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Van Der Byl W, Nüssing S, Peters TJ, Ahn A, Li H, Ledergor G, David E, Koh AS, Wagle MV, Deguit CDT, de Menezes MN, Travers A, Sampurno S, Ramsbottom KM, Li R, Kallies A, Beavis PA, Jungmann R, Bastings MMC, Belz GT, Goel S, Trapani JA, Crabtree GR, Chang HY, Amit I, Goodnow CC, Luciani F, Parish IA. The CD8 + T cell tolerance checkpoint triggers a distinct differentiation state defined by protein translation defects. Immunity 2024:S1074-7613(24)00231-0. [PMID: 38776918 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2024.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
Abstract
Peripheral CD8+ T cell tolerance is a checkpoint in both autoimmune disease and anti-cancer immunity. Despite its importance, the relationship between tolerance-induced states and other CD8+ T cell differentiation states remains unclear. Using flow cytometric phenotyping, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), and chromatin accessibility profiling, we demonstrated that in vivo peripheral tolerance to a self-antigen triggered a fundamentally distinct differentiation state separate from exhaustion, memory, and functional effector cells but analogous to cells defectively primed against tumors. Tolerant cells diverged early and progressively from effector cells, adopting a transcriptionally and epigenetically distinct state within 60 h of antigen encounter. Breaching tolerance required the synergistic actions of strong T cell receptor (TCR) signaling and inflammation, which cooperatively induced gene modules that enhanced protein translation. Weak TCR signaling during bystander infection failed to breach tolerance due to the uncoupling of effector gene expression from protein translation. Thus, tolerance engages a distinct differentiation trajectory enforced by protein translation defects.
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- Willem Van Der Byl
- The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia; University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia; John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
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- Institute of Materials, School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Interfaculty Bioengineering Institute, School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- The Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Departments of Pathology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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Blander JM, Yee Mon KJ, Jha A, Roycroft D. The show and tell of cross-presentation. Adv Immunol 2023; 159:33-114. [PMID: 37996207 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ai.2023.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
Abstract
Cross-presentation is the culmination of complex subcellular processes that allow the processing of exogenous proteins and the presentation of resultant peptides on major histocompatibility class I (MHC-I) molecules to CD8 T cells. Dendritic cells (DCs) are a cell type that uniquely specializes in cross-presentation, mainly in the context of viral or non-viral infection and cancer. DCs have an extensive network of endovesicular pathways that orchestrate the biogenesis of an ideal cross-presentation compartment where processed antigen, MHC-I molecules, and the MHC-I peptide loading machinery all meet. As a central conveyor of information to CD8 T cells, cross-presentation allows cross-priming of T cells which carry out robust adaptive immune responses for tumor and viral clearance. Cross-presentation can be canonical or noncanonical depending on the functional status of the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP), which in turn influences the vesicular route of MHC-I delivery to internalized antigen and the cross-presented repertoire of peptides. Because TAP is a central node in MHC-I presentation, it is targeted by immune evasive viruses and cancers. Thus, understanding the differences between canonical and noncanonical cross-presentation may inform new therapeutic avenues against cancer and infectious disease. Defects in cross-presentation on a cellular and genetic level lead to immune-related disease progression, recurrent infection, and cancer progression. In this chapter, we review the process of cross-presentation beginning with the DC subsets that conduct cross-presentation, the signals that regulate cross-presentation, the vesicular trafficking pathways that orchestrate cross-presentation, the modes of cross-presentation, and ending with disease contexts where cross-presentation plays a role.
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- J Magarian Blander
- Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States; Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States; Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Programs, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States.
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- Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States; Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States; Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States; Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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Brown H, Komnick MR, Brigleb PH, Dermody TS, Esterházy D. Lymph node sharing between pancreas, gut, and liver leads to immune crosstalk and regulation of pancreatic autoimmunity. Immunity 2023; 56:2070-2085.e11. [PMID: 37557168 PMCID: PMC11040372 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Lymph nodes (LNs) are critical sites for shaping tissue-specific adaptive immunity. However, the impact of LN sharing between multiple organs on such tailoring is less understood. Here, we describe the drainage hierarchy of the pancreas, liver, and the upper small intestine (duodenum) into three murine LNs. Migratory dendritic cells (migDCs), key in instructing adaptive immune outcome, exhibited stronger pro-inflammatory signatures when originating from the pancreas or liver than from the duodenum. Qualitatively different migDC mixing in each shared LN influenced pancreatic β-cell-reactive T cells to acquire gut-homing and tolerogenic phenotypes proportional to duodenal co-drainage. However, duodenal viral infections rendered non-intestinal migDCs and β-cell-reactive T cells more pro-inflammatory in all shared LNs, resulting in elevated pancreatic islet lymphocyte infiltration. Our study uncovers immune crosstalk through LN co-drainage as a powerful force regulating pancreatic autoimmunity.
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- Hailey Brown
- Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Institute of Infection, Inflammation, and Immunity, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Institute of Infection, Inflammation, and Immunity, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Carbone FR, Mackay LK. Functional T cell tolerance by peripheral tissue-based checkpoint control. Nat Immunol 2023; 24:1224-1225. [PMID: 37474656 DOI: 10.1038/s41590-023-01574-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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- Francis R Carbone
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
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Tsyklauri O, Chadimova T, Niederlova V, Kovarova J, Michalik J, Malatova I, Janusova S, Ivashchenko O, Rossez H, Drobek A, Vecerova H, Galati V, Kovar M, Stepanek O. Regulatory T cells suppress the formation of potent KLRK1 and IL-7R expressing effector CD8 T cells by limiting IL-2. eLife 2023; 12:79342. [PMID: 36705564 PMCID: PMC9977273 DOI: 10.7554/elife.79342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are indispensable for maintaining self-tolerance by suppressing conventional T cells. On the other hand, Tregs promote tumor growth by inhibiting anticancer immunity. In this study, we identified that Tregs increase the quorum of self-reactive CD8+ T cells required for the induction of experimental autoimmune diabetes in mice. Their major suppression mechanism is limiting available IL-2, an essential T-cell cytokine. Specifically, Tregs inhibit the formation of a previously uncharacterized subset of antigen-stimulated KLRK1+ IL-7R+ (KILR) CD8+ effector T cells, which are distinct from conventional effector CD8+ T cells. KILR CD8+ T cells show superior cell-killing abilities in vivo. The administration of agonistic IL-2 immunocomplexes phenocopies the absence of Tregs, i.e., it induces KILR CD8+ T cells, promotes autoimmunity, and enhances antitumor responses in mice. Counterparts of KILR CD8+ T cells were found in the human blood, revealing them as a potential target for immunotherapy.
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- Oksana Tsyklauri
- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
- Faculty of Science, Charles UniversityPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
- Faculty of Science, Charles UniversityPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
- Faculty of Science, Charles UniversityPragueCzech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital of BaselBaselSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital of BaselBaselSwitzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesPragueCzech Republic
- Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital of BaselBaselSwitzerland
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Paprckova D, Niederlova V, Moudra A, Drobek A, Pribikova M, Janusova S, Schober K, Neuwirth A, Michalik J, Huranova M, Horkova V, Cesnekova M, Simova M, Prochazka J, Balounova J, Busch DH, Sedlacek R, Schwarzer M, Stepanek O. Self-reactivity of CD8 T-cell clones determines their differentiation status rather than their responsiveness in infections. Front Immunol 2022; 13:1009198. [PMID: 36275704 PMCID: PMC9582129 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1009198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Mature T cells are selected for recognizing self-antigens with low to intermediate affinity in the thymus. Recently, the relative differences in self-reactivity among individual T-cell clones were appreciated as important factors regulating their fate and immune response, but the role of self-reactivity in T-cell biology is incompletely understood. We addressed the role of self-reactivity in T-cell diversity by generating an atlas of mouse peripheral CD8+ T cells, which revealed two unconventional populations of antigen-inexperienced T cells. In the next step, we examined the steady-state phenotype of monoclonal T cells with various levels of self-reactivity. Highly self-reactive clones preferentially differentiate into antigen-inexperienced memory-like cells, but do not form a population expressing type I interferon-induced genes, showing that these two subsets have unrelated origins. The functional comparison of naïve monoclonal CD8+ T cells specific to the identical model antigen did not show any correlation between the level of self-reactivity and the magnitude of the immune response.
