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Schall N, Talamini L, Wilhelm M, Jouvin-Marche E, Muller S. P140 Peptide Leads to Clearance of Autoreactive Lymphocytes and Normalizes Immune Response in Lupus-Prone Mice. Front Immunol 2022; 13:904669. [PMID: 35720371 PMCID: PMC9199391 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.904669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
In systemic lupus erythematosus, T cells display multiple abnormalities. They are abnormally activated, secrete pro-inflammatory cytokines, help B cells to generate pathogenic autoantibodies, and provoke the accumulation of autoreactive memory T cells. P140, a synthetic peptide evaluated in phase-III clinical trials for lupus, binds HSPA8/HSC70 chaperone protein. In vitro and in vivo, it interferes with hyperactivated chaperone-mediated autophagy, modifying overexpression of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules and antigen presentation to autoreactive T cells. Here, we show that in P140-treated lupus mice, abnormalities affecting T and B cells are no longer detectable in secondary lymphoid tissue and peripheral blood. Data indicate that P140 acts by depleting hyper-activated autoreactive T and B cells and restores normal immune homeostasis. Our findings suggest that P140 belongs to a new family of non-immunosuppressive immunoregulators that do not correct T and B cell abnormalities but rather contribute to the clearance of deleterious T and B cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nicolas Schall
- CNRS and Strasbourg University, Unit Biotechnology and Cell signaling, UMR7242/Strasbourg Drug Discovery and Development Institute (IMS), Strasbourg, France
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- CNRS and Strasbourg University, Unit Biotechnology and Cell signaling, UMR7242/Strasbourg Drug Discovery and Development Institute (IMS), Strasbourg, France
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- CNRS and Strasbourg University, Unit Biotechnology and Cell signaling, UMR7242/Strasbourg Drug Discovery and Development Institute (IMS), Strasbourg, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Research Centre Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Inserm U1209-CNRS UMR 5309, La Tronche, France
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- CNRS and Strasbourg University, Unit Biotechnology and Cell signaling, UMR7242/Strasbourg Drug Discovery and Development Institute (IMS), Strasbourg, France.,Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire (FHU) OMICARE, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg (FMTS), Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France.,University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study, Strasbourg, France
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Dey AK, Nougarède A, Clément F, Fournier C, Jouvin-Marche E, Escudé M, Jary D, Navarro FP, Marche PN. Tuning the Immunostimulation Properties of Cationic Lipid Nanocarriers for Nucleic Acid Delivery. Front Immunol 2021; 12:722411. [PMID: 34497612 PMCID: PMC8419413 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.722411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Nonviral systems, such as lipid nanoparticles, have emerged as reliable methods to enable nucleic acid intracellular delivery. The use of cationic lipids in various formulations of lipid nanoparticles enables the formation of complexes with nucleic acid cargo and facilitates their uptake by target cells. However, due to their small size and highly charged nature, these nanocarrier systems can interact in vivo with antigen-presenting cells (APCs), such as dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages. As this might prove to be a safety concern for developing therapies based on lipid nanocarriers, we sought to understand how they could affect the physiology of APCs. In the present study, we investigate the cellular and metabolic response of primary macrophages or DCs exposed to the neutral or cationic variant of the same lipid nanoparticle formulation. We demonstrate that macrophages are the cells affected most significantly and that the cationic nanocarrier has a substantial impact on their physiology, depending on the positive surface charge. Our study provides a first model explaining the impact of charged lipid materials on immune cells and demonstrates that the primary adverse effects observed can be prevented by fine-tuning the load of nucleic acid cargo. Finally, we bring rationale to calibrate the nucleic acid load of cationic lipid nanocarriers depending on whether immunostimulation is desirable with the intended therapeutic application, for instance, gene delivery or messenger RNA vaccines.
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- Arindam K. Dey
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Research Center INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, La Tronche, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- CEA, LETI, Division for Biology and Healthcare Technologies, Microfluidic Systems and Bioengineering Lab, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Research Center INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, La Tronche, France
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, INSERM, IRIG, Biomics, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Research Center INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, La Tronche, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Research Center INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, La Tronche, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- CEA, LETI, Division for Biology and Healthcare Technologies, Microfluidic Systems and Bioengineering Lab, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- CEA, LETI, Division for Biology and Healthcare Technologies, Microfluidic Systems and Bioengineering Lab, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- CEA, LETI, Division for Biology and Healthcare Technologies, Microfluidic Systems and Bioengineering Lab, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St Martin d’Hères, France
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Research Center INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, La Tronche, France
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Jouvin-Marche E, Carrara G, Pulcini C, Andremont A, Danan C, Couderc-Obert C, Lienhardt C, Kieny MP, Yazdanpanah Y. French research strategy to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Lancet 2020; 395:1239-1241. [PMID: 32305085 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30477-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Evelyne Jouvin-Marche
- Inserm, 75013, Paris, France; Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Site Santé, La Tronche, France.
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- Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, Paris, France
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- Ministry of Agriculture and Food, General Directorate for Research and Education, Paris, France
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- Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition, Research Department, Tour Séquoia, La Défense, France
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- Unité Mixte Internationale TransVIHMI (UMI 233 IRD-U1175 INSERM-Université de Montpellier), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France
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- Inserm, 75013, Paris, France; Infection Antimicrobials Modelling Evolution, UMR 1137, Inserm, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Doré J, Multon MC, Béhier JM, Affagard H, Andremont A, Barthélémy P, Batista R, Bonneville M, Bonny C, Boyaval G, Chamaillard M, Chevalier MP, Cordaillat-Simmons M, Cournarie F, Diaz I, Guillaume E, Guyard C, Jouvin-Marche E, Martin FP, Petiteau D. Microbiote intestinal : qu’en attendre au plan physiologique et thérapeutique ? Therapie 2017; 72:1-19. [PMID: 28214070 DOI: 10.1016/j.therap.2017.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Joël Doré
- INRA, Metagenopolis, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Hôpital Bichat, université Paris Diderot, AP-HP, 92240 Malakoff, France
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Macek Jilkova Z, Afzal S, Marche H, Decaens T, Sturm N, Jouvin-Marche E, Huard B, Marche PN. Progression of fibrosis in patients with chronic viral hepatitis is associated with IL-17(+) neutrophils. Liver Int 2016; 36:1116-24. [PMID: 26749555 DOI: 10.1111/liv.13060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2015] [Accepted: 12/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS The pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-17 plays a crucial role in liver diseases associated with hepatic fibrosis and increased risk of cancer development. Nevertheless, the cellular source of this cytokine has never been characterized in patients with liver fibrosis. METHODS In this study, we investigated liver biopsies from 49 patients with chronic viral hepatitis at different stages of liver fibrosis. We monitored IL-17 production by intracellular flow cytometry, immunofluorescence and immunohistochemical in situ stainings, allowing a precise quantification, characterization and localization of IL-17(+) cells. RESULTS Density of IL-17(+) cells increased with the stage of liver fibrosis specifically in fibrotic septa and portal areas (correlation coefficient r = 0.7373; P < 0.0001). Data clearly show that the frequency of intrahepatic IL-17(+) lymphocytes (including T, NKT and NK cells) was independent on stage of liver fibrosis, and we observed no statistical differences in number of IL-17(+) macrophages during progression of fibrosis. On the other hand, the number of IL-17(+) neutrophils in fibrotic septa and portal areas strongly correlated with the stages of fibrosis (correlation coefficient r = 0.6986; P < 0.0001), contributing significantly to total IL-17 production in liver tissue. CONCLUSIONS Our data indicate that neutrophils represent an important source of IL-17 in the human liver, especially in late fibrosis stages. Inhibition of this specific harmful subset of neutrophils may offer therapeutic opportunities in fibrotic liver.
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- IAB, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- IAB, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,INSERM U823, Grenoble, France
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- IAB, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,INSERM U823, Grenoble, France.,CHU-Grenoble Département d'Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie, La Tronche, France
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- IAB, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,INSERM U823, Grenoble, France.,CHU-Grenoble Département d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, La Tronche, France
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- IAB, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,INSERM U823, Grenoble, France
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- IAB, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,INSERM U823, Grenoble, France
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Garson J, Créange A, Dolei A, Ferrante P, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN, Rieger F, Ruprecht K, Saresella M, Sotgiu S, Tedder R, Perron H. Letter to the editor. Mult Scler 2016; 11:249-50. [PMID: 15794403 DOI: 10.1191/1352458505ms1160xx] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Ramzan M, Sturm N, Decaens T, Bioulac-Sage P, Bancel B, Merle P, Tran Van Nhieu J, Slama R, Letoublon C, Zarski JP, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN, Leroy V. Liver-infiltrating CD8(+) lymphocytes as prognostic factor for tumour recurrence in hepatitis C virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver Int 2016. [PMID: 26215124 DOI: 10.1111/liv.12927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Chronic liver inflammation and immune/inflammatory response promote hepatocellular carcinoma. The aim of this study was to characterize the immune status of HCV-related cirrhosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCV-HCC) as compared to HCV patients without hepatocellular carcinoma. METHOD Immune markers (CD3, CD4, CD8, CD20, CD56, TCRγδ, FoxP3) and gene expression profiles (CD8α, CD8β, FoxP3, IL-6, IFN-γ, perforin, RANTES) were analysed in a test cohort by immunohistochemistry and quantitative RT-PCR analysis on serial non-tumorous and tumorous tissues. RESULTS Immune micro-environment was more inflammatory in HCV-HCC than HCV cirrhotic livers. The number of CD3(+) , CD4(+) , CD8(+) and CD20(+) liver-infiltrating lymphocytes was significantly higher, whereas the number of CD56(+) cells was significantly lower in HCV-HCC compared to HCV cirrhotic parenchyma. These differences were restricted to fibrous septa for CD4(+) and CD20(+) cells and to nodular parenchyma for CD8(+) cells. Gene expressions of CD8α, FoxP3 and RANTES were also significantly higher in HCV-HCC than in HCV cirrhosis. Interestingly, in a large cohort of 63 HCV-HCC patients. The number of CD8(+) cells ≥100/field was associated with significant higher tumour recurrence (P = 0.003) and lower overall survival (P = 0.05) at 5 years. CONCLUSION High densities of liver-infiltrating lymphocytes in HCV-HCC cirrhotic parenchyma prevail inflammatory conditions and could contribute to tumorigenesis and tumour recurrence. These results could contribute towards better clinical evaluation of patients susceptible for HCC recurrence after curative surgery.
