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McDevitt HO. The role of MHC class II molecules in susceptibility and resistance to autoimmunity. Curr Opin Immunol 1998; 10:677-81. [PMID: 9914229 DOI: 10.1016/s0952-7915(98)80088-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The mechanism by which particular MHC class II alleles mediate susceptibility to a given autoimmune disease is unknown. During the past year, reports have indicated that the effects of MHC class II alleles which protect against type I diabetes in the nonobese diabetic mouse strain may, in some cases, be due to negative selection of diabetogenic T cell receptors and, in other cases, to positive selection of other T cells with a suppressive action on the diabetic process. Progress towards understanding the mechanisms of susceptibility continues to lag.
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- H O McDevitt
- Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford CA 94305-5402 USA.
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Brenden N, Böhme J. Disease-protected major histocompatibility complex Ea-transgenic non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice show interleukin-4 production not seen in susceptible Ea-transgenic and non-transgenic NOD mice. Immunology 1998; 95:1-7. [PMID: 9767450 PMCID: PMC1364369 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00580.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse is an animal model for insulin-dependent diabetes that has many similarities to the human disease. NOD mice transgenic for the Ea gene, allowing expression of the E molecule, are protected from diabetes and rarely develop insulitis. An Ea transgene mutated in the promoter region, (DeltaY) lacks E expression on most B cells, thymic medullary epithelium and primary antigen-presenting cells, and confers no protection whatsoever. We have used these transgenic NOD mice, together with non-transgenic NOD mice, to study the correlation of E expression and production of interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). We show that protected E-transgenic NOD mice have elevated levels of IL-4 compared with non-transgenic mice, both in the thymus and in the periphery. However, susceptible DeltaY-transgenic mice have elevated thymic IL-4 levels, but express almost as little IL-4 as non-transgenic NOD mice in the periphery. This drop in peripheral IL-4 production seen in DeltaY-transgenic mice thus correlates with the decreased E expression in the periphery of DeltaY-transgenic NOD mice. In contrast, there were no differences in IFN-gamma production between the three NOD lines. We suggest that Ea-transgenic NOD mice have E-selected regulatory T cells producing IL-4, which are subsequently activated by E-expressing primary antigen-presenting cells in the periphery. This activation would then be instrumental for the E-mediated protection from disease in NOD mice. Such a process would explain the total absence of protection in DeltaY-transgenic NOD mice, despite their widespread E expression.
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- N Brenden
- Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Type 1 diabetes (IDDM) is a T cell mediated autoimmune disease which in part is determined genetically by its association with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II alleles. The major role of MHC molecules is the regulation of immune responses through the presentation of peptide epitopes of processed protein antigens to the immune system. Recently it has been demonstrated that MHC molecules associated with autoimmune diseases preferentially present peptides of other endogenous MHC proteins, that often mimic autoantigen-derived peptides. Hence, these MHC-derived peptides might represent potential targets for autoreactive T cells. It has consistently been shown that humoral autoimmunity to insulin predominantly occurs in early childhood. The cellular immune response to insulin is relatively low in the peripheral blood of patients with IDDM. Studies in NOD mice however have shown, that lymphocytes isolated from pancreatic islet infiltrates display a high reactivity to insulin and in particular to an insulin peptide B 9-23. Furthermore we have evidence that cellular autoimmunity to insulin is higher in young pre-diabetic individuals, whereas cellular reactivity to other autoantigens is equally distributed in younger and older subjects. This implicates that insulin, in human childhood IDDM and animal autoimmune diabetes, acts as an important early antigen which may target the autoimmune response to pancreatic beta cells. Moreover, we observed that in the vast majority of newly diagnosed diabetic patients or individuals at risk for IDDM, T cell reactivity to various autoantigens occurs simultaneously. In contrast, cellular reactivity to a single autoantigen is found with equal frequency in (pre)-type 1 diabetic individuals as well as in control subjects. Therefore the autoimmune response in the inductive phase of IDDM may be targeted to pancreatic islets by the cellular and humoral reactivity to one beta-cell specific autoantigen, but spreading to a set of different antigens may be a prerequisite for progression to destructive insulitis and clinical disease. Due to mimic epitopes shared by autoantigen(s), autologous MHC molecules and environmental antigens autoimmunity may spread, intramolecularly and intermolecularly and amplify upon repeated reexposure to mimic epitopes of environmental triggers.
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- I Durinovic-Belló
- Diabetes Research Institute of the Academic Hospital München-Schwabing, Munich, Germany.
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Considerable evidence suggests that the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a strong genetic basis. Recent studies have emphasized that this disease, like other autoimmune diseases, is a complex genetic trait with contributions from major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes and multiple non-MHC genes. Etiologic genes in these disorders determine susceptibility, and no particular gene is necessary or sufficient for disease expression. Studies of murine models of lupus have provided important insight into the immunopathogenesis of IgG autoantibody production and lupus nephritis, and genetic analyses of these mice overcome certain obstacles encountered when studying patients. Genome-wide linkage studies of different crosses have mapped the position of at least 12 non-MHC disease-susceptibility loci in the New Zealand hybrid model of lupus. Although the identity of the actual genes is currently unknown, recent studies have begun to characterize how these genetic contributions may function in the autoimmune process, especially in terms of their role in autoantibody production. Studies of MHC gene contributions in New Zealand mice have shown that heterozygosity for particular haplotypes greatly increases pathogenic autoantibody production and the incidence of severe nephritis. The mechanism for this effect appears to be genetically complex. Studies in human SLE have mostly focused on the association of disease with alleles of immunologically relevant genes, especially in the MHC. Associations with various complement component deficiencies and an allele of a particular Fc gamma receptor gene (FCGR2A) also have been described. In a diversion from previous association studies, a recent directed linkage analysis of sibpairs with SLE was based on mapping studies in murine lupus and may be an important step toward identifying a new disease-susceptibility gene in patients. Since the genes that predispose to autoimmunity are probably related to key events in pathogenesis, their identification in patients and murine models will almost certainly provide important insight into the breakdown of immunological self-tolerance and the cause of autoimmune disease.
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- T J Vyse
- Division of Basic Sciences, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado 80206, USA
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Vyse TJ, Rozzo SJ, Drake CG, Appel VB, Lemeur M, Izui S, Palmer E, Kotzin BL. Contributions of Ea
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z MHC Genes to Lupus Susceptibility in New Zealand Mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.6.2757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Unlike parental New Zealand Black (NZB) or New Zealand White (NZW) mice, (NZB × NZW)F1 mice exhibit a lupus-like disease characterized by IgG autoantibody production and severe immune complex-mediated nephritis. In studies of the genetic susceptibility to disease in this F1 model, the NZW MHC (H2z) has been strongly linked with the development of disease, and it was hypothesized that class II MHC genes, particularly Ez genes, may underlie this genetic contribution. In the present study, we bred transgenic B6 mice expressing I-Ez or congenic B6 mice carrying H2z with NZB mice and used a backcross analysis to test the hypothesis that Eaz and/or Ebz genes account for the effect of H2z on disease. The genetic analysis of different backcross combinations showed that unlike mice carrying H2z, mice inheriting Ez transgenes do not demonstrate increased IgG autoantibody production or increased incidence of nephritis. Surprisingly, in the same transgenic backcross mice, inheritance of the endogenous H2b from the B6 strain was strongly linked with the production of IgG autoantibodies, but not with disease. Additional experiments suggested that the level of IgG3 autoantibody production, which is controlled by H2, may be important in the pathogenesis of renal disease. Contributions to autoantibody production were also detected from an NZB locus on distal chromosome 1 (previously named Nba2). Together, these studies provide new insight into the role of MHC in lupus-like autoimmunity.