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- Darina Paprckova
- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Laboratory of Immunity & Cell Communication, BIOCEV, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Vestec, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Mikrobiologisches Institut – Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czechia
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- Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czechia
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- Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czechia
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Gnotobiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Novy Hradek, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- *Correspondence: Ondrej Stepanek,
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Lancaster JN, Keatinge‐Clay DE, Srinivasan J, Li Y, Selden HJ, Nam S, Richie ER, Ehrlich LIR. Central tolerance is impaired in the middle-aged thymic environment. Aging Cell 2022; 21:e13624. [PMID: 35561351 PMCID: PMC9197411 DOI: 10.1111/acel.13624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
One of the earliest hallmarks of immune aging is thymus involution, which not only reduces the number of newly generated and exported T cells, but also alters the composition and organization of the thymus microenvironment. Thymic T‐cell export continues into adulthood, yet the impact of thymus involution on the quality of newly generated T‐cell clones is not well established. Notably, the number and proportion of medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) and expression of tissue‐restricted antigens (TRAs) decline with age, suggesting the involuting thymus may not promote efficient central tolerance. Here, we demonstrate that the middle‐aged thymic environment does not support rapid motility of medullary thymocytes, potentially diminishing their ability to scan antigen presenting cells (APCs) that display the diverse self‐antigens that induce central tolerance. Consistent with this possibility, thymic slice assays reveal that the middle‐aged thymic environment does not support efficient negative selection or regulatory T‐cell (Treg) induction of thymocytes responsive to either TRAs or ubiquitous self‐antigens. This decline in central tolerance is not universal, but instead impacts lower‐avidity self‐antigens that are either less abundant or bind to TCRs with moderate affinities. Additionally, the decline in thymic tolerance by middle age is accompanied by both a reduction in mTECs and hematopoietic APC subsets that cooperate to drive central tolerance. Thus, age‐associated changes in the thymic environment result in impaired central tolerance against moderate‐avidity self‐antigens, potentially resulting in export of increasingly autoreactive naive T cells, with a deficit of Treg counterparts by middle age.
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- Jessica N. Lancaster
- Department of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
- Department of Oncology Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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Bourque J, Hawiger D. Variegated Outcomes of T Cell Activation by Dendritic Cells in the Steady State. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2022; 208:539-547. [PMID: 35042789 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Conventional dendritic cells (cDC) control adaptive immunity by sensing damage- and pathogen-associated molecular patterns and then inducing defined differentiation programs in T cells. Nevertheless, in the absence of specific proimmunogenic innate signals, generally referred to as the steady state, cDC also activate T cells to induce specific functional fates. Consistent with the maintenance of homeostasis, such specific outcomes of T cell activation in the steady state include T cell clonal anergy, deletion, and conversion of peripheral regulatory T cells (pTregs). However, the robust induction of protolerogenic mechanisms must be reconciled with the initiation of autoimmune responses and cancer immunosurveillance that are also observed under homeostatic conditions. Here we review the diversity of fates and functions of T cells involved in the opposing immunogenic and tolerogenic processes induced in the steady state by the relevant mechanisms of systemic cDC present in murine peripheral lymphoid organs.
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- Jessica Bourque
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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Blair TC, Alice AF, Zebertavage L, Crittenden MR, Gough MJ. The Dynamic Entropy of Tumor Immune Infiltrates: The Impact of Recirculation, Antigen-Specific Interactions, and Retention on T Cells in Tumors. Front Oncol 2021; 11:653625. [PMID: 33968757 PMCID: PMC8101411 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.653625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Analysis of tumor infiltration using conventional methods reveals a snapshot view of lymphocyte interactions with the tumor environment. However, lymphocytes have the unique capacity for continued recirculation, exploring varied tissues for the presence of cognate antigens according to inflammatory triggers and chemokine gradients. We discuss the role of the inflammatory and cellular makeup of the tumor environment, as well as antigen expressed by cancer cells or cross-presented by stromal antigen presenting cells, on recirculation kinetics of T cells. We aim to discuss how current cancer therapies may manipulate lymphocyte recirculation versus retention to impact lymphocyte exclusion in the tumor.
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- Tiffany C Blair
- Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), Portland, OR, United States.,Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, United States
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- Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, United States
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- Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), Portland, OR, United States.,Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, United States
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- Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, United States.,The Oregon Clinic, Portland, OR, United States
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- Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, United States
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Shi Y, Zhu C, Liu Y, Lu Y, Li X, Qin B, Luo Z, Luo L, Jiang M, Zhang J, Guan G, Zheng C, You J. A Vaccination with Boosted Cross Presentation by ER-Targeted Antigen Delivery for Anti-Tumor Immunotherapy. Adv Healthc Mater 2021; 10:e2001934. [PMID: 33502831 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202001934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Vaccination is a widely-accepted resort against the invasion or proliferation of bacteria, parasites, viruses, and even cancer, which accounts heavily on an active involvement of CD8+ T cells. As one of the pivotal strategies taken by dendritic cells (DCs) to promote the responsiveness of CD8+ T cells to exogenous antigens, cross presentation culminates in an elevated overall host defense against cancer or infection. However, the precise mechanisms regulating such a process remains elusive, and current attempts to fuel cross presentation usually fail to exert efficiency. Here, model antigen OVA-loaded, endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-targeting cationic liposome (OVA@lipoT) is developed and characterized with a booster effect on the activation and maturation of DCs. Moreover, OVA@lipoT pulsed DCs exhibit overwhelming superiority in triggering cytotoxic T lymphocyte response both in vivo and in vitro. Data reveal that lipoT alters the intracellular trafficking and presenting pathway of antigen, which promotes cross presentation and bears close relationship to the ER-associated degradation (ERAD). These results may drop a hint about the interconnectivity between cross presentation and ER-targeted antigen delivery, provide extra information to the understanding of ERAD-mediated cross priming, and even shed new light on the design and optimization of vaccines against currently intractable cancers or virus-infection.
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- Yingying Shi
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Institute for Food and Drug Control Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhejiang University Zhejiang 310058 P. R. China
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Tsyklauri O, Niederlova V, Forsythe E, Prasai A, Drobek A, Kasparek P, Sparks K, Trachtulec Z, Prochazka J, Sedlacek R, Beales P, Huranova M, Stepanek O. Bardet-Biedl Syndrome ciliopathy is linked to altered hematopoiesis and dysregulated self-tolerance. EMBO Rep 2021; 22:e50785. [PMID: 33426789 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202050785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS) is a pleiotropic genetic disease caused by the dysfunction of primary cilia. The immune system of patients with ciliopathies has not been investigated. However, there are multiple indications that the impairment of the processes typically associated with cilia may have influence on the hematopoietic compartment and immunity. In this study, we analyze clinical data of BBS patients and corresponding mouse models carrying mutations in Bbs4 or Bbs18. We find that BBS patients have a higher prevalence of certain autoimmune diseases. Both BBS patients and animal models have altered red blood cell and platelet compartments, as well as elevated white blood cell levels. Some of the hematopoietic system alterations are associated with BBS-induced obesity. Moreover, we observe that the development and homeostasis of B cells in mice is regulated by the transport complex BBSome, whose dysfunction is a common cause of BBS. The BBSome limits canonical WNT signaling and increases CXCL12 levels in bone marrow stromal cells. Taken together, our study reveals a connection between a ciliopathy and dysregulated immune and hematopoietic systems.