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- Muhammad Ramzan
- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France.,Département d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France.,Clinique d' Hépatogastroentérologie, pôle DigiDune, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France
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- Service de Pathologie, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Lyon, France.,Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM UMR-S1052, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon, France.,Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM UMR-S1052, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon, France.,Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.,Service d'Hépatologie, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France
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- Département de Pathologie, APHP, Groupe Hospitalier Henri Mondor, Val de Marne, Université Paris Est-Créteil, Créteil, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France.,Clinique de Chirurgie Digestive, pôle DIGIDUNE, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France.,Clinique d' Hépatogastroentérologie, pôle DigiDune, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France.,Clinique d' Hépatogastroentérologie, pôle DigiDune, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, Unité 823, Grenoble, France.,Université Grenoble-Alpes, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France.,Clinique d' Hépatogastroentérologie, pôle DigiDune, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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Gentil Dit Maurin A, Lemercier C, Collin-Faure V, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E, Candéias SM. Developmental regulation of p53-dependent radiation-induced thymocyte apoptosis in mice. Clin Exp Immunol 2015; 179:30-8. [PMID: 24635132 DOI: 10.1111/cei.12329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The production of T cell receptor αβ(+) (TCRαβ(+) ) T lymphocytes in the thymus is a tightly regulated process that can be monitored by the regulated expression of several surface molecules, including CD4, CD8, cKit, CD25 and the TCR itself, after TCR genes have been assembled from discrete V, D (for TCR-β) and J gene segments by a site-directed genetic recombination. Thymocyte differentiation is the result of a delicate balance between cell death and survival: developing thymocytes die unless they receive a positive signal to proceed to the next stage. This equilibrium is altered in response to various physiological or physical stresses such as ionizing radiation, which induces a massive p53-dependent apoptosis of CD4(+) CD8(+) double-positive (DP) thymocytes. Interestingly, these cells are actively rearranging their TCR-α chain genes. To unravel an eventual link between V(D)J recombination activity and thymocyte radio-sensitivity, we analysed the dynamics of thymocyte apoptosis and regeneration following exposure of wild-type and p53-deficient mice to different doses of γ-radiation. p53-dependent radio-sensitivity was already found to be high in immature CD4(-) CD8(-) (double-negative, DN) cKit(+) CD25(+) thymocytes, where TCR-β gene rearrangement is initiated. However, TCR-αβ(-) CD8(+) immature single-positive thymocytes, an actively cycling intermediate population between the DN and DP stages, are the most radio-sensitive cells in the thymus, even though their apoptosis is only partially p53-dependent. Within the DP population, TCR-αβ(+) thymocytes that completed TCR-α gene recombination are more radio-resistant than their TCR-αβ(-) progenitors. Finally, we found no correlation between p53 activation and thymocyte sensitivity to radiation-induced apoptosis.
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- A Gentil Dit Maurin
- CEA, DSV, iRTSV-BGE, Grenoble, France; INSERM U1038, Grenoble, France; Grenoble Alpes Université, Grenoble, France
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Fugier E, Marche H, Thélu MA, Macek Jílková Z, Van Campenhout N, Dufeu-Duchesne T, Leroy V, Zarski JP, Sturm N, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Functions of liver natural killer cells are dependent on the severity of liver inflammation and fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95614. [PMID: 24759660 PMCID: PMC3997478 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
During chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, the role of intra-hepatic (IH) natural killer (NK) cells is still controversial. To clarify their functions, we investigated anti-viral and cytotoxic activity of NK cells in human fresh liver biopsies. We compared the functions of IH-NK cells in HCV-infected and NASH patients in physiological conditions as well as after stimulation using flow cytometric and immunohistochemical analyses. Interestingly, few IH-NK cells produced anti-viral cytokine IFN-γ in HCV-infected patients similarly as in non-infected individuals. Spontaneous degranulation activity was extremely low in peripheral NK cells compared to IH-NK cells, and was significantly higher in IH-NK cells from HCV-infected patients compared to non-infected individuals. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that perforin granules were polarized at the apical pole of IH-NK cells. The presence of CD107a and perforin in IH-NK cells demonstrated that NK cells exerted a cytolytic activity at the site of infection. Importantly, IH-NK cell functions from HCV-infected patients were inducible by specific exogenous stimulations. Upon ex vivo K562 target cell stimulations, the number of degranulating NK cells was significantly increased in the pool of IH-NK cells compared to circulating NK cells. Interestingly, after stimulation, the frequency of IFN-γ-producing IH-NK cells in HCV-infected patients was significantly higher at early stage of inflammation whereas the spontaneous IH-NK cell degranulation activity was significantly impaired in patients with highest inflammation and fibrosis Metavir scores. Our study highlights that some IH-NK cells in HCV-infected patients are able to produce INF-γ and degranulate and that those two activities depend on liver environment including the severity of liver injury. Thus, we conclude that critical roles of IH-NK cells have to be taken into account in the course of the liver pathogenesis associated to chronic HCV infection.
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- Emilie Fugier
- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
- CHU-Grenoble, Clinique Universitaire d’Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
- CHU-Grenoble, Clinique Universitaire d’Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
- CHU-Grenoble, Clinique Universitaire d’Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
- CHU-Grenoble, Clinique Universitaire d’Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
- CHU-Grenoble, Département d’Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
- CHU-Grenoble, Clinique Universitaire d’Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Grenoble, France
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Jouvin-Marche E, Macek Jílková Z, Thelu MA, Marche H, Fugier E, Van Campenhout N, Hoang XS, Marlu A, Sturm N, Callanan M, Leroy V, Zarski JP, Marche PN. Lymphocytes degranulation in liver in hepatitis C virus carriers is associated with IFNL4 polymorphisms and ALT levels. J Infect Dis 2014; 209:1907-15. [PMID: 24415789 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The polymorphisms of IFNL4 are strongly associated with both spontaneous hepatitis C virus (HCV) clearance and response to peg-IFN-α/ribavirin treatment. To further establish the biological effects of the IFNL4 and rs1297860 variations, we studied the activity of liver immune cells. METHODS Fresh liver samples were collected from HCV-infected patients before any treatment and from NASH patients as controls. Degranulation activity of each lymphocyte type was assessed by the surface expression of CD107a. IFNL4 polymorphisms and HCV genotypes were determined. RESULTS In the liver, frequency of CD107a(+) immune cells was significantly higher in HCV patients compared to NASH patients. Higher degranulation activity was observed in lymphocytes of HCV patients with favorable IFNL4 genotypes compared to patients with unfavorable genotypes. Multivariate regression analyses indicated that serum ALT levels were dependent on both Metavir activity score and frequency of CD107a positive NKT cells. The high level of degranulation activity observed before treatment was associated with a high HCV RNA decline at the early stage of peg-IFN-α/ribavirin treatment in patients with favorable genotypes. CONCLUSIONS These data underline that intrahepatic lymphocyte degranulation activity in HCV-infected patients is associated with IFNL4 polymorphisms and contributes to the clearance of HCV in patients with favorable genotypes under antiviral therapy.
