatal entry of deleting elements into the thymus, but perhaps by the maturation of the pre-existing environment. Using a parallel organ-culture approach we have looked at the development of V delta 4 and V gamma 3, TcR gamma delta+ cells in a variety of mouse strains. These receptors have recently been reported to be subject of MHC and non-MHC linked selection, respectively. We find that after an initial period of expansion, the number of V gamma 3-expressing cells dramatically declines. However, this selective loss of V gamma 3 cells is not contingent on the C57BL/6 mouse strain (in contrast to a previous report). These findings are discussed in the context of current models of ontogeny and repertoire selection.
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- A G Fisher
- ICRF, Human Tumour Immunology Unit, London
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Rocha B, von Boehmer H, Guy-Grand D. Selection of intraepithelial lymphocytes with CD8 alpha/alpha co-receptors by self-antigen in the murine gut. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:5336-40. [PMID: 1608941 PMCID: PMC49286 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.12.5336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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We have studied T-cell receptor (TCR) and alpha/alpha CD8 expression in thymus-independent intraepithelial lymphocytes (TI IELs) from the gut of mice bearing transgenic (TG) TCR alpha beta specific for the male antigen, presented by H-2Db class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. In contrast to TCR+ alpha beta cells differentiating in the thymus (from CD4+CD8+ precursors to CD4+CD8- or CD4-CD8+ progeny), TI IELs are not deleted by self-antigens, nor are they positively selected in the absence of the specific peptide. On the contrary, recognition of the antigen in the context of self-MHC is required for selection and granular differentiation of CD8+ TI IELs. Our results also show that, in contrast to the thymus, expression of the beta TG does not block expression of endogenous TCR gamma delta genes in TI IELs. The size of this gut IEL subpopulation and its difference in mechanisms of repertoire selection demonstrate the existence of a major extrathymic pathway of T-cell differentiation, the role of which remains to be elucidated.
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- B Rocha
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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Hermans MH, Wubbena A, Kroese FG, Hunt SV, Cowan R, Opstelten D. The extent of clonal structure in different lymphoid organs. J Exp Med 1992; 175:1255-69. [PMID: 1569396 PMCID: PMC2119216 DOI: 10.1084/jem.175.5.1255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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To gain insight into the clonal organization of lymphoid organs, we studied the distribution in situ of donor-derived cells in near-physiological chimeras. We introduced RT7b fetal liver cells into nonirradiated congenic RT7a neonatal rats. The chimerism 6-20 wk after injection ranged from 0.3 to 20%. The numbers of cell clones simultaneously contributing to cell generation in a particular histological feature were deduced from the variance in donor cell distribution. In bone marrow and thymus, donor-derived lymphoid cells were found scattered among host cells, indicating a high mobility of cells. In bone marrow, donor cells were evenly distributed over the entire marrow, even at low chimerism. This indicates that leukopoiesis is maintained by the proliferation of many clones. In the thymus, the various lobules showed different quantities of donor-derived lymphoid cells. Mathematical analysis of these differences indicated that 17-18 cell division cycles occur in the cortex. In spleen, the distribution of donor-derived cells over the germinal centers indicated that 5 d after antigenic stimulation, germinal centers develop oligoclonally. The main conclusions of this work are that (a) bone marrow and thymus are highly polyclonal; (b) 17-18 divisions occur between prothymocyte and mature T cell; and (c) lymphoid cells disperse rapidly while proliferating and differentiating.
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- M H Hermans
- Department of Histology and Cell Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Yui K, Greene MI. CD4-CD8+ T-cell receptor-alpha beta+ major histocompatibility complex class-II-specific T-cell clones isolated from aged athymic mice. Immunol Res 1992; 11:3-10. [PMID: 1534828 DOI: 10.1007/bf02918603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- K Yui
- Department of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104
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Speiser DE, Stübi U, Zinkernagel RM. Extrathymic positive selection of αβ T-cell precursors in nude mice. Nature 1992; 355:170-2. [PMID: 1346064 DOI: 10.1038/355170a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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T lymphocytes expressing alpha beta T-cell receptors with sufficient affinity to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules expressed on thymus epithelial cells are positively selected and mature to functional T cells. But several studies have demonstrated that athymic nude mice grafted with MHC-incompatible thymuses developed T cells specific for nude host rather than thymic MHC. We examined this paradox by analysing the specificity of T lymphocytes derived from nude mice. We report here that nude T lymphocyte precursors transferred to allogeneic SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency) mice with a functioning thymus (but lacking T or B cells) generated host MHC-restricted effector T cells but also contained T cells restricted to donor MHC. If nude T cells were depleted from nude lymphohaemopoietic donor cells before or after transfer, only host MHC-specific T cells matured. The results may explain the unusual MHC specificities of nude T lymphocytes described in earlier studies and demonstrate two separate differentiation steps: in nude mice, T cells may be positively selected for self-MHC restriction specificity extrathymically; then a functional thymus is required for efficient T cell maturation.