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- Oksana Tsyklauri
- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.,National Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Service, Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic.,Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- National Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Service, Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Germ Cell Development, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic.,Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Transgenic Models of Diseases, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic.,Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Division BIOCEV, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.,National Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Service, Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Iberg CA, Hawiger D. Natural and Induced Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2020; 204:733-744. [PMID: 32015076 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1901121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are highly susceptible to extrinsic signals that modify the functions of these crucial APCs. Maturation of DCs induced by diverse proinflammatory conditions promotes immune responses, but certain signals also induce tolerogenic functions in DCs. These "induced tolerogenic DCs" help to moderate immune responses such as those to commensals present at specific anatomical locations. However, also under steady-state conditions, some DCs are characterized by inherent tolerogenic properties. The immunomodulatory mechanisms constitutively present in such "natural tolerogenic DCs" help to promote tolerance to peripheral Ags. By extending tolerance initially established in the thymus, these functions of DCs help to regulate autoimmune and other immune responses. In this review we will discuss the mechanisms and functions of natural and induced tolerogenic DCs and offer further insight into how their possible manipulations may ultimately lead to more precise treatments for various immune-mediated conditions and diseases.
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- Courtney A Iberg
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104
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Toll-like receptor signaling in thymic epithelium controls monocyte-derived dendritic cell recruitment and Treg generation. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2361. [PMID: 32398640 PMCID: PMC7217920 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16081-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The development of thymic regulatory T cells (Treg) is mediated by Aire-regulated self-antigen presentation on medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) and dendritic cells (DCs), but the cooperation between these cells is still poorly understood. Here we show that signaling through Toll-like receptors (TLR) expressed on mTECs regulates the production of specific chemokines and other genes associated with post-Aire mTEC development. Using single-cell RNA-sequencing, we identify a new thymic CD14+Sirpα+ population of monocyte-derived dendritic cells (CD14+moDC) that are enriched in the thymic medulla and effectively acquire mTEC-derived antigens in response to the above chemokines. Consistently, the cellularity of CD14+moDC is diminished in mice with MyD88-deficient TECs, in which the frequency and functionality of thymic CD25+Foxp3+ Tregs are decreased, leading to aggravated mouse experimental colitis. Thus, our findings describe a TLR-dependent function of mTECs for the recruitment of CD14+moDC, the generation of Tregs, and thereby the establishment of central tolerance. Immune tolerance is mediated by the deletion of autoreactive T cells via medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTEC) and dendritic cells (DC), and by the induction of regulatory T cells (Treg). Here the authors show that mTEC receiving toll-like receptor signaling control the recruitment of CD14+Sirpα+ DC population that is capable of inducing Treg for establishing tolerance.
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Halpert MM, Konduri V, Liang D, Vazquez-Perez J, Hofferek CJ, Weldon SA, Baig Y, Vedula I, Levitt JM, Decker WK. MHC class I and II peptide homology regulates the cellular immune response. FASEB J 2020; 34:8082-8101. [PMID: 32298026 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201903002r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Revised: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Mammalian immune responses are initiated by "danger" signals--immutable molecular structures known as PAMPs. When detected by fixed, germline encoded receptors, pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMPs) subsequently inform the polarization of downstream adaptive responses depending upon identity and localization of the PAMP. Here, we report the existence of a completely novel "PAMP" that is not a molecular structure but an antigenic pattern. This pattern--the incidence of peptide epitopes with stretches of 100% sequence identity bound to both dendritic cell (DC) major histocompatibility (MHC) class I and MHC class II--strongly induces TH 1 immune polarization and activation of the cellular immune response. Inherent in the existence of this PAMP is the concomitant existence of a molecular sensor complex with the ability to scan and compare amino acid sequence identities of bound class I and II peptides. We provide substantial evidence implicating the multienzyme aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (mARS) complex and its AIMp1 structural component as the key constituents of this complex. The results demonstrate a wholly novel mechanism by which T-helper (TH ) polarization is governed and provide critical information for the design of vaccination strategies intended to provoke cell-mediated immunity.
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- Matthew M Halpert
- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.,Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.,Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.,Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.,Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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During the past few years, there has been a substantial increase in the understanding of innate immunity. Dendritic cells are emerging as key players in the orchestration of this early phase of immune responses, with a role that will translate into the subsequent type of adaptive immune response against infection. Here we provide an overview of dendritic cell differentiation and function, with particular emphasis on those features unique to the immune defense of the peritoneal cavity and in the context of peritoneal dialysis-associated immune responses. The reader is referred to the primary references included in the accompanying list for specific details in this fascinating field.
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- Michelle L. McCully
- The FOCIS Centre for Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapeutics, Robarts Research Institute, and the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- The FOCIS Centre for Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapeutics, Robarts Research Institute, and the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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After more than a century of efforts to establish cancer immunotherapy in clinical practice, the advent of checkpoint inhibition (CPI) therapy was a critical breakthrough toward this direction (Hodi et al. in Cell Rep 13(2):412-424, 2010; Wolchok et al. in N Engl J Med 369(2):122-133, 2013; Herbst et al. in Nature 515(7528):563-567, 2014; Tumeh et al. in Nature 515(7528):568-571, 2014). Further, CPIs shifted the focus from long studied shared tumor-associated antigens to mutated ones. As cancer is caused by mutations in somatic cells, the concept to utilize these correlates of 'foreignness' to enable recognition and lysis of the cancer cell by T cell immunity seems an obvious thing to do.
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T cells are key effectors of anticancer immunity. They are capable of distinguishing tumor cells from normal ones by recognizing major histocompatibility complex-bound cancer-specific peptides. Accumulating evidence suggests that peptides associated with T cell-mediated tumor rejection arise predominantly from somatically mutated proteins and are unique to every patient's tumor. Knowledge of an individual's cancer mutanome (the entirety of cancer mutations) allows harnessing this enormous tumor cell-specific repertoire of highly immunogenic antigens for individualized cancer vaccines. This review outlines the preclinical and clinical state of individualized cancer vaccine development and the challenges ahead.
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- Mathias Vormehr
- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, 55131 Mainz, Germany; , .,University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, 55131 Mainz, Germany;
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- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, 55131 Mainz, Germany; ,
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- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, 55131 Mainz, Germany; , .,University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, 55131 Mainz, Germany; .,TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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Wagle MV, Marchingo JM, Howitt J, Tan SS, Goodnow CC, Parish IA. The Ubiquitin Ligase Adaptor NDFIP1 Selectively Enforces a CD8 + T Cell Tolerance Checkpoint to High-Dose Antigen. Cell Rep 2019; 24:577-584. [PMID: 30021156 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.06.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 06/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Escape from peripheral tolerance checkpoints that control cytotoxic CD8+ T cells is important for cancer immunotherapy and autoimmunity, but pathways enforcing these checkpoints are mostly uncharted. We reveal that the HECT-type ubiquitin ligase activator, NDFIP1, enforces a cell-intrinsic CD8+ T cell checkpoint that desensitizes TCR signaling during in vivo exposure to high antigen levels. Ndfip1-deficient OT-I CD8+ T cells responding to high exogenous tolerogenic antigen doses that normally induce anergy aberrantly expanded and differentiated into effector cells that could precipitate autoimmune diabetes in RIP-OVAhi mice. In contrast, NDFIP1 was dispensable for peripheral deletion to low-dose exogenous or pancreatic islet-derived antigen and had little impact upon effector responses to Listeria or acute LCMV infection. These data provide evidence that NDFIP1 mediates a CD8+ T cell tolerance checkpoint, with a different mechanism to CD4+ T cells, and indicates that CD8+ T cell deletion and anergy are molecularly separable checkpoints.
