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Ye C, Clements SA, Gu W, Geurts AM, Mathews CE, Serreze DV, Chen YG, Driver JP. Deletion of Vβ3 +CD4 + T cells by endogenous mouse mammary tumor virus 3 prevents type 1 diabetes induction by autoreactive CD8 + T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2312039120. [PMID: 38015847 PMCID: PMC10710095 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312039120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023] Open
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In both humans and NOD mice, type 1 diabetes (T1D) develops from the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells by T cells. Interactions between both helper CD4+ and cytotoxic CD8+ T cells are essential for T1D development in NOD mice. Previous work has indicated that pathogenic T cells arise from deleterious interactions between relatively common genes which regulate aspects of T cell activation/effector function (Ctla4, Tnfrsf9, Il2/Il21), peptide presentation (H2-A g7, B2m), and T cell receptor (TCR) signaling (Ptpn22). Here, we used a combination of subcongenic mapping and a CRISPR/Cas9 screen to identify the NOD-encoded mammary tumor virus (Mtv)3 provirus as a genetic element affecting CD4+/CD8+ T cell interactions through an additional mechanism, altering the TCR repertoire. Mtv3 encodes a superantigen (SAg) that deletes the majority of Vβ3+ thymocytes in NOD mice. Ablating Mtv3 and restoring Vβ3+ T cells has no effect on spontaneous T1D development in NOD mice. However, transferring Mtv3 to C57BL/6 (B6) mice congenic for the NOD H2 g7 MHC haplotype (B6.H2 g7) completely blocks their normal susceptibility to T1D mediated by transferred CD8+ T cells transgenically expressing AI4 or NY8.3 TCRs. The entire genetic effect is manifested by Vβ3+CD4+ T cells, which unless deleted by Mtv3, accumulate in insulitic lesions triggering in B6 background mice the pathogenic activation of diabetogenic CD8+ T cells. Our findings provide evidence that endogenous Mtv SAgs can influence autoimmune responses. Furthermore, since most common mouse strains have gaps in their TCR Vβ repertoire due to Mtvs, it raises questions about the role of Mtvs in other mouse models designed to reflect human immune disorders.
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- Cheng Ye
- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL32611
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO65201
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO65201
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- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI53226
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL32610
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- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI53226
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO65201
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Torres BA, Kominsky S, Perrin GQ, Hobeika AC, Johnson HM. Superantigens: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2016; 226:164-76. [PMID: 11361034 DOI: 10.1177/153537020122600303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence suggests that superantigens play a role in Immune-mediated diseases. Superantigens are potent activators of CD4* T cells, causing rapid and massive proliferation of cells and cytokine production. This characteristic of superantigens can be exploited in diseases where strong immunologic responses are required, such as in the B16F10 animal model of melanoma. Superantigen administration is able to significantly enhance Ineffective anti-tumor Immune responses, resulting in potent and long-lived protective anti-tumor immunity. However, superantigens are more well-known for the role they play in diseases. Studies using an animal model for neurologic demy-elinatlng diseases such as multiple sclerosis show that superantigens can induce severe relapses and activate auto-reactive T cells not involved in the Initial bout of disease. This may also involve epitope spreading of disease. Superantigens have also been implicated in acute diseases such as food poisoning and TSS, and in chronic diseases such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis. Viral superantigens are also involved in the disease process, including superantigens derived from human Immunodeficiency virus and mouse mammary tumor virus. Finally, immunotherapies that ameliorate the role played by superantigens in disease are discussed.
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- B A Torres
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611, USA
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Holt MP, Shevach EM, Punkosdy GA. Endogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses (mtv): new roles for an old virus in cancer, infection, and immunity. Front Oncol 2013; 3:287. [PMID: 24324930 PMCID: PMC3840357 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2013.00287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2013] [Accepted: 11/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Mouse Mammary Tumor Viruses are beta-retroviruses that exist in both exogenous (MMTV) and endogenous (Mtv) forms. Exogenous MMTV is transmitted via the milk of lactating animals and is capable of inducing mammary gland tumors later in life. MMTV has provided a number of critical models for studying both viral infection as well as human breast cancer. In addition to the horizontally transmitted MMTV, most inbred mouse strains contain permanently integrated Mtv proviruses within their genome that are remnants of MMTV infection and vertically transmitted. Historically, Mtv have been appreciated for their role in shaping the T cell repertoire during thymic development via negative selection. In addition, more recent work has demonstrated a larger role for Mtv in modulating host immune responses due to its peripheral expression. The influence of Mtv on host response has been observed during experimental murine models of Polyomavirus- and ESb-induced lymphoma as well as Leishmania major and Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Decreased susceptibility to bacterial pathogens and virus-induced tumors has been observed among mice lacking all Mtv. We have also demonstrated a role for Mtv Sag in the expansion of regulatory T cells following chronic viral infection. The aim of this review is to summarize the latest research in the field regarding peripheral expression of Mtv with a particular focus on their role and influence on the immune system, infectious disease outcome, and potential involvement in tumor formation.
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- Michael P Holt
- Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, MD , USA
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Lee YK, Chiu S, Chew A, Greenhalgh DG, Cho K. Prevalent de novo somatic mutations in superantigen genes of mouse mammary tumor viruses in the genome of C57BL/6J mice and its potential implication in the immune system. BMC Immunol 2011; 12:5. [PMID: 21244697 PMCID: PMC3038982 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-12-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2009] [Accepted: 01/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Superantigens (SAgs) of mouse mammary tumor viruses (MMTVs) play a crucial role in T cell selection in the thymus in a T cell receptor (TCR) Vβ-specific manner and SAgs presented by B cells activate T cells in the periphery. The peripheral T cell repertoire is dynamically shaped by the steady induction of T cell tolerance against self antigens throughout the lifespan. We hypothesize that de novo somatic mutation of endogenous MMTV SAgs contributes to the modulation of the peripheral T cell repertoire. Results SAg coding sequences were cloned from the genomic DNAs and/or cDNAs of various tissues of female C57BL/6J mice. A total of 68 unique SAg sequences (54 translated sequences) were identified from the genomic DNAs of liver, lungs, and bone marrow, which are presumed to harbor only three endogenous MMTV loci (Mtv-8, Mtv-9, and Mtv-17). Similarly, 69 unique SAg sequences (58 translated sequences) were cloned from the cDNAs of 18 different tissues. Examination of putative TCR Vβ specificity suggested that some of the SAg isoforms identified in this study have Vβ specificities different from the reference SAgs of Mtv-8, Mtv-9, or Mtv-17. Conclusion The pool of diverse SAg isoforms, generated by de novo somatic mutation, may play a role in the shaping of the peripheral T cell repertoire including the autoimmune T cell population.
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- Young-Kwan Lee
- Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California and Department of Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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Acha-Orbea H, Held W, Scarpellino L, Shakhov AN. Mls: A Link Between Immunology and Retrovirology. Int Rev Immunol 2009; 8:327-36. [PMID: 1351535 DOI: 10.3109/08830189209053516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The nature of the mysterious minor lymphocyte stimulating (Mls) antigens has recently been clarified. These molecules which were key elements for our current understanding of immune tolerance, have a strong influence on the mouse immune system and are encoded by the open reading frame (orf) of endogenous and exogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses (MMTV's). The knowledge that these antigens are encoded by cancerogenic retroviruses opens an interdisciplinary approach for understanding the mechanisms of immune responses and immune tolerance, retroviral carcinogenesis, and retroviral strategies for infection.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Minor Lymphocyte Stimulatory Antigens/genetics
- Minor Lymphocyte Stimulatory Antigens/immunology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Open Reading Frames
- Proviruses/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory/immunology
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- H Acha-Orbea
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Epalinges, Switzerland
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BALB/Mtv-null mice responding to strong mouse mammary tumor virus superantigens restrict mammary tumorigenesis. J Virol 2008; 83:484-8. [PMID: 18922863 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01374-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The absence of endogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses (MMTVs) in the congenic mouse strain, BALB/Mtv-null, restricts the early steps of exogenous C3H MMTV infection, preventing the superantigen (Sag) response and mammary tumorigenesis. Here we demonstrate that BALB/Mtv-null mice also resist tumor induction by FM MMTV, which encodes a stronger Sag compared to C3H MMTV. In contrast to infections with C3H MMTV, Mtv-null mice show FM-MMTV Sag-specific responses comparable to those observed in susceptible BALB/c mice. Neither virus shows significant replication in the spleen or mammary gland. Thus, Mtv-null mice restrict MMTV replication and mammary tumorigenesis even after a robust Sag response.