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- Timothy J. Vyse
- *Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206
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- *Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206
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- *Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206
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- *Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206
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- †Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Louis Pasteur, C.U. de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- ‡Department of Pathology, Centre Médical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
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- §Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland; and
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- *Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206
- ¶Departments of Medicine and Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262
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Lühder F, Katz J, Benoist C, Mathis D. Major histocompatibility complex class II molecules can protect from diabetes by positively selecting T cells with additional specificities. J Exp Med 1998; 187:379-87. [PMID: 9449718 PMCID: PMC2212118 DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.3.379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Insulin-dependent diabetes is heavily influenced by genes encoded within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), positively by some class II alleles and negatively by others. We have explored the mechanism of MHC class II-mediated protection from diabetes using a mouse model carrying the rearranged T cell receptor (TCR) transgenes from a diabetogenic T cell clone derived from a nonobese diabetic mouse. BDC2.5 TCR transgenics with C57Bl/6 background genes and two doses of the H-2(g7) allele exhibited strong insulitis at approximately 3 wk of age and most developed diabetes a few weeks later. When one of the H-2(g7) alleles was replaced by H-2(b), insulitis was still severe and only slightly delayed, but diabetes was markedly inhibited in both its penetrance and time of onset. The protective effect was mediated by the Abetab gene, and did not merely reflect haplozygosity of the Abetag7 gene. The only differences we observed in the T cell compartments of g7/g7 and g7/b mice were a decrease in CD4(+) cells displaying the transgene-encoded TCR and an increase in cells expressing endogenously encoded TCR alpha-chains. When the synthesis of endogenously encoded alpha-chains was prevented, the g7/b animals were no longer protected from diabetes. g7/b mice did not have a general defect in the production of Ag7-restricted T cells, and antigen-presenting cells from g7/b animals were as effective as those from g7/g7 mice in stimulating Ag7-restricted T cell hybridomas. These results argue against mechanisms of protection involving clonal deletion or anergization of diabetogenic T cells, or one depending on capture of potentially pathogenic Ag7-restricted epitopes by Ab molecules. Rather, they support a mechanism based on MHC class II-mediated positive selection of T cells expressing additional specificities.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genes, MHC Class II/genetics
- Genes, MHC Class II/immunology
- Haplotypes/genetics
- Hemocyanins/immunology
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Interleukin-2/metabolism
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, Transgenic
- Muramidase/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Transgenes/genetics
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- F Lühder
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale/Université Louis Pasteur, 67404 Illkirch, Strasbourg, France
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Lühder F, Höglund P, Allison JP, Benoist C, Mathis D. Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) regulates the unfolding of autoimmune diabetes. J Exp Med 1998; 187:427-32. [PMID: 9449722 PMCID: PMC2212113 DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.3.427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/1997] [Revised: 11/03/1997] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Evidence has been accumulating that shows that insulin-dependent diabetes is subject to immunoregulation. To determine whether cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) is involved, we injected anti-CTLA-4 mAb into a TCR transgenic model of diabetes at different stages of disease. When injected into young mice, months before they would normally become diabetic, anti-CTLA-4 induced diabetes rapidly and essentially universally; this was not the result of a global activation of T lymphocytes, but did reflect a much more aggressive T cell infiltrate in the pancreatic islets. These effects were only observed if anti-CTLA-4 was injected during a narrow time window, before the initiation of insulitis. Thus, engagement of CTLA-4 at the time when potentially diabetogenic T cells are first activated is a pivotal event; if engagement is permitted, invasion of the islets occurs, but remains quite innocuous for months, if not, insulitis is much more aggressive, and diabetes quickly ensues.
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- F Lühder
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP), 1 rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch, Communanté Urbain de Strasbourg, France
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Schmidt D, Verdaguer J, Averill N, Santamaria P. A mechanism for the major histocompatibility complex-linked resistance to autoimmunity. J Exp Med 1997; 186:1059-75. [PMID: 9314555 PMCID: PMC2199069 DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.7.1059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Certain major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II haplotypes encode elements providing either susceptibility or dominant resistance to the development of spontaneous autoimmune diseases via mechanisms that remain undefined. Here we show that a pancreatic beta cell-reactive, I-Ag7-restricted, transgenic TCR that is highly diabetogenic in nonobese diabetic mice (H-2(g7)) undergoes thymocyte negative selection in diabetes-resistant H-2(g7/b), H-2(g7/k), H-2(g7/q), and H-2(g7/nb1) NOD mice by engaging antidiabetogenic MHC class II molecules on thymic bone marrow-derived cells, independently of endogenous superantigens. Thymocyte deletion is complete in the presence of I-Ab, I-Ak + I-Ek or I-Anb1 + I-Enb1 molecules, partial in the presence of I-Aq or I-Ak molecules alone, and absent in the presence of I-As molecules. Mice that delete the transgenic TCR develop variable degrees of insulitis that correlate with the extent of thymocyte deletion, but are invariably resistant to diabetes development. These results provide an explanation as to how protective MHC class II genes carried on one haplotype can override the genetic susceptibility to an autoimmune disease provided by allelic MHC class II genes carried on a second haplotype.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Autoimmune Diseases/genetics
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Bone Marrow/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Disease Susceptibility
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes, MHC Class II
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- Haplotypes/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology
- Immunity, Innate
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
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- D Schmidt
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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Wilson SS, DeLuca D. NOD fetal thymus organ culture: an in vitro model for the development of T cells involved in IDDM. J Autoimmun 1997; 10:461-72. [PMID: 9376074 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1997.0153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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This paper introduces a model which incorporates fetal thymus organ culture (FTOC) from NOD mice to replicate thymic development of diabetogenic T cells. NOD fetal pancreas organ culture (FPOC) co-cultured with 13-16 day NOD FTOC for an additional 14-21 days produced less insulin than FPOC cultured alone. Insulin production from the FTOC of non-diabetic strains C57BL/6 and BALB/c was not inhibited by co-culture with FTOC from their syngeneic counterparts. Sections of the NOD co-cultures showed peri-islet infiltration with lymphocytes. Insulin reduction by FTOC/FP co-culture was prevented by co-culture of the NOD FT with FT from immunologically incompetent C.B-17 SCID/SCID mice. Co-culture of NOD FP with NOD FT prior to the development of T cells prevented generation of diabetogenic FTOC. Thus, early exposure of NOD T cell precursors to the thymic stromal elements of C.B-17 SCID/SCID FT or to islet antigens can negatively select for diabetogenic T cells or activate immuno-regulatory cells that can suppress diabetogenic T cell activity. The addition of blocking F(ab')2 fragments of anti-CD3epsilon monoclonal antibody to NOD FTOC/FP co-cultures prevented insulin reduction, implicating a role for TcR-mediated recognition in this "in vitro IDDM" model. The addition of activating whole anti-CD3epsilon caused the complete ablation of insulin production in FTOC/FP co-cultures from all strains tested. Transfer of unprimed syngeneic FTOC cells to prediabetic NOD mice prevented the onset of IDDM while transfer of islet-cell primed FTOC/FP cells slightly increased disease incidence. These data suggest that while diabetogenic T cells are present in the FT, they are normally suppressed, even after organ culture. However, these cells can induce the destruction of islet cells, in vitro and in vivo, if they are appropriately activated with pancreatic tissue.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Antibodies/pharmacology
