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Callister SM, Jobe DA, Stuparic-Stancic A, Miyamasu M, Boyle J, Dattwyler RJ, Arnaboldi PM. Detection of IFN-γ Secretion by T Cells Collected Before and After Successful Treatment of Early Lyme Disease. Clin Infect Dis 2016; 62:1235-1241. [PMID: 26936671 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Current serodiagnostics for Lyme disease lack sensitivity during early disease, and cannot determine treatment response. We evaluated an assay based on QuantiFERON technology utilizing peptide antigens derived from Borrelia burgdorferi to stimulate interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) release as an alternative to serodiagnosis for the laboratory detection of Lyme disease. METHODS Blood was obtained from patients with erythema migrans before (n = 29) and 2 months after (n = 27) antibiotic therapy. IFN-γ release was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) following overnight stimulation of whole blood with the peptide antigens, and compared to the results of standard serological assays (C6, ELISA, and Western blot). RESULTS IFN-γ release was observed in pretreatment blood of 20 of 29 (69%) patients with Lyme disease. Following antibiotic treatment, IFN-γ was significantly reduced (P = .0002), and was detectable in only 4 of 20 (20%) initially positive patients. By contrast, anti-C6 antibodies were detected in pretreatment sera from 17 of 29 (59%) subjects, whereas only 5 of 29 (17%) patients had positive Western blot seroreactivity. Antibody responses persisted and expanded following treatment. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that measurement of IFN-γ after incubating blood with Borrelia antigens could be useful in the laboratory diagnosis of early Lyme disease. Also, after antibiotic treatment, this response appears to be short lived.
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- Microbiology Research and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
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- Biopeptides Corporation, East Setauket.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
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- Biopeptides Corporation, East Setauket.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
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- T Olsson
- Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge Hospital, S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden
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Chan WC, Duong TT, Yeung RSM. Presence of IFN-gamma does not indicate its necessity for induction of coronary arteritis in an animal model of Kawasaki disease. J Immunol 2004; 173:3492-503. [PMID: 15322214 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.5.3492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [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: 01/10/2023]
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Kawasaki disease is the most common cause of vasculitis affecting children, and the leading cause of acquired heart disease in the developed world. To date, studies on the role of IFN-gamma in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease have focused on peripheral production of IFN-gamma, and have yielded conflicting results. Affected heart tissue is not available from children with Kawasaki disease. In this study, we use an animal model of Kawasaki disease, Lactobacillus casei cell wall extract (LCWE)-induced coronary arteritis, to examine the role of IFN-gamma in the development of coronary artery lesions. We report the presence of IFN-gamma, both at the mRNA and protein levels, in the affected vessels. Its biphasic expression, first at days 3-7 and again at days 28-42 post-LCWE injection, corresponds to the first appearance of inflammatory infiltrate in coronary arteries, and later to vascular wall disruption and aneurysm formation, respectively. Interestingly, ablation of IFN-gamma expression did not dampen the inflammatory response, and IFN-gamma-deficient lymphocytes proliferated more vigorously in response to LCWE than those of wild-type animals. Of more importance, the incidence of coronary arteritis was the same in IFN-gamma-deficient and wild-type mice. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that IFN-gamma regulates the immune response during development of coronary arteritis, but is not required for the induction of coronary artery disease.
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- Wesley C Chan
- Division of Cancer Research, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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Cambronero R, Sewell WA, North ME, Webster AD, Farrant J. Up-regulation of IL-12 in monocytes: a fundamental defect in common variable immunodeficiency. J Immunol 2000; 164:488-94. [PMID: 10605046 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.1.488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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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We show that LPS-stimulated circulating CD14-positive monocytes from patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) express a higher proportion of intracellular IL-12-positive cells than monocytes from patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia or normal subjects. We used four-color flow cytometry and measured IL-12 with an Ab to the p40 subunit following stimulation with LPS. The raised IL-12 is associated with an increased frequency of IFN-gamma-positive T cells, but not of IFN-gamma-positive CD56+ NK cells. These increases in frequency of cytokine-positive cells are due to a decrease in the absolute numbers of circulating monocytes and T cells that are negative for IL-12 and IFN-gamma, respectively. The increased frequency of IL-12-positive monocytes appears to be selective because TNF-alpha was not increased, and is thus unlikely to reflect a general activation. Chronic infection is also unlikely to explain our data since cells from X-linked agammaglobulinemia patients with a similar Ig deficiency do not show these changes. Our data suggest a fundamental abnormality in the IL-12/IFN-gamma circuit in CVID, with up-regulation of IL-12 being the "primary" factor. This imbalance is likely to skew the immune response away from Ab production and also explains the failure of CVID T cells to make Ag-specific memory cells and the chronic inflammatory and granulomatous complications that are a feature of CVID. This disease appears to be a rare example of a polarized Th1-type response and may in part be due to a genetic defect in the control of IL-12 production.
