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Li J, Xue H, Ma Q, He X, Ma L, Shi B, Sun S, Yao X. Heterogeneity of CD4 +CD25 +Foxp3 +Treg TCR β CDR3 Repertoire Based on the Differences of Symbiotic Microorganisms in the Gut of Mice. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8:576445. [PMID: 32984355 PMCID: PMC7490519 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.576445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Gut microbes play a crucial role in the occurrence and development of autoimmune diseases. The diversity of intestinal microorganisms affected by the living environment, regulate the immune function of peripheral immune organs and local tissues. In the study, the diversity of intestinal microorganisms of Germ-free (GF), Specific Pathogen-free (SPF), and Clean (CL) BALB/c mice were conducted by 16S rDNA sequencing. High-throughput sequencing technology was used to analysis the composition and characterization of TCR β chain CDR3 repertoires in Regulatory T cells (Treg) in intestine and spleen of GF, SPF, and CL mice, so as to investigate the effects of differential composition of intestinal microorganisms on the CD4+CD25+Foxp3+Treg TCR β CDR3 repertoire of intestine and spleen. We observed that GF, SPF, and CL mice have different gut microorganism composition, and the abundance and quantity of microorganisms are positively correlated with the level of feeding environment. Interestingly, incomplete structure of spleen and small intestine in GF mice was found. Moreover, a significant difference in the usage of high frequency unique CDR3 amino acid sequences was detected in the intestinal Treg TCRβ CDR3 repertoire among GF, SPF and CL mice, and there were a greater heterogeneity in the usage frequency of TRBV, TRBJ, and TRBV-TRBJ combinations gene segments. However, the effect of different feeding environment on the mice Treg TCRβ CDR3 repertoire of spleen was weak, implying that the different composition of intestinal microbiota may primarily affect the diversity of the local Treg TCRβ CDR3 repertoire and does not alter the overall properties of the circulating immune system. These results provide basic data to further analyze the mechanism of gut microbes regulating the intestinal mucosal immune system.
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- Jun Li
- Department of Immunology, Center of Immunomolecular Engineering, Innovation & Practice Base for Graduate Students Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- Department of Immunology, Center of Immunomolecular Engineering, Innovation & Practice Base for Graduate Students Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Guizhou Aerospace Hospital, Zunyi, China
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- Department of Immunology, Center of Immunomolecular Engineering, Innovation & Practice Base for Graduate Students Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- Department of Immunology, Center of Immunomolecular Engineering, Innovation & Practice Base for Graduate Students Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- Department of Immunology, Center of Immunomolecular Engineering, Innovation & Practice Base for Graduate Students Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- Department of Immunology, Center of Immunomolecular Engineering, Innovation & Practice Base for Graduate Students Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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Egorov ES, Kasatskaya SA, Zubov VN, Izraelson M, Nakonechnaya TO, Staroverov DB, Angius A, Cucca F, Mamedov IZ, Rosati E, Franke A, Shugay M, Pogorelyy MV, Chudakov DM, Britanova OV. The Changing Landscape of Naive T Cell Receptor Repertoire With Human Aging. Front Immunol 2018; 9:1618. [PMID: 30087674 PMCID: PMC6066563 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Human aging is associated with a profound loss of thymus productivity, yet naïve T lymphocytes still maintain their numbers by division in the periphery for many years. The extent of such proliferation may depend on the cytokine environment, including IL-7 and T-cell receptor (TCR) “tonic” signaling mediated by self pMHCs recognition. Additionally, intrinsic properties of distinct subpopulations of naïve T cells could influence the overall dynamics of aging-related changes within the naïve T cell compartment. Here, we investigated the differences in the architecture of TCR beta repertoires for naïve CD4, naïve CD8, naïve CD4+CD25−CD31+ (enriched with recent thymic emigrants, RTE), and mature naïve CD4+CD25−CD31− peripheral blood subsets between young and middle-age/old healthy individuals. In addition to observing the accumulation of clonal expansions (as was shown previously), we reveal several notable changes in the characteristics of T cell repertoire. We observed significant decrease of CDR3 length, NDN insert, and number of non-template added N nucleotides within TCR beta CDR3 with aging, together with a prominent change of physicochemical properties of the central part of CDR3 loop. These changes were similar across CD4, CD8, RTE-enriched, and mature CD4 subsets of naïve T cells, with minimal or no difference observed between the latter two subsets for individuals of the same age group. We also observed an increase in “publicity” (fraction of shared clonotypes) of CD4, but not CD8 naïve T cell repertoires. We propose several explanations for these phenomena built upon previous studies of naïve T-cell homeostasis, and call for further studies of the mechanisms causing the observed changes and of consequences of these changes in respect of the possible holes formed in the landscape of naïve T cell TCR repertoire.