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Hodes RJ, Abe R. Mouse endogenous superantigens: Ms and Mls-like determinants encoded by mouse retroviruses. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN IMMUNOLOGY 2008; Appendix 1:Appendix 1F. [PMID: 18432642 DOI: 10.1002/0471142735.ima01fs17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Commonly used inbred mouse strains express different combinations of integrated mouse mammary tumor proviruses (MMTV). This appendix summarizes the proviruses that have been detected. The reported functional properties of those MMTV proviral products which have been identified as superantigens are also summarized, including the ability to elicit primary or secondary T cell responses and to induce Vb-specific clonal deletion during T cell differentiation. In addition, the amino acid sequences of putative ORF gene products of different MMTV are compared.
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- R J Hodes
- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Huber BT, Beutner U, Subramanyam M. The role of superantigens in the immunobiology of retroviruses. CIBA FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 2007; 187:132-40; discussion 140-3. [PMID: 7796668 DOI: 10.1002/9780470514672.ch9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Murine mammary tumour viruses (MMTVs) are retroviruses that encode superantigens capable of stimulating T cells via superantigen-reactive T cell receptor V beta chains. MMTVs are transmitted to the suckling offspring via the milk. We have established that class II and B cell-deficient mice that were foster nursed by virus-secreting mice do not transfer infectious MMTVs to their offspring. No MMTV proviruses could be detected in the spleen and mammary tissue of these mice and there was no deletion of MMTV superantigen-reactive T cells. These results confirm that superantigen expression in the context of MHC class II molecules is required for MMTV transmission. We conclude that B cells are essential for the completion of the viral life cycle in vivo. This indicates that B cells are infected first and that viral amplification takes place only if infected B cells present the MMTV superantigen on their surface which, in turn, results in activation of T cells expressing the appropriate T cell receptor V beta chains. These activated T cells stimulate B cells which enables viral replication. Human T cells carry all the structural features required for an efficient response to murine retrovirally encoded superantigens. Superantigen-like stimulation of human T cells has been demonstrated in both infectious and autoimmune diseases. Human immunodeficiency virus may encode a superantigen but this has not been proven.
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- B T Huber
- Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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Case LK, Purdy A, Golovkina TV. Molecular and cellular basis of the retrovirus resistance in I/LnJ mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 175:7543-9. [PMID: 16301663 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.11.7543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Previously, we showed that IFN-gamma elicited by mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) infection in I/LnJ mice stimulated production of virus-neutralizing Abs, mostly of the IgG2a isotype. These Abs coated virions secreted by infected I/LnJ cells, and thus completely prevented virus transmission to offspring. However, the mechanism of virus neutralization by isotype-specific Abs remained unknown. Ab coating is capable of blocking virus infection by interfering with receptor-virus binding, by virus opsonization, by complement activation, and via FcgammaR-mediated effector mechanisms. The aim of the studies described in this work was to uncover the cellular basis of anti-virus Ab production, to evaluate the importance of the IgG2a subclass of IgGs in virus neutralization, and to investigate which of the blocking mechanisms plays a role in virus neutralization. We showed that I/LnJ-derived bone marrow cells, specifically IFN-gamma-producing CD4+ T cells, were key cells conferring resistance to MMTV infection in susceptible mice upon transfer. We also established that a unique bias in the subclass selection toward the IgG2a isotype in infected I/LnJ mice was not due to their potent neutralizing ability, as anti-virus Abs of other isotypes were also able to neutralize the virus, but were a product of virally induced IFN-gamma. Finally, we demonstrated that F(ab')2 of anti-MMTV IgGs neutralized the virus as efficiently as total IgGs, suggesting that Ab-mediated interference with viral entry is the sole factor inhibiting virus replication in I/LnJ mice. We propose and discuss possible mechanisms by which infected I/LnJ mice eradicate retrovirus.
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- Laure K Case
- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA
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Affiliation(s)
- R B Corley
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Immunology, and The Comprehensive Cancer Center, Box 3010, Duke Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Pobezinskaya Y, Chervonsky AV, Golovkina TV. Initial stages of mammary tumor virus infection are superantigen independent. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:5582-7. [PMID: 15100301 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Exogenous mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is transmitted via the milk from infected mothers to newborn pups. Efficient MMTV transmission is dependent on proliferation of T cells with particular TCR beta-chains, which occurs upon recognition of virally encoded superantigen (SAg) bound to MHC class II molecules. It is assumed that infection of these dividing cells favors MMTV amplification. SAg is important for MMTV infection, as mice that lack SAg-cognate T cells due to expression of endogenous Mtv loci or mice that express inappropriate MHC haplotypes unable to present viral SAg efficiently were shown to be resistant to MMTV infection. However, this resistance was not absolute, as these mice developed late onset MMTV-induced mammary tumors. In this study, we show that the success of initial MMTV infection in neonates is independent of SAg function but depends on the developmentally regulated proliferation of target cells. However, SAg was absolutely required for virus spread following completion of this proliferative stage.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Antigen Presentation/genetics
- Antigen Presentation/immunology
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Mice, Transgenic
- Phenotype
- Postpartum Period/genetics
- Postpartum Period/immunology
- Retroviridae Infections/genetics
- Retroviridae Infections/immunology
- Retroviridae Infections/virology
- Superantigens/immunology
- Superantigens/metabolism
- Superantigens/physiology
- Tumor Virus Infections/genetics
- Tumor Virus Infections/immunology
- Tumor Virus Infections/virology
- Virus Replication/immunology
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Espanhol AR, Macedo C, Junta CM, Cardoso RS, Victorero G, Loriod B, Nguyen C, Jordan B, Passos GAS. Gene expression profiling during thymus ontogeny and its association with TCRVbeta8.1-Dbeta2.1 rearrangements of inbred mouse strains. Mol Cell Biochem 2004; 252:223-8. [PMID: 14577596 DOI: 10.1023/a:1025556510001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The V(D)J recombination of TCRalpha and beta in early developing T-cells is a highly modulated phenomenon initiated and completed by recombinase complex (RAG-1 and RAG-2), and regulated by other gene products such as interleukins. To further evaluate the association of several other gene products with the evolution of TCRVbeta8.1 V(D)J rearrangements in vivo, the mRNA expression levels of seven interleukins, three cytokines, receptors TCRVbeta8.1 and IL-2Rbeta, MHC-I/MHC-II, RAG-1/ RAG-2 and retroviral superantigen MMTV(SW) were measured by RT-PCR during the fetal development of the thymus of three inbred mouse strains (Balb-c, C57B1/6 and CBA/J). Clustering using the Tree View software, was used to organize these genes based on similarity of expression patterns. Each strain displayed a different expression profile during thymus ontogeny. During the late developmental stage the most evident association was the kinetics of MMTV(SW) retrovirus, IL-2Rbeta and IL-7 overexpression with reduction of TCRVbeta8.1-D1beta2.1 rearrangement in the thymus of CBA/J mice. These data suggest a susceptibility of this strain to expression of MMTV(SW) upon reduction of the rearranged TCRVbeta8.1-Dbeta2.1 segment in developing thymocytes, with parallel IL-7 overexpression.