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- Mayura V Wagle
- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Division of Immunology, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Department of Health and Medical Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia; St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
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Pancreatic nerve electrostimulation inhibits recent-onset autoimmune diabetes. Nat Biotechnol 2019; 37:1446-1451. [PMID: 31712773 DOI: 10.1038/s41587-019-0295-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Vagus nerve stimulation can ameliorate autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis by modulation of the immune system. Its efficacy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes has not been explored, in part because the nerves projecting to the pancreatic lymph nodes (pLNs) in mice are unmapped. Here, we map the nerve projecting to the pancreas and pLNs in mice and use a minimally invasive surgical procedure to implant micro-cuff electrodes onto the nerve. Pancreatic nerve electrical stimulation (PNES) resulted in β-adrenergic receptor-mediated-accumulation of B and T cells in pLNs and reduced production of pro-inflammatory cytokines following lipopolysaccharide stimulation. Autoreactive T cells showed reduced proliferation in pLNs of mice receiving PNES as compared to sham controls. In a spontaneous mouse model of autoimmune diabetes, PNES inhibited disease progression in diabetic mice.
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Lancaster JN, Thyagarajan HM, Srinivasan J, Li Y, Hu Z, Ehrlich LIR. Live-cell imaging reveals the relative contributions of antigen-presenting cell subsets to thymic central tolerance. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2220. [PMID: 31101805 PMCID: PMC6525199 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09727-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Both medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTEC) and dendritic cells (DC) present tissue-restricted antigens (TRA) to thymocytes to induce central tolerance, but the relative contributions of these antigen-presenting cell (APC) subsets remain unresolved. Here we developed a two-photon microscopy approach to observe thymocytes interacting with intact APCs presenting TRAs. We find that mTECs and DCs cooperate extensively to induce tolerance, with their relative contributions regulated by the cellular form of the TRA and the class of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on which antigen is presented. Even when TRA expression is restricted to mTECs, DCs still present self-antigens at least as frequently as mTECs. Notably, the DC subset cDC2 efficiently acquires secreted mTEC-derived TRAs for cross-presentation on MHC-I. By directly imaging interactions between thymocytes and APCs, while monitoring intracellular signaling, this study reveals that distinct DC subsets and AIRE+ mTECs contribute substantially to presentation of diverse self-antigens for establishing central tolerance.
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- J N Lancaster
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 100 E. 24th Street A5000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 100 E. 24th Street A5000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 100 E. 24th Street A5000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 100 E. 24th Street A5000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 100 E. 24th Street A5000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 100 E. 24th Street A5000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
- Livestrong Cancer Institutes, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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Vormehr M, Reinhard K, Blatnik R, Josef K, Beck JD, Salomon N, Suchan M, Selmi A, Vascotto F, Zerweck J, Wenschuh H, Diken M, Kreiter S, Türeci Ö, Riemer AB, Sahin U. A non-functional neoepitope specific CD8 + T-cell response induced by tumor derived antigen exposure in vivo. Oncoimmunology 2018; 8:1553478. [PMID: 30723585 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2018.1553478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Cancer-associated mutations, mostly single nucleotide variations, can act as neoepitopes and prime targets for effective anti-cancer T-cell immunity. T cells recognizing cancer mutations are critical for the clinical activity of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) and they are potent vaccine antigens. High frequencies of mutation-specific T cells are rarely spontaneously induced. Hence, therapies that broaden the tumor specific T-cell response are of interest. Here, we analyzed neoepitope-specific CD8+ T-cell responses mounted either spontaneously or after immunotherapy regimens, which induce local tumor inflammation and cell death, in mice bearing tumors of the widely used colon carcinoma cell line CT26. A comprehensive immune reactivity screening of 2474 peptides covering 628 transcribed CT26 point mutations was conducted. All tested treatment regimens were found to induce a single significant CD8+ T-cell response against a non-synonymous D733A point mutation in the Smc3 gene. Surprisingly, even though Smc3 D733A turned out to be the immune-dominant neoepitope in CT26 tumor bearing mice, neither T cells specific for this neoepitope nor their T cell receptors (TCRs) were able to recognize or lyse tumor cells. Moreover, vaccination with the D733A neoepitope did not result in anti-tumoral activity despite induction of specific T cells. This is to our knowledge the first report that neoepitope specific CD8+ T cells primed by tumor-released antigen exposure in vivo can be functionally irrelevant.
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- Mathias Vormehr
- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, Mainz, Germany.,Experimental and Translational Oncology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, Mainz, Germany
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- Immunotherapy & Immunoprevention, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and Molecular Vaccine Design, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Immunotherapy & Immunoprevention, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and Molecular Vaccine Design, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Heidelberg, Germany
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- TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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- TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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- TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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- TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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- TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, Mainz, Germany.,TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, Mainz, Germany.,TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, Mainz, Germany
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- Immunotherapy & Immunoprevention, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and Molecular Vaccine Design, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biopharmaceutical New Technologies (BioNTech) Corporation, Mainz, Germany.,Experimental and Translational Oncology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.,TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
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Thyagarajan HM, Lancaster JN, Lira SA, Ehrlich LIR. CCR8 is expressed by post-positive selection CD4-lineage thymocytes but is dispensable for central tolerance induction. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0200765. [PMID: 30024927 PMCID: PMC6053179 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Following positive selection, thymocytes migrate into the medulla where they encounter diverse self-antigens that induce central tolerance. Thymocytes expressing T cell receptors (TCRs) with high affinity for self-antigens displayed by medullary antigen presenting cells (APCs) undergo either negative selection or diversion to the regulatory T cell (Treg) lineage, thus ensuring maturation of non-autoreactive T cells. Because many self-antigens are expressed by only a small percentage of medullary thymic epithelial cells, thymocytes must enter the medulla and efficiently scan APCs therein to encounter the full array of self-antigens that induce central tolerance. Chemokine receptors play a critical role in promoting medullary entry and rapid motility of post-positive selection thymocytes. We found that the chemokine receptor CCR8 is expressed by post-positive selection CD4+ single positive (SP) thymocytes in mice, while the corresponding chemokine ligands are expressed by medullary APCs, and thus hypothesized that CCR8 would promote thymocyte medullary entry and/or rapid motility to induce negative selection. However, despite a subtle decline in thymocyte medullary accumulation and the presence of autoantibodies in aged CCR8-deficient mice, CCR8 was not required for thymocyte differentiation, rapid motility, or negative selection.
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- Hiran M. Thyagarajan
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
- Livestrong Cancer Institutes, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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Drobek A, Moudra A, Mueller D, Huranova M, Horkova V, Pribikova M, Ivanek R, Oberle S, Zehn D, McCoy KD, Draber P, Stepanek O. Strong homeostatic TCR signals induce formation of self-tolerant virtual memory CD8 T cells. EMBO J 2018; 37:embj.201798518. [PMID: 29752423 PMCID: PMC6043851 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201798518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2017] [Revised: 03/11/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Virtual memory T cells are foreign antigen‐inexperienced T cells that have acquired memory‐like phenotype and constitute 10–20% of all peripheral CD8+ T cells in mice. Their origin, biological roles, and relationship to naïve and foreign antigen‐experienced memory T cells are incompletely understood. By analyzing T‐cell receptor repertoires and using retrogenic monoclonal T‐cell populations, we demonstrate that the virtual memory T‐cell formation is a so far unappreciated cell fate decision checkpoint. We describe two molecular mechanisms driving the formation of virtual memory T cells. First, virtual memory T cells originate exclusively from strongly self‐reactive T cells. Second, the stoichiometry of the CD8 interaction with Lck regulates the size of the virtual memory T‐cell compartment via modulating the self‐reactivity of individual T cells. Although virtual memory T cells descend from the highly self‐reactive clones and acquire a partial memory program, they are not more potent in inducing experimental autoimmune diabetes than naïve T cells. These data underline the importance of the variable level of self‐reactivity in polyclonal T cells for the generation of functional T‐cell diversity.