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- Evelyne Jouvin-Marche
- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine Pole DiGi-Dune, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine Pole DiGi-Dune, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, France
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- Pole DiGi-Dune, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, FranceINSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine Pole DiGi-Dune, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine Pole DiGi-Dune, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine Pole DiGi-Dune, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine Pole DiGi-Dune, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, France
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Perron H, Dougier-Reynaud HL, Lomparski C, Popa I, Firouzi R, Bertrand JB, Marusic S, Portoukalian J, Jouvin-Marche E, Villiers CL, Touraine JL, Marche PN. Human endogenous retrovirus protein activates innate immunity and promotes experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in mice. PLoS One 2013; 8:e80128. [PMID: 24324591 PMCID: PMC3855614 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 09/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex multifactorial disease of the central nervous system (CNS) for which animal models have mainly addressed downstream immunopathology but not potential inducers of autoimmunity. In the absence of a pathogen known to cause neuroinflammation in MS, Mycobacterial lysate is commonly used in the form of complete Freund's adjuvant to induce autoimmunity to myelin proteins in Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model for MS. The present study demonstrates that a protein from the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-W family (MSRV-Env) can be used instead of mycobacterial lysate to induce autoimmunity and EAE in mice injected with MOG, with typical anti-myelin response and CNS lesions normally seen in this model. MSRV-Env was shown to induce proinflammatory response in human macrophage cells through TLR4 activation pathway. The present results demonstrate a similar activation of murine dendritic cells and show the ability of MSRV-Env to trigger EAE in mice. In previous studies, MSRV-Env protein was reproducibly detected in MS brain lesions within microglia and perivascular macrophages. The present results are therefore likely to provide a model for MS, in which the upstream adjuvant triggering neuroinflammation is the one detected in MS active lesions. This model now allows pre-clinical studies with therapeutic agents targeting this endogenous retroviral protein in MS.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/administration & dosage
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Central Nervous System
- Dendritic Cells
- Disease Models, Animal
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/chemically induced
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Gene Expression
- Gene Products, env/administration & dosage
- Gene Products, env/immunology
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate/drug effects
- Lipopolysaccharide Receptors/genetics
- Lipopolysaccharide Receptors/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Multiple Sclerosis/genetics
- Multiple Sclerosis/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis/pathology
- Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein/administration & dosage
- Peptide Fragments/administration & dosage
- Pregnancy Proteins/administration & dosage
- Pregnancy Proteins/immunology
- Recombinant Proteins/administration & dosage
- Recombinant Proteins/immunology
- Toll-Like Receptor 4/deficiency
- Toll-Like Receptor 4/genetics
- Toll-Like Receptor 4/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- Hervé Perron
- Geneuro, Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneuro-Innovation, Lyon, France
- Université Lyon-1, Lyon, France
- * E-mail:
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- Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, UMR_S823, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- ImmunAlp, Gières, France
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- Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, UMR_S823, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- UMR CNRS 8612, University of Paris XI, Chatenay Malabry, France
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- Hook laboratories, Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, UMR_S823, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, UMR_S823, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, UMR_S823, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Jouvin-Marche E, Fugier E, Thélu MA, Van Campenhout N, Hoang X, Marlu A, Leroy V, Sturm N, Zarski JP, Marche P. P134 IL28B associated polymorphism, RS12979860, controls the activity of liver lymphocytes. Cytokine 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2012.06.226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hoang X, Ramzan M, Thélu MA, Jouvin-Marche E, Zarski JP, Marche P. P035 A simple and reliable method for genotyping IL28B polymorphism in patients infected with hepatitis C virus. Cytokine 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2012.06.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Aude-Garcia C, Villiers C, Candéias SM, Garrel C, Bertrand C, Collin V, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Enhanced susceptibility of T lymphocytes to oxidative stress in the absence of the cellular prion protein. Cell Mol Life Sci 2010; 68:687-96. [PMID: 20717837 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0477-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2010] [Revised: 07/08/2010] [Accepted: 07/21/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
The cellular prion glycoprotein (PrP(C)) is ubiquitously expressed but its physiologic functions remain enigmatic, particularly in the immune system. Here, we demonstrate in vitro and in vivo that PrP(C) is involved in T lymphocytes response to oxidative stress. By monitoring the intracellular level of reduced glutathione, we show that PrP(-/-) thymocytes display a higher susceptibility to H(2)O(2) exposure than PrP(+/+) cells. Furthermore, we find that in mice fed with a restricted diet, a regimen known to increase the intracellular level of ROS, PrP(-/-) thymocytes are more sensitive to oxidative stress. PrP(C) function appears to be specific for oxidative stress, since no significant differences are observed between PrP(-/-) and PrP(+/+) mice exposed to other kinds of stress. We also show a marked evolution of the redox status of T cells throughout differentiation in the thymus. Taken together, our results clearly ascribe to PrP(C) a protective function in thymocytes against oxidative stress.
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- Catherine Aude-Garcia
- CEA, DSV, iRTSV, Laboratoire Biochimie et Biophysique des Systèmes Intégrés, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054, Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
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Sturm N, Thélu MA, Camous X, Dimitrov G, Ramzan M, Dufeu-Duchesne T, Bonorino P, Guillermet C, Brambilla E, Arvers P, Pernollet M, Leroy V, Zarski JP, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Characterization and role of intra-hepatic regulatory T cells in chronic hepatitis C pathogenesis. J Hepatol 2010; 53:25-35. [PMID: 20452085 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2010.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2009] [Revised: 02/04/2010] [Accepted: 02/23/2010] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS In chronic hepatitis C (CHC), HCV-specific T-cell responses are often dysfunctionnal. In vitro data point out that regulatory T cells (Treg) are able to suppress HCV-specific lymphocyte proliferation and cytokine secretion but their implication in this pathology is still debated. METHODS Three complementary approaches were performed to investigate phenotype, frequency or localization of intra-hepatic Treg in treatment naïve CHC patients. Double immunohistochemical analysis was performed in 20 formalin-fixed biopsies with CD8/FoxP3 and CD4/FoxP3 antibodies. Cellular markers and cytokines were investigated by quantitative RT-PCR in 27 additional frozen biopsies. Eight other fresh liver biopsies were selected for complementary analysis of immunophenotyping and frequency of intra-hepatic Treg. RESULTS Immunohistochemical analyses showed the presence of intra-hepatic CD4(+)FoxP3(+)T cells while CD8(+)FoxP3(+)T cells were very scarce. CD4(+)FoxP3(+)T cells were located in necro-inflammatory areas in contact with CD8(+)T cells, suggesting that Treg-mediated inhibition of CD8(+)T cell proliferation may occur by cell-cell contact. RT-PCR analyses showed strong correlations between CD8, FoxP3, and IL-10 with emergence of four distinct gene clusters, CD8-FoxP3, CD8-IL-10, TGF-beta-IL-10, and TNF-alpha-TGF-beta. No correlation was found between serum viral load and any immune markers. Interestingly, the FoxP3(+)/CD8(+) cells ratio significantly decreased in severe fibrosis (F>3) due to the dramatic decline of FoxP3 cells. CONCLUSIONS This study provides new insights into the histological localization of Treg within HCV-infected liver, with a special accumulation of CD4(+)FoxP3(+)Treg cells in necro-inflammatory areas, in contact with CD8(+)T cells. Our results suggest a link between Treg, CD8, and IL-10 which altogether could balance immune responses against the virus to avoid immunopathogenesis.
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Dougier HL, Lomparski C, Villiers C, Duperray A, Bernard C, Jouvin-Marche E, Perron H, Marche PN. The envelope of human endogenous retrovirus in neuro-inflammation. Retrovirology 2009. [PMCID: PMC2767038 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-s2-p53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Jouvin-Marche E, Fuschiotti P, Marche PN. Dynamic Aspects of TCRα Gene Recombination: Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments of the TCRα Chain Repertoire in Man and Mouse. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 2009; 650:82-92. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0296-2_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Touvrey C, Couedel C, Soulas P, Couderc R, Jasin M, de Villartay JP, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E, Candéias SM. Distinct effects of DNA-PKcs and Artemis inactivation on signal joint formation in vivo. Mol Immunol 2008; 45:3383-91. [PMID: 18501428 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2008] [Accepted: 04/09/2008] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
The assembly of functional immune receptor genes via V(D)J recombination in developing lymphocytes generates DNA double-stranded breaks intermediates that are repaired by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). This repair pathway requires the sequential recruitment and activation onto coding and signal DNA ends of several proteins, including the DNA-dependent protein kinase and the nuclease Artemis. Artemis activity, triggered by the DNA-dependent protein kinase, is necessary to process the genes hairpin-sealed coding ends but appears dispensable for the ligation of the reciprocal phosphorylated, blunt-ended signal ends into a signal joint. The DNA-dependent protein kinase is however present on signal ends and could potentially recruit and activate Artemis during signal joint formation. To determine whether Artemis plays a role during the resolution of signal ends during V(D)J recombination, we analyzed the structure of signal joints generated in developing thymocytes during the rearrangement of T cell receptor genes in wild type mice and mice mutated for NHEJ factors. These joints exhibit junctional diversity resulting from N nucleotide polymerization by the terminal nucleotidyl transferase and nucleotide loss from one or both of the signal ends before they are ligated. Our results show that Artemis participates in the repair of signal ends in vivo. Furthermore, our results also show that while the DNA-dependent protein kinase complex protects signal ends from processing, including deletions, Artemis seems on the opposite to promote their accessibility to modifying enzymes. In addition, these data suggest that Artemis might be the nuclease responsible for nucleotide loss from signal ends during the repair process.
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- Cédric Touvrey
- CEA, DSV, DRDC, Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, INSERM U548, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble F-38054, France
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Irla M, Saade M, Kissenpfennig A, Poulin LF, Leserman L, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E, Berger F, Nguyen C. ZAP-70 restoration in mice by in vivo thymic electroporation. PLoS One 2008; 3:e2059. [PMID: 18446234 PMCID: PMC2323614 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2008] [Accepted: 03/04/2008] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Viral and non-viral vectors have been developed for gene therapy, but their use is associated with unresolved problems of efficacy and safety. Efficient and safe methods of DNA delivery need to be found for medical application. Here we report a new monopolar system of non-viral electro-gene transfer into the thymus in vivo that consists of the local application of electrical pulses after the introduction of the DNA. We assessed the proof of concept of this approach by correcting ZAP-70 deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) in mice. The thymic electro-gene transfer of the pCMV-ZAP-70-IRES-EGFP vector in these mice resulted in rapid T cell differentiation in the thymus with mature lymphocytes detected by three weeks in secondary lymphoid organs. Moreover, this system resulted in the generation of long-term functional T lymphocytes. Peripheral reconstituted T cells displayed a diversified T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, and were responsive to alloantigens in vivo. This process applied to the thymus could represent a simplified and effective alternative for gene therapy of T cell immunodeficiencies.