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- D E Speiser
- Laboratory for Experimental Pathology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
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Ildstad ST, Vacchio MS, Markus PM, Hronakes ML, Wren SM, Hodes RJ. Cross-species transplantation tolerance: rat bone marrow-derived cells can contribute to the ligand for negative selection of mouse T cell receptor V beta in chimeras tolerant to xenogeneic antigens (mouse + rat----mouse). J Exp Med 1992; 175:147-55. [PMID: 1530958 PMCID: PMC2119098 DOI: 10.1084/jem.175.1.147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Mixed xenogeneic bone marrow reconstitution (mouse + rat----mouse) results in stable mixed lymphopoietic chimerism (1-48% rat), long-term survival, and the induction of stable functional donor-specific transplantation tolerance to xenoantigens in vivo. To examine the role of negative selection of potentially xenoreactive T lymphocytes during tolerance induction across a species barrier, mixed xenogeneic chimeras (mouse + rat----mouse) were prepared and analyzed using a mixture of mouse and rat bone marrow cells for relative T cell receptor (TCR)-V beta expression on mouse T cells. In mixed xenogeneic chimeras (B10 mouse + rat----B10 mouse), T cell maturation proceeded normally in the presence of rat bone marrow-derived elements, and functional donor-specific tolerance to rat xenoantigens was present when assessed by mixed lymphocyte reactivity in vitro. V beta 5, which is expressed at high (undeleted) levels in normal B10 mice, was consistently deleted in B10 recipients of Wistar Furth (WF), but not F344 rat bone marrow, whereas the coadministration of either F344 rat or WF rat bone marrow with B10 mouse bone marrow cells resulted in a significant decrease in expression of TCR-V beta 11. Taken together, these data demonstrate for the first time that rat bone marrow-derived cells can contribute in a strain-specific manner to the ligand for negative selection of specific mouse TCR-V beta during tolerance induction across a species barrier.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Bone Marrow Transplantation/immunology
- Chimera
- Flow Cytometry
- Immune Tolerance
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred ACI
- Rats, Inbred F344
- Rats, Inbred WF
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta
- Spleen/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Transplantation, Heterologous/immunology
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- S T Ildstad
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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Rearrangement and junctional-site sequence analyses of T-cell receptor gamma genes in intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes from murine athymic chimeras. Mol Cell Biol 1991. [PMID: 1658619 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.12.5902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The molecular organization of rearranged T-cell receptor (TCR) gamma genes intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) was studied in athymic radiation chimeras and was compared with the organization of gamma gene rearrangements in IEL from thymus-bearing animals by polymerase chain reaction and by sequence analyses of DNA spanning the junction of the variable (V) and joining (J) genes. In both thymus-bearing mice and athymic chimeras, IEL V-J gamma-gene rearrangements occurred for V gamma 1.2, V gamma 2, and V gamma 5 but not for V gamma 3 or V gamma 4. Sequence analyses of cloned V-J polymerase chain reaction-amplified products indicated that in both thymus-bearing mice and athymic chimeras, rearrangement of V gamma 1.2 and V gamma 5 resulted in in-frame as well as out-of-frame genes, whereas nearly all V gamma 2 rearrangements were out of frame from either type of animal. V-segment nucleotide removal occurred in most V gamma 1.2, V gamma 2, and V gamma 5 rearrangements; J-segment nucleotide removal was common in V gamma 1.2 but not in V gamma 2 or V gamma 5 rearrangements. N-segment nucleotide insertions were present in V gamma 1.2, V gamma 2, and V gamma 5 IEL rearrangements in both thymus-bearing mice and athymic chimeras, resulting in a predominant in-frame sequence for V gamma 5 and a predominant out-of-frame sequence for V gamma 2 genes. These findings demonstrate that (i) TCR gamma-gene rearrangement occurs extrathymically in IEL, (ii) rearrangements of TCR gamma genes involve the same V gene regardless of thymus influence; and (iii) the thymus does not determine the degree to which functional or nonfunctional rearrangements occur in IEL.