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- Aline R Espanhol
- Grupo de Imunogenética Molecular, Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
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Uz-Zaman T, Ignatowicz L, Sarkar NH. Mouse mammary tumor viruses expressed by RIII/Sa mice with a high incidence of mammary tumors interact with the Vβ-2- and Vβ-8-specific T cells during viral infection. Virology 2003; 314:294-304. [PMID: 14517082 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(03)00429-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The mouse mammary tumor viruses (MMTVs) that induce mammary adenocarcinomas in mice are transmitted from mother to offspring through milk. MMTV infection results in the deletion of specific T cells as a consequence of interaction between the MMTV-encoded superantigen (Sag) and specific V beta chains of the T cell receptor. The specificity and kinetics of T cell deletion for a number of highly oncogenic MMTVs, such as C3H- and GR-MMTVs, have been studied in great detail. Some work has also been done with the MMTVs expressed in two substrains of RIII mice, BR6 and RIIIS/J, but the nature of the interaction between T cells and the virus(es) that the parental RIII-strain of mice express has not been investigated. Since RIII mice (designated henceforth as RIII/Sa) have a very high incidence (90-98%) of mammary tumors, and they have been extensively used in studies of the biology of mammary tumor development, we have presently determined the pattern of V beta-T cell deletion caused by RIII/Sa-MMTV-Sag(s) during viral infection. T cells were isolated from lymph nodes and thymus of young RIII/Sa mice, as well as from BALB/c (BALB/cfRIII/Sa), C57BL (C57BLfRIII/Sa), and RIIIS/J (RIIIS/JfRIII/Sa) mice after they were infected with RIII/Sa-MMTV(s) by foster nursing. The composition of the T cells was analyzed by FACS using a panel of monoclonal antibodies specific to a variety of V betas. Our results show that milk-borne RIII/Sa-MMTV(s) infection leads to the deletion of CD4(+) V beta-2, and to a lesser extent V beta-8 bearing peripheral and central T cells in RIII/Sa, RIIIS/J, BALB/c, and C57BL mice. Our results are in contrast to the findings that C3H-, GR-, and BR6-MMTVs delete V beta-14- and/or V beta-15-specific T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Female
- Incidence
- Lactation
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/virology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/metabolism
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/pathogenicity
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Milk/virology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Retroviridae Infections/virology
- Tumor Virus Infections/virology
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- Taher Uz-Zaman
- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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Baribaud F, Wirth S, Maillard I, Valsesia S, Acha-Orbea H, Diggelmann H. Identification of key amino acids of the mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen involved in the specific interaction with T-cell receptor V(beta) domains. J Virol 2001; 75:7453-61. [PMID: 11462017 PMCID: PMC114980 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.16.7453-7461.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a retrovirus encoding a superantigen that is recognized in association with major histocompatibility complex class II by the variable region of the beta chain (V(beta)) of the T-cell receptor. The C-terminal 30 to 40 amino acids of the superantigen of different MMTVs display high sequence variability that correlates with the recognition of particular T-cell receptor V(beta) chains. Interestingly, MMTV(SIM) and mtv-8 superantigens are highly homologous but have nonoverlapping T-cell receptor V(beta) specificities. To determine the importance of these few differences for specific V(beta) interaction, we studied superantigen responses in mice to chimeric and mutant MMTV(SIM) and mtv-8 superantigens expressed by recombinant vaccinia viruses. We show that only a few changes (two to six residues) within the C terminus are necessary to modify superantigen recognition by specific V(beta)s. Thus, the introduction of the MMTV(SIM) residues 314-315 into the mtv-8 superantigen greatly decreased its V(beta)12 reactivity without gain of MMTV(SIM)-specific function. The introduction of MMTV(SIM)-specific residues 289 to 295, however, induced a recognition pattern that was a mixture of MMTV(SIM)- and mtv-8-specific V(beta) reactivities: both weak MMTV(SIM)-specific V(beta)4 and full mtv-8-specific V(beta)11 recognition were observed while V(beta)12 interaction was lost. The combination of the two MMTV(SIM)-specific regions in the mtv-8 superantigen established normal MMTV(SIM)-specific V(beta)4 reactivity and completely abolished mtv-8-specific V(beta)5, -11, and -12 interactions. These new functional superantigens with mixed V(beta) recognition patterns allowed us to precisely delineate sites relevant for molecular interactions between the SIM or mtv-8 superantigen and the T-cell receptor V(beta) domain within the 30 C-terminal residues of the viral superantigen.
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- F Baribaud
- Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH-1011 Lausanne, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland.
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Mustafa F, Lozano M, Dudley JP. C3H mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen function requires a splice donor site in the envelope gene. J Virol 2000; 74:9431-40. [PMID: 11000212 PMCID: PMC112372 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.20.9431-9440.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) encodes a superantigen (Sag) that is required for efficient milk-borne transmission of virus from mothers to offspring. The mRNA used for Sag expression is controversial, and at least four different promoters (two in the long terminal repeat and two in the envelope gene) for sag mRNA have been reported. To determine which RNA is responsible for Sag function during milk-borne MMTV transmission, we mutated a splice donor site unique to a spliced sag RNA from the 5' envelope promoter. The splice donor mutation in an infectious provirus was transfected into XC cells and injected into BALB/c mice. Mice injected with wild-type provirus showed Sag activity by the deletion of Sag-specific T cells and induction of mammary tumors in 100% of injected animals. However, mice injected with the splice donor mutant gave sporadic and delayed T-cell deletion and a low percentage of mammary tumors with a long latency, suggesting that the resulting tumors were due to the generation of recombinants with endogenous MMTVs. Third-litter offspring of mice injected with wild-type provirus showed Sag-specific T-cell deletion and developed mammary tumors with kinetics similar to those for mice infected by nursing on MMTV-infected mothers, whereas the third-litter offspring of the splice donor mutant-injected mice did not. One of the fifth-litter progeny of splice donor mutant-injected mice showed C3H Sag activity and had recombinants that repaired the splice donor mutation, thus confirming the necessity for the splice donor site for Sag function. These experiments are the first to show that the spliced sag mRNA from the 5' envelope promoter is required for efficient milk-borne transmission of C3H MMTV.
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- F Mustafa
- Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78705, USA
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Hook LM, Agafonova Y, Ross SR, Turner SJ, Golovkina TV. Genetics of mouse mammary tumor virus-induced mammary tumors: linkage of tumor induction to the gag gene. J Virol 2000; 74:8876-83. [PMID: 10982330 PMCID: PMC102082 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.19.8876-8883.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Retroviruses are believed to induce tumors by acting as insertional mutagens that activate expression of cellular protooncogenes. Indeed, almost 90% of mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-induced mammary tumors in C3H/He mice show upregulation of Int protooncogenes. We have analyzed three different MMTV variants [MMTV(C3H), MMTV(HeJ), and a genetically engineered MMTV hybrid provirus (HP)] for tumorigenicity in mice from two distinct genetic backgrounds. All three viruses were tumor causing in BALB/cJ mice. However, only MMTV(C3H), but not MMTV(HeJ) or HP, induced mammary tumors in C3H/He mice. All of the viruses were infectious on either background and up-regulated expression of Int genes in tumors they induced. Like HP, MMTV(HeJ) was found to be a genetic recombinant between endogenous Mtv1 provirus and exogenous MMTV(C3H). Sequence comparison of MMTV variants linked the tumorigenicity of MMTV(C3H) to the gag region of the retrovirus.
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- L M Hook
- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
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Umemura M, Wajjwalku W, Upragarin N, Liu T, Nishimura H, Matsuguchi T, Nishiyama Y, Wilson GM, Yoshikai Y. Expression of mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen accelerates tumorigenicity of myeloma cells. J Virol 2000; 74:8226-33. [PMID: 10954519 PMCID: PMC116330 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.18.8226-8233.2000] [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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To investigate whether superantigen (SAG) from endogenous mouse mammary tumor virus functions as an immunogenic or a tumorigenic factor in tumor development, the BALB/c myeloma cell line FO was transfected with the SAG gene from the 3' Mtv-50 long terminal repeat (LTR) open reading frame (ORF), the product of which was specific for Vbeta6. All five transfectants expressing Mtv-50 LTR ORF mRNA showed stimulatory activity for Vbeta6 T-cell hybridomas in vitro; this activity was inhibited by the addition of anti-Mtv-7 monoclonal antibody (MAb) or anti-major histocompatibility complex class II I-A(d) and I-E(d) MAb. All transfectants with the SAG gene grew more rapidly than did mock transfectants in BALB/c mice after subcutaneous inoculation, whereas all clones, including mock transfectants, grew equally well in athymic nude mice. A significant fraction of Vbeta6 T cells selectively expressed activation markers, including CD44(high), CD62L(low), and CD69(high), and produced large amounts of interleukin 5 (IL-5) and IL-6 in BALB/c mice inoculated with transfectants. These results suggested that the expression of viral SAG enhances the tumorigenicity of a myeloma cell line through the stimulation of SAG-reactive T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Biomarkers, Tumor/biosynthesis
- CD4 Lymphocyte Count
- Flow Cytometry
- Interleukin-5/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-5/metabolism
- Interleukin-6/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-6/metabolism
- Leukemia, Myeloid
- Male
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Nude
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Superantigens/genetics
- Superantigens/metabolism
- Superantigens/physiology
- Terminal Repeat Sequences
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- M Umemura
- Laboratory of Host Defense, Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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Viral superantigens bind several alleles and isotypes belonging to the MHC class II and subsequently activate particular T cell families via the variable portion of the beta chain of TCR. As a result, a superantigen bridges MHC and TCR molecules, leading to activation of T and B cells. The T expansion of various TCR V beta subsets is triggered on the basis of their V beta specificity, but not on their antigenic specificity. The best known superantigens are bacterial endotoxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus. However, viruses such as mouse mammary tumor or rabies viruses encode superantigens too. The ability of superantigens to break the barriers of MHC restriction and to activate large numbers of T and B cells has led to the hypothesis that superantigens may activate autoreactive T and B cells to initiate or worsen autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or psoriasis.