- CD3 Complex/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/prevention & control
- Disease Models, Animal
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Female
- Immunoglobulin Fragments/pharmacology
- Insulin/biosynthesis
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, SCID
- Organ Culture Techniques/methods
- Pancreas/cytology
- Pancreas/metabolism
- Pancreas/physiology
- Pregnancy
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/drug effects
- T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Thymus Gland/physiology
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- S S Wilson
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA
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Zechel MA, Chaturvedi P, Singh B. Characterization of immunodominant peptide determinants of IDDM-associated autoantigens in the NOD mouse. RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY 1997; 148:338-48. [PMID: 9352599 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2494(97)87244-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- M A Zechel
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Pilström B, Böhme J. Alleviation of insulitis in NOD mice is associated with expression of transgenic MHC E molecules on primary antigen-presenting cells. Immunol Suppl 1997; 90:483-8. [PMID: 9176099 PMCID: PMC1456693 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II genes are important in the pathogenesis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) both in the mouse and in man. The non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse, which is a good model for human IDDM, has a particular MHC class II with an A complex consisting of A alpha d and the unique A beta g7 chain, as well as an absent E molecule due to a deletion in the Ea promoter region. Transgenic insertion of a functional Ea gene protects against insulitis and diabetes, but when the transgene expression is restricted to certain compartments of the immune system by deleting parts of the promoter region, the protection against insulitis is disrupted. We have analysed three promoter-mutated lines where one lacks expression on B cells and has a reduced expression on approximately 1/3 of the dendritic cells and macrophages (Sma), one lacks thymic cortical expression and has a slightly reduced B-cell expression (delta X), and one lacks expression in the thymic medulla, on macrophages, dendritic cells and about half of the B cells (delta Y). None of these lines is protected against insulitis, but Sma and delta X display a reduced intensity of insulitis, with an average of 10-15% of the islets infiltrated in each mouse, while delta Y resembles non-transgenic mice with 30-35% infiltrated islets. Bone-marrow chimeras between Sma and delta Y mice demonstrate that peripheral cells of Sma origin reduce insulitis significantly when developed in the delta Y host, while insulitis is enhanced when delta Y bone marrow is given to Sma mice. This shows that E expression on the primary antigen-presenting macrophages and dendritic cells is of crucial importance to the alleviation of insulitis.
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- B Pilström
- Department of Immunology, Stockholm University, Sweden.
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Several mechanisms exist to prevent lymphocytes from reacting against self-antigens. As T cells develop in the thymus and express antigen-specific receptors, those with high-affinity to self-antigens existing within the thymus are deleted. Low-affinity self-reactive T cells and T cells with receptors against antigens not represented intrathymically will mature and join the peripheral T cell pool. They may either ignore self-antigens expressed by tissues unable to activate T cells through a lack of the appropriate costimulator signals, or they may, under certain conditions, be deleted or rendered anergic and unable to respond. Likewise, B cells that express surface Ig receptors with high binding affinity to membrane-bound self-antigens present in the bone marrow will be rescued by receptor editing or will be deleted, whereas those of lower affinity will migrate to the periphery in either an anergic or indifferent state depending on the degree of receptor engagement by antigen. Once there, their ultimate fate is determined by the availability of T cell help.
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- J F Miller
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia.
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Vyse TJ, Drake CG, Rozzo SJ, Roper E, Izui S, Kotzin BL. Genetic linkage of IgG autoantibody production in relation to lupus nephritis in New Zealand hybrid mice. J Clin Invest 1996; 98:1762-72. [PMID: 8878426 PMCID: PMC507614 DOI: 10.1172/jci118975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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F1 hybrids of New Zealand black (NZB) and New Zealand white (NZW) mice are a model of human systemic lupus erythematosus. These mice develop a severe immune com-plex-mediated nephritis, in which antinuclear autoantibodies are believed to play the major role. We used a genetic analysis of (NZB x NZW)F1 x NZW backcross mice to provide insight into whether different autoantibodies are subject to separate genetic influences and to determine which autoantibodies are most important in the development of lupus-like nephritis. The results showed one set of loci that coordinately regulated serum levels of IgG antibodies to double-stranded DNA, single-stranded DNA, total histones, and chromatin, which overlapped with loci that were linked to the production of autoantibodies to the viral glycoprotein, gp70. Loci linked with anti-gp70 compared with antinuclear antibodies demonstrated the strongest linkage with renal disease, suggesting that autoantibodies to gp70 are the major pathogenic antibodies in this model of lupus nephritis. Interestingly, a distal chromosome 4 locus, Nba1, was linked with nephritis but not with any of the autoantibodies measured, suggesting that it contributes to renal disease at a checkpoint distal to autoantibody production.
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- T J Vyse
- Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado 80206, USA
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H2-A polymorphism contributes to H2-Eβ-mediated protection in collagen-induced arthritis. Immunogenetics 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02602783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Wang B, Gonzalez A, Benoist C, Mathis D. The role of CD8+ T cells in the initiation of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Eur J Immunol 1996; 26:1762-9. [PMID: 8765018 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830260815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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While it is generally accepted that T cells are critical for the development of diabetes in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse, the precise functions of the CD4+ and CD8+ subsets remain ill-defined. Transfer experiments have provided evidence that CD4+ cells are the disease initiators, provoking massive mononuclear leukocyte infiltration into the pancreatic islets, while CD8+ cells play an effector role, responsible for the final destruction of islet beta cells. It was surprising, then, to find that NOD mice carrying a null mutation at the beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2-mu) locus, and thereby lacking major histocompatibility complex class I molecules and CD8+ T cells, developed neither insulitis nor diabetes. Here, we argue that the absence of insulitis in these animals results from their lack of CD8+ cells because islet infiltration is also absent when NOD mice are treated with an anti-CD8 monoclonal antibody (mAb) at a young age. Interestingly, the anti-CD8 effect is only observed when the mAb is injected during a discrete age window--2 to 5 weeks after birth. Transfer experiments indicate that the lack of CD8+ cells during this period somehow alters the phenotype of CD4+ cells, preventing them from expressing their insulitis potential. This is not because they are generally immuno-incompetent nor because they are generally more prone to differentiating into cells with Th2 characteristics. Given that neither the beta 2-mu mutation nor anti-CD8 treatment affect insulitis in a T cell receptor transgenic (tg) mouse strain with a CD4+ T cell repertoire highly skewed for an anti-islet cell reactivity, the most straight-forward interpretation of these observations is that CD8+ cells are required for effective priming and expansion of autoreactive CD4+ cells.