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- R Cambronero
- Department of Immunology, Medical Research Council Immunodeficiency Research Group, Royal Free & University College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Darji A, Beschin A, Sileghem M, Heremans H, Brys L, De Baetselier P. In vitro simulation of immunosuppression caused by Trypanosoma brucei: active involvement of gamma interferon and tumor necrosis factor in the pathway of suppression. Infect Immun 1996; 64:1937-43. [PMID: 8675290 PMCID: PMC174019 DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.1937-1943.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Experimental infections of mice with the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei lead to a profound state of T-cell unresponsiveness in the lymph node cell (LNC) compartment. This suppression is mediated by macrophage-like cells which inhibit interleukin 2 (IL-2) secretion and down-regulate IL-2 receptor expression (M. Sileghem, A. Darji, R. Hamers, M. Van de Winkel, and P. De Baetselier, Eur. J. Immunol. 19:829-835, 1989). Similar suppressive cells can be generated in vitro by pulsing 2C11-12 macrophage hybridoma cells with opsonized T. brucei parasites (2C11-12P cells). Cocultures of 2C11-12P cells and LNCs secrete higher levels of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma), and the hyperproduction of IFN-gamma was found to be confined to CD8+ lymphoid cells. Elimination of CD8+ cells from cocultures of 2C11-12P cells and LNCs restores the T-cell proliferative response. Furthermore, addition of neutralizing anti-IFN-gamma antibodies to the cocultures reduces the level of suppression and concomitantly restores the level of IL-2 receptor expression. Hence, IFN-gamma plays a cardinal role in this in vitro model for T. brucei-elicited immunosuppression. Cocultures of LNCs and 2C11-12P cells in a two-chamber culture system further demonstrated that cell-cell contact is required for hyperproduction of IFN-gamma and, moreover, that IFN-gamma cooperates with a 2C11-12P-derived diffusible factor to exert its suppressive activity. Finally, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha produced by 2C11-12P cells was found to be implicated in the hyperproduction of IFN-gamma, since addition of neutralizing anti-TNF-alpha antibodies to cocultures reduced the level of suppression and concomitantly abrogated the hyperproduction of IFN-gamma. Collectively, our findings indicate that T. brucei-elicited suppressive 2C11-12 macrophage cells differentially influence T-cell subpopulations: (i) CD8+ cells are signaled via cell-cell contact to produce IFN-gamma, and TNF-alpha is implicated in this process, and (ii) locally produced IFN-gamma and macrophage-released factors act in concert to inhibit CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell proliferative responses.