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- Ales Drobek
- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland
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- Swiss Vaccine Research Institute, Epalinges, Switzerland
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- Swiss Vaccine Research Institute, Epalinges, Switzerland.,Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Research (DKF), Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic .,Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Gerner MY, Casey KA, Kastenmuller W, Germain RN. Dendritic cell and antigen dispersal landscapes regulate T cell immunity. J Exp Med 2017; 214:3105-3122. [PMID: 28847868 PMCID: PMC5626399 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20170335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Revised: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Gerner et al. show that spatial compartmentalization in lymph nodes of DCs specialized for MHC I versus MHC II presentation determines the amount of antigen these cells capture after immunization and regulates the relative generation of CD4+ versus CD8+ T cell responses. Dendritic cell (DC) subsets with biased capacity for CD4+ and CD8+ T cell activation are asymmetrically distributed in lymph nodes (LNs), but how this affects adaptive responses has not been extensively studied. Here we used quantitative imaging to examine the relationships among antigen dispersal, DC positioning, and T cell activation after protein immunization. Antigens rapidly drained into LNs and formed gradients extending from the lymphatic sinuses, with reduced abundance in the deep LN paracortex. Differential localization of DCs specialized for major histocompatibility complex I (MHC I) and MHC II presentation resulted in preferential activation of CD8+ and CD4+ T cells within distinct LN regions. Because MHC I–specialized DCs are positioned in regions with limited antigen delivery, modest reductions in antigen dose led to a substantially greater decline in CD8+ compared with CD4+ T cell activation, expansion, and clonal diversity. Thus, the collective action of antigen dispersal and DC positioning regulates the extent and quality of T cell immunity, with important implications for vaccine design.
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- Department of Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmunity, MedImmune, LLC, Gaithersburg, MD
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- Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Systems Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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Adler AJ, Mittal P, Ryan JM, Zhou B, Wasser JS, Vella AT. Cytokines and metabolic factors regulate tumoricidal T-cell function during cancer immunotherapy. Immunotherapy 2017; 9:71-82. [PMID: 28000531 DOI: 10.2217/imt-2016-0097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Recent advances in cancer biology and genetics have fostered precision therapies targeting tumor-specific attributes. Immune-based therapies that elicit cytolytic T cells (CTL) specific for tumor antigens can provide therapeutic benefit to cancer patients, however, cure rates are typically low. This largely results from immunosuppressive mechanisms operating within the tumor microenvironment, many of which inflict metabolic stresses upon CTL. Conversely, immunotherapies can mitigate specific metabolic stressors. For instance, dual costimulation immunotherapy with CD134 (OX40) plus CD137 (4-1BB) agonists appears to mediate tumor control in part by engaging cytokine networks that enable infiltrating CTL to compete for limiting supplies of glucose. Future efforts combining modalities that endow CTL with complimentary metabolic advantages should improve therapeutic efficacies.
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- Adam J Adler
- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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Simon T, Pogu J, Rémy S, Brau F, Pogu S, Maquigneau M, Fonteneau JF, Poirier N, Vanhove B, Blancho G, Piaggio E, Anegon I, Blancou P. Inhibition of effector antigen-specific T cells by intradermal administration of heme oxygenase-1 inducers. J Autoimmun 2017; 81:44-55. [PMID: 28342735 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2017.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Revised: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 03/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Developing protocols aimed at inhibiting effector T cells would be key for the treatment of T cell-dependent autoimmune diseases including type 1 autoimmune diabetes (T1D) and multiple sclerosis (MS). While heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) inducers are clinically approved drugs for non-immune-related diseases, they do have immunosuppressive properties when administered systemically in rodents. Here we show that HO-1 inducers inhibit antigen-specific effector T cells when injected intradermally together with the T cell cognate antigens in mice. This phenomenon was observed in both a CD8+ T cell-mediated model of T1D and in a CD4+ T cell-dependent MS model. Intradermal injection of HO-1 inducers induced the recruitment of HO-1+ monocyte-derived dendritic cell (MoDCs) exclusively to the lymph nodes (LN) draining the site of intradermal injection. After encountering HO-1+MoDCs, effector T-cells exhibited a lower velocity and a reduced ability to migrate towards chemokine gradients resulting in impaired accumulation to the inflamed organ. Intradermal co-injection of a clinically approved HO-1 inducer and a specific antigen to non-human primates also induced HO-1+ MoDCs to accumulate in dermal draining LN and to suppress delayed-type hypersensitivity. Therefore, in both mice and non-human primates, HO-1 inducers delivered locally inhibited effector T-cells in an antigen-specific manner, paving the way for repositioning these drugs for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases.
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- Thomas Simon
- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France; INRA USC1383, IECM; LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, EA4644, France; Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, Inserm, CNRS, IPMC, 06560, Valbonne, France
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- INRA USC1383, IECM; LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, EA4644, France
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France; OSE Immunotherapeutics, 44200 Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, Inserm, UMR1064, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, 44093, Nantes, France; Université Côte d'Azur, Inserm, CNRS, IPMC, 06560, Valbonne, France; INRA USC1383, IECM; LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, EA4644, France.
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Dying cells have an important role in the initiation of CD8+ T cell-mediated immunity. The cross-presentation of antigens derived from dying cells enables dendritic cells to present exogenous tissue-restricted or tumour-restricted proteins on MHC class I molecules. Importantly, this pathway has been implicated in multiple autoimmune diseases and accounts for the priming of tumour antigen-specific T cells. Recent data have revealed that in addition to antigen, dying cells provide inflammatory and immunogenic signals that determine the efficiency of CD8+ T cell cross-priming. The complexity of these signals has been evidenced by the multiple molecular pathways that result in cell death and that have now been shown to differentially influence antigen transfer and immunity. In this Review, we provide a detailed summary of both the passive and active signals that are generated by dying cells during their initiation of CD8+ T cell-mediated immunity. We propose that molecules generated alongside cell death pathways - inducible damage-associated molecular patterns (iDAMPs) - are upstream immunological cues that actively regulate adaptive immunity.
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Frizzell H, Park J, Comandante Lou N, Woodrow KA. Role of heterogeneous cell population on modulation of dendritic cell phenotype and activation of CD8 T cells for use in cell-based immunotherapies. Cell Immunol 2017; 311:54-62. [PMID: 27793335 PMCID: PMC5283719 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2016.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2016] [Revised: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapies have much utility in their ability to prime antigen-specific adaptive immune responses. However, there does not yet exist a consensus standard to how DCs should be primed. In this study, we aimed to determine the role of heterogeneous co-cultures, composed of both CD11c+ (DCs) and CD11c- cells, in combination with monophosphoryl lipid A (MPLA) stimulation on DC phenotype and function. Upon DC priming in different co-culture ratios, we observed reduced expression of MHCII and CD86 and increased antigen uptake among CD11c+ cells in a CD11c- dependent manner. DCs from all culture conditions were induced to mature by MPLA treatment, as determined by secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-12 and TNF-α. Antigen-specific stimulation of CD4+ T cells was not modulated by co-culture composition, in terms of proliferation nor levels of IFN-γ. However, the presence of CD11c- cells enhanced cross-presentation to CD8+ T cells compared to purified CD11c+ cells, resulting in increased cell proliferation along with higher IFN-γ production. These findings demonstrate the impact of cell populations present during DC priming, and point to the use of heterogeneous cultures of DCs and innate immune cells to enhance cell-mediated immunity.