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- B Wang
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP) Illkirch, C.U. de Strasbourg, France
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Didoli G, Revelli S, Davila H, Ferro ME, Romero-Piffiguer M, Bottasso O. Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the rat: cyclophosphamide-induced recovery of adjuvant arthritis correlates with changes in the levels of lymph node T-lymphocytes and class II+ cells. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY 1996; 18:127-33. [PMID: 8799362 DOI: 10.1016/0192-0561(95)00117-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We have previously reported that treatment with cyclophosphamide (Cy) reversed the partial resistance of chronically Trypanosoma cruzi-infected rats to adjuvant-induced arthritis (AA) and caused a slight enhancement of arthritis in controls, when given 48 h before induction. To ascertain whether this Cy effect could be associated with regional changes of immunocompetent cells, popliteal lymph nodes were studied for their T-cell subsets and cells carrying class II major histocompatibility (MHC) antigens (1-A and 1-E molecules). Analysis at the time of arthritis induction revealed that infected rats receiving Cy 48 h earlier appeared to have recovered from the inverse balance of major T-cell subsets and showed 1-E+ cells lowered to normal, whereas values from control rats remained unchanged by Cy treatment. Establishment of AA was associated with substantial changes in the phenotype of lymph node cells that drained the affected limb. Changes were equally recorded in control and infected arthritic rats, and consisted of a significant raise of CD4+ and I-A+ cells along with lowered numbers of CD8+ and I-E+ cells. Treatment with Cy lowered even further the levels of CD8+ cells, while causing no affectation in the number of CD4+ cells that remained increased as in the arthritic counterparts receiving no Cy. Comparative analysis of class II MHC+ cells in Cy-treated rats revealed an additional decrease of I-E+ cells in draining lymph nodes from infected and control rats, which coincided with a simultaneous increase in I-A+ cells in the uninfected group. It is suggested that a deletion of a regulatory T-cell subset as well as an improved presentation of arthritogenic peptides may at least underlie the Cy-induced enhancement of the arthritic response.
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- G Didoli
- Instituto de Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Saoudi A, Seddon B, Heath V, Fowell D, Mason D. The physiological role of regulatory T cells in the prevention of autoimmunity: the function of the thymus in the generation of the regulatory T cell subset. Immunol Rev 1996; 149:195-216. [PMID: 9005215 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1996.tb00905.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- A Saoudi
- MRC Cellular Immunology Unit, University of Oxford, UK
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Slattery RM, Miller JF. Influence of T lymphocytes and major histocompatibility complex class II genes on diabetes susceptibility in the NOD mouse. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1996; 206:51-66. [PMID: 8608725 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-85208-4_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Central to the autoimmune pathogenesis of IDDM in NOD mice is the MHC class II region. In all models studied to date, expression of NOD MHC class II genes is essential for disease development suggesting a crucial role for I-ANOD-restricted presentation of autoantigen. Protection has been afforded by transgene incorporation of other non-NOD class II genes and many models have been proposed to account for this effect. It is now clear that protection is not achieved by deletion or permanent silencing of all autoreactive T cell clones. It also appears that expression of these genes is required both intra- and extrathymically. It still remains to be determined what role these genes may have in the various compartments and how the autoreactive cells are held in check in protected NOD transgenic mice. Currently, the most likely explanation is that intrathymic expression of non-NOD class II genes is required for the positive selection of class II-restricted immunoregulatory T cells, while peripheral expression is necessary to bring about the interaction of these cells in a tricellular complex with NOD autoantigen-specific T cells and APCs, so that the response can be deviated to a nonpathogenetic one. Whether this process is active or passive is not known.
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- R M Slattery
- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- A G Baxter
- Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Newtown, Australia
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Takács K, Douek DC, Altmann DM. Exacerbated autoimmunity associated with a T helper-1 cytokine profile shift in H-2E-transgenic mice. Eur J Immunol 1995; 25:3134-41. [PMID: 7489754 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830251122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II genes are the strongest susceptibility markers for many human autoimmune diseases. A perplexing aspect of this is that HLA alleles can confer either susceptibility or dominant protection. In nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice, the strongest known diabetes susceptibility locus is within the MHC and is presumed to be the H-2Ag7 product. When NOD mice carry a transgenic E alpha d molecule allowing expression of an H-2E heterodimer, diabetes is prevented. We investigated whether, as in human autoimmunity, a single class II heterodimer might protect from some autoimmune diseases while predisposing to others. NOD mice are susceptible to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) induced by the proteolipoprotein (PLP) epitope 56-70. Susceptibility to EAE was analyzed in NOD mice which either have or lack transgenic H-2E expression. We found that H-2E expression in NOD mice has converse effects on diabetes and EAE: while diabetes is prevented, EAE is greatly exacerbated and leads to demyelination. Although PLP 56-70 could be presented both in the context of H-2A and H-2E, increased disease severity in H-2E transgenic mice could not be attributed either to an enhanced T cell proliferative response to PLP or to differences in determinant spread. However, cytokine analysis of the response revealed important differences between NOD mice and their H-2E transgenic counterparts: H-2E expression was associated with reduced interleukin-4 secretion and enhanced interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) secretion by lymph node cells, while the response of central nervous system infiltrating T cells displayed a markedly enhanced IFN-gamma response. Thus, whether a particular class II molecule confers resistance or susceptibility to an autoimmune disease may depend on differential cytokine profiles elicited by particular class II/autoantigen complexes.
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- K Takács
- Clinical Sciences Centre, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, GB
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Bach JF. Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus as a beta-cell targeted disease of immunoregulation. J Autoimmun 1995; 8:439-63. [PMID: 7492343 DOI: 10.1016/0896-8411(95)90001-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- J F Bach
- INSERM U 25, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
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Akhtar I, Gold JP, Pan LY, Ferrara JL, Yang XD, Kim JI, Tan KN. CD4+ beta islet cell-reactive T cell clones that suppress autoimmune diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice. J Exp Med 1995; 182:87-97. [PMID: 7790825 PMCID: PMC2192107 DOI: 10.1084/jem.182.1.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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We report the isolation of a panel of CD4+ T helper type 1 autoreactive T cell clones from the spleen of unprimed nonobese diabetic mice, a murine model of human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The T cell clones express a diverse repertoire of T cell receptors, three of which recognize beta islet cell autoantigen(s). The islet cell-reactive T cell clones inhibit adoptive transfer of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and intraislet lymphocytic infiltration. The protective capacity of the T cell clones correlates with their ability to produce a novel immunoregulatory activity that potently inhibits in vitro allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction. The partially purified activity significantly inhibited the adoptive transfer of diabetes. Our work provides evidence in support of the existence of T helper type 1, CD4+ T cells reactive to beta islet cell autoantigens that have acquired a protective instead of a diabetogenic effector function. These T cells mediate their protective action in part by production of an immunoregulatory activity capable of down-regulating immune responses, and they are likely to represent a population of regulatory T cells that normally plays a role in maintaining peripheral tolerance.