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- M Lafon
- Unité de neurovirologie et régénération du système nerveux, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Xu L, Tay CH, Huber BT, Sarkar NH. Cloning of an infectious milk-borne mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) DNA from a mammary tumor that developed in an endogenous MMTV-free wild mouse. Virology 2000; 273:325-32. [PMID: 10915603 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Molecular characterization of infectious mouse mammary tumor viruses (MMTVs) has been hampered due to the problem of cloning a full-length exogenous virus into a plasmid. The present report describes our strategy for obtaining a full-length clone of an exogenous MMTV from a mouse mammary tumor that arose spontaneously in a wild Chinese mouse free of endogenous MMTV and shows that the cloned virus (JYG-MMTV) is expressed in rat RBA cells. Four-week-old C58/J x CBA/CaJ female mice, free of both endogenous and exogenous MMTVs, were injected with virus-secreting RBA cells. The progeny of these mice were bred, and their offspring were tested for the presence of MMTV. These third-generation mice were found to actively produce MMTV that was shed in their milk and transmitted to their offspring. The virus was detected not only in the mammary glands of these young mice, but also in their spleens and bone marrow. These results suggest that our plasmid-cloned exogenous JYG-MMTV is infectious. This virus can now be used effectively in manipulating the various genes of JYG-MMTV and other MMTV strains to understand their structure/function relationships.
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- L Xu
- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
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Lapatschek M, Dürr S, Löwer R, Magin C, Wagner H, Miethke T. Functional analysis of the env open reading frame in human endogenous retrovirus IDDMK(1,2)22 encoding superantigen activity. J Virol 2000; 74:6386-93. [PMID: 10864649 PMCID: PMC112145 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.14.6386-6393.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mice harbor a family of endogenous retroviruses, the mouse mammary tumor viruses (MMTV), which encode superantigens. These superantigens are responsible for the deletion of T cells expressing certain Vbeta chains of the T-cell receptor in the thymus. Human T cells are able to recognize MMTV-encoded superantigens presented by human major histocompatibility complex class II-positive cells. Owing to this and to the similarity of the human and murine immune systems, it was speculated that human endogenous retroviruses might also code for superantigens. Recently, it was reported that a proviral clone (IDDMK(1,2)22) of the human endogenous retrovirus family HTDV/HERV-K encodes a superantigen. The putative superantigen gene was located within the env region of the virus. Stimulated by these findings, we amplified by PCR and cloned into eucaryotic expression vectors open reading frames (ORFs) which were identical or very similar to IDDMK(1,2)22. When we transfected these vectors into A20 cells, a murine B-cell lymphoma, we were able to demonstrate mRNA expression and protein production. However, we did not find any evidence that the ORF stimulated human or murine T cells in a Vbeta-specific fashion, the most prominent feature of superantigens.
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- M Lapatschek
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany
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Aisaka Y, Watanabe Y, Kamiyasu M, Masanaga T, Tsuji K, Nakanishi T, Kajiyama G, Gershwin ME. Immune-mediated cholangiohepatitis in neonatally thymectomized mice: the role of T cells and analysis of T-cell receptor Vbeta usage. J Autoimmun 2000; 14:239-46. [PMID: 10756086 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.2000.0368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have previously reported the induction of immune-mediated cholangiohepatitis following injection of a hybrid recombinant proteins containing the E2 of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDC-E2) and the branched-chain keto-acid dehydrogenase (BCOADC-E2) to neonatally thymectomized (Tx) A/J mice. Further, we demonstrated that intrahepatic infiltrating mononuclear cells could transfer pathology to other Tx mice. To further our observations, we examined intrahepatic infiltrating mononuclear cells by flow cytometry and used cell transfer experiments to identify the phenotype involved. Interestingly, following immunization of neonatally Tx A/J mice and immunization with the bihybrid molecule, the number of CD3+infiltrating mononuclear cells were significantly higher (77.8%) compared with the control group. There was a small although not significant increase among intrahepatic infiltrating mononuclear cells and splenic cells of Vbeta 5.1,5.2+, Vbeta7+and Vbeta17+. In addition, Vbeta14+cells accounted for 20.4% of the infiltrating T-cells (P<0.01 vs. the control group). In further experiments, CD3+, CD4+or CD8+cells were isolated and removed from intrahepatic infiltrating mononuclear cells and subpopulations of mononuclear cells transferred to Tx mice. Both CD3+CD4+cells and CD3+CD8+cells are required for development of the lesion, and the damage is mediated by CD3+Vbeta14+cells.
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- Y Aisaka
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan
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Salmons B, Miethke T, Wintersperger S, Müller M, Brem G, Günzburg WH. Superantigen expression is driven by both mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat-associated promoters in transgenic mice. J Virol 2000; 74:2900-2. [PMID: 10684308 PMCID: PMC111782 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.6.2900-2902.2000] [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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In addition to the usual retroviral promoter, the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) long terminal repeat carries a second promoter located in the U3 region. Here we show that both of these promoters are independently able to give rise to superantigen activity in transgenic mice. The ability of multiple MMTV promoters to drive superantigen expression underscores its importance in the virus life cycle.
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- B Salmons
- Bavarian Nordic, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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Exogenous mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is carried from the gut of suckling pups to the mammary glands by lymphocytes and induces mammary gland tumors. MMTV-induced tumor incidence in inbred mice of different strains ranges from 0 to as high as 100%. For example, mice of the C3H/HeN strain are highly susceptible, whereas mice of the I/LnJ strain are highly resistant. Of the different factors that together determine the susceptibility of mice to development of MMTV-induced mammary tumors, genetic elements play a major role, although very few genes that determine a susceptibility-resistance phenotype have been identified so far. Our data indicate that MMTV fails to infect mammary glands in I/LnJ mice foster nursed on viremic C3H/HeN females, even though the I/LnJ mammary tissue is not refractory to MMTV infection. Lymphocytes from fostered I/LnJ mice contained integrated MMTV proviruses and shed virus but failed to establish infection in the mammary glands of susceptible syngeneic (I x C3H.JK)F(1) females. Based on the susceptible-resistant phenotype distribution in N(2) females, both MMTV mammary gland infection and mammary gland tumor development in I/LnJ mice are controlled by a single locus.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- B-Lymphocytes/cytology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/virology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/virology
- Cells, Cultured
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Immunity, Innate/immunology
- Male
- Mammary Glands, Animal/immunology
- Mammary Glands, Animal/virology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/immunology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/virology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/isolation & purification
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Neurologic Mutants/genetics
- Mice, Neurologic Mutants/immunology
- Retroviridae Infections/genetics
- Retroviridae Infections/immunology
- Retroviridae Infections/virology
- Tumor Virus Infections/genetics
- Tumor Virus Infections/immunology
- Tumor Virus Infections/virology
- Virus Shedding
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- T V Golovkina
- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA.
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Iwakoshi NN, Mordes JP, Markees TG, Phillips NE, Rossini AA, Greiner DL. Treatment of allograft recipients with donor-specific transfusion and anti-CD154 antibody leads to deletion of alloreactive CD8+ T cells and prolonged graft survival in a CTLA4-dependent manner. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:512-21. [PMID: 10605049 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.1.512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A two-element protocol consisting of one donor-specific transfusion (DST) plus a brief course of anti-CD154 mAb greatly prolongs the survival of murine islet, skin, and cardiac allografts. To study the mechanism of allograft survival, we determined the fate of tracer populations of alloreactive transgenic CD8+ T cells in a normal microenvironment. We observed that DST plus anti-CD154 mAb prolonged allograft survival and deleted alloreactive transgenic CD8+ T cells. Neither component alone did so. Skin allograft survival was also prolonged in normal recipients treated with anti-CD154 mAb plus a depleting anti-CD8 mAb and in C57BL/6-CD8 knockout mice treated with anti-CD154 mAb monotherapy. We conclude that, in the presence of anti-CD154 mAb, DST leads to an allotolerant state, in part by deleting alloreactive CD8+ T cells. Consistent with this conclusion, blockade of CTLA4, which is known to abrogate the effects of DST and anti-CD154 mAb, prevented the deletion of alloreactive transgenic CD8+ T cells. These results document for the first time that peripheral deletion of alloantigen-specific CD8+ T cells is an important mechanism through which allograft survival can be prolonged by costimulatory blockade. We propose a unifying mechanism to explain allograft prolongation by DST and blockade of costimulation.