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- Hannah Frizzell
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, 3720 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, 3720 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, 3720 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, 3720 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
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FOXO3 is differentially required for CD8 + T-cell death during tolerance versus immunity. Immunol Cell Biol 2016; 94:895-899. [PMID: 27323690 DOI: 10.1038/icb.2016.53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2015] [Revised: 05/24/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Peripheral tolerance mechanisms limit autoimmunity by constitutively eliminating self-reactive CD8+ T cells from the periphery in a process called deletion. Previous work has demonstrated that this deletion process is mediated by BIM-dependent apoptotic death due to transcriptional induction of the Bim gene. Currently, the transcriptional pathways responsible for Bim induction during peripheral deletion remain unclear. We speculated that the transcriptional regulator FOXO3 may induce BIM-dependent death during peripheral deletion, as it has been implicated in Bim induction and cell death during effector CD8+ T-cell differentiation. Despite observing less Akt-dependent inactivation of FOXO transcription factors in tolerised cells relative to effector cells, we demonstrate that FOXO3-deficient CD8+ T cells induce Bim and die normally during peripheral deletion. These data thus demonstrate that BIM-dependent death during CD8+ T-cell deletion is FOXO3 independent. Furthermore, these data provide the first evidence that the pathways responsible for Bim induction and cell death during effector differentiation versus tolerance of CD8+ T cells are molecularly distinct.
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Palmer E, Drobek A, Stepanek O. Opposing effects of actin signaling and LFA-1 on establishing the affinity threshold for inducing effector T-cell responses in mice. Eur J Immunol 2016; 46:1887-901. [PMID: 27188212 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201545909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2015] [Revised: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Mature CD8(+) T cells use a narrow antigen affinity threshold to generate tissue-infiltrating cytotoxic effector T cells and induce autoimmune pathology, but the mechanisms that establish this antigen affinity threshold are poorly understood. Only antigens with affinities above the threshold induce stable contacts with APCs, polarization of a T cell, and asymmetric T-cell division. Previously published data indicate that LFA-1 inside-out signaling might be involved in establishing the antigen affinity threshold. Here, we show that subthreshold antigens weakly activate all major distal TCR signaling pathways. Low-affinity antigens are more dependent on LFA-1 than suprathreshold antigens. Moreover, augmenting the inside-out signaling by hyperactive Rap1 does not increase responses to the subthreshold antigens. Thus, LFA-1 signaling does not contribute to the affinity-based antigen discrimination. However, we found that subthreshold antigens do not induce actin rearrangement toward an APC, mediated by Rho-family GTPases, Cdc42, and Rac. Our data suggest that Rac and Cdc42 contribute to the establishment of the antigen affinity threshold in CD8(+) T cells by enhancing responses to high-affinity antigens, or by reducing the responses to low-affinity antigens.
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- Ed Palmer
- Departments of Biomedicine and Nephrology, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Departments of Biomedicine and Nephrology, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Di Mario G, Garulli B, Sciaraffia E, Facchini M, Donatelli I, Castrucci MR. A heat-inactivated H7N3 vaccine induces cross-reactive cellular immunity in HLA-A2.1 transgenic mice. Virol J 2016; 13:56. [PMID: 27036323 PMCID: PMC4815128 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-016-0513-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Cross-reactive immunity against heterologous strains of influenza virus has the potential to provide partial protection in individuals that lack the proper neutralizing antibodies. In particular, the boosting of memory CD8+ T cell responses to conserved viral proteins can attenuate disease severity caused by influenza virus antigenic variants or pandemic strains. However, little is yet known about which of these conserved internal antigens would better induce and/or recall memory CD8+ T cells after in vivo administration of an inactivated whole virus vaccine. METHODS We explored the CD8 + T cell responses to selected epitopes of the internal proteins of an H7N3 influenza virus that were cross-reactive with A/PR/8/34 virus in HLA-A2.1 transgenic (AAD) mice. RESULTS CD8+ T cells against dominant and subdominant epitopes were detected upon infection of mice with live H7N3 virus, whereas immunization with non-replicating virus elicited CD8+ T cell responses against mostly immunodominant epitopes, which were rapidly recalled following infection with A/PR/8/34 virus. These vaccine-induced T cell responses were able to reduce the lung viral load in mice challenged intranasally with the heterologous influenza virus. CONCLUSIONS A single immunization with non-replicating influenza virus vaccines may be able to elicit or recall cross-reactive CD8+ T cell responses to conserved immunodominant epitopes and, to some extent, counteract an infection by heterologous virus.
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- Giuseppina Di Mario
- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
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Li D, Li H, Fu H, Niu K, Guo Y, Guo C, Sun J, Li Y, Yang W. Aire-Overexpressing Dendritic Cells Induce Peripheral CD4⁺ T Cell Tolerance. Int J Mol Sci 2015; 17:E38. [PMID: 26729097 PMCID: PMC4730283 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17010038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2015] [Revised: 12/14/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Autoimmune regulator (Aire) can promote the ectopic expression of peripheral tissue-restricted antigens (TRAs) in thymic medullary epithelial cells (mTECs), which leads to the deletion of autoreactive T cells and consequently prevents autoimmune diseases. However, the functions of Aire in the periphery, such as in dendritic cells (DCs), remain unclear. This study's aim was to investigate the effect of Aire-overexpressing DCs (Aire cells) on the functions of CD4⁺ T cells and the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D). We demonstrated that Aire cells upregulated the mRNA levels of the tolerance-related molecules CD73, Lag3, and FR4 and the apoptosis of CD4⁺ T cells in STZ-T1D mouse-derived splenocytes. Furthermore, following insulin stimulation, Aire cells decreased the number of CD4⁺ IFN-γ⁺ T cells in both STZ-T1D and WT mouse-derived splenocytes and reduced the expression levels of TCR signaling molecules (Ca(2+) and p-ERK) in CD4⁺ T cells. We observed that Aire cells-induced CD4⁺ T cells could delay the development of T1D. In summary, Aire-expressing DCs inhibited TCR signaling pathways and decreased the quantity of CD4⁺IFN-γ⁺ autoreactive T cells. These data suggest a mechanism for Aire in the maintenance of peripheral immune tolerance and provide a potential method to control autoimmunity by targeting Aire.
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- Dongbei Li
- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
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Mittal P, St Rose MC, Wang X, Ryan JM, Wasser JS, Vella AT, Adler AJ. Tumor-Unrelated CD4 T Cell Help Augments CD134 plus CD137 Dual Costimulation Tumor Therapy. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2015; 195:5816-26. [PMID: 26561553 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1502032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The ability of immune-based cancer therapies to elicit beneficial CD8(+) CTLs is limited by tolerance pathways that inactivate tumor-specific CD4 Th cells. A strategy to bypass this problem is to engage tumor-unrelated CD4 Th cells. Thus, CD4 T cells, regardless of their specificity per se, can boost CD8(+) CTL priming as long as the cognate epitopes are linked via presentation on the same dendritic cell. In this study, we assessed the therapeutic impact of engaging tumor-unrelated CD4 T cells during dual costimulation with CD134 plus CD137 that provide help via the above-mentioned classical linked pathway, as well as provide nonlinked help that facilitates CTL function in T cells not directly responding to cognate Ag. We found that engagement of tumor-unrelated CD4 Th cells dramatically boosted the ability of dual costimulation to control the growth of established B16 melanomas. Surprisingly, this effect depended upon a CD134-dependent component that was extrinsic to the tumor-unrelated CD4 T cells, suggesting that the dual costimulated helper cells are themselves helped by a CD134(+) cell(s). Nevertheless, the delivery of therapeutic help tracked with an increased frequency of tumor-infiltrating granzyme B(+) effector CD8 T cells and a reciprocal decrease in Foxp3(+)CD4(+) cell frequency. Notably, the tumor-unrelated CD4 Th cells also infiltrated the tumors, and their deletion several days following initial T cell priming negated their therapeutic impact. Taken together, dual costimulation programs tumor-unrelated CD4 T cells to deliver therapeutic help during both the priming and effector stages of the antitumor response.