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- Magali Irla
- INSERM U928, Université de la Méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
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- INSERM U928, Université de la Méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
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- Infection and Immunity, Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université de la Méditerranée, INSERM U631, and CNRS UMR6102, Marseille, France
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- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université de la Méditerranée, INSERM U631, and CNRS UMR6102, Marseille, France
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- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université de la Méditerranée, INSERM U631, and CNRS UMR6102, Marseille, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I, Institut Albert Bonniot, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM, U823, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I, Institut Albert Bonniot, UMR-S823, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U836, Grenoble, France
- Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble I, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, UMR-S836, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U928, Université de la Méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
- * E-mail:
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Bonorino P, Leroy V, Dufeu-Duchesne T, Tongiani-Dashan S, Sturm N, Pernollet M, Vivier E, Zarski JP, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Features and distribution of CD8 T cells with human leukocyte antigen class I-specific receptor expression in chronic hepatitis C. Hepatology 2007; 46:1375-86. [PMID: 17668887 DOI: 10.1002/hep.21850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
UNLABELLED CD8(+) T cells represent a sizable component of the liver inflammatory infiltrate in chronic hepatitis C and are thought to contribute to immune-mediated tissue injury. Because chronic stimulation may promote the expression by CD8(+) T cells of distinct human leukocyte antigen class I-specific natural killer cell receptors (NKRs) susceptible to both inhibiting effector functions and promoting cell survival, we examined the distribution and characteristics of CD8(+) T cells with such receptors in chronic hepatitis C patients. NKR CD8(+) T cells were detectable in liver and peripheral blood from hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients but were not major subsets. However, the frequency of NKG2A(+) CD8(+) in the liver and in a lesser extent in the peripheral blood was positively correlated to histological activity in HCV-infected patients. No such correlation was found with KIR(+) T cells in liver in HCV-infected patients and with the both NKR CD8(+) T cells in hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected patients. Circulating CD8(+) T cells expressing KIRs exhibited phenotypic features of memory T cells with exacerbated expression of the senescence marker CD57 in patients. NKG2A(+)CD8(+) T cells were committed T cells that appeared less differentiated than KIR(+)CD8(+) T cells. In HCV-infected patients, their content in perforin was low and similar to that observed in NKG2A(-)CD8(+) T cells; this scenario was not observed in healthy subjects and HBV-infected patients. Both NKG2A and KIRs could inhibit the response of HCV-specific CD8(+) T cells ex vivo. CONCLUSION These results support the concept that an accumulation in the liver parenchyma of NKR(+)CD8(+) T cells that have functional alterations could be responsible for liver lesions. They provide novel insights into the complexity of liver-infiltrating CD8(+) T cells in chronic hepatitis C and reveal that distinct subsets of antigen-experienced CD8(+) T cells are differentially sensitive to the pervasive influence of HCV.
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- Paula Bonorino
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 548, Département Réponse et Dynamique Cellulaires, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Fuschiotti P, Pasqual N, Hierle V, Borel E, London J, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Analysis of the TCR alpha-chain rearrangement profile in human T lymphocytes. Mol Immunol 2007; 44:3380-8. [PMID: 17391765 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2007.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2007] [Accepted: 02/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
The size of the available human alphabeta T cell repertoire is difficult to determine and is open to debate. Empirical analysis of TCR beta-chain diversity reveals approximately 10(6) different beta chains in peripheral blood. Due in part to locus complexity, comparable information for TCR alpha is lacking. Rather, current estimates for human TCR alpha diversity, and hence, total repertoire diversity, are based on theoretical analyses that assume equal probabilities of rearrangement between any V alpha gene and J alpha gene. Here, we report on a systematic locus-wide rearrangement analysis of the TCR alpha-chain in human T cells. We first demonstrate that the V-J alpha recombination in the thymus is not random but depends on the reciprocal V alpha and J alpha position within the locus. Characterization of the frequency of gene usage combined with identification of five previously unrecognized pseudogenes enables us to empirically estimate the human TCR alpha combinatorial repertoire. The number of V-J alpha combinations achieved is approximately 44-56% of the total combinatorial possibilities, significantly lower than theoretical estimates. We also demonstrate that TCR alpha-chain diversity in peripheral T lymphocytes mimics the same general patterns of rearrangement as observed in the thymus, and these patterns appear conserved among different individuals. This unexpected observation indicates that, unlike the TCR beta locus, the human TCR alpha-chain repertoire is primarily predetermined by genetic recombination and its size is restricted by limits on the combinatorial repertoire rather than post-thymic selection.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Conserved Sequence
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Genetic Markers/genetics
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/blood
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Recombination, Genetic
- T-Lymphocytes/chemistry
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/chemistry
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
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- Patrizia Fuschiotti
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Grenoble/Département des Réponses et Dynamique Cellulaire, Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, U548, Grenoble, France.
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Touvrey C, Cowell LG, Lieberman AE, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E, Candéias SM. Reassignment of the murine 3'TRDD1 recombination signal sequence. Immunogenetics 2006; 58:895-903. [PMID: 17021860 PMCID: PMC1876511 DOI: 10.1007/s00251-006-0150-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2006] [Accepted: 08/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
T cell receptor genes are assembled in developing T lymphocytes from discrete V, D, and J genes by a site-specific somatic rearrangement mechanism. A flanking recombination signal, composed of a conserved heptamer and a semiconserved nonamer separated by 12 or 23 variable nucleotides, targets the activity of the rearrangement machinery to the adjoining V, D, and J genes. Following the rearrangement of V, D, or J genes, their respective recombination signals are ligated together. Although these signal joints are allegedly invariant, created by the head-to-head abuttal of the heptamers, some do exhibit junctional diversity. Recombination signals were initially identified by comparison and alignment of germ-line sequences with the sequence of rearranged genes. However, their overall low level of sequence conservation makes their characterization solely from sequence data difficult. Recently, computational analysis unraveled correlations between nucleotides at several positions scattered within the spacer and recombination activity, so that it is now possible to identify putative recombination signals and determine and predict their recombination efficiency. In this paper, we analyzed the variability introduced in signal joints generated after rearrangement of the TRDD1 and TRDD2 genes in murine thymocytes. The recurrent presence of identical nucleotides inserted in these signal joints led us to reconsider the location and sequence of the TRDD1 recombination signal. By combining molecular characterization and computational analysis, we show that the functional TRDD1 recombination signal is shifted inside the putative coding sequence of the TRDD1 gene and, consequently, that this gene is shorter than indicated in the databases.
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- Cédric Touvrey
- Laboratoire d'immunochimie
INSERM : U548 CEA-DSV-DRDCUniversité Joseph-Fourier - Grenoble I17, Rue Des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, FR
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- Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Immunology
Duke UniversityDurham, NC, US
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- Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Immunology
Duke UniversityDurham, NC, US
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- Laboratoire d'immunochimie
INSERM : U548 CEA-DSV-DRDCUniversité Joseph-Fourier - Grenoble I17, Rue Des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, FR
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- Laboratoire d'immunochimie
INSERM : U548 CEA-DSV-DRDCUniversité Joseph-Fourier - Grenoble I17, Rue Des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, FR
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- Laboratoire d'immunochimie
INSERM : U548 CEA-DSV-DRDCUniversité Joseph-Fourier - Grenoble I17, Rue Des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, FR
- * Correspondence should be adressed to: Serge M. Candéias
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Rolland A, Jouvin-Marche E, Viret C, Faure M, Perron H, Marche PN. The envelope protein of a human endogenous retrovirus-W family activates innate immunity through CD14/TLR4 and promotes Th1-like responses. J Immunol 2006; 176:7636-44. [PMID: 16751411 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.12.7636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis-associated retroviral element (MSRV) is a retroviral element, the sequence of which served to define the W family of human endogenous retroviruses. MSRV viral particles display proinflammatory activities both in vitro in human mononuclear cell cultures and in vivo in a humanized SCID mice model. To understand the molecular basis of such properties, we have investigated the inflammatory potential of the surface unit of the MSRV envelope protein (ENV-SU), the fraction that is poised to naturally interact with host cells. We report in this study that MSRV ENV-SU induces, in a specific manner, human monocytes to produce major proinflammatory cytokines through engagement of CD14 and TLR4, which are pattern recognition receptors of primary importance in innate immunity. ENV-SU could also trigger a maturation process in human dendritic cells. Finally, ENV-SU endowed dendritic cells with the capacity to support a Th1-like type of Th cell differentiation. The data are discussed in the context of immune responses and chronic proinflammatory disorders.
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- Alexandre Rolland
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 548, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France
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Touvrey C, Borel E, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E, Candéias SM. Gene-specific signal joint modifications during V(D)J recombination of TCRAD locus genes in murine and human thymocytes. Immunobiology 2006; 211:741-51. [PMID: 17015149 DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2006.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2006] [Revised: 04/28/2006] [Accepted: 04/28/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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V(D)J recombination assembles functional T-cell receptor (TCR) genes from V, D and J components in developing thymocytes. Extensive processing of V, D and J extremities before they are ligated creates a high degree of junctional diversity which results in the generation of a large repertoire of different TCR chains. In contrast, the extremities of the intervening DNA segment, which bear the recombination signal sequences, are generally held to be monomorphic, so that signal joints (SJs) consist of the perfect head-to-head juxtaposition of recombination signal extremities. We analyzed the structure of SJs generated during the recombination of TCRAD locus genes in murine and human thymocytes. Junctional diversity resulting from N nucleotide additions or from N nucleotide additions and base loss was found for each type of SJ examined. Different patterns of processing/modification were found, suggesting that different enzymatic activities operate during recombination of TCRA and TCRD genes, although they are located within the same genetic locus. Recombination of the deltaRec-1 element generates a diverse repertoire of SJs exhibiting both combinatorial and junctional diversity in murine and human thymocytes. Therefore, SJ diversity appears to be an intrinsic feature of V(D)J recombination in unmanipulated thymocytes.