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- A Darji
- Unit of Cellular Immunology, Flemish Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology, University of Brussels (V.U.B.), Sint Genesius Rode, Belgium
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Forsberg P, Ernerudh J, Ekerfelt C, Roberg M, Vrethem M, Bergström S. The outer surface proteins of Lyme disease borrelia spirochetes stimulate T cells to secrete interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma): diagnostic and pathogenic implications. Clin Exp Immunol 1995; 101:453-60. [PMID: 7664493 PMCID: PMC1553228 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1995.tb03134.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Late stages of borrelia Lyme disease infections may be difficult to diagnose because of unspecific symptoms and unreliable laboratory tests, being too unspecific or insensitive. The T cell immune response was thus evaluated in these patients by using a sensitive ELISPOT T cell assay that detects the secretion of IFN-gamma, i.e. a T helper 1 (Th1) response on the single-cell level. Three subcellular fractions of the Lyme borreliosis strain Borrelia afzelii were used for antigenic stimulation. The outer surface protein (Osp) fraction elicited the strongest response, discriminating between borrelia infections (n = 15) compared with other neurological diseases (n = 10) and normal controls (n = 12) (P = 0.0001). The more heterogeneous sonicated borrelia fraction also elicited a strong response, however, also in some of the controls. The flagellin fraction did not have a similar T cell-stimulating effect. When looking at subgroups of borrelia infections, central nervous system (CNS) infections (n = 7) revealed a lower T cell response in blood (P = 0.0128) compared with other borrelia manifestations (n = 8). Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytes were available from three patients with CNS borreliosis, and all showed a compartmentalization with higher responses to the Osp fraction in CSF compared with blood, also in the two patients without any intrathecal-specific antibody synthesis. The ELISPOT method is feasible for detecting a specific IFN-gamma T cell response in borrelia infections. This Th1 response may well be of pathogenic relevance.
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- P Forsberg
- Department of Infections Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
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Darji A, Sileghem M, Heremans H, Brys L, De Baetselier P. Inhibition of T-cell responsiveness during experimental infections with Trypanosoma brucei: active involvement of endogenous gamma interferon. Infect Immun 1993; 61:3098-102. [PMID: 8514421 PMCID: PMC280969 DOI: 10.1128/iai.61.7.3098-3102.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [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: 01/31/2023] Open
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Lymph node cells (LNC) from mice infected with Trypanosoma brucei contain macrophage-like cells that inhibit interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) expression (M. Sileghem, A. Darji, R. Hamers, M. Van De Winkel, and P. De Baetselier, Eur. J. Immunol. 19:829-835, 1989). Evidence that gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) is actively involved in (i) the inhibition of IL-2R expression and (ii) the generation of suppressive cells during infections with T. brucei is presented. First, despite an impaired T-cell mitogenic response, LNC from infected mice are hyperresponsive for IFN-gamma production. Second, addition of neutralizing anti-IFN-gamma antibodies to cocultures of normal LNC and suppressive LNC populations reduces the level of suppression and restores the level of IL-2R expression. Third, administration of anti-IFN-gamma to T. brucei-infected animals increases the blastogenic response and reduces the suppressive activity of LNC.
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- A Darji
- Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, University of Brussels, Belgium
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Kirschmann DA, Murasko DM. Effect of exogenous cytokines on the inhibition of macrophage-induced, antigen-specific T cell proliferation by poly(I:C). Clin Immunol Immunopathol 1992; 65:300-7. [PMID: 1451333 DOI: 10.1016/0090-1229(92)90161-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We have previously demonstrated that IFN-alpha/beta, poly(I:C) (an inducer of IFN-alpha/beta), or IFN-gamma can inhibit the ability of KLH-pulsed peritoneal macrophages (M phi) to induce the proliferation of syngeneic, KLH-immune T lymphocytes from CBA/J mice. In this study we investigated whether the mechanism by which poly(I:C) inhibits M phi-induced, antigen-specific T cell proliferation involved decreased cytokine production by poly(I:C) treated KLH-pulsed M phi or by T cells cultured with these M phi. The production of IL-2 by T cells cultured with poly(I:C)-treated, KLH-pulsed M phi was decreased by 80%; however, addition of exogenous rIL-2 could not restore proliferation. Although IL-1 production by poly(I:C)-treated M phi was comparable to the level produced by saline-treated, KLH-pulsed M phi controls, addition of exogenous rIL-1 was still examined to explore the possibility that a greater amount of IL-1 may be needed to induce T cell proliferation with poly(I:C)-treated, KLH-pulsed M phi. Increasing concentrations of rIL-1 alone or with rIL-6 did not abrogate the inhibition of M phi-induced, antigen-specific T cell proliferation by poly(I:C). Interestingly, the addition of combinations of IL-1 and IL-6 increased the proliferation of T cells in response to KLH presented by either saline- or poly(I:C)-treated M phi. The effect of the combination of rIL-1 and rIL-6 was synergistic in that addition of either monokine alone had no effect on T cell proliferation. These results suggest that although poly(I:C)-induced inhibition of T cell proliferation is not due to insufficient quantities of IL-1, IL-2, or IL-6, a combination of IL-1 and IL-6 can augment proliferation of freshly isolated T cells in response to antigen presented by freshly isolated accessory cells.
