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Autoimmune-mediated Intestinal Inflammation-impact and Regulation of Antigen-specific CD8+ T Cells (2006)

Art

Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag

Autoren

Westendorf, Astrid Maria

Fleissner, Diana

Deppenmeier, Stefanie

Gruber, Achim Dieter

Bruder, Dunja

Hansen, Wiebke

Liblau, Roland

Buer, Jan

Quelle

Gastroenterology

Bandzählung: 131

Heftzählung: 2

Seiten: 510 – 524

ISSN: 0016-5085

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

Pubmed: 16890605

Kontakt

Institut für Tierpathologie

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14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62450
pathologie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

Few data exist regarding mechanisms of mucosal CD8+ T-cell reactivity to epithelial-specific antigen. To dissect the immunologic mechanisms underlying CD8+ T-cell dysregulation, reactivity to a self-antigen expressed in intestinal epithelium of mice bearing a major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted T-cell receptor specific for this antigen was studied. In addition, antigen-specific regulatory CD4+ T cells induced in vivo were tested to control these autoreactive CD8+ T cells.

Transgenic VILLIN-HA mice were mated with CL4-TCR transgenic mice. Alternatively, adoptive transfer of CL4-TCR transgenic CD8+ T cells into VILLIN-HA transgenic mice was performed to mimic spontaneous encounter of neoantigen. Mucosal CD8+ T cells were characterized under different conditions of tolerance, immunopathology, and active immunosuppression.

Transgenic CD8+ T cells from VILLIN-HA x CL4-TCR transgenic mice preferentially migrated and expanded in mucosal lymphoid tissues. Although transgenic CD8+ T cells showed signs of T-cell activation, they failed to cause tissue damage. This was accompanied by the induction/expansion of CD4+ and CD8+, Foxp3-expressing T cells. In contrast, adoptive transfer of naive transgenic CD8+ T cells from CL4-TCR transgenic mice into VILLIN-HA transgenic mice induced severe intestinal inflammation with poor clinical course of disease. Transgenic CD8+ T cells secreted vigorous amounts of proinflammatory cytokines like interferon gamma/tumor necrosis factor alpha. Strikingly, this acute wasting disease was significantly ameliorated by cotransfer of antigen-specific regulatory CD4+ T cells.

Epithelial-specific antigen expression is sufficient to trigger severe antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell-mediated intestinal inflammation; this might be controlled by antigen-specific regulatory T cells under physiological conditions.