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- Cédric Touvrey
- CEA, DSV, DRDC, Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, 17 rue des martyrs, Grenoble F-38054, France
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Baum TP, Hierle V, Pasqual N, Bellahcene F, Chaume D, Lefranc MP, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN, Demongeot J. IMGT/GeneInfo: T cell receptor gamma TRG and delta TRD genes in database give access to all TR potential V(D)J recombinations. BMC Bioinformatics 2006; 7:224. [PMID: 16640788 PMCID: PMC1482724 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2005] [Accepted: 04/26/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Adaptative immune repertoire diversity in vertebrate species is generated by recombination of variable (V), diversity (D) and joining (J) genes in the immunoglobulin (IG) loci of B lymphocytes and in the T cell receptor (TR) loci of T lymphocytes. These V-J and V-D-J gene rearrangements at the DNA level involve recombination signal sequences (RSS). Whereas many data exist, they are scattered in non specialized resources with different nomenclatures (eg. flat files) and are difficult to extract. DESCRIPTION IMGT/GeneInfo is an online information system that provides, through a user-friendly interface, exhaustive information resulting from the complex mechanisms of T cell receptor V-J and V-D-J recombinations. T cells comprise two populations which express the alphabeta and gammadelta TR, respectively. The first version of the system dealt with the Homo sapiens and Mus musculus TRA and TRB loci whose gene rearrangements allow the synthesis of the alphabeta TR chains. In this paper, we present the second version of IMGT/GeneInfo where we complete the database for the Homo sapiens and Mus musculus TRG and TRD loci along with the introduction of a quality control procedure for existing and new data. We also include new functionalities to the four loci analysis, giving, to date, a very informative tool which allows to work on V(D)J genes of all TR loci in both human and mouse species. IMGT/GeneInfo provides more than 59,000 rearrangement combinations with a full gene description which is freely available at http://imgt.cines.fr/GeneInfo. CONCLUSION IMGT/GeneInfo allows all TR information sequences to be in the same spot, and are now available within two computer-mouse clicks. This is useful for biologists and bioinformaticians for the study of T lymphocyte V(D)J gene rearrangements and their applications in immune response analysis.
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- Thierry-Pascal Baum
- Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG-CNRS UMR 5525, Techniques de l'Imagerie, de la Modélisation et de la Cognition; Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 La Tronche, France
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- Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG-CNRS UMR 5525, Techniques de l'Imagerie, de la Modélisation et de la Cognition; Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 La Tronche, France
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- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA-Grenoble/DRDC/ICH; INSERM U548; Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
- ImmunID Technologies, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
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- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA-Grenoble/DRDC/ICH; INSERM U548; Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
- ImmunID Technologies, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
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- Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire, LIGM; Université Montpellier II, UPR CNRS 1142, IGH, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire, LIGM; Université Montpellier II, UPR CNRS 1142, IGH, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA-Grenoble/DRDC/ICH; INSERM U548; Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
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- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA-Grenoble/DRDC/ICH; INSERM U548; Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
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- Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG-CNRS UMR 5525, Techniques de l'Imagerie, de la Modélisation et de la Cognition; Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 La Tronche, France
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Jouvin-Marche E, Attuil-Audenis V, Aude-Garcia C, Rachidi W, Zabel M, Podevin-Dimster V, Siret C, Huber C, Martinic M, Riondel J, Villiers CL, Favier A, Naquet P, Cesbron JY, Marche PN. Overexpression of Cellular Prion Protein Induces an Antioxidant Environment Altering T Cell Development in the Thymus. J Immunol 2006; 176:3490-7. [PMID: 16517717 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.6.3490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) is an ubiquitously expressed glycoprotein whose roles are still widely discussed, particularly in the field of immunology. Using TgA20- and Tg33-transgenic mice overexpressing PrP(C), we investigated the consequences of this overexpression on T cell development. In both models, overexpression of PrP(C) induces strong alterations at different steps of T cell maturation. On TgA20 mice, we observed that these alterations are cell autonomous and lead to a decrease of alphabeta T cells and a concomitant increase of gammadelta T cell numbers. PrP(C) has been shown to bind and chelate copper and, interestingly, under a copper supplementation diet, TgA20 mice presented a partial restoration of the alphabeta T cell development, suggesting that PrP(C) overexpression, by chelating copper, generates an antioxidant context differentially impacting on alphabeta and gammadelta T cell lineage.
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- Evelyne Jouvin-Marche
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 548, Université J. Fourier, 17 Rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble, France
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Bosco N, Hung HC, Pasqual N, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN, Gascoigne NRJ, Ceredig R. Role of the T cell receptor alpha chain in the development and phenotype of naturally arising CD4+CD25+ T cells. Mol Immunol 2006; 43:246-54. [PMID: 16199261 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2005.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2004] [Accepted: 02/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The T cell receptor alpha chain repertoire and the possible influence of the alpha chain on the development and phenotype of naturally arising mouse CD4+CD25+ T cells have not been extensively analysed. We used all available Valpha-specific monoclonal antibodies and a sensitive multiplex genomic DNA PCR assay to study the Valpha repertoire of CD4+CD25+ T cells in normal mice. To address whether CD4+CD25+ T cells express two TCR alpha chains, we have carried out four-colour flow cytometry using combinations of the available anti-Valpha reagents in mice where one allele of the TCRA locus had been inactivated. Results indicate that the Valpha repertoire of CD4+CD25+ T cells is as diverse as their CD25- partners. In addition, CD4+CD25+ T cells develop normally in Tcralpha+/- mice and we show for the first time that despite expressing only one TCRalpha chain, they retain their characteristic CD4(low), CD3(low), TCRbeta(low), CD5(high), CD45RB(low) and cytoplasmic CD152(high) phenotype.
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- Nabil Bosco
- Unité 548 INSERM, DRDC, CEA-G, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, France.
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Rolland A, Jouvin-Marche E, Saresella M, Ferrante P, Cavaretta R, Créange A, Marche P, Perron H. Correlation between disease severity and in vitro cytokine production mediated by MSRV (Multiple Sclerosis associated RetroViral element) envelope protein in patients with multiple sclerosis. J Neuroimmunol 2005; 160:195-203. [PMID: 15710473 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2004] [Accepted: 10/19/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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MSRV is a retroviral element previously isolated in cell cultures from patients with multiple sclerosis. It is part of a new multi-copy endogenous retrovirus family named HERV-W and displays pro-inflammatory properties both in vitro in human PBMC cultures and in vivo in a humanized SCID mice model. In the present study, we have evaluated potential links between the pro-inflammatory properties of MSRV envelope protein and MS disease. Thus, cytokine productions mediated by the surface unit of MSRV envelope protein were evaluated in PBMC of MS patients and compared with healthy controls. Divergent reactivity to ENV-SU between MS and control PBMC was observed and was reflected by a significant increase of IFN-gamma, IL-6 and IL-12p40 production by the tested MS population. Interestingly, the overproduction of IL-6 and IL-12p40 was found to correlate with disease severity (EDSS) in most patients. Altogether our data suggest that MSRV envelope protein may induce an abnormal cytokine secretion, thus contributing to the inflammatory process in MS.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Disability Evaluation
- Endogenous Retroviruses/physiology
- Female
- Gene Products, env/pharmacology
- Gene Products, env/physiology
- Humans
- Inflammation Mediators/pharmacology
- Inflammation Mediators/physiology
- Interleukin-10/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-12/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-12 Subunit p40
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/immunology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/pathology
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins/pharmacology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Middle Aged
- Multiple Sclerosis/diagnosis
- Multiple Sclerosis/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis/virology
- Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive/diagnosis
- Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive/virology
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/diagnosis
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/immunology
- Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting/virology
- Protein Subunits/biosynthesis
- Severity of Illness Index
- Up-Regulation/immunology
- Virion/physiology
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- Alexandre Rolland
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA/ INSERM-U548, 17 rue des Martyrs 38054 Grenoble, France
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Lina G, Bohach GA, Nair SP, Hiramatsu K, Jouvin-Marche E, Mariuzza R. Standard Nomenclature for the Superantigens Expressed byStaphylococcus. J Infect Dis 2004; 189:2334-6. [PMID: 15181583 DOI: 10.1086/420852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2003] [Accepted: 12/02/2003] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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The International Nomenclature Committee for Staphylococcal Superantigens proposes an international procedure for the designation of newly described superantigens and putative superantigens, a procedure that will be compatible with the new age of genomics.
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- Gerard Lina
- Centre Nationale de Reference des Staphylocoques, Inserm E0230, IFR Laennec, Lyon, France.
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Candéias SM, Mancini SJC, Touvrey C, Borel E, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN. p53-dependent and p53-independent pathways for radiation-induced immature thymocyte differentiation. Oncogene 2004; 23:1922-9. [PMID: 14755249 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The pre-T-cell receptor (TCR) delivers essential survival/differentiation signals to the developing thymocytes. Severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) and recombination-activating gene (RAG)-deficient mice are unable to assemble antigen receptor genes, and therefore cannot express a pre-TCR. Consequently, T lymphocyte differentiation is arrested at an early stage in the thymus of these animals, and immature thymocytes are eliminated through apoptotic processes. This maturation arrest can be relieved and thymocyte differentiation rescued after the exposure of these mice to whole-body gamma-irradiation. Whereas the promotion of immature thymocyte survival/differentiation was shown to require p53 activity in irradiated SCID mice, it was suggested, on the other hand, that p53 activation prevents immature thymocytes survival/differentiation in irradiated RAG-deficient mice. However, SCID mice have impaired responses to ionizing radiation. In this paper, we analysed p53 requirement in radiation-induced thymocyte differentiation in CD3epsilon(Delta5/Delta5) mice, where pre-TCR deficiency also results in an early block of lymphocyte development. Our results show at the cellular and molecular levels that, in this DNA repair-proficient model, irradiation-induced thymocyte differentiation proceeds either by a p53-dependent or by a p53-independent pathway, which differ in their sensitivity to the radiation dose delivered.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- CD3 Complex/genetics
- CD3 Complex/physiology
- Cell Differentiation/radiation effects
- Flow Cytometry
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, SCID
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptors, Antigen/deficiency
- Receptors, Antigen/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen/radiation effects
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/radiation effects
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism
- Whole-Body Irradiation
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- Serge Michel Candéias
- 1Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département Réponse et Dynamique Cellulaire, INSERM U548, Université Joseph Fourier, 17 rue des martyrs, 38054 Grenoble, France.