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- D A Kirschmann
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19129
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Duong TT, Finkelman FD, Strejan GH. Effect of interferon-gamma on myelin basic protein-specific T cell line proliferation in response to antigen-pulsed accessory cells. Cell Immunol 1992; 145:311-23. [PMID: 1280534 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(92)90334-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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: 12/26/2022]
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We have shown previously that treatment of SJL/J mice with anti-interferon-gamma monoclonal antibody (mAb) exacerbated experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) only if administered at the time of encephalitogenic challenge. Here we investigate the role of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and anti-IFN-gamma mAb in the early events of T cell activation in vitro. Pretreatment of murine peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) with IFN-gamma led to a significant increase in their ability to activate myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific, short-term T cell lines. When exogenous IFN-gamma was added to cocultures of T cells and MBP-pulsed PEC, the antigen-specific T cell proliferation was considerably reduced. Anti-IFN-gamma mAb added to these cultures neutralized the inhibitory effect of the exogenous IFN-gamma on T cell proliferation but had no visible effect on class II MHC expression by the antigen-pulsed PEC present in the same cultures. A reduction in T cell proliferation was also observed when the T cells were treated with IFN-gamma prior to coculture with the MBP-pulsed PEC. These results demonstrate that, on one hand, IFN-gamma enhances the ability of PEC to induce antigen-specific T cell proliferation but, on the other hand, acts on the T cells themselves by inhibiting their proliferation in response to the antigen-pulsed PEC. This may explain why treatment with anti-IFN-gamma antibody in vivo induces EAE exacerbation.
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- T T Duong
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Many cytokines must be considered as effector and immunoregulatory molecules in neuroinflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). We have studied the potential role of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) in the pathogenesis of these diseases, since this cytokine has a number of important effects such as macrophage activation, induction of MHC class I and class I antigens, and T cell homing. An immunospot assay that allows enumeration of single cells secreting IFN-gamma after short-term culture in vitro of mononuclear cell suspensions has been used. In EAE, increased numbers of IFN-gamma-secreting cells (IFN-gamma-sc) appear in the central nervous system shortly before onset of clinical signs. Such cells also increased during pharmacologically induced relapse of EAE. In later stages of EAE, memory T cells that produced IFN-gamma in response to presented antigen, recognized multiple regions of the myelin basic protein (MBP), showing that (i) myelin autoreactive T cells have the functional ability to produce this cytokine, (ii) the concept of immunodominance as to autoantigen peptide reactivity is non-absolute and time-dependent. In multiple sclerosis (MS) there are increased numbers of IFN-gamma-sc among the CSF cells. Also, there are increased numbers of memory T cells, strongly enriched to the cerebrospinal fluid, which upon recognition of several myelin antigens and several MBP peptide stretches, produce IFN-gamma. Taken together, the data are consistent with a role for IFN-gamma as a key mediator in inflammatory demyelinating diseases.
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- T Olsson
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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The mechanisms for several important features o f African trypanosomiasis are still largely unexplained. These include (1) the occurrence of parasite growth-promoting molecules provided by the host, (2) polyclonal T- and B-cell activation and the development of immunosuppression and (3) neuropsychiatric signs. Here Tomas Olsson, Moiz Bakhiet and Krister Kristensson focus on interactive events between Trypanosoma brucei and CD8(+) T cells, and the release of a diffusible molecule from T. brucei that triggers CD8(+) T cells to produce interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). This cytokine provides a growth stimulus for the parasite and modulates events in the host's immune and nervous systems.