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- Evgeny S Egorov
- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia.,Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Monserrato, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Monserrato, Italy
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- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia.,Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia.,Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
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Findly RC, Niagro FD, Dickerson HW. The expressed TCRβ CDR3 repertoire is dominated by conserved DNA sequences in channel catfish. Dev Comp Immunol 2017; 68:26-33. [PMID: 27838245 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2016.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2016] [Revised: 11/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/08/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We analyzed by high-throughput sequencing T cell receptor beta CDR3 repertoires expressed by αβ T cells in outbred channel catfish before and after an immunizing infection with the parasitic protozoan Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. We compared CDR3 repertoires in caudal fin before infection and at three weeks after infection, and in skin, PBL, spleen and head kidney at seven and twenty-one weeks after infection. Public clonotypes with the same CDR3 amino acid sequence were expressed by αβ T cells that underwent clonal expansion following development of immunity. These clonally expanded αβ T cells were primarily located in spleen and skin, which is a site of infection. Although multiple DNA sequences were expected to code for each public clonotype, each public clonotype was predominately coded by an identical CDR3 DNA sequence in combination with the same J gene in all fish. The processes underlying this shared use of CDR3 DNA sequences are not clear.
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- R Craig Findly
- Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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Chen H, Zou M, Teng D, Zhang J, He W. Characterization of the diversity of T cell receptor γδ complementary determinant region 3 in human peripheral blood by Immune Repertoire Sequencing. J Immunol Methods 2017; 443:9-17. [PMID: 28159550 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2017.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Revised: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 01/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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γδ T cells function as sentinels in early host response to infections and malignancies. Although γδ T cells are regarded as innate immune cells and recognize antigens in a non-MHC restricted manner, they possess a huge diversity of complementary determinant region 3 (CDR3) of T cell receptor (TCR) generated by the rearrangement of germ-line gene V- (D) -J-C fragments. However, the detailed characteristics of the TCRγδ CDR3 repertoire remain unclear. A comprehensive analysis would answer fundamental questions about the diversity of the TCRγδ CDR3 repertoire and elucidate the mechanism underlying γδ T cell recognition of pathogens and tumor antigens. In this study, we used Immune Repertoire Sequencing (IR-SEQ) to analyze the diversity of TCRγδ CDR3 repertoires from 30 healthy donors. The results show that IR-SEQ had sufficient repeatability to analyze the TCRγδ CDR3 repertoire. The diversity of TCRγδ CDR3 repertoire is quite dispersed and individually different. The TCR δ chain (TRD) repertoire displayed more diversity and less sharing among individuals compared with TCR γ chain (TRG). To our knowledge, this is the first study to use IR-SEQ to characterize the repertoire of TCRγδ CDR3 in human peripheral blood γδ T cells by using IR-SEQ. Our findings provide a basic understanding of the diversity of TCRγδ repertoire in the physiological condition, which provides a clue to the underlying mechanism of γδ T cell recognition of pathogens and tumor antigens.
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- Hui Chen
- Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, 107 Wenhua Xi Road, Jinan 250012, China
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing 100005, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing 100005, China.
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