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Whetsell M, Mosley RL, Whetsell L, Schaefer FV, Miller KS, Klein JR. Rearrangement and junctional-site sequence analyses of T-cell receptor gamma genes in intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes from murine athymic chimeras. Mol Cell Biol 1991; 11:5902-9. [PMID: 1658619 PMCID: PMC361740 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.12.5902-5909.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The molecular organization of rearranged T-cell receptor (TCR) gamma genes intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) was studied in athymic radiation chimeras and was compared with the organization of gamma gene rearrangements in IEL from thymus-bearing animals by polymerase chain reaction and by sequence analyses of DNA spanning the junction of the variable (V) and joining (J) genes. In both thymus-bearing mice and athymic chimeras, IEL V-J gamma-gene rearrangements occurred for V gamma 1.2, V gamma 2, and V gamma 5 but not for V gamma 3 or V gamma 4. Sequence analyses of cloned V-J polymerase chain reaction-amplified products indicated that in both thymus-bearing mice and athymic chimeras, rearrangement of V gamma 1.2 and V gamma 5 resulted in in-frame as well as out-of-frame genes, whereas nearly all V gamma 2 rearrangements were out of frame from either type of animal. V-segment nucleotide removal occurred in most V gamma 1.2, V gamma 2, and V gamma 5 rearrangements; J-segment nucleotide removal was common in V gamma 1.2 but not in V gamma 2 or V gamma 5 rearrangements. N-segment nucleotide insertions were present in V gamma 1.2, V gamma 2, and V gamma 5 IEL rearrangements in both thymus-bearing mice and athymic chimeras, resulting in a predominant in-frame sequence for V gamma 5 and a predominant out-of-frame sequence for V gamma 2 genes. These findings demonstrate that (i) TCR gamma-gene rearrangement occurs extrathymically in IEL, (ii) rearrangements of TCR gamma genes involve the same V gene regardless of thymus influence; and (iii) the thymus does not determine the degree to which functional or nonfunctional rearrangements occur in IEL.
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- M Whetsell
- Department of Biological Science, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Gahm SJ, Fowlkes BJ, Jameson SC, Gascoigne NR, Cotterman MM, Kanagawa O, Schwartz RH, Matis LA. Profound alteration in an alpha beta T-cell antigen receptor repertoire due to polymorphism in the first complementarity-determining region of the beta chain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:10267-71. [PMID: 1835090 PMCID: PMC52909 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.22.10267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Amino acid residues that are critical in maintaining the framework structure of immunoglobulin heavy- and light-chain variable (V) regions are strongly conserved in the V alpha and V beta proteins of the alpha beta T-cell antigen receptor (TCR alpha beta). Consequently, it has been proposed that TCR alpha beta has a conformation similar to that of an immunoglobulin Fab fragment and that the regions of the TCR homologous to the three immunoglobulin complementarity-determining regions (CDRs 1, 2, and 3) bind to the peptide antigen-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule ligand. A single amino acid substitution in the predicted CDR1 of the V beta 3 protein of certain mouse strains dramatically altered TCR alpha beta usage in an antigen-specific MHC-restricted immune response but did not abrogate V beta 3 specificity for the superantigens minor lymphocyte stimulatory locus (Mls)c and staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA). The results confirm the importance of the V beta CDR1 in antigen-MHC molecule recognition, supporting the Fab-like structural model of TCR alpha beta, and provide further evidence that conventional antigen-MHC recognition and superantigen recognition are mediated by distinct regions of the TCR beta chain. They also suggest that allelic polymorphism may be a significant source of diversity in the TCR repertoire.
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- S J Gahm
- Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, MD 21702
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Genetic studies of experimental models of autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus-like syndromes and organ-specific autoimmunity, provide major information on genetic control of autoimmune diseases. In addition to genes known to be linked to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), these studies point to multiple genes located outside the MHC that influence the onset and the progression of autoimmune diseases. Identification of these genes and of their interrelationships is now a major task that will be facilitated by recent progress in molecular biology and gene mapping. Among candidate genes, antigen-receptor genes (i.e., immunoglobulin- and T-cell receptor genes) most likely contribute an important part of the autoimmune susceptibility in several of these animal models. Available linkage data suggest a similar involvement of these antigen-receptor genes in several human autoimmune diseases. In addition to a better understanding of pathogenic mechanisms associated with autoimmunity, the knowledge of these disease-predisposing genes is expected to permit a better classification of often complex syndromes as well as the design of new treatments.