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Baum TP, Pasqual N, Thuderoz F, Hierle V, Chaume D, Lefranc MP, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN, Demongeot J. IMGT/GeneInfo: enhancing V(D)J recombination database accessibility. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:D51-4. [PMID: 14681357 PMCID: PMC308775 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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IMGT/GeneInfo is a user-friendly online information system that provides information on data resulting from the complex mechanisms of immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) V(D)J recombinations. For the first time, it is possible to visualize all the rearrangement parameters on a single page. IMGT/GeneInfo is part of the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (IMGT), a high-quality integrated knowledge resource specializing in IG, TR, major histocompatibility complex (MHC), and related proteins of the immune system of human and other vertebrate species. The IMGT/GeneInfo system was developed by the TIMC and ICH laboratories (with the collaboration of LIGM), and is the first example of an external system being incorporated into IMGT. In this paper, we report the first part of this work. IMGT/GeneInfo_TR deals with the human and mouse TRA/TRD and TRB loci of the TR. Data handling and visualization are complementary to the current data and tools in IMGT, and will subsequently allow the modelling of V(D)J gene use, and thus, to predict non-standard recombination profiles which may eventually be found in conditions such as leukaemias or lymphomas. Access to IMGT/GeneInfo is free and can be found at http://imgt.cines.fr/GeneInfo.
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- Thierry-Pascal Baum
- Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG-CNRS UMR 5525, Techniques de l'Imagerie, de la Modélisation et de la Cognition, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 La Tronche, France.
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Nuñez-Cruz S, Aguado E, Richelme S, Chetaille B, Mura AM, Richelme M, Pouyet L, Jouvin-Marche E, Xerri L, Malissen B, Malissen M. LAT regulates gammadelta T cell homeostasis and differentiation. Nat Immunol 2003; 4:999-1008. [PMID: 12970761 DOI: 10.1038/ni977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2003] [Accepted: 08/14/2003] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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LAT (linker for activation of T cells) is essential for T cell receptor signaling. Mice homozygous for a mutation of the three C-terminal LAT tyrosine residues showed a block in alphabeta T cell development and a partially impaired gammadelta T cell development. Without intentional immunization, they accumulated gammadelta T cells in the spleen and lymph nodes that chronically produced T helper type 2 cytokines in large amounts, and caused the maturation of plasma cells secreting immunoglobulin E (IgE) and IgG1. These effects are very similar to that triggered in the alphabeta lineage by a mutation involving a distinct LAT tyrosine. Thus, LAT is an essential regulator of T cell homeostasis and terminal differentiation.
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- Selene Nuñez-Cruz
- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Université de la Méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Case 906, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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Leroy V, Vigan I, Mosnier JF, Dufeu-Duchesne T, Pernollet M, Zarski JP, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Phenotypic and functional characterization of intrahepatic T lymphocytes during chronic hepatitis C. Hepatology 2003; 38:829-41. [PMID: 14512870 DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2003.50410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/06/2022]
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The pathogenesis of liver cell injury during chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is poorly understood. The cellular immune response is thought to play a key role in both inhibition of viral replication and liver pathology. However, little is currently known about which lymphocyte populations and which immune effectors contribute to or control liver damage. We investigated a panel of 15 phenotypic and functional markers of intrahepatic T-lymphocyte subsets irrespective of their antigen specificity in 48 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients and 8 healthy control subjects. Lymphocyte characteristics were evaluated from liver biopsy specimens both at gene expression level by real-time quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and by immunochemistry, in relation with the degree of liver injury and with intrahepatic HCV-RNA levels. As compared with controls, we found major changes in T-lymphocyte subsets in HCV-infected patients, with a significant decrease of T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) delta and CD56 gene expression, associated with a concomitant increase of TCRalpha and CD8beta that were correlated with cytotoxic factors, proinflammatory chemokines, and chemokine receptors including peforin, interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), RANTES, and CXCR3. The gene expression of CD8beta, a specific marker for conventional TCRalpha+CD8+ lymphocytes, was correlated by multivariate analysis with both alanine aminotransferase (ALT) serum levels and histologic activity index. Furthermore, CD8 staining was observed by immunochemistry in the areas of lobular and piecemeal necrosis. In contrast, no lymphocyte marker was correlated with viral load, measured both in serum and in liver. In conclusion, these results strongly suggest key roles for CD8+ T cells as effectors of liver damage during chronic HCV infection and for their inability to control viral replication.
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- Vincent Leroy
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA-G/DRDC, INSERM U548, Université Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble-I, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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Vigan I, Jouvin-Marche E, Leroy V, Pernollet M, Tongiani-Dashan S, Borel E, Delachanal E, Colomb M, Zarski JP, Marche PN. T lymphocytes infiltrating the liver during chronic hepatitis C infection express a broad range of T-cell receptor beta chain diversity. J Hepatol 2003; 38:651-9. [PMID: 12713877 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-8278(03)00089-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS During viral chronic hepatitis C (CHC), the intra-hepatic lymphocyte infiltrate is mainly composed of T lymphocytes expressing alphabeta T-cell receptors (TCR). Since little is known about the TCRalphabeta diversity of intra-hepatic T lymphocytes (IHL), we evaluated the IHL repertoire from CHC patients (n=8) as compared to healthy subjects (n=4), total peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and purified peripheral and intra-hepatic CD8(+) cells (n=2). METHODS The diversity of TCRalphabeta receptors was evaluated by determining the size and the sequence of the TCRbeta chain complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3). The number of total T lymphocytes in liver was estimated by real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction of TCRalpha and CD3 epsilon transcripts. RESULTS Our results show that transcripts encoding all TCR V beta (BV) families and all TCR J beta (BJ) segments were present in healthy and CHC livers. No biased TCR repertoire, in terms of preferential BV or BJ gene use or restricted CDR3 sequence, was observed in infected livers. When corrected for equivalent numbers of T lymphocytes, BJ segments utilization and CDR3 length diversity were similar in IHL and PBMC, indicating that the TCRbeta chain diversity is comparable in both cases. In addition, TCR diversity was similar in both peripheral and intra-hepatic CD8+ T cells. CONCLUSIONS This study shows limited expansions of intra-hepatic T lymphocytes in CHC patients. The increase of T lymphocytes in infected livers correlates with diversification of TCR, arguing for the establishment of a multi-specific immune response.
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- Ines Vigan
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA-Grenoble, DBMS/ICH, INSERM U548, UJF Grenoble I, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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Firouzi R, Rolland A, Michel M, Jouvin-Marche E, Hauw JJ, Malcus-Vocanson C, Lazarini F, Gebuhrer L, Seigneurin JM, Touraine JL, Sanhadji K, Marche PN, Perron H. Multiple sclerosis-associated retrovirus particles cause T lymphocyte-dependent death with brain hemorrhage in humanized SCID mice model. J Neurovirol 2003; 9:79-93. [PMID: 12587071 DOI: 10.1080/13550280390173328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2002] [Revised: 08/26/2002] [Accepted: 09/11/2002] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A retroviral element (multiple sclerosis-associated retrovirus, MSRV) defining a family of genetically inherited endogenous retroviruses (human endogenous retrovirus type W, HERV-W) has been characterized in cell cultures from patients with multiple sclerosis. Recently, MSRV retroviral particles or the envelope recombinant protein were shown to display superantigen activity in vitro, but no animal model has yet been set up for studying the pathogenicity of this retrovirus. In the present study, the pathogenicity of different sources of MSRV retroviral particles has been evaluated in a hybrid animal model: severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice grafted with human lymphocytes and injected intraperitoneally with MSRV virion or mock controls. MSRV-injected mice presented with acute neurological symptoms and died within 5 to 10 days post injection. Necropsy revealed disseminated and major brain hemorrhages, whereas control animals did not show abnormalities (P <.001). In ill animals, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analyses showed circulating MSRV RNA in serum, whereas overexpression of proinflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon (IFN)-gamma was evidenced in spleen RNA. Neuropathological examination confirmed that hemorrhages occurred prior to death in multifocal areas of brain parenchyma and meninges. Further series addressed the question of immune-mediated pathogenicity, by inoculating virion to SCID mice grafted with total and T lymphocyte-depleted cells in parallel: dramatic and statistically significant reduction in the number of affected mice was observed in T-depleted series (P <.001). This in vivo study suggests that MSRV retroviral particles from MS cultures have potent immunopathogenic properties mediated by T cells compatible with the previously reported superantigen activity in vitro, which appear to be mediated by an overexpression of proinflammatory cytokines.
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- R Firouzi
- Laboratoire des déficits Immunitaires, Faculté de Médecine Laënnec, Lyon, France
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Pernollet M, Jouvin-Marche E, Leroy V, Vigan I, Zarski JP, Marche PN. Simultaneous evaluation of lymphocyte subpopulations in the liver and in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of HCV-infected patients: relationship with histological lesions. Clin Exp Immunol 2002; 130:518-25. [PMID: 12452844 PMCID: PMC1906563 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2002.01996.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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ABBREVIATIONS Intrahepatic lymphocytes are believed to be involved in the immunopathogenesis of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and the evolution of HCV-induced hepatitis. In the present study, we examined the three main intrahepatic lymphocyte subsets, namely CD3+CD56- conventional T lymphocytes, CD3+CD56+ natural T (NT) lymphocytes and CD3-CD56+ natural killer (NK) lymphocytes in HCV-infected patients. The proportion of each lymphocyte subset was evaluated both in liver biopsies and in samples of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) by flow cytometry in 21 patients with histologically proven chronic hepatitis C. Simultaneously, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, viral load and histological lesions were assessed. Neither NT nor NK populations correlated with any biochemical, viral or histological parameters. Furthermore, Valpha24+ NT lymphocytes showed no preferential enrichment in the liver of HCV-infected patients. Regarding conventional T lymphocytes, a highly significant linear correlation was found between intrahepatic CD3+CD56- T lymphocytes and the Knodell score, a numerical score for assessing histological activity and fibrosis (r = 0.715, P < 0.0001) and more specifically with the periportal necrosis parameter, which is the main lesion of chronic hepatitis C. In addition, analysis of the peripheral compartment revealed a high correlation between values of CD3+CD56- lymphocytes and both Knodell score (r = 0.624, P = 0.003) and serum ALT levels and again with periportal necrosis. The strong correlation between the proportion of peripheral CD3+CD56- conventional T lymphocytes and the severity of hepatic lesions leads us to propose that evaluation of this accessible peripheral population could be used as an indicator test for the severity of histological lesions in chronic hepatitis C.