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- N N Iwakoshi
- Diabetes Division, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA
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Macphail S. Superantigens: mechanisms by which they may induce, exacerbate and control autoimmune diseases. Int Rev Immunol 1999; 18:141-80. [PMID: 10614742 DOI: 10.3109/08830189909043022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Superantigens are polypeptide molecules produced by a broad range of infectious microorganisms which elicit excessive and toxic T-cell responses in mammalian hosts. In light of this property and the fact that autoimmune diseases are frequently the sequelae of microbial infections, it has been suggested that superantigens may be etiologic agents of autoreactive immunological responses resulting in initiation, exacerbation or relapse of autoimmune diseases. This article relates the biology of superantigens to possible mechanisms by which they may exert these activities and reviews the evidence for their roles in various human and animal models of autoimmune disease. Finally, a mechanism of active suppression by superantigen-activated CD4+ T-cells that could be exploited for therapy as well as prophylaxis of human autoimmune diseases is proposed.
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- S Macphail
- Department of Surgery, North Shore University Hospital, New York University School of Medicine and Cornell University Medical College, Manhasset, USA.
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Bertera S, Alexander A, Giannoukakis N, Robbins PD, Trucco M. Immunology of type 1 diabetes. Intervention and prevention strategies. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 1999; 28:841-64, x. [PMID: 10609123 DOI: 10.1016/s0889-8529(05)70105-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Type 1 diabetes is the outcome of a progressive and selective destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. The precise cause and mechanism(s) that trigger the insulin-producing cell destruction are still unclear, although it is well accepted that an autoimmune process plays a central role in diabetes development among genetically susceptible children. Additionally, certain viral infections, especially those caused by Coxsackievirus B, have been associated with the onset of type 1 diabetes. Possible gene therapy-based prevention and intervention strategies are discussed, based on the most accepted models of type 1 diabetes pathogenesis.
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- S Bertera
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA
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Dzuris JL, Zhu W, Kapkov D, Golovkina TV, Ross SR. Expression of mouse mammary tumor virus envelope protein does not prevent superinfection in vivo or in vitro. Virology 1999; 263:418-26. [PMID: 10544114 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Inbred mice expressing endogenous mouse mammary tumor virus envelope proteins can be infected with exogenous virus, and the mammary tumors that develop in these mice usually have many proviruses integrated in their genomes, indicating that this virus is not subject to receptor interference. We show here that transgenic mice expressing an exogenous mouse mammary tumor virus (C3H) envelope protein can still be infected with this virus. Moreover, cultured mammary gland cells expressing the mouse mammary tumor virus (C3H) envelope protein can be superinfected with pseudotyped viruses bearing that same protein. Thus cellular expression of the mouse mammary tumor virus envelope protein does not block superinfection in vivo or in vitro.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Line
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Female
- Mammary Glands, Animal/cytology
- Mammary Glands, Animal/metabolism
- Mammary Glands, Animal/pathology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/virology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Transgenic
- Proviruses/genetics
- Recombinant Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Retroviridae Infections/metabolism
- Retroviridae Infections/virology
- Superinfection/metabolism
- Superinfection/virology
- Transfection
- Transgenes/genetics
- Transgenes/physiology
- Tumor Virus Infections/metabolism
- Tumor Virus Infections/virology
- Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
- Viral Envelope Proteins/metabolism
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- J L Dzuris
- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6148, USA
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Barnett A, Mustafa F, Wrona TJ, Lozano M, Dudley JP. Expression of mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen mRNA in the thymus correlates with kinetics of self-reactive T-cell loss. J Virol 1999; 73:6634-45. [PMID: 10400761 PMCID: PMC112748 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.8.6634-6645.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) encodes a superantigen (Sag) that is expressed at the surface of antigen-presenting cells in conjunction with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) type II molecules. The Sag-MHC complex is recognized by entire subsets of T cells, leading to cytokine release and amplification of infected B and T cells that carry milk-borne MMTV to the mammary gland. Expression of Sag proteins from endogenous MMTV proviruses carried in the mouse germ line usually results in the deletion of self-reactive T cells during negative selection in the thymus and the elimination of T cells required for infection by specific milk-borne MMTVs. However, other endogenous MMTVs are unable to eliminate Sag-reactive T cells in newborn mice and cause partial loss of reactive T cells in adults. To investigate the kinetics of Sag-reactive T-cell deletion, backcross mice that contain single or multiple MMTVs were screened by a novel PCR assay designed to distinguish among highly related MMTV strains. Mice that contained Mtv-17 alone showed slow kinetics of reactive T-cell loss that involved the CD4(+), but not the CD8(+), subset. Deletion of CD4(+) or CD8(+) T cells reactive with Mtv-17 Sag was not detected in thymocytes. Slow kinetics of peripheral T-cell deletion by Mtv-17 Sag also was accompanied by failure to detect Mtv-17 sag-specific mRNA in the thymus, despite detectable expression in other tissues, such as spleen. Together, these data suggest that Mtv-17 Sag causes peripheral, rather than intrathymic, deletion of T cells. Interestingly, the Mtv-8 provirus caused partial deletion of CD4(+)Vbeta12(+) cells in the thymus, but other T-cell subsets appeared to be deleted only in the periphery. Our data have important implications for the level of antigen expression required for elimination of self-reactive T cells. Moreover, these experiments suggest that mice expressing endogenous MMTVs that lead to slow kinetics of T-cell deletion will be susceptible to infection by milk-borne MMTVs with the same Sag specificity.
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- A Barnett
- Department of Microbiology and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Dyson PJ, Elliott JI. Chronic deletion, escape from deletion and activation of mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen-reactive T cells in C57BL/10 mice. Eur J Immunol 1999; 29:1456-66. [PMID: 10359099 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199905)29:05<1456::aid-immu1456>3.0.co;2-d] [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: 12/20/2022]
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Though C57BL/10 mice express the mouse mammary tumor virus superantigens (sag) encoded by Mtv-8 and Mtv-9, it has been thought that these sag do not bind to the MHC class II molecule H2-Ab and consequently do not affect the T cell repertoire. However, we show that cells bearing TCR Vbeta chains specific for Mtv-8 and -9 sag are chronically deleted in C57BL/10 mice. Thymocytes and peripheral T cells escaping deletion by Mtv sag display a small reduction in the level of cell surface CD4. T cells escaping thymic deletion respond variably to endogenous Mtv sag with some, but not all, reactive populations appearing overrepresented in the activated/memory subset. The data suggest that in normal mice fine modulation of coreceptor expression levels may be a common way by which thymocytes escape elimination, that systems utilizing potentially Mtv sag-reactive TCR on a C57BL background may be inappropriate for the measurement of the affinity of TCR/MHC/peptide interactions required in thymic selection, and that detection of the activity of human sag may be aided by analysis of CD4 levels and activation markers on T cells in conjunction with studies of the frequency of cells bearing specific TCRVbeta chains.
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- P J Dyson
- Transplantation Biology Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, GB
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Acha-Orbea H, Finke D, Attinger A, Schmid S, Wehrli N, Vacheron S, Xenarios I, Scarpellino L, Toellner KM, MacLennan IC, Luther SA. Interplays between mouse mammary tumor virus and the cellular and humoral immune response. Immunol Rev 1999; 168:287-303. [PMID: 10399081 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1999.tb01299.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Mouse mammary tumor virus has developed strategies to exploit the immune response. It requires vigorous immune stimulation to achieve efficient infection. The infected antigen-presenting cells present a viral superantigen on the cell surface which stimulates strong CD4-mediated T-cell help but CD8 T-cell responses are undetectable. Despite the high frequency of superantigen-reactive T cells, the superantigen-induced immune response is comparable to classical antigen responses in terms of T-cell priming, T-cell-B-cell collaboration as well as follicular and extra-follicular B-cell differentiation. Induction of systemic anergy is observed, similar to classical antigen responses where antigen is administered systemically but does not influence the role of the superantigen-reactive T cells in the maintenance of the chronic germinal center reaction. So far we have been unable to detect a cytotoxic T-cell response to mouse mammary tumor virus peptide antigens or to the superantigen. This might yet represent another step in the viral infection strategy.
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- H Acha-Orbea
- Ludwing Institute of Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland.