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- I Akhtar
- Division of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Spetz AL, Brenden N, Pilström B, Böhme J. No evidence for TCR V beta repertoire changes influencing disease protection in E-transgenic NOD mice. Scand J Immunol 1995; 42:135-9. [PMID: 7631135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.1995.tb03636.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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In order to study whether positive selection of T cells plays any role in the MHC-dependent protection from diabetes in the non-obese-diabetic (NOD) mouse, the T cell V beta repertoire has been studied in NOD mice and in NOD mice either transgenic for the wildtype MHC class II E alpha gene, or for delta Y, a promotor-mutagenized E alpha gene with a restricted tissue expression. The E alpha transgenic line is protected from both insulitis and diabetes. The delta Y transgenic line is neither protected from insulitis nor from diabetes, although it can perform both positive and negative E-mediated selection in the thymus. The V beta repertoire was studied in the pancreatic lymph nodes as these drain the area which is the target for the autoimmune attack. We see no evidence for E alpha TCR V beta repertoire differing from both nontransgenic NOD mice and delta Y mice despite its striking difference in susceptibility to autoimmunity. We conclude that none of the differences in the TCR V beta repertoire of E alpha-transgenic NOD mice hitherto observed are likely to explain the protective effect of E molecule expression in NOD mice.
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- A L Spetz
- Department of Immunology, Arrhenius Laboratories For Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
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Parish NM, Hutchings PR, O'Reilly L, Quartey-Papafio R, Healey D, Ozegbe P, Cooke A. Tolerance induction as a therapeutic strategy for the control of autoimmune endocrine disease in mouse models. Immunol Rev 1995; 144:269-300. [PMID: 7590817 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1995.tb00073.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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This chapter aims to describe ways in which autoimmunity can be prevented or reversed and 'self-tolerance' re-established. To this end we have largely restricted our overview to the two main autoimmune disease models with which we are involved, i.e. IDDM in NOD mice and EAT in H-2k mice although, where appropriate and to demonstrate a particular point, other models are mentioned. The chapter has been divided into sections covering protection afforded by 1) transgenes, 2) autoantigen and 3) by reagents targetting T-cell surface molecules. Where established, the mechanism by which protection or tolerance is achieved is described but where, as in most cases, it is unknown the possibilities are discussed. Investigations using T-cell lines and clones and on islet regeneration which are currently being followed as part of a comprehensive approach to the study of autoimmunity are included as separate sections and their relevance discussed.
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- N M Parish
- Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK
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In Part II of his review of the basis of autoimmunity, Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos summarizes current knowledge on the genetic factors that contribute to autoimmune disease predisposition. The findings indicate that multiple genes contribute to the induction of pathogenic autoimmunity, and that no single genetic abnormality is sufficient in itself to induce disease. The definition of these genetically complex diseases is about to be revolutionized by the development of genome scanning approaches, such as dense chromosomal maps based on polymorphic microsatellite DNA and other informative markers. These will allow the loci and genes that predispose to these diseases to be identified broadly.
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Mitchison NA, Brunner MC. Association of H2Ab with resistance to collagen-induced arthritis in H2-recombinant mouse strains: an allele associated with reduction of several apparently unrelated responses. Immunogenetics 1995; 41:239-45. [PMID: 7890326 DOI: 10.1007/bf00172065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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HLA class II alleles can protect against immunological diseases. Seeking an animal model for a naturally occurring protective allele, we screened a panel of H2-congenic and recombinant mouse strains for ability to protect against collagen-induced arthritis. The strains were crossed with the susceptible strain DBA/1, and the F1 hybrids immunized with cattle and chicken type II collagen. Hybrids having the H2Ab allele displayed a reduced incidence and duration of the disease. They also had a reduced level of pre-disease inflammation, but not of anti-collagen antibodies. The allele is already known to be associated with reduction of other apparently unrelated immune responses, suggesting that some form of functional differentiation may operate that is not exclusively related to epitope-binding. It is suggested that this may reflect allelic variation in the class II major histocompatibility complex promoter region.
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Leen MP, Ogutu ER, Gorski J. Structural and functional analysis of HLA-DR beta-promoter polymorphism and isomorphism. Hum Immunol 1994; 41:112-20. [PMID: 7860355 DOI: 10.1016/0198-8859(94)90003-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Evolutionary relatedness among the highly polymorphic DR beta genes has been established based on shared nucleotide sequences and structural organization of DR beta loci. The evolution of promoter regions of the B1*0701, B1*0101, B1*1501, B5*0101 genes was analyzed by cloning and sequencing. This shows that the polymorphism and isomorphism of HLA DR beta genes extend into the 5' flanking promoter region of the genes and that evolutionary relatedness also exists among the DR beta gene promoters. This suggests that DR beta gene promoters and coding regions coevolved. The effect of the naturally occurring nucleotide substitutions in the polymorphic and isomorphic DR beta promoters on transcriptional activity has been determined in a transient expression system. The transcriptional activity of two polymorphic DR beta promoters, B1*1501 and B1*0701, and two isomorphic DR2 promoters, B1*1501 and B5*0101, is the same for these promoters. Together these data suggest that naturally occurring substitutions do not significantly affect the transcriptional activity of these promoters.
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- M P Leen
- Blood Research Institute, Blood Center of Southeast Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53233
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Brenden N, Spetz AL, Pilström B, Böhme J. Positive selection of V beta 10 in NOD mice protected from diabetes by an Ea transgene. Immunol Lett 1994; 42:209-10. [PMID: 7890322 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2478(94)90088-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- N Brenden
- Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden
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Recent studies shed new light on the process by which T-cell tolerance to pancreatic beta-cell antigens breaks down, leading to the autoimmune disease insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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- A Cooke
- Department of Pathology, Cambridge University, UK
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The BXSB/MpJ (BXSB) murine strain (H-2b) spontaneously develops an autoimmune syndrome with features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that affects males much earlier than females. A mutant gene located on the BXSB Y chromosome, designated Yaa (Y chromosome-linked autoimmune acceleration), is responsible for the acceleration of the disease observed in male BXSB mice. Studies on H-2 congenic and I-E transgenic mice have clearly demonstrated that the MHC class II genes play a crucial role in the development or protection of SLE. However, the MHC effect can be completely masked by the presence of the Yaa gene in mice with certain genetic backgrounds. It is intriguing that the Yaa gene effect is selective on autoimmune responses, varying in different lupus-prone mice. Studies on immune responses against foreign antigens have shown that the Yaa gene potentiates immune responses only against antigens to which mice are genetically (H-2-linked) low-responding, but not high-responding. Thus, the selective immune enhancing activity of the Yaa gene may be related to differences in the capacity of T helper cells specific for given antigens. Moreover, studies on Yaa(+)-Yaa- bone marrow cell chimeric mice have suggested that a specific cognate interaction of T helper cells with Yaa+ B cells is responsible for a selective enhancing effect of immune responses to foreign antigens as well as autoantigens. It is significant that unlike the lpr mutation, whose abnormality is associated with the capacity of the Fas antigen to mediate apoptosis, the Yaa gene by itself is unable to induce significant autoimmune responses in mice without apparent SLE background. This suggests that the molecular defect of the Yaa gene is likely to differ from that of the lpr gene, and that the Yaa gene effect requires the abnormal autosomal genome present in lupus-prone mice. Based on these findings, a possible molecular nature of the Yaa gene abnormality will be discussed.