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- T Olsson
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, S-141 86 Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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Sun JB, Harcourt G, Wang ZY, Hawke S, Olsson T, Fredrikson S, Link H. T cell responses to human recombinant acetylcholine receptor-alpha subunit in myasthenia gravis and controls. Eur J Immunol 1992; 22:1553-9. [PMID: 1376263 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830220631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Antibodies against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) of the neuromuscular junction are detectable in most patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and assumed to participate in the destruction of the AChR, thereby, causing the characteristics signs and symptoms of the disease. The extent and importance of T cell responses to AChR and its subunits in MG are still unsettled. We have now examined T cell reactivities using human recombinant AChR-alpha subunit as antigen. Upon recognition of appropriate antigen in an MHC-class II-restricted fashion, memory T cells secrete interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Adopting this principle in an immunospot assay we found that 73% of MG patients had recombinant human AChR-alpha subunit-reactive T cells at a median value of 1 per 56,000 blood mononuclear cells, while only 27% of the MG patients responded to the alpha subunit in a conventional lymphocyte proliferation assay. This compares with even lower numbers of AChR-reactive T cells and 14% positivity in the proliferation assay among control subjects. The T cell responses to the control antigens purified protein derivative and myelin basic protein did not differ between MG and controls, underlining the specificity of an augmented T cell reactivity to AChR-alpha subunit in MG. Alpha Subunit-specific T cell lines and clones propagated from patients with MG and healthy controls yielded a high proportion of alpha subunit-reactive T cells in the IFN-gamma immunospot assay. Their appearance was inhibited by the addition of monoclonal anti-MHC class II antibodies, demonstrating that an MHC-restricted T cell response was measured. Our data underline that the AChR-alpha subunit is a major T cell autoantigen in MG.
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- J B Sun
- Dept. of Neurology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Numerous changes have been reported to occur in T cell responsiveness of mice with increasing age. However, most of these studies have examined polyclonal stimulation of spleen cells from a limited number of mouse strains. This study investigated the influence of genetic background, source of lymphocytes, and type of stimulus on age-associated changes in T cells response. Con A-induced proliferation and IL-2 and IFN-gamma production by splenic lymphocytes (SL) was significantly greater in CBA/Ca mice compared to C57BL/6 mice, regardless of age. SL of both strains exhibited the predicted age-dependent decline in proliferative response and an increase in IFN-gamma production in response to Con A. In contrast, however, only SL from C57BL/6 mice demonstrated the predicted age-dependent decline in Con A-induced IL-2 production; Con A-induced SL of young and aged CBA/Ca mice produced comparable amounts of IL-2. Differences in age-associated responses to Con A were also observed between SL and inguinal lymph node (ILN) cells of CBA/Ca mice. In contrast to SL, ILN cells demonstrated an increased proliferative response to Con A. However, lymphokine production by Con A-stimulated ILN cells from aged CBA/Ca mice was similar to that of Con A-stimulated SL from aged CBA/Ca mice. To determine if aged ILN T cells respond similarly to polyclonal and antigen-specific stimuli, keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) responses of T cells isolated from ILN of aged and young CBA/Ca mice were examined. KLH-specific T cells from aged mice cultured with KLH-pulsed macrophages (M phi) from aged mice were significantly reduced in their ability to proliferate compared to KLH-specific T cells of young mice cultured with young KLH-pulsed M phi. In contrast to the expected results, the defect was not at the level of the T cells; proliferation of young T cells cultured with aged KLH-pulsed M phi was equivalent to the proliferation of aged T cells cultured with aged M phi. These results suggest that aging has differential effects on polyclonal and antigen-specific T cell proliferation and on polyclonal stimulation of T cells isolated from different lymphoid organs and from different strains of mice.
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- D A Kirschmann
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19129
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Mix E, Correale J, Olsson T, Solders G, Link H. Effect of stilbene-type anion channel blockers on the immune response during experimental allergic neuritis (EAN). Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol 1992; 14:579-609. [PMID: 1381387 DOI: 10.3109/08923979209005412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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: 12/26/2022]
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We have studied the role of anion channel gating for the autoimmune response in experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) induced by bovine peripheral myelin (BPM). The influence of the stilbene-type anion channel blockers SITS and DIDS on T cell function was assessed by measurement of proliferation and by counting of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) secreting cells (IFN-gamma-sc) in response to BPM and phytohemagglutinin (PHA). SITS caused a dose-dependent increase of spontaneous proliferative activity as well as of proliferation in response to the antigenic stimulus BPM. In contrast, the drug caused a decrease of proliferation of cells stimulated with PHA. The number of cells induced to IFN-gamma secretion was reduced by SITS. The suppressive effect was dependent on the degree of activity of cells without drugs. Cultures showing high numbers of BPM reactive T cells were more easily suppressed than cultures with low numbers of BPM reactive T cells. Our results suggest that anion channel gating is involved in the triggering of T cells to IFN-gamma secretion. The anion channel signal pathway in lymphocytes could be a target for pharmacological intervention in inflammatory disorders. In the presently used autoimmune model, EAN, the net effect of in vivo treatment with SITS resulted in worsening of clinical signs and increased inflammatory cell infiltration in sciatic nerve, whereas the in vitro conductivity of sciatic nerve was not significantly affected by the drug. Thus anion channel gating seems to regulate activities of immune cells, and drugs with anion channel blocking properties may have effects that enhance autoimmune disease.