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- M Pernollet
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, CEA/DBMS/ICH, INSERM U548, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Pasqual N, Gallagher M, Aude-Garcia C, Loiodice M, Thuderoz F, Demongeot J, Ceredig R, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Quantitative and qualitative changes in V-J alpha rearrangements during mouse thymocytes differentiation: implication for a limited T cell receptor alpha chain repertoire. J Exp Med 2002; 196:1163-73. [PMID: 12417627 PMCID: PMC2194109 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Knowledge of the complete nucleotide sequence of the mouse TCRAD locus allows an accurate determination V-J rearrangement status. Using multiplex genomic PCR assays and real time PCR analysis, we report a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the V-J recombination of TCR alpha chain in normal mouse thymocytes during development. These respective qualitative and quantitative approaches give rise to four major points describing the control of gene rearrangements. (a) The V-J recombination pattern is not random during ontogeny and generates a limited TCR alpha repertoire; (b) V-J rearrangement control is intrinsic to the thymus; (c) each V gene rearranges to a set of contiguous J segments with a gaussian-like frequency; (d) there are more rearrangements involving V genes at the 3' side than 5' end of V region. Taken together, this reflects a preferential association of V and J gene segments according to their respective positions in the locus, indicating that accessibility of both V and J regions is coordinately regulated, but in different ways. These results provide a new insight into TCR alpha repertoire size and suggest a scenario for V usage during differentiation.
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- Nicolas Pasqual
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 548, Université Joseph Fourier, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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Brenier-Pinchart MP, Vigan I, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN, Pelet E, Gross U, Ambroise-Thomas P, Pelloux H. Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 secretion and expression after Toxoplasma gondii infection in vitro depend on the stage of the parasite. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2002; 214:45-9. [PMID: 12204371 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2002.tb11323.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Infection of human fibroblasts with tachyzoites of RH and Prugniaud strains, two different strains of Toxoplasma gondii, significantly increased monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-1 secretion contrary to what happened with bradyzoites of the cystogenetic strain. Quantification of MCP-1 mRNA by RT-PCR showed that this phenomenon is regulated at the transcriptional level. Thus, the stage of parasite can be deciding in MCP-1 induction since only tachyzoites induced MCP-1 expression and secretion. MCP-1 induced by tachyzoites could be involved in cell recruitment, as shown by the quantification of MCP1 ARNm by real-time PCR (LightCycler, Roche Diagnostics), in the pathogenesis of T. gondii infection.
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- Marie-Pierre Brenier-Pinchart
- Interactions Cellulaires Parasite-Hôte, EA UJF 2940, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, La Tronche, 38000 Grenoble, France.
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Garban F, Gallagher M, Jouvin-Marche E, Jacob MC, Moine A, Marche PN, Sotto JJ. Immunotherapy by non-myeloablative stem cell transplantation: study of the immune reconstitution. Arguments for distinct cell subsets in skin and blood. Hematol J 2002; 1:274-81. [PMID: 11920202 DOI: 10.1038/sj.thj.6200044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/1999] [Accepted: 03/14/2000] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Non-myeloablative peripheral stem cell transplantation has been shown to induce tumour rejection in patients with acute leukaemia. However, the immunological mechanisms involved and the immune reconstitution achieved have not been investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS We describe the cases of two patients for whom we have studied the lymphocyte reconstitution achieved, using both phenotypic and genetic analyses of the T-cell repertoire, after peripheral stem cell transplantation. RESULTS : In both cases we observed immune reconstitution with T-cell repertoire evolution and presence of activated CD8(+) T cells. In one of the patients an activated clone expressing Vbeta8 represents 46% of the CD8(+) cells. Expansion of this clone occurred in the absence of graft vs host disease symptoms. In the second case a skin lesion typical of graft vs host disease appeared after complete remission had been achieved. The T-cell repertoire in a biopsy of the lesion was distinct from that observed in the blood. CONCLUSION Our study indicates that peripheral donor cells can effectively reconstitute a grafted patient while inducing an immune response against antigens expressed by the leukaemic/myeloma cells. Our data provide arguments for different populations of T cells associated with graft vs leukaemia/lymphoma and GVH effects.
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- F Garban
- Department of Haematology, CHU de Grenoble, 38043 Grenoble cedex 9, France.
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Derouich-Guergour D, Aldebert D, Vigan I, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN, Aubert D, Ambroise-Thomas P, Pelloux H. Toxoplasma gondii infection can regulate the expression of tumour necrosis factor-alpha receptors on human cells in vitro. Parasite Immunol 2002; 24:271-9. [PMID: 12060321 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.2002.00462.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The in vitro regulation of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha receptors during Toxoplasma gondii infection of human MRC5 fibroblasts and human myelomonocytic THP-1 cells was investigated. Cells were infected with the virulent RH of T. gondii. TNFR membrane receptors were analysed by flow cytometry with biotinylated TNF-alpha. Shedding of the soluble form of TNFR1 and TNFR2 in cell culture supernatants was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and expression of mRNA production of TNFR1 and TNFR2 was analysed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, 1 h after infection. In the MRC5 cell line, T. gondii infection did not induce any up- or down-regulation of membrane TNFRs, soluble TNFRs or mRNA of TNFRs. However, THP-1 cell infection with living parasites induced a significant soluble TNFR1 release by THP-1 cells after 1 h. We detected an approximately 50% up-regulation (P < 0.01) of soluble TNFR1 in infected THP-1 cells compared to controls. No change in soluble TNFR2 levels was observed in the same conditions. Moreover, infection decreased the level of TNF membrane receptors, but had no effect on TNFR1 and TNFR2 mRNA levels. TNFR modulation by T. gondii infection, in vitro, depends on the cell type. Furthermore, our data suggest that living parasites control the shedding of the soluble form of TNFR1. This mechanism may influence the role of TNF-alpha in toxoplasmosis.
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- Dorra Derouich-Guergour
- Interactions Cellulaiers Parasite-Hôte (EA.UJF 2940), Faculté de Médecine, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France.
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Mancini SJ, Candéias SM, Di Santo JP, Ferrier P, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. TCRA gene rearrangement in immature thymocytes in absence of CD3, pre-TCR, and TCR signaling. J Immunol 2001; 167:4485-93. [PMID: 11591775 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.8.4485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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During thymocyte differentiation, TCRA genes are massively rearranged only after productively rearranged TCRB genes are expressed in association with pTalpha and CD3 complex molecules within a pre-TCR. Signaling from the pre-TCR via the CD3 complex is thought to be required to promote TCRA gene accessibility and recombination. However, alphabeta(+) thymocytes do develop in pTalpha-deficient mice, showing that TCRalpha-chain genes are rearranged, either in CD4(-)CD8(-) or CD4(+)CD8(+) thymocytes, in the absence of pre-TCR expression. In this study, we analyzed the TCRA gene recombination status of early immature thymocytes in mutant mice with arrested thymocyte development, deficient for either CD3 or pTalpha and gammac expression. ADV genes belonging to different families were found rearranged to multiple AJ segments in both cases. Thus, TCRA gene rearrangement is independent of CD3 and gammac signaling. However, CD3 expression was found to play a role in transcription of rearranged TCRalpha-chain genes in CD4(-)CD8(-) thymocytes. Taken together, these results provide new insights into the molecular control of early T cell differentiation.
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- S J Mancini
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U548, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Perron H, Jouvin-Marche E, Michel M, Ounanian-Paraz A, Camelo S, Dumon A, Jolivet-Reynaud C, Marcel F, Souillet Y, Borel E, Gebuhrer L, Santoro L, Marcel S, Seigneurin JM, Marche PN, Lafon M. Multiple sclerosis retrovirus particles and recombinant envelope trigger an abnormal immune response in vitro, by inducing polyclonal Vbeta16 T-lymphocyte activation. Virology 2001; 287:321-32. [PMID: 11531410 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A retroviral element (MSRV) defining a family of genetically inherited endogenous retroviruses (HERV-W) has recently been characterized in cell cultures from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). To address the possible relationship with MS, direct detection of circulating virion RNA was proposed but revealed technically difficult to perform in standardized conditions, in the face of multiple endogenous HERV-W copies. A parallel approach has evaluated MSRV potential pathogenicity in relation to characteristic features of multiple sclerosis, in particular, T-lymphocyte-mediated immunopathology. We report here that MSRV particles induce T-lymphocyte response with a bias in the Vbeta16 chain usage in surface receptor, whatever the HLA DR of the donor. A recombinant MSRV envelope-but not core-protein reproduced similar nonconventional activation. Molecular analysis of Vbeta CDR3 showed that Vbeta16 expansions are polyclonal. Our results thus provide evidence that MSRV envelope protein can trigger an abnormal immune response with similar characteristics to that of superantigens.
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- H Perron
- BioMérieux-Pierre Fabre, R&D, Chemin de L'Orme, Marcy L'Etoile, 69280, France.