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- S Izui
- Department of Pathology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Slattery RM, Miller JF, Heath WR, Charlton B. Failure of a protective major histocompatibility complex class II molecule to delete autoreactive T cells in autoimmune diabetes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:10808-10. [PMID: 7902572 PMCID: PMC47867 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.22.10808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The association of major histocompatibility complex genes with autoimmune diseases is firmly established, but the mechanisms by which these genes confer resistance or susceptibility remain controversial. The controversy extends to the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse that develops disease similar to human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The transgenic incorporation of certain class II major histocompatibility complex genes protects NOD mice from diabetes, and clonal deletion or functional silencing of autoreactive T cells has been proposed as the mechanism by which these molecules provide protection. We show that neither thymic deletion nor anergy of autoreactive T cells occurs in NOD mice transgenic for I-Ak. Autoreactive T cells are present, functional, and can transfer diabetes to appropriate NOD-recipient mice.
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- R M Slattery
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Neilson EG. Is immunologic tolerance of self modulated through antigen presentation by parenchymal epithelium? Kidney Int 1993; 44:927-31. [PMID: 8264151 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1993.333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Deng H, Apple R, Clare-Salzler M, Trembleau S, Mathis D, Adorini L, Sercarz E. Determinant capture as a possible mechanism of protection afforded by major histocompatibility complex class II molecules in autoimmune disease. J Exp Med 1993; 178:1675-80. [PMID: 8228814 PMCID: PMC2191262 DOI: 10.1084/jem.178.5.1675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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How peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II complexes are naturally generated is still unknown, but accumulating evidence suggests that unfolding proteins or long peptides can become bound to class II molecules at the dominant determinant before proteolytic cleavage. We have compared the immunogenicity of hen egg-white lysozyme (HEL) in nonobese diabetic (NOD), (NOD x BALB/c)F1, and E(d) alpha transgenic NOD mice. We find that a response to the subdominant ANOD-restricted determinant disappears upon introduction of an E(d) molecule, and is restored when scission of HEL separates this determinant from its adjoining, competitively dominant, E(d)-restricted determinant. This suggests that the E(d) molecule binds and protects its dominant determinant on a long peptide while captured neighboring determinants are lost during proteolysis. These results provide clear evidence for "determinant capture" as a mechanism of determinant selection during antigen processing and a possible explanation for MHC-protective effects in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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- H Deng
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1489
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Singer SM, Tisch R, Yang XD, McDevitt HO. An Abd transgene prevents diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice by inducing regulatory T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:9566-70. [PMID: 8415742 PMCID: PMC47610 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.20.9566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Susceptibility to the human autoimmune disease insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is strongly associated with particular haplotypes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Similarly, in a spontaneous animal model of this disease, the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse, the genes of the MHC play an important role in the development of diabetes. We have produced transgenic NOD mice that express the class II MHC molecule I-Ad in addition to the endogenous I-Ag7 molecules in order to study the role of these molecules in the disease process. Although the inflammatory lesions within the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas appear similar in transgenic and nontransgenic animals, transgenic mice develop diabetes with greatly diminished frequency compared to their nontransgenic littermates (10% of transgenic females by 30 weeks of age compared to 45% of nontransgenic females). Furthermore, adoptive transfer experiments show that T cells present in the transgenic mice are able to interfere with the diabetogenic process caused by T cells from nontransgenic mice. Thus, the mechanism by which I-Ad molecules protect mice from diabetes includes selecting in the thymus and/or inducing in the periphery T cells capable of inhibiting diabetes development.
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- S M Singer
- Department of Microbiology, Stanford University Medical Center, CA 94305
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Parish NM, Chandler P, Quartey-Papafio R, Simpson E, Cooke A. The effect of bone marrow and thymus chimerism between non-obese diabetic (NOD) and NOD-E transgenic mice, on the expression and prevention of diabetes. Eur J Immunol 1993; 23:2667-75. [PMID: 8405065 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830231042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse is an established animal model of the autoimmune disease, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The NOD-E mouse is a transgenic mouse which expresses the I-E molecule (absent in NOD mice). Expression of I-E protects these mice from both insulitis and IDDM. We have investigated the possible mechanisms of this protection by constructing bone marrow, and combined bone marrow and thymus chimeras between NOD and NOD-E mice. Our data suggest that thymic epithelium may play no direct role in either protection against, or promotion of, IDDM. Protection from diabetes is provided either by NOD-E donor bone marrow or NOD-E recipient non-thymic radioresistant cells. The means by which protection may be achieved in this system are discussed.
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- N M Parish
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, GB
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Merino R, Iwamoto M, Fossati L, Muniesa P, Araki K, Takahashi S, Huarte J, Yamamura K, Vassalli JD, Izui S. Prevention of systemic lupus erythematosus in autoimmune BXSB mice by a transgene encoding I-E alpha chain. J Exp Med 1993; 178:1189-97. [PMID: 8376928 PMCID: PMC2191195 DOI: 10.1084/jem.178.4.1189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Males from the BXSB murine strain (H-2b) spontaneously develop an autoimmune syndrome with features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which results in part from the action of a mutant gene (Yaa) located on the Y chromosome. Like other H-2b mice, the BXSB strain does not express the class II major histocompatibility complex antigen, I-E. Here we report that the expression of I-E (E alpha dE beta b) in BXSB males bearing an E alpha d transgene prevents hypergammaglobulinemia, autoantibody production, and subsequent autoimmune glomerulonephritis. These transgenic mice bear on the majority of their B cells not only I-E molecules, but also an I-E alpha chain-derived peptide presented by a higher number of I-Ab molecules, as recognized by the Y-Ae monoclonal antibody. The I-E+ B cells appear less activated in vivo than the I-E- B cells, a minor population. This limited activation of the I-E+ B cells does not reflect a functional deficiency of this cell population, since it can be stimulated to IgM production in vitro by lipopolysaccharides at an even higher level than the I-E- B cell population. The development of the autoimmune syndrome in the transgenic and nontransgenic bone marrow chimeric mice argues against the possibility that the induction of regulatory T cells or clonal deletion of potential autoreactive T cells as a result of I-E expression is a mechanism of the protection conferred by the E alpha d transgene. We propose a novel mechanism by which the E alpha d transgene protects BXSB mice against SLE: overexpression of I-E alpha chains results in the generation of excessive amounts of a peptide displaying a high affinity to the I-Ab molecule, thereby competing with pathogenic autoantigen-derived peptides for presentation by B lymphocytes and preventing their excessive stimulation.