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MESH Headings
- 4,4'-Diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-Disulfonic Acid
- 4-Acetamido-4'-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic Acid/analogs & derivatives
- 4-Acetamido-4'-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic Acid/pharmacology
- Animals
- Autoimmunity/drug effects
- Colforsin/pharmacology
- Interferon-gamma/metabolism
- Ion Channel Gating/drug effects
- Ion Channels/drug effects
- Ionomycin/pharmacology
- Lymphocyte Activation/drug effects
- Neural Conduction/drug effects
- Neuritis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Neuritis, Autoimmune, Experimental/metabolism
- Neuritis, Autoimmune, Experimental/physiopathology
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Lew
- Stilbenes/pharmacology
- T-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/pharmacology
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- E Mix
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Olsson T, Bakhiet M, Edlund C, Höjeberg B, Van der Meide PH, Kristensson K. Bidirectional activating signals between Trypanosoma brucei and CD8+ T cells: a trypanosome-released factor triggers interferon-gamma production that stimulates parasite growth. Eur J Immunol 1991; 21:2447-54. [PMID: 1915554 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830211022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 12/29/2022]
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The hemoflagellate Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) is the cause of African sleeping sickness. T. b. brucei which is pathogenic for rodents but nonpathogenic for humans was used to examine the interactions between the parasite and mononuclear cells (MNC). Co-cultivation in vitro of rat or human MNC and T.b. brucei resulted in a rapid non-antigen-specific release of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) which was dependent on CD8+ lymphoid cells. The parasites triggered MNC proliferation if IFN-gamma was blocked by a specific antibody in vitro. Separate cultures of parasites and MNC in a two-chamber system allowing exchange of soluble mediators showed CD8+ cell-dependent MNC triggering, indicating that a diffusable factor released by trypanosomes acts on the MNC. Gel filtration according to molecular mass of disrupted parasites and assay of the fractions revealed a peak activity at an approximate molecular mass of 185 kDa for the trypanosome-derived lymphocyte-triggering factor (TLTF). Conversely, there was a CD8+ cell-dependent action of MNC on the trypanosomes. MNC released a diffusable factor that in short-term experiments caused a striking increase in number of parasites. This effect was inhibited by antibodies against rat IFN-gamma. The increase in number of trypanosomes was promoted by rat MNC or rat IFN-gamma but not human MNC or human IFN-gamma suggesting a species-restricted recognition of IFN-gamma. An in vivo uptake of IFN-gamma by the parasites was suggested by immunohistochemical staining of T.b. brucei with an mAb against rat IFN-gamma and Western blot of the parasites showing a band with a molecular mass corresponding to IFN-gamma. The bidirectional signals we define here may explain certain features of trypanosomiasis, i.e. T cell activation, immunosuppression and host-range restriction. The seemingly important role of the TLTF indicates that it should be purified and explored as target for immune-specific intervention.