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Kroemer G, de Cid R, Moreno de Alborán I, Gonzalo JA, Iglesias A, Martínez C, Gutierrez-Ramos JC. Immunological self-tolerance: an analysis employing cytokines or cytokine receptors encoded by transgenes or a recombinant vaccinia virus. Immunol Rev 1991; 122:173-204. [PMID: 1937541 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1991.tb00602.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- G Kroemer
- Centro de Biología Molecular (CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Abo T, Ohteki T, Seki S, Koyamada N, Yoshikai Y, Masuda T, Rikiishi H, Kumagai K. The appearance of T cells bearing self-reactive T cell receptor in the livers of mice injected with bacteria. J Exp Med 1991; 174:417-24. [PMID: 1677392 PMCID: PMC2118918 DOI: 10.1084/jem.174.2.417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We demonstrated in the present study that with bacterial stimulation, an increased number of alpha/beta T cells proliferated in the liver of mice and that even T cells bearing self-reactive T cell receptor (TCR) (or forbidden T cell clones), as estimated by anti-V beta monoclonal antibodies in conjunction with immunofluorescence tests, appeared in the liver and, to some extent, in the periphery. The majority (greater than 80%) of forbidden clones induced had double-negative CD4-8-phenotype. In a syngeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction, these T cells appear to be self-reactive. Such forbidden clones and normal T cells in the liver showed a two-peak pattern of TCR expression, which consisted of alpha/beta TCR dull and bright positive cells, as seen in the thymus. A systematic analysis of TCR staining patterns in the various organs was then carried out. T cells from not only the thymus but also the liver had the two-peak pattern of alpha/beta TCR, whereas all of the other peripheral lymphoid organs had a single-peak pattern of TCR. However, T cells in the liver were not comprised of double-positive CD4+8+ cells, which predominantly reside in the thymus. The present results therefore suggest that T cell proliferation in the liver might reflect a major extrathymic pathway for T cell differentiation and that this hepatic pathway has the ability to produce T cells bearing self-reactive TCR under bacterial stimulation, probably due to the lack of a double-positive stage for negative selection.
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- T Abo
- Department of Microbiology, Tohoku University School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan
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Godfrey VL, Wilkinson JE, Rinchik EM, Russell LB. Fatal lymphoreticular disease in the scurfy (sf) mouse requires T cells that mature in a sf thymic environment: potential model for thymic education. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:5528-32. [PMID: 2062835 PMCID: PMC51910 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.13.5528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Characteristic lesions in mice hemi- or homozygous for the X-linked mutation scurfy (sf) include lymphohistiocytic proliferation in the skin and lymphoid organs, Coombs' test-positive anemia, hypergammaglobulinemia, and death by 24 days of age. The role of the thymus in the development of fatal lymphoreticular disease in the scurfy mouse was investigated. Neonatal thymectomy doubles the life span of scurfy mice, moderates the histologic lesions, and prevents anemia, despite the continued presence of high levels of serum IgG. Animals bred to be nude and scurfy (nu/nu; sf/Y) are viable, fertile, and free of scurfy lesions. Bone marrow from scurfy mice can reconstitute lethally irradiated, H-2-compatible animals but does not transmit scurfy disease. We conclude, from these data, that scurfy lesions are mediated by T lymphocytes that mature in an abnormal (sf) thymic environment.
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- V L Godfrey
- Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN 37831-8077
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Yarbro JW. Immunotherapy of cancer with lymphokines and lymphokine-activated killer cells. SEMINARS IN SURGICAL ONCOLOGY 1991; 7:183-91. [PMID: 1925249 DOI: 10.1002/ssu.2980070403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Our expanding knowledge of the immune system has provided a basis of rationality for immunotherapy. Some non-specific immunotherapy has achieved the status of standard treatment: interferon in hairy cell leukemia and chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCG in bladder cancer, and levamisole in colon cancer adjuvant therapy. Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, moreover, offer a level of specificity heretofore unknown. Combined with the newly available synthetic cytokines that regulate the normal immune system there is the potential for a major breakthrough in biotherapeutics. Problems remain. We have yet to identify tumor antigens with the precision necessary for effective immunotherapy. Indeed, we have no assurance that tumors will regularly synthesize new antigens. In the broad spectrum of immune deficiency syndromes, we have yet to see an increase in the common epithelial tumors that account for the great bulk of human cancer. This suggests that we still have a great deal more to learn.
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- J W Yarbro
- Department of Medicine, Hematology/Medical Oncology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212
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