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- R Merino
- Department of Pathology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Katz JD, Wang B, Haskins K, Benoist C, Mathis D. Following a diabetogenic T cell from genesis through pathogenesis. Cell 1993; 74:1089-100. [PMID: 8402882 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90730-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 564] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice spontaneously develop a disease very similar to type 1 diabetes in humans. We have generated a transgenic mouse strain carrying the rearranged T cell receptor genes from a diabetogenic T cell clone derived from a NOD mouse. Self-reactive T cells expressing the transgene-encoded specificity are not tolerized in these animals, resulting in rampant insulitis and eventually diabetes. Features of the disease process emphasize two so-called check-points, recognized previously in the NOD and human diseases but easily misinterpreted. Although NOD mice are protected from insulitis and diabetes by expression of the E molecule encoded in the major histocompatibility complex, the transgenics are not, permitting us to exclude some possible mechanisms of protection.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Flow Cytometry
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Islets of Langerhans/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred NOD/immunology
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Pancreas/immunology
- Pancreas/pathology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Submandibular Gland/immunology
- Submandibular Gland/pathology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/pathology
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- J D Katz
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire l'Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
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Podolin PL, Pressey A, DeLarato NH, Fischer PA, Peterson LB, Wicker LS. I-E+ nonobese diabetic mice develop insulitis and diabetes. J Exp Med 1993; 178:793-803. [PMID: 8350054 PMCID: PMC2191185 DOI: 10.1084/jem.178.3.793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The development of type I diabetes in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse is under the control of multiple genes, one or more of which is linked to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The MHC class II region has been implicated in disease development, with expression of an I-E transgene in NOD mice shown to provide protection from insulitis and diabetes. To examine the effect of expressing an I-E+ or I-E- non-NOD MHC on the NOD background, three I-E+ and three I-E- NOD MHC congenic strains (NOD.H-2i5, NOD.H-2k, and NOD.H-2h2, and NOD.H-2h4, NOD.H-2i7, and NOD.H-2b, respectively) were developed. Of these strains, both I-E+ NOD.H-2h2 and I-E- NOD.H-2h4 mice developed insulitis, but not diabetes. The remaining four congenic strains were free of insulitis and diabetes. These results indicate that in the absence of the NOD MHC, diabetes fails to develop. Each NOD MHC congenic strain was crossed with the NOD strain to produce I-E+ and I-E- F1 mice; these mice thus expressed one dose of the NOD MHC and one dose of a non-NOD MHC on the NOD background. While a single dose of a non-NOD MHC provided a large degree of disease protection to all of the F1 strains, a proportion of I-E+ and I-E- F1 mice aged 5-12 mo developed insulitis and cyclophosphamide-induced diabetes. When I-E+ F1 mice were aged 9-17 mo, spontaneous diabetes developed as well. These data are the first to demonstrate that I-E+ NOD mice develop diabetes, indicating that expression of I-E in NOD mice is not in itself sufficient to prevent insulitis or diabetes. In fact, I-E- F1 strains were no more protected from diabetes than I-E+ F1 strains, suggesting that other non-NOD MHC-linked genes are important in protection from disease. Finally, transfer of NOD bone marrow into irradiated I-E+ F1 recipients resulted in high incidences of diabetes, indicating that expression of non-NOD MHC products in the thymus, in the absence of expression in bone marrow-derived cells, is not sufficient to provide protection from diabetes.
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- P L Podolin
- Department of Autoimmune Diseases Research, Mercke Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey 07065
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Gonzalez AL, Conde C, Revilla C, Ramos A, Renedo B, Merino J. Autoimmune syndrome after induction of neonatal tolerance to I-E antigens. Eur J Immunol 1993; 23:2353-7. [PMID: 8370412 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830230945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Neonatal injection of semiallogeneic spleen cells induces a state of specific tolerance to the parental alloantigens, but also the development of an autoimmune syndrome known as host-versus-graft disease (HVGD). The autoimmune features are a consequence of the allogeneic cooperation between persisting alloreactive host T helper type 2 (TH2) cells and donor semiallogeneic B cells. It has been established that I-A alloantigens play a central role in the triggering of this HVGD. Here it was investigated if I-E antigens, which have shown functional differences, regarding autoimmunity and alloreactivity, with respect to I-A antigens, are also able to trigger this autoimmune syndrome. The injection of spleen cells from [B10.A(4R) x B10.A(2R)]F1 (I-E+) hybrid mice into newborn B10.A(4R) (I-E-) mice was accompanied by the establishment of chimerism and also by the development of a characteristic, but moderated, HVGD. The weak intensity of this HVGD is likely due to the moderation of the alloreactive responses induced against I-E molecules. Moreover, the marked increase in the levels of IgE and in the titers of anti-DNA IgG1 antibodies strongly suggest that alloreactive TH2 cells play also a main role in the autoimmune syndrome following tolerization to I-E antigens. Therefore, it is concluded that the I-E and I-A isotypes are functionally similar with respect to the allogeneic cellular interactions that account for the HVGD.
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- A L Gonzalez
- Immunology Laboratory, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
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T cells are primary participants in the pathogenesis of the MHC-dependent autoimmune diseases, and therefore, evidence for association of TCR V-gene repertoires with such disorders has been actively sought. With very few exceptions, no clear-cut evidence for correlation of particular RFLP-defined V-C-region genomic polymorphisms with autoimmune disease predisposition has thus far been demonstrated. With regard to TCR V-gene repertoires engaged in responses to autoantigens, restricted use of certain V beta and V alpha genes in response to myelin basic protein has been documented in animal models. In many spontaneous and experimentally induced animal and human autoimmune diseases, however, the picture is far from clear. Although dominance of certain TCR V genes has been noted, the clonal restrictions are not absolute; they differ from one study to another and from one patient to another. Such variations may be caused by MHC allele-dependent determinant selection mechanisms, secondary T-cell infiltrates in inflammatory sites, different patient populations and stages of disease, or the involvement of different pathogens that, nevertheless, lead to the same clinical entity. Overall, the results indicate that efforts to intervene therapeutically in autoimmune diseases by vaccination with modified T-cell clones, V region-synthetic peptides, or TCR blocking analogues may not be easily applicable. Further studies on the characterization of the specific antigens involved in autoimmune disease pathogenesis is required in order to accurately address the issue of TCR utilization in autoimmune diseases.