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- T Olsson
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden
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We have previously demonstrated that IFN-alpha/beta, poly I:C (an inducer of IFN-alpha/beta), and IFN-gamma can inhibit the ability of KLH-pulsed peritoneal macrophages to induce proliferation of syngeneic, KLH immune T lymphocytes in CBA/J mice. In this study, we show that this IFN-induced immunosuppression is not restricted to CBA/J (H-2k) mice but is also seen in BALB/cJ (H-2d) mice. A similar inhibition of proliferation is observed with the KLH-specific T cell hybridoma BDK, 100, which requires KLH-pulsed macrophages for optimum proliferation and IL-2 production. The immunosuppression produced by IFN was also independent of the antigen employed. Inhibition of T lymphocyte proliferation was observed when casein, instead of KLH, was used to immunize T cells and to pulse peritoneal macrophages in vivo. Utilizing KLH and casein, the antigen specificity of the inhibition was demonstrated. Therefore, the inhibition by the IFN-inducer poly I:C of macrophage-induced, antigen-specific T cell proliferation is not limited by H-2 type of the mice or to one antigen.
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- D A Kirschmann
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19129
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Mustafa MI, Diener P, Höjeberg B, Van der Meide P, Olsson T. T cell immunity and interferon-gamma secretion during experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in Lewis rats. J Neuroimmunol 1991; 31:165-77. [PMID: 1704016 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(91)90022-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [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] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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An immunospot assay that detects single secretory cells was used to enumerate interferon-gamma secreting cells (IFN-gamma-sc) in mononuclear cell suspensions from the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral lymphoid organs after actively induced experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in Lewis rats. In the CNS compartment there was a significant increase in the number of IFN-gamma-sc preceding the onset of the clinical signs of EAE. Both in rats with EAE and rats immunized with Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) the number of IFN-gamma-sc increased in peripheral lymphoid organs, as compared to non-immunized controls. In view of the potent immunoregulatory effects of IFN-gamma, its intra-CNS secretion may play a crucial role for clinicopathological events in EAE. To study the numbers of primed T cells that in response to myelin antigens produced IFN-gamma, mononuclear cell suspensions from peripheral lymphoid organs were precultured to allow for antigen uptake, presentation and T cell triggering, followed by enumeration of IFN-gamma-sc. T cells responding to a peptide of myelin basic protein (MBP) that previously have been shown encephalitogenic in Lewis rats, appeared initially and were quantitatively dominant over the course of EAE. Later, T cell reactivities to multiple regions of MBP appeared, showing that the concept of immunodominance in EAE is non-absolute and time dependent. Splenocyte cultures from EAE rats exposed to the different antigens showed a reduced number of IFN-gamma-sc compared to cultures not exposed to antigen, suggesting an antigen-induced suppression of T cell effector molecules.
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- M I Mustafa
- Department of Neurology, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden
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Gogate N, Bakhiet M, Kristensson K, Norrby E, Olsson T. Gamma interferon expression and major histocompatibility complex induction during measles and vesicular stomatitis virus infections of the brain. J Neuroimmunol 1991; 31:19-26. [PMID: 1845767 PMCID: PMC7119734 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(91)90082-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Lymphocytic interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) production and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen induction were studied in experimental measles and vesicular stomatitis virus infections in the brain. Fifteen-day-old Sprague-Dawley rats injected intracerebrally with the HNT strain of measles virus showed already within 1 day after infection an increased number of cells producing IFN-gamma in the spleen, cervical lymph nodes and leptomeninges. These rats recovered after a transient neuronal infection in the brain. Rats infected intracerebrally with vesicular stomatitis virus, on the other hand, all succumbed after 2 days and showed no IFN-gamma production in lymphoid cells. Immunohistochemically MHC class I antigen appeared in infected and uninfected cells in the brain during replication of both viruses. A role for the recently discovered nerve fibres with IFN-gamma-like immunoreactivity, which are normally present in the brain, in the MHC antigen induction is discussed.
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- N Gogate
- Department of Cellular and Neuropathology, Huddinge Hospital, Sweden
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Bakhiet M, Olsson T, van der Meide P, Kristensson K. Depletion of CD8+ T cells suppresses growth of Trypanosoma brucei brucei and interferon-gamma) production in infected rats. Clin Exp Immunol 1990; 81:195-9. [PMID: 2143706 PMCID: PMC1535042 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1990.tb03317.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 12/30/2022] Open
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Sprague-Dawley rats infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei showed a strong and rapid induction of splenocyte IFN-gamma (within 12 h post-infection) as measured by a single cell assay for IFN-gamma secretion. Depletion of CD8+ cells in infected rats abrogated the IFN-gamma production, suppressed parasite growth and increased survival of the animals. Induction of MHC class I antigens in the paraventricular and supra-optic hypothalamic nuclei caused by the trypanosome infection was also inhibited by the CD8+ cell depletion. It is suggested that the CD8+ cells are involved directly or indirectly in growth regulation of the parasite and that IFN-gamma induced by the parasite may be one of the factors that trigger MHC expression and immunosuppression.