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TCRalpha and TCRdelta chains are coded by a common genetic locus using a single set of V gene segments (ADV segments). This article addresses the question of regulation of the use of the ADV segments by the TCRalpha and TCRdelta chains. Using both qualitative and quantitative analyses we have studied the use of 23 ADV gene families as part of TCRalpha and TCRdelta transcripts. A number of previously undetected rearrangement and transcription events are described, indicating that the intrathymic TCRdelta repertoire is much more diverse than previously supposed. Repertoire analysis at several developmental time points allowed the description of regulated waves of ADV gene use, not only for TCRdelta chains, but also for TCRalpha chains, during thymic ontogeny. Control of these waves appears to be linked directly to the ADV segments and their local chromatin environment, which may change over the course of T cell differentiation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Gene Frequency/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, delta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Multigene Family/immunology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/isolation & purification
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/isolation & purification
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic/immunology
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- M Gallagher
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médical, Unité 548, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Aude-Garcia C, Gallagher M, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Preferential ADV-AJ association during recombination in the mouse T-cell receptor alpha/delta locus. Immunogenetics 2001; 52:224-30. [PMID: 11220624 DOI: 10.1007/s002510000266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The gene coding for a T-cell receptor (TCR) alpha chain is assembled from variable (ADV) and joining (AJ) genes located on Chromosome 14. Each of the 90 ADV genes can rearrange with any one of the 61 AJ genes. We have previously demonstrated that ADV and AJ gene segment use evolves with time, with a progressive opening of ADV and AJ regions of the locus. To define the rules governing the use of AJ genes by ADV genes belonging to one family, we carried out a detailed analysis of 268 combinations of ADV2 BALB/c transcripts. We found that the different ADV2 members use different sets of AJ genes depending on their location within the ADV locus: ADV2S7 (the most AJ proximal ADV2 member) rearranges mainly with the AJ genes located close to the TEA element, whereas 50% of the sequences for ADV2S8, which is distal to the AJ locus, use the most distal AJ genes. ADV2S5, an ADV2 member located in the middle of the ADV locus, is associated with a wider set of AJ genes, located in the center of the AJ locus. Taken together, our results indicate that, in addition to the progressive opening of the ADV and AJ loci, the chromosomal location of ADV and AJ genes is a factor affecting AJ use in BALB/c mice.
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- C Aude-Garcia
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, INSERM U238, Université J Fourier, Grenoble, France.
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Aude-Garcia C, Attinger A, Housset D, MacDonald HR, Acha-Orbea H, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Pairing of Vbeta6 with certain Valpha2 family members prevents T cell deletion by Mtv-7 superantigen. Mol Immunol 2000; 37:1005-12. [PMID: 11395139 DOI: 10.1016/s0161-5890(00)00106-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Superantigens (SAg) are proteins of bacterial or viral origin able to activate T cells by forming a trimolecular complex with both MHC class II molecules and the T cell receptor (TCR), leading to clonal deletion of reactive T cells in the thymus. SAg interact with the TCR through the beta chain variable region (Vbeta), but the TCR alpha chain has been shown to have an influence on the T cell reactivity. We have investigated here the role of the TCR alpha chain in the modulation of T cell reactivity to Mtv-7 SAg by comparing the peripheral usage of Valpha2 in Vbeta6(+) (SAg-reactive) and Vbeta8.2(+) (SAg non-reactive) T cells, in either BALB/D2 (Mtv-7(+)) or BALB/c (Mtv-7(-)) mice. The results show, first, that pairing of Vbeta6 with certain Valpha2 family members prevents T cell deletion by Mtv-7 SAg. Second, there is a strikingly different distribution of the Valpha2 family members in CD4 and CD8 populations of Vbeta6 but not of Vbeta8.2 T cells, irrespective of the presence of Mtv-7 SAg. Third, the alpha chain may play a role in the overall stability of the TCR/SAg/MHC complex. Taken together, these results suggest that the Valpha domain contributes to the selective process by its role in the TCR reactivity to SAg/MHC class II complexes, most likely by influencing the orientation of the Vbeta domain in the TCR alphabeta heterodimer.
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- C Aude-Garcia
- CEA-Grenoble, DBMS/Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, INSERM U238, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Cedex 9, Grenoble, France.
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Mancini S, Candéias SM, Fehling HJ, von Boehmer H, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN. TCR alpha-chain repertoire in pTalpha-deficient mice is diverse and developmentally regulated: implications for pre-TCR functions and TCRA gene rearrangement. J Immunol 1999; 163:6053-9. [PMID: 10570293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Pre-TCR expression on developing thymocytes allows cells with productive TCRB gene rearrangements to further differentiate. In wild-type mice, most TCRA gene rearrangements are initiated after pre-TCR expression. However, in pTalpha-deficient mice, a substantial number of alphabeta+ thymocytes are still produced, in part because early TCR alpha-chain expression can rescue immature thymocytes from cell death. In this study, the nature of these TCR alpha-chains, produced and expressed in the absence of pre-TCR expression, have been analyzed. We show, by FACS analysis and sequencing of rearranged transcripts, that the TCRA repertoire is diverse in pTalpha-/- mice and that the developmental regulation of AJ segment use is maintained, yet slightly delayed around birth when compared with wild-type mice. We also found that T cell differentiation is more affected by pTalpha inactivation during late gestation than later in life. These data suggest that the pre-TCR is not functionally required for the initiation and regulation of TCRA gene rearrangement and that fetal thymocytes are more dependent than adult cells on pTalpha-derived signals for their differentiation.
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- S Mancini
- Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 238, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Mancini S, Candéias SM, Fehling HJ, von Boehmer H, Jouvin-Marche E, Marche PN. TCR α-Chain Repertoire in pTα-Deficient Mice Is Diverse and Developmentally Regulated: Implications for Pre-TCR Functions and TCRA Gene Rearrangement. The Journal of Immunology 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.11.6053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Pre-TCR expression on developing thymocytes allows cells with productive TCRB gene rearrangements to further differentiate. In wild-type mice, most TCRA gene rearrangements are initiated after pre-TCR expression. However, in pTα-deficient mice, a substantial number of αβ+ thymocytes are still produced, in part because early TCR α-chain expression can rescue immature thymocytes from cell death. In this study, the nature of these TCR α-chains, produced and expressed in the absence of pre-TCR expression, have been analyzed. We show, by FACS analysis and sequencing of rearranged transcripts, that the TCRA repertoire is diverse in pTα−/− mice and that the developmental regulation of AJ segment use is maintained, yet slightly delayed around birth when compared with wild-type mice. We also found that T cell differentiation is more affected by pTα inactivation during late gestation than later in life. These data suggest that the pre-TCR is not functionally required for the initiation and regulation of TCRA gene rearrangement and that fetal thymocytes are more dependent than adult cells on pTα-derived signals for their differentiation.
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- Stéphane Mancini
- *Laboratoire d’Immunochimie, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 238, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- *Laboratoire d’Immunochimie, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 238, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- ‡Institut Necker, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 373, Paris, France
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- *Laboratoire d’Immunochimie, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 238, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- *Laboratoire d’Immunochimie, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique-Grenoble, Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 238, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Gallagher M, Candéias S, Martinon C, Borel E, Malissen M, Marche PN, Jouvin-Marche E. Use of TCR ADV gene segments by the delta chain is independent of their position and of CD3 expression. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:3878-85. [PMID: 9842931 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199811)28:11<3878::aid-immu3878>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The CD3 signaling complex is required for cell surface expression and selection of both alphabeta and gammadelta TCR. In this study we analyzed TCRD transcripts in both wild-type and CD3-epsilon-deficient mice. We show that the repertoire of ADV segments used by the delta chain is unchanged in the latter. Not all ADV genes participate in making up the TCRD repertoire. However, their use does not depend on their distance from the other TCRD-forming segments. For example ADV12, situated at more than 870 kb from the DD region, is expressed as part of TCRD transcripts, whereas ADV8, members of which are proximal to the DD region, is not. These data suggest that the accessibility of ADV8 gene segments is differentially regulated during T cell development in the thymus. Taken together, our results suggest that TCRA and TCRD rearrangements are independently controlled, and that the absence of TCRA expression in CD3-epsilon-deficient mice is not due to a lack of accessibility of the ADV gene segments but rather to inaccessibility of the AJ gene region.
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- M Gallagher
- CEA-Grenoble, Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, INSERM U 238, Université Joseph Fourier, DBMS, France
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Jouvin-Marche E, Aude-Garcia C, Candéias S, Borel E, Hachemi-Rachedi S, Gahéry-Ségard H, Cazenave PA, Marche PN. Differential chronology of TCRADV2 gene use by alpha and delta chains of the mouse TCR. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:818-27. [PMID: 9541576 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199803)28:03<818::aid-immu818>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The genes coding for TCR alpha and delta chains share the same genetic locus (TCRA/D). The rules governing the utilization of a V gene with the alpha and delta chains have not been established. More specifically, it is not known whether the position of a gene within the locus influences its utilization in alpha and delta TCR. To elucidate these points, we mapped ADV2 genes in the TCRA/D locus of BALB/c mice and analyzed their utilization in TCR alpha and delta transcripts from thymi isolated from mice of different ages. Our results show that all ADV2 genes can be used by the two chains, but with strikingly different patterns. Moreover, ADV2 utilization by the alpha chain proceeds in successive concentric waves during development, suggesting a progressive regulation of gene accessibility and utilization. These results support independent control of TCRA and TCRD gene assembly.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Gene Rearrangement, delta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor alpha/genetics
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor delta/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic
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Affiliation(s)
- E Jouvin-Marche
- CEA-Grenoble, Laboratoire d'Immunochimie, INSERM U 238, DBMS, Grenoble, France.
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