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- Payal Mittal
- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030; and
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030; and
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030; and
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030; and
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- The Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030; and
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- Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030; and
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Hu Z, Lancaster JN, Sasiponganan C, Ehrlich LIR. CCR4 promotes medullary entry and thymocyte-dendritic cell interactions required for central tolerance. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 212:1947-65. [PMID: 26417005 PMCID: PMC4612092 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20150178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2015] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Hu et al. show that the chemokine receptor CCR4 is involved in thymocyte medullary entry, interactions with dendritic cells, and negative selection. In the absence of CCR4, central tolerance is not established, promoting autoimmunity. Autoimmunity results from a breakdown in central or peripheral tolerance. To establish central tolerance, developing T cells must enter the thymic medulla, where they scan antigen-presenting cells (APCs) displaying a diverse array of autoantigens. If a thymocyte is activated by a self-antigen, the cell undergoes either deletion or diversion into the regulatory T cell (T reg) lineage, thus maintaining self-tolerance. Mechanisms promoting thymocyte medullary entry and interactions with APCs are incompletely understood. CCR4 is poised to contribute to central tolerance due to its expression by post-positive selection thymocytes, and expression of its ligands by medullary thymic dendritic cells (DCs). Here, we use two-photon time-lapse microscopy to demonstrate that CCR4 promotes medullary entry of the earliest post-positive selection thymocytes, as well as efficient interactions between medullary thymocytes and DCs. In keeping with the contribution of thymic DCs to central tolerance, CCR4 is involved in regulating negative selection of polyclonal and T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic thymocytes. In the absence of CCR4, autoreactive T cells accumulate in secondary lymphoid organs and autoimmunity ensues. These studies reveal a previously unappreciated role for CCR4 in the establishment of central tolerance.
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- Zicheng Hu
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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Gutiérrez-Martínez E, Planès R, Anselmi G, Reynolds M, Menezes S, Adiko AC, Saveanu L, Guermonprez P. Cross-Presentation of Cell-Associated Antigens by MHC Class I in Dendritic Cell Subsets. Front Immunol 2015; 6:363. [PMID: 26236315 PMCID: PMC4505393 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2015] [Accepted: 07/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Dendritic cells (DCs) have the unique ability to pick up dead cells carrying antigens in tissue and migrate to the lymph nodes where they can cross-present cell-associated antigens by MHC class I to CD8+ T cells. There is strong in vivo evidence that the mouse XCR1+ DCs subset acts as a key player in this process. The intracellular processes underlying cross-presentation remain controversial and several pathways have been proposed. Indeed, a wide number of studies have addressed the cellular process of cross-presentation in vitro using a variety of sources of antigen and antigen-presenting cells. Here, we review the in vivo and in vitro evidence supporting the current mechanistic models and disscuss their physiological relevance to the cross-presentation of cell-associated antigens by DCs subsets.
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- Enric Gutiérrez-Martínez
- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, CMCBI, King's College London , London , UK
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- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, CMCBI, King's College London , London , UK
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- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, CMCBI, King's College London , London , UK
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- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, CMCBI, King's College London , London , UK
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- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, CMCBI, King's College London , London , UK
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- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, Centre for Molecular & Cellular Biology of Inflammation (CMCBI), King's College London , Paris , France ; Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot , Paris , France
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- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, Centre for Molecular & Cellular Biology of Inflammation (CMCBI), King's College London , Paris , France ; Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot , Paris , France
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- Laboratory of Phagocyte Immunobiology, Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, CMCBI, King's College London , London , UK
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CD169+ macrophages are sufficient for priming of CTLs with specificities left out by cross-priming dendritic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:5461-6. [PMID: 25922518 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423356112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are considered the most potent antigen-presenting cells (APCs), which directly prime or cross-prime MHC I-restricted cytotoxic T cells (CTLs). However, recent evidence suggests the existence of other, as-yet unidentified APCs also able to prime T cells. To identify those APCs, we used adenoviral (rAd) vectors, which do not infect DCs but selectively accumulate in CD169(+) macrophages (MPs). In mice that lack DCs, infection of CD169(+) MPs was sufficient to prime CTLs specific for all epitopes tested. In contrast, CTL responses relying exclusively on cross-presenting DCs were biased to selected strong MHC I-binding peptides only. When both DCs and MPs were absent, no CTL responses could be elicited. Therefore, CD169(+) MPs can be considered APCs that significantly contribute to CTL responses.
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Gamrekelashvili J, Ormandy LA, Heimesaat MM, Kirschning CJ, Manns MP, Korangy F, Greten TF. Primary sterile necrotic cells fail to cross-prime CD8(+) T cells. Oncoimmunology 2014; 1:1017-1026. [PMID: 23170250 PMCID: PMC3494616 DOI: 10.4161/onci.21098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Necrotic cells are known to activate the innate immune system and trigger inflammation by releasing damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). However, how necrotic cells influence the induction of antigen-specific CD8(+) T cell-mediated adaptive immune responses under sterile conditions, in the absence of pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), remains poorly understood. Here, we examined antigen-specific CD8(+) T-cell responses to primary sterile necrotic tumor cells both in vitro and in vivo. We found that primary necrotic cells alone fail to generate CD8(+) T cell-dependent immune responses toward cell-associated antigens. We show that necrotic cells trigger CD8(+) T-cell immunity only in the presence of PAMPs or analogs, such as p(dI-dC) and/or unmethylated CpG DNA. The electroporation of tumor cells with these PAMPs prior to necrosis induction triggered antigen-specific CD8(+) T-cell responses through a TLR9/MyD88-dependent pathway. In addition, we found that necrotic cells contain factors that can block the cross-priming of CD8(+) T cells even under non-sterile conditions and can serve as a possible mechanism of immunosuppression. These results suggest that antigen-specific CD8(+) T-cell responses to primary necrotic tumor cells can be induced in the presence of PAMPs and thus have a substantial impact on the development of antitumor vaccination strategies.
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- Jaba Gamrekelashvili
- Gastrointestinal Malignancy Section; Medical Oncology Branch; National Cancer Institute; National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, MD USA ; Department of Gastroenterology; Hepatology and Endocrinology; Hannover Medical School; Hanover, Germany
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Epitope-specific regulation of memory programming by differential duration of antigen presentation to influenza-specific CD8(+) T cells. Immunity 2014; 41:127-40. [PMID: 25035957 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2013] [Accepted: 05/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Memory CD8(+) T cells are programmed during the primary response for robust secondary responsiveness. Here we show that CD8(+) T cells responding to different epitopes of influenza virus received qualitatively different signals during the primary response that altered their secondary responsiveness. Nucleoprotein (NP)-specific CD8(+) T cells encountered antigen on CD40-licensed, CD70-expressing, CD103(-)CD11b(hi) dendritic cells (DCs) at later times in the primary response. As a consequence, they maintained CD25 expression and responded to interleukin-2 (IL-2) and CD27, which together programmed their robust secondary proliferative capacity and interferon-γ (IFN-γ)-producing ability. In contrast, polymerase (PA)-specific CD8(+) T cells did not encounter antigen-bearing, CD40-activated DCs at later times in the primary response, did not receive CD27 and CD25 signals, and were not programmed to become memory CD8(+) T cells with strong proliferative and cytokine-producing ability. As a result, CD8(+) T cells responding to abundant antigens, like NP, dominated the secondary response.