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Buggiano V, Goldman A, Nepomnaschy I, Bekinschtein P, Berguer P, Lombardi G, Deroche A, Francisco MV, Piazzon I. Characterization of two infectious mouse mammary tumour viruses: superantigenicity and tumorigenicity. Scand J Immunol 1999; 49:269-77. [PMID: 10102644 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1999.00502.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Mouse mammary tumour virus (MMTV) is a type B retrovirus that causes mammary tumours in susceptible mice. MMTV encodes a superantigen (SAg) that has the property of stimulating T-cell populations expressing a particular variable region of the T-cell receptor (TCR) beta chain (Vbeta) and needs to be presented in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules. Previously, we described two exogenous MMTV, MMTV BALB14, which encodes a superantigen that induces the deletion of Vbeta14+ Tcells, and MMTV BALB2, which encodes a SAg that induces the deletion of Vbeta2+ Tcells. We now describe their biological activity: the deletions involve both CD4+ and CD8+ populations, are progressive and can be detected in blood, lymph nodes and spleen. Such deletions reflect, at least in part, those occurring during intrathymic development. Both BALB2 and BALB14 viral variants are capable of inducing a strong increase of Vbeta-specific T cells in BALB/c mice (I-A+, I-E+). However, when injected into the footpad, their initial stimulatory capacity differs in that the presence of MHC I-E molecules is essential only for the stimulation of Vbeta2+ T cells. Both viral variants are able to induce deletion even in the absence of the I-E molecule in which case, however, deletion appears later and is less pronounced. Both exogenous MMTVs induce, at the end of a year, 30-35% of pregnancy-dependent mammary adenocarcinomas.
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MESH Headings
- Adenocarcinoma/etiology
- Adenocarcinoma/immunology
- Animals
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/etiology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/immunology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/pathogenicity
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic/etiology
- Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Retroviridae Infections/etiology
- Retroviridae Infections/immunology
- Superantigens/genetics
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Tumor Virus Infections/etiology
- Tumor Virus Infections/immunology
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- V Buggiano
- Division Medicina Experimental, Instituto de Investigaciones Hematologicas, Academia Nacional de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Dawkins R, Leelayuwat C, Gaudieri S, Tay G, Hui J, Cattley S, Martinez P, Kulski J. Genomics of the major histocompatibility complex: haplotypes, duplication, retroviruses and disease. Immunol Rev 1999; 167:275-304. [PMID: 10319268 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1999.tb01399.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 228] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The genomic region encompassing the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) contains polymorphic frozen blocks which have developed by local imperfect sequential duplication associated with insertion and deletion (indels). In the alpha block surrounding HLA-A, there are ten duplication units or beads on the 62.1 ancestral haplotype. Each bead contains or contained sequences representing Class I, PERB11 (MHC Class I chain related (MIC) and human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) 16. Here we consider explanations for co-occurrence of genomic polymorphism, duplication and HERVs and we ask how these features encode susceptibility to numerous and very diverse diseases. Ancestral haplotypes differ in their copy number and indels in addition to their coding regions. Disease susceptibility could be a function of all of these differences. We propose a model of the evolution of the human MHC. Population-specific integration of retroviral sequences could explain rapid diversification through duplication and differential disease susceptibility. If HERV sequences can be protective, there are exciting prospects for manipulation. In the meanwhile, it will be necessary to understand the function of MHC genes such as PERB11 (MIC) and many others discovered by genomic sequencing.
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- R Dawkins
- Centre for Molecular Immunology and Instrumentation, University of Western Australia, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands, Australia.
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Louzir H, Dellagi K. Les leishmanioses: un modèle d'étude des interactions hôte-parasite; implications pour la maladie humaine. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0924-4204(99)80023-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Qin W, Golovkina TV, Peng T, Nepomnaschy I, Buggiano V, Piazzon I, Ross SR. Mammary gland expression of mouse mammary tumor virus is regulated by a novel element in the long terminal repeat. J Virol 1999; 73:368-76. [PMID: 9847341 PMCID: PMC103842 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.1.368-376.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) infects both lymphoid tissue and lactating mammary gland during its infectious cycle, but some endogenous MMTVs are transcribed only in lymphoid cells. We found a lymphoid cell-specific endogenous MMTV that was converted to a milk-borne, infectious virus through recombination with an exogenously transmitted MMTV. The changed expression pattern correlated with the alteration of a single base pair in the long terminal repeat of the lymphoid cell-specific virus. Transgenic mice with the element from either the milk-borne or lymphoid cell-specific virus upstream of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene showed the same pattern of expression as the virus from which the regulatory sequences were derived. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays with mammary cell extracts showed that the site from the milk-borne virus was preferentially bound by a prolactin-inducible factor that poorly bound the altered site from the lymphoid cell-specific virus. The complex that formed on the milk-borne virus-specific oligonucleotide supershifted with anti-Stat5b antibody. Mice lacking either Stat5a or Stat5b had dramatically reduced levels of MMTV transcripts in mammary gland but not in lymphoid tissue. Thus, a member of the STAT family of transcription factors is involved in the tissue-specific expression of mouse mammary tumor virus in vivo. This is the first example of the involvement of a member of the STAT family of transcription factors in the control of tissue-specific expression.
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- W Qin
- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6142, USA
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In the second half of the 20th century, the transplantation of replacement organs and tissues to cure disease has become a clinical reality. Success has been achieved as a direct result of progress in understanding the cellular and molecular biology of the immune system. This understanding has led to the development of immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals that are part of nearly every transplantation procedure. All such drugs are toxic to some degree, however, and their chronic use, mandatory in transplantation, predisposes the patient to the development of infection and cancer. In addition, many of them may have deleterious long-term effects on the function of grafts. New immunosuppressive agents are constantly under development, but organ transplantation remains a therapy that requires patients to choose between the risks of their primary illness and its treatment on the one hand, and the risks of life-long systemic immunosuppression on the other. Alternatives to immunosuppression include modulation of donor grafts to reduce immunogenicity, removal of passenger leukocytes, transplantation into immunologically privileged sites like the testis or thymus, encapsulation of tissue, and the induction of a state of immunologic tolerance. It is the last of these alternatives that has, perhaps, the most promise and most generic applicability as a future therapy. Recent reports documenting long-term graft survival in the absence of immunosuppression suggest that tolerance-based therapies may soon become a clinical reality. Of particular interest to our laboratory are transplantation strategies that focus on the induction of donor-specific T-cell unresponsiveness. The basic biology, protocols, experimental outcomes, and clinical implications of tolerance-based transplantation are the focus of this review.
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- A A Rossini
- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Gagne S, Thibodeau L, Lamontagne L. Clonal deletion of some V beta+ T cells in peripheral lymphocytes from C57BL/6 mice infected with MHV3. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1998; 440:485-9. [PMID: 9782319 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5331-1_62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Mouse hepatitis virus type 3 infection is generally accompanied by a severe immune dysfunction involving thymic or splenic T cell subpopulations. We postulate that the peripheral lymphoid cell depletions were caused by a selective deletion of some V beta subsets of mature T cells, as observed with superantigens. We have examined the expression of V beta 6, V beta 8 and V beta 14 in T cell subpopulations from the spleen and lymph nodes of pathogenic L2-MHV3-infected C57BL/6 mice. Cytofluorometric study showed decreases in splenic V beta 8+, V beta 6+, and V beta 14+ T cell subpopulations at 72 hrs post-infection. Single positive CD4+ T cells were diminushed but not the CD8+ cells. In contrast, the various V beta splenic cell populations were not modified in mice infected with a non- pathogenic YAC-MHV3 variant. However, the V beta 8/CD4 ratio increased in splenic cells but decreased in lymphocytes from lymph nodes. The V beta 14/CD4 ratio decreased only in splenic cells while V beta 6/CD4 ratios were not modified. These results suggest that alterations in V beta cell populations may play a role in the L2-MHV3-induced immunodeficiency.
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- S Gagne
- Centre de Recherche en Virologie, Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada
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Maillard I, Xenarios I, Diggelmann H, Orbea HA. Differential reactivity of TCR Vbeta10 alleles to a mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:3075-85. [PMID: 9808176 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199810)28:10<3075::aid-immu3075>3.0.co;2-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) expresses a superantigen (SAg) which plays a critical role in the viral life cycle. We have recently described the new infectious MMTV (SIM) encoding a Vbeta4-specific SAg in mice with a TCR-Vbeta(b) haplotype. We have now compared the SAg activity of this virus in BALB/c mice harboring the TCR-Vbeta(a), TCR-Vbeta(b) or TCR-Vbeta(c) haplotypes which differ by a central deletion in the TCR-Vbeta(a) and TCR-Vbeta(c) locus and by mutations in some of the remaining Vbeta elements. Injection of MMTV (SIM) led to a strong stimulation of Vbeta4+ CD4+ T cells in TCR-Vbeta(b) mice, but only to a weak stimulation of these cells in TCR-Vbeta(a) or TCR-Vbeta(c) mice. A large increase in the percentage of Vbeta10+ cells was observed among CD4+ T cells in mice with the Vbeta(a) or Vbeta(c), but not the Vbeta(b) TCR-Vbeta haplotype. Vbeta10+ cells dominated the response when Vbeta10(a/c) and Vbeta4 subsets were present together. This is the first report of a viral SAg interacting with murine Vbeta10+ cells. Six amino acid differences between Vbeta10(a/c) and Vbeta10(b) could account for the gain of reactivity of Vbeta10(a/c) to the MMTV(SIM) SAg. No mutations were found in the hypervariable region 4 (HV4) of the TCR. Mutations at positions 22 and 28 introduce into Vbeta10(a/c) the same amino acids which are found at these positions in the MMTV(SIM)-reactive Vbeta4. Tridimensional models indicated that these amino acids lie close to HV4 and are likely to be important for the interaction of the SAg with the TCR.