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- M Bakhiet
- Department of Neurology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge Hospital, Sweden
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Naor D, Essery G, Tarcic N, Kahan M, Lamb JR, Feldmann M. Specific interactions between a human CD4+ clone and autologous CD4+ bifunctional immunoregulatory clones. Immunol Rev 1990; 116:63-83. [PMID: 1977690 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1990.tb00804.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The cellular communications between a human CD4+ clone and autologous CD4+ clones induced with the first clone are described. The autoreactive clones proliferated after stimulation with the inducer clone, but not after stimulation with autologous clones expressing irrelevant specificities. The inducer clone markedly lost its ability to interact with the autoreactive clones after the modulation of its T-cell receptor. The proliferation of the autoreactive clones stimulated with the inducer clone was blocked by anti-DR monoclonal antibody. Collectively, these findings indicate that the autoreactive clones recognize idiotypic-like determinants on the receptor of the inducer clone in conjunction with DR antigen. The regulatory activity of the autoreactive clones was assayed by co-cultivation with their target inducer clone. The autoreactive clones were not committed to a single program, they could either suppress or enhance the proliferation of the target cells depending on the state of activation of the target cells. Activated target cells were suppressed whereas non-activated cells were enhanced. It is predicted that antagonistic cytokines released from the autoreactive clones exert differential effects on the target clone.
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- D Naor
- Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Voorthuis JA, Uitdehaag BM, De Groot CJ, Goede PH, van der Meide PH, Dijkstra CD. Suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis by intraventricular administration of interferon-gamma in Lewis rats. Clin Exp Immunol 1990; 81:183-8. [PMID: 2117508 PMCID: PMC1535058 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1990.tb03315.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [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: 12/30/2022] Open
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Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) which causes paralysis. Several studies have reported the involvement of Ia antigen-expressing cells in the pathogenesis of EAE. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) can induce Ia antigen expression on a wide range of cells. We examined the effect of IFN-gamma on EAE in Lewis rats. Systemically administered IFN-gamma did not change the disease course of EAE, whereas IFN-gamma applied locally into the ventricular system of the CNS resulted in complete suppression of clinical signs. Furthermore, we found that systemic administration of anti-IFN-gamma just prior to the onset of clinical symptoms resulted in a more severe disease course. We conclude that IFN-gamma is capable of exerting a suppressive action in EAE, possibly through induction of Ia antigen expression or through the induction of suppressive mechanisms locally in the CNS.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/administration & dosage
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use
- Cerebellum/immunology
- Cerebellum/pathology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/prevention & control
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/therapy
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/biosynthesis
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Injections, Intraperitoneal
- Injections, Intraventricular
- Interferon-gamma/administration & dosage
- Interferon-gamma/immunology
- Interferon-gamma/therapeutic use
- Male
- Optic Nerve/immunology
- Optic Nerve/pathology
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Lew
- Recombinant Proteins
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Affiliation(s)
- J A Voorthuis
- Department of Cell Biology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nennesmo I, Olsson T, Ljungdahl A, Kristensson K, Van der Meide PH. Interferon-gamma-like immunoreactivity and T-cell marker expression in rat skeletal muscle fibres. Brain Res 1989; 504:306-10. [PMID: 2513088 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)91374-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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: 01/01/2023]
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Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)-like-immunoreactivity was observed in subsets of rat skeletal muscle fibres with 3 different mouse monoclonal antibodies directed to rat IFN-gamma and a rabbit polyclonal anti-rat IFN-gamma-antibody. These strongly IFN-gamma-immunoreactive fibres also expressed antigen defining T-cells of the cytotoxic/suppressor phenotype (CD8) and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigen.
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- I Nennesmo
- Department of Cellular and Neuropathology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge Hospital, Sweden
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Affiliation(s)
- H Ishikura
- Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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