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- A N Theofilopoulos
- Department of Immunology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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Lepage V, Lamm LU, Charron D. Molecular aspects of HLA class II and some autoimmune diseases. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOGENETICS : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY AND IMMUNOGENETICS 1993; 20:153-64. [PMID: 8338813 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313x.1993.tb00106.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- V Lepage
- Laboratoire d'Immunologie et d'Histocompatibility, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France
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Hu J, Kindsvogel W, Busby S, Bailey MC, Shi YY, Greenberg PD. An evaluation of the potential to use tumor-associated antigens as targets for antitumor T cell therapy using transgenic mice expressing a retroviral tumor antigen in normal lymphoid tissues. J Exp Med 1993; 177:1681-90. [PMID: 8496686 PMCID: PMC2191055 DOI: 10.1084/jem.177.6.1681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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A major obstacle to the development of T cell therapy for the treatment of human tumors has been the difficulty generating T cells specifically reactive with the tumor. Most of the characterized human tumor antigens have been classified as tumor associated, because of demonstrable expression at low levels in some normal cells, and thus have not been extensively studied as potential targets of a therapeutic immune response. However, the quantitative difference in expression of such antigens between the tumor and normal cells might permit the generation of antigen-specific T cells capable of selective antitumor and not autoimmune activity. To address this issue, transgenic (TG) mice were generated that expressed low levels of Friend murine leukemia virus (FMuLV) envelope protein in lymphoid cells under the control of an immunoglobulin promoter. This protein is expressed at high levels by a Friend virus-induced erythroleukemia of C57BL/6 (B6) origin, FBL, and has been shown to serve as an efficient tumor-specific rejection antigen in B6 mice. The env-TG mice were tolerant to envelope, as reflected by the failure to detect an envelope-specific response after in vivo priming and in vitro stimulation with preparations of FMuLV envelope. However, adoptively transferred envelope-specific T cells from immunized non-TG B6 mice mediated complete eradication of FBL tumor cells in TG mice, and did not induce detectable autoimmune damage to TG lymphoid tissues. The transferred immune cells were not permanently inactivated in the TG mice, since donor T cells responded to envelope after removal from the TG mice. The lack of autoimmune injury did not reflect inadequate expression of envelope by TG lymphocytes for recognition by T cells, since TG lymphocytes functioned effectively in vitro as stimulators for envelope-specific T cells. The results suggest that this and analogous strains of TG mice may prove useful for elucidating principles for the generation and therapeutic use of tumor-reactive T cells specific for tumor-associated antigens.
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- J Hu
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
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The immune system must not only fight off infections, but also ensure that it does not react against its own body tissues. Since clones of lymphocytes have predetermined reactivities, some will be self-reactive and have the potential to cause damage. They should therefore be neutralized in some way. In a system as complex and important as that governing self-tolerance, many mechanisms must exist to neutralize autoaggressive lymphocytes. They may be classified under two main groups. In one the tolerant state arises from the physical or functional silencing of potentially autoaggressive lymphocytes after antigen encounter. This may involve clonal deletion, clonal abortion or clonal anergy. In the second, regulatory mechanisms of the immune system itself may hold autoreactive lymphocytes in check, for example through the operation of idiotypic network interactions and the action of specialized suppressor cells. Much evidence has accumulated for the physical deletion of autoreactive T cells as they mature in the thymus. The fate of any that escape thymus censorship has been the subject of recent research and is discussed here. Under certain conditions, self-tolerance must also be imposed at the B-cell level to prevent the production of potentially damaging autoantibodies. Although the mechanisms which silence self-reactive lymphocytes are very efficient, self-tolerance can break down, and autoimmunity will thus ensue. The main factors responsible for this are briefly described here.
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- J F Miller
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Vic., Australia
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Molecular technologies for the permanent germ-line transformation of animals are now well established and routine. These new strains of animals, called transgenic, offer an unprecedented opportunity to gain a basic understanding of human genetic disorders. In this brief review we discuss the role of transgenic animals in the creation of new models of human disease and their experimental use in biomedical research. Models are now available for the study of the genetic processes involved in the pathogenesis of neoplasia, diabetes, atherosclerosis, and developmental abnormalities. Many others are available and new ones are being produced at a great rate. Principles of gene replacement therapy are amenable to analysis with transgenic animals and the information gained will be important for the development of rational therapy.
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- P M Iannaccone
- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611
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Lipes MA, Rosenzweig A, Tan KN, Tanigawa G, Ladd D, Seidman JG, Eisenbarth GS. Progression to diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice with transgenic T cell receptors. Science 1993; 259:1165-9. [PMID: 8267690 DOI: 10.1126/science.8267690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The T cell receptor (TCR) requirements in the pathogenesis of insulin-dependent diabetes were examined with transgenic NOD mice bearing nondisease-related TCR alpha and beta chains. In both TCR beta and TCR alpha beta transgenic NOD mice the beta chain transgene was expressed by > 98% of peripheral T cells. The alpha chain transgene was also highly expressed. Insulitis developed in both sets of transgenic animals with most of the lymphocytes in the lesion expressing the transgenic beta chain and with depletion of the endogenous TCR V beta genes. Nonetheless, NOD animals transgenic for TCR beta and TCR alpha beta developed diabetes similar to controls. Thus, skewing the TCR repertoire did not diminish autoimmune susceptibility in NOD mice.
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MESH Headings
- Aging/physiology
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Crosses, Genetic
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/physiopathology
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Islets of Langerhans/pathology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred NOD/physiology
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Pancreatic Diseases/genetics
- Pancreatic Diseases/immunology
- Pancreatic Diseases/pathology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/physiology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/pathology
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- M A Lipes
- Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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The ability of transgenic mice to express a specific protein in a specific tissue has enabled the mechanisms of self-tolerance and autoimmunity to be elucidated. Further studies, combined with more sophisticated methods of gene targeting, will provide insights into the pathway leading from loss of self-tolerance to autoimmunity.
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- M S Lee
- Department of Neuropharmacology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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Miller JF. The Croonian Lecture, 1992. The key role of the thymus in the body's defence strategies. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1992; 337:105-24. [PMID: 1355916 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1992.0087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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For centuries the thymus has remained a mysterious organ with largely unknown functions. The first demonstration of its crucial role in the development of the immune system was reported in 1961, when it was found that mice thymectomized at birth had poorly developed lymphoid tissues, impaired immune reactivities, and an inordinate susceptibility to develop infections. Although thymus lymphocytes were for a long time deemed immunoincompetent, it was shown in 1967 that they could respond to antigen by proliferating to give rise to a progeny of cells which did not secrete antibody (T cells), but which had a remarkable ability to induce bone marrow cells (B cells) to become antibody formers. This was the first unequivocal demonstration of a major division of labour among mammalian lymphocytes. Tremendous progress in our understanding of the function of the thymus and of the T cells derived from it followed. Distinct T cell subsets were characterized and shown to have an essential role in initiating and regulating a variety of immune responses. The ontogenetic events which occurred during their differentiation were mapped, and this allowed studies of the selection of the T cell repertoire. The major histocompatibility complex and associated peptides were shown to govern T cell selection and antigen activation, and the antigen-specific T cell receptor and the genes which code for it were characterized. Future studies should allow some insight into how to activate T cells more effectively for vaccination purposes, and how to switch them off to prevent autoimmune reactions and to induce tolerance to transplanted tissues.
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- J F Miller
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
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Yamamura K, Miyazaki T, Uno M, Toyonaga T, Miyazaki J. Non-obese diabetic transgenic mouse. SPRINGER SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1992; 14:115-25. [PMID: 1475739 DOI: 10.1007/bf00195289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- K Yamamura
- Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan
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Merino R, Fossati L, Izui S. The lupus-prone BXSB strain: the Yaa gene model of systemic lupus erythematosus. SPRINGER SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1992; 14:141-57. [PMID: 1475741 DOI: 10.1007/bf00195291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- R Merino
- Department of Pathology, Centre Medical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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