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MESH Headings
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Haplotypes
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Protein Conformation
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Superantigens/immunology
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- I Maillard
- Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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Duboise M, Guo J, Czajak S, Lee H, Veazey R, Desrosiers RC, Jung JU. A role for herpesvirus saimiri orf14 in transformation and persistent infection. J Virol 1998; 72:6770-6. [PMID: 9658125 PMCID: PMC109885 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.8.6770-6776.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/1998] [Accepted: 05/14/1998] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The product of open reading frame 14 (orf14) of herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) exhibits significant homology with mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen. orf14 encodes a 50-kDa secreted glycoprotein, as shown previously (Z. Yao, E. Maraskovsky, M. K. Spriggs, J. I. Cohen, R. J. Armitage, and M. R. Alderson, J. Immunol. 156:3260-3266, 1996). orf14 expressed from recombinant baculovirus powerfully induces proliferation of CD4-positive cells originating from several different species. To study the role of orf14 in transformation, a mutant form of HVS (HVS Deltaorf14) was constructed with a deletion in the orf14 gene. The transforming potential of HVS Deltaorf14 was tested in cell culture and in common marmosets. Parental HVS subgroup C strain 488 immortalized common marmoset T lymphocytes in vitro to interleukin-2-independent growth, while the HVS Deltaorf14 mutant did not produce such a growth transformation. In addition, HVS Deltaorf14 was nononcogenic in common marmosets. In contrast to other nononcogenic HVS mutant viruses which were repeatedly isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of infected marmosets for more than 5 months, HVS Deltaorf14 did not persist at a high level in vivo. These results demonstrate that orf14 of HVS is not required for replication but is required for transformation and for high-level persistence in vivo.
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- M Duboise
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102, USA
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Turner SJ, Carbone FR. A dominant V beta bias in the CTL response after HSV-1 infection is determined by peptide residues predicted to also interact with the TCR beta-chain CDR3. Mol Immunol 1998; 35:307-16. [PMID: 9747890 DOI: 10.1016/s0161-5890(98)00051-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Many T cell responses are dominated by restricted TCR expression and can range from repeated usage of particular TCR Vbeta- and/or Valpha-elements, to the preferential usage of both V- and J-elements, often in conjunction with conserved V-D-J or V-J junctional sequences. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes specific for a Kb-restricted determinant from the herpes simplex virus glycoprotein B (gB) preferentially express a dominant TCRBV10 beta-chain with sequence conservation of a tryptophan-glycine located in the V-D junction. Here we have examined whether immunisation of C57BL/6 mice with the gB-peptide can mimic the CTL response seen after HSV-1 infection. Immunisation with the gB-peptide resulted in the generation of gB-specific CTL that showed a similar TCRBV10 bias to that observed after HSV-1 infection. When the gB-determinant was expressed as a part of a fusion protein, immunised mice again exhibited the TCRBV10 bias with the junctional sequence conservation in the responding CTL. C57BL/6 mice were then immunised with variants of the gB-peptide that contained amino acid substitutions at positions previously predicted to contact the TCR beta-chain CDR3. Analysis of the TCRBV usage of variant specific CTL lines showed that substitutions at the TCR-contact positions 4, 6 and 7 of the gB-peptide resulted in a loss of the TCRBV10 bias. These results suggest that the TCRBV10 bias seen in gB-specific CTL after HSV-1 infection is due to antigenic selection by the minimal peptide and is determined by residues proposed to contact the TCR beta-chain CDR3.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/biosynthesis
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/chemistry
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/immunology
- Immunization
- Immunodominant Epitopes/biosynthesis
- Immunodominant Epitopes/chemistry
- Ligands
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/biosynthesis
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism
- Thymoma
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
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- S J Turner
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Monash Medical School, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
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Maillard I, Launois P, Xenarios I, Louis JA, Acha-Orbea H, Diggelmann H. Immune response to mouse mammary tumor virus in mice lacking the alpha/beta interferon or the gamma interferon receptor. J Virol 1998; 72:2638-46. [PMID: 9525580 PMCID: PMC109703 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.4.2638-2646.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/1997] [Accepted: 12/19/1997] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a retrovirus which induces a strong immune response and a dramatic increase in the number of infected cells through the expression of a superantigen (SAg). Many cytokines are likely to be involved in the interaction between MMTV and the immune system. In particular, alpha/beta interferon (IFN-alpha/beta) and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) exert many antiviral and immunomodulatory activities and play a critical role in other viral infections. In this study, we have investigated the importance of interferons during MMTV infection by using mice with a disrupted IFN-alpha/beta or IFN-gamma receptor gene. We found that the SAg response to MMTV was not modified in IFN-alpha/betaR(0/0) and IFN-gammaR(0/0) mice. This was true both for the early expansion of B and T cells induced by the SAg and for the deletion of SAg-reactive cells at later stages of the infection. In addition, no increase in the amount of proviral DNA was detected in tissues of IFN-alpha/betaR(0/0) and IFN-gammaR(0/0) mice, suggesting that interferons are not essential antiviral defense mechanisms during MMTV infection. In contrast, IFN-gammaR(0/0) mice had increased amounts of IL-4 mRNA and an altered usage of immunoglobulin isotypes with a reduced frequency of IgG2a- and IgG3-producing cells. This was associated with lower titers of virus-specific antibodies in serum early after infection, although efficient titers were reached later.
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- I Maillard
- Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a retrovirus that is transmitted through milk to offspring. Gut-associated B cells are the first cells to be infected during virus transmission, and these cells present a virus-encoded superantigen to cognate T cells. This allows MMTV to replicate and amplify in activated lymphocytes and ultimately results in virus transmission to the mammary epithelial cells. Because the superantigen has profound effects on the T cell repertoire and because MMTV replicates in lymphoid cells, loss of immune response to the virus may also play a role in its ability to persist within its host. Transcriptional control of MMTV expression also plays an important part in this pathway and DNA recognition sequences for transcription factors that allow its expression in lymphoid organs and mammary epithelia are encoded within the virus. Thus, this virus has evolved to take maximum advantage of its host's biology.
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- S R Ross
- Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6142, USA.
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Vacheron S, Renno T, Acha-Orbea H. A highly sensitive in vitro infection assay to explore early stages of mouse mammary tumor virus infection. J Virol 1997; 71:7289-94. [PMID: 9311804 PMCID: PMC192071 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.10.7289-7294.1997] [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: 02/05/2023] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) infection of adult mice induces a strong response to superantigen (Sag) in their draining lymph nodes, which results from the presentation of Sag by MMTV-infected B cells to Sag-reactive T cells. To date, infection with physiologically relevant doses of MMTV can be detected in vivo only after several days of Sag-mediated T-cell-dependent amplification of infected B cells. Furthermore, no efficient in vitro system of detecting MMTV infection is available. Such a model would allow the dissection of the early phase of infection, the assessment of the contributions of different cell types, and the screening of large panels of molecules for their potential roles in infection and Sag response. For these reasons, we have established an in vitro model for detecting infection which is as sensitive and reproducible as the in vivo model. We found that the viral envelope (Env) protein is crucial for target cell infection but not for presentation of Sag. Furthermore, we show that infection of purified B cells with MMTV induces entry of Sag-responsive T cells into the cell cycle, while other professional antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells, are much less efficient in inducing a response.
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- S Vacheron
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland
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Ardavin C, Luthi F, Andersson M, Scarpellino L, Martin P, Diggelmann H, Acha-Orbea H. Retrovirus-induced target cell activation in the early phases of infection: the mouse mammary tumor virus model. J Virol 1997; 71:7295-9. [PMID: 9311805 PMCID: PMC192072 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.10.7295-7299.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) infects B lymphocytes and expresses a superantigen on the cell surface after integration of its reverse-transcribed genome. Superantigen-dependent B- and T-cell activation becomes detectable 2 to 3 days after infection. We show here that before this event, B cells undergo a polyclonal activation which does not involve massive proliferation. This first phase of B-cell activation is T cell independent. Moreover, during the first phase of activation, when only a small fraction of B cells is infected by MMTV(SW), viral DNA is detected only in activated B cells. Such a B-cell activation is also seen after injection of murine leukemia virus but not after injection of vaccinia virus, despite the very similar kinetics and intensity of the immune response. Since retroviruses require activated target cells to induce efficient infection, these data suggest that the early polyclonal retrovirus-induced target cell activation might play an important role in the establishment of retroviral infections.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/virology
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/biosynthesis
- Female
- Genome, Viral
- Kinetics
- Lymph Nodes/immunology
- Lymph Nodes/virology
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/immunology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/virology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/pathogenicity
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Mice, Nude
- Milk/virology
- Retroviridae Infections/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/virology
- Time Factors
- Tumor Virus Infections/immunology
- Virus Integration
- Virus Replication
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- C Ardavin
- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Xu L, Wrona TJ, Dudley JP. Strain-specific expression of spliced MMTV RNAs containing the superantigen gene. Virology 1997; 236:54-65. [PMID: 9299617 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The transmission of milk-borne or exogenous mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) requires infection of B cells in the gut-associated lymphoid tissue and expression of the superantigen (Sag) protein at the B-cell surface. Presentation of Sag at the B-cell surface is required for the transmission of MMTV to T cells and subsequent infection of the target mammary gland tissue. Because several different promoters have been reported for MMTV sag mRNA expression, we investigated whether the detection of spliced sag RNAs was dependent upon the cell type infected or the particular MMTV strain examined. In this study, we detected expression of spliced sag RNA from the standard promoter and from an internal U3 promoter in B-cell lines expressing endogenous Mtv-6 by RT-PCR, although expression from the standard promoter appeared to be at least 10-fold higher than that observed from the internal U3 promoter. Sag RNA originating from exogenous C3H MMTV was not observed from either of the U3 promoters in any cell type examined. However, spliced mRNAs containing the exogenous C3H MMTV, endogenous Mtv-8, or endogenous Mtv-17 sag genes could be detected from a previously described promoter in the envelope coding region regardless of the cell type infected. Because sag-specific RNAs can be initiated independently of the LTR promoters, there may be selection for independent control of MMTV sag and structural gene expression.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Viral/genetics
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/virology
- Base Sequence
- Consensus Sequence
- Exons
- Genes, Viral
- Genes, env
- Genes, pol
- Introns
- Lymphoma, B-Cell
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Proviruses/genetics
- Proviruses/physiology
- RNA Splicing
- RNA, Viral/biosynthesis
- Sequence Alignment
- Superantigens/biosynthesis
- Superantigens/genetics
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/virology
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- L Xu
- Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Intrathymic expression of endogenous mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)–encoded superantigens (SAg) induces the clonal deletion of T cells bearing SAg-reactive T-cell receptor (TCR) Vβ elements. However, the identity of the thymic antigen-presenting cells (APC) involved in the induction of SAg tolerance remains to be defined. We have analyzed the potential of dendritic cells (DC) to mediate the clonal deletion of Mtv-7-reactive TCR αβ P14 transgenic thymocytes in an in vitro assay. Our results show that both thymic and splenic DC induced the deletion of TCR transgenic double positive (DP) thymocytes. DC appear to be more efficient than splenic B cells as negatively selecting APC in this experimental system. Interestingly, thymic and splenic DC display a differential ability to induce CD4+SP thymocyte proliferation. These observations suggest that thymic DC may have an important role in the induction of SAg tolerance in vivo.
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Conrad B, Weissmahr RN, Böni J, Arcari R, Schüpbach J, Mach B. A human endogenous retroviral superantigen as candidate autoimmune gene in type I diabetes. Cell 1997; 90:303-13. [PMID: 9244304 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80338-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Microbial superantigens (SAGs) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of human autoimmune diseases. Preferential expansion of the Vveta7 T cell receptor positive T cell subset in patients suffering from acute-onset type I diabetes has indicated the presence of a surface membrane-bound SAG. Here, we have isolated a novel mouse mammary tumor virus-related human endogenous retrovirus. We further show that the N-terminal moiety of the envelope gene encodes an MHC class II-dependent SAG. We propose that expression of this SAG, induced in extrapancreatic and professional antigen-presenting cells, leads to beta-cell destruction via the systemic activation of autoreactive T cells. The SAG encoded by this novel retrovirus thus constitutes a candidate autoimmune gene in type I diabetes.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Autoantibodies/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/cytology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/virology
- Genome, Viral
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Islets of Langerhans/virology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/classification
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/enzymology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/metabolism
- Superantigens/genetics
- Superantigens/immunology
- Viral Envelope Proteins/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- B Conrad
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
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Onoé K, Arase N, Arase H, Takayanagi T, Nishihori H, Iwabuchi K, Ogasawara K, Good RA. Influence of graft versus host reaction on the T cell repertoire differentiating from bone marrow precursors following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Transpl Immunol 1997; 5:75-82. [PMID: 9269028 DOI: 10.1016/s0966-3274(97)80046-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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When lethally irradiated AKR (Mls-1a) mice were reconstituted with bone marrow (BM) cells plus a small number (0.5%) of mature T cells from allogeneic B10.AQR or B10 (Mls-1b) mice and minor GVHR was induced in the recipients, almost complete donor chimerism was accomplished in the early stages after reconstitution. By contrast, in irradiated AKR mice reconstituted with T cell-depleted BM cells alone from B10 or B10.AQR mice, radio-resistant T cells of recipient origin persisted for a relatively long period in peripheral lymphoid tissues. In this paper the influence of residual T cells in the chimeric mice on generation of the T cell repertoire derived from donor BM is discussed. It will be demonstrated that the recipient (AKR) T cells are capable of producing Mls-1a antigens (Ag) after lethal irradiation in vivo. These recipient T cells eventually induce clonal elimination of Mls-1a reactive V beta 6+, V beta 8.1+ and V beta 9+ T cells derived from developing thymocytes of donor BM origin. The Mls-1a reactive T cells are not eliminated in GVHR chimeras in which recipient T cells are absent. However, V beta 5+ T cells reactive to I-E plus Etc-1 Ag are deleted in the chimeras undergoing GVHR. These results indicate that recipient cells which produce tissue-specific antigens (tolerogens) should be taken into consideration when generation of the T cell repertoire of donor origin following allogeneic BM transplantation is investigated.
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- K Onoé
- Institute of Immunological Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Golovkina TV, Piazzon I, Nepomnaschy I, Buggiano V, de Olano Vela M, Ross SR. Generation of a tumorigenic milk-borne mouse mammary tumor virus by recombination between endogenous and exogenous viruses. J Virol 1997; 71:3895-903. [PMID: 9094666 PMCID: PMC191541 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.5.3895-3903.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Two novel exogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses (MMTV), BALB2 and BALB14, that encode superantigens (Sags) with Vbeta2+ and Vbeta14+ specificities, respectively, were found in the BALB/cT mouse strain. BALB/cT females were crossed with AKR/J males to generate F1 females. Foster nursing of BALB/cT mice on (BALB/cT x AKR/J)F1 mothers resulted in the generation of a new mouse strain, BALB/cLA, that had acquired a new exogenous MMTV (hereafter called LA) with a Vbeta6+/Vbeta8.1+-T-cell-specific Sag. Sequence analysis of the long terminal repeats of the BALB2, BALB14, and LA viruses indicated that LA virus resulted from recombination between BALB14 and the endogenous Mtv-7 provirus. Mtv-7 is expressed only in lymphoid tissues but not the mammary glands of Mtv-7-containing mouse strains such as AKR. In contrast, LA virus was highly expressed in the mammary gland, although it had the sag-specific region from Mtv-7. The LA virus, as well as different recombinant viruses expressed in the mammary glands of (BALB/cT x AKR/J)F1 mice, acquired a specific DNA sequence from BALB14 virus that is required for the mammary-gland-specific expression of MMTV. Since the Sag encoded by LA virus strongly stimulated cognate T cells in vivo, selection for recombinant virus with the Mtv-7 sag most likely occurred because the increased T-cell proliferation resulted in greater lymphoid and mammary gland cell infection. As a result of the higher virus titer, 80% of BALB/cLA females developed mammary gland tumors, although the incidence was only 40% in BALB/cT mice.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Female
- Male
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/etiology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred AKR
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Milk/virology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/analysis
- Recombination, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Superantigens/chemistry
- Superantigens/genetics
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- T V Golovkina
- Department of Microbiology/Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6142, USA
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