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Calderon B, Carrero JA, Unanue ER. The central role of antigen presentation in islets of Langerhans in autoimmune diabetes. Curr Opin Immunol 2014; 26:32-40. [PMID: 24556398 PMCID: PMC4118295 DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2013.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Revised: 10/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/17/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The islets of Langerhans normally contain resident antigen presenting cells (APCs), which in normal conditions are mostly represented by macrophages, with a few dendritic cells (DC). We present here the features of these islet APCs, making the point that they have a supportive function in islet homeostasis. Islet APCs express high levels of major histocompatibility complexes (MHC) molecules on their surfaces and are highly active in antigen presentation in the autoimmune diabetes of the NOD mouse: they do this by presenting peptides derived from molecules of the β-cells. These APCs also are instrumental in the localization of diabetogenic T cells into islets. The islet APC present exogenous peptides derived from secretory granules of the β-cell, giving rise to unique peptide-MHC complexes (pMHC) that activate those non-conventional T cells that bypass thymus selection.
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- Boris Calderon
- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Salisbury EM, Game DS, Lechler RI. Transplantation tolerance. Pediatr Nephrol 2014; 29:2263-72. [PMID: 24213880 PMCID: PMC4212135 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-013-2659-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Revised: 10/01/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Although transplantation has been a standard medical practice for decades, marked morbidity from the use of immunosuppressive drugs and poor long-term graft survival remain important limitations in the field. Since the first solid organ transplant between the Herrick twins in 1954, transplantation immunology has sought to move away from harmful, broad-spectrum immunosuppressive regimens that carry with them the long-term risk of potentially life-threatening opportunistic infections, cardiovascular disease, and malignancy, as well as graft toxicity and loss, towards tolerogenic strategies that promote long-term graft survival. Reports of "transplant tolerance" in kidney and liver allograft recipients whose immunosuppressive drugs were discontinued for medical or non-compliant reasons, together with results from experimental models of transplantation, provide the proof-of-principle that achieving tolerance in organ transplantation is fundamentally possible. However, translating the reconstitution of immune tolerance into the clinical setting is a daunting challenge fraught with the complexities of multiple interacting mechanisms overlaid on a background of variation in disease. In this article, we explore the basic science underlying mechanisms of tolerance and review the latest clinical advances in the quest for transplantation tolerance.
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- Emma M. Salisbury
- Section of Immunobiology, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ UK
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- Department of Renal Medicine, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Guy’s Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT UK
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- King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS UK
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Budimir N, de Haan A, Meijerhof T, Gostick E, Price DA, Huckriede A, Wilschut J. Heterosubtypic cross-protection induced by whole inactivated influenza virus vaccine in mice: influence of the route of vaccine administration. Influenza Other Respir Viruses 2013; 7:1202-9. [PMID: 24102979 PMCID: PMC4112805 DOI: 10.1111/irv.12142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Background Development of influenza vaccines capable of inducing broad protection against different virus subtypes is necessary given the ever‐changing viral genetic landscape. Previously, we showed that vaccination with whole inactivated virus (WIV) induces heterosubtypic protection against lethal virus infection in mice. Whole inactivated virus‐induced cross‐protection was found to be mediated primarily by flu‐specific CD8+ T cells. Objectives As it has been demonstrated that the route of vaccine administration strongly influences both the quantity and quality of vaccine‐induced immunity, in this study, we determined which route of WIV administration induces optimal heterosubtypic cross‐protection. Methods We compared the magnitude of the immune response and heterosubtypic protection against lethal A/PR/8/34 (H1N1) infection after subcutaneous (SC), intramuscular (IM), and intranasal (IN) vaccination with A/NIBRG‐14 (H5N1) WIV. Results Subcutaneous and IM administration was superior to IN administration of influenza WIV in terms of flu‐specific CD8+ T‐cell induction and protection of mice against lethal heterosubtypic challenge. Surprisingly, despite the very low flu‐specific CD8+ T‐cell responses detected in IN‐vaccinated mice, these animals were partially protected, most likely due to cross‐reactive IgA antibodies. Conclusion The results of this study show that the magnitude of WIV‐induced flu‐specific CD8+ T‐cell activity depends on the applied vaccination route. We conclude that parenteral administration of WIV vaccine, in particular IM injection, is superior to IN vaccine delivery for the induction of heterosubtypic cross‐protection and generally appears to elicit stronger immune responses than mucosal vaccination with WIV.
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- Natalija Budimir
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Molecular Virology Section, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Nopora K, Bernhard CA, Ried C, Castello AA, Murphy KM, Marconi P, Koszinowski U, Brocker T. MHC class I cross-presentation by dendritic cells counteracts viral immune evasion. Front Immunol 2012. [PMID: 23189079 PMCID: PMC3505839 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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DCs very potently activate CD8(+) T cells specific for viral peptides bound to MHC class I molecules. However, many viruses have evolved immune evasion mechanisms, which inactivate infected DCs and might reduce priming of T cells. Then MHC class I cross-presentation of exogenous viral Ag by non-infected DCs may become crucial to assure CD8(+) T cell responses. Although many vital functions of infected DCs are inhibited in vitro by many different viruses, the contributions of cross-presentation to T cell immunity when confronted with viral immune inactivation in vivo has not been demonstrated up to now, and remains controversial. Here we show that priming of Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)-, but not murine cytomegalovirus (mCMV)-specific CD8(+) T cells was severely reduced in mice with a DC-specific cross-presentation deficiency. In contrast, while CD8(+) T cell responses to mutant HSV, which lacks crucial inhibitory genes, also depended on CD8α(+) DCs, they were independent of cross-presentation. Therefore HSV-specific CTL-responses entirely depend on the CD8α(+) DC subset, which present via direct or cross-presentation mechanisms depending on the immune evasion equipment of virus. Our data establish the contribution of cross-presentation to counteract viral immune evasion mechanisms in some, but not all viruses.
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- Katrin Nopora
- Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Munich, Germany
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Uric acid is a waste product of purine catabolism. This molecule comes to clinical attention when it nucleates to form crystals of monosodium urate (MSU) in joints or other tissues, and thereby causes the inflammatory disease of gout. Patients with gout frequently suffer from a number of comorbid conditions including hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Why MSU crystals trigger inflammation and are associated with comorbidities of gout has been unclear, but recent studies provide new insights into these issues. Rather than simply being a waste product, uric acid could serve a pathophysiological role as a local alarm signal that alerts the immune system to cell injury and helps to trigger both innate and adaptive immune responses. The inflammatory component of these immune responses is caused when urate crystals trigger both inflammasome-dependent and independent pathways to generate the proinflammatory cytokine IL-1. The resulting bioactive IL-1 stimulates the inflammation of gout and might contribute to the development of other comorbidities. Surprisingly, the same mechanisms underlie the inflammatory response to a number of irritant particles, many of which also cause disease. These new insights help to explain the pathogenesis of gout and point to potential new therapeutic targets for this and other sterile inflammatory diseases.
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Calderon B, Unanue ER. Antigen presentation events in autoimmune diabetes. Curr Opin Immunol 2012; 24:119-28. [PMID: 22178549 PMCID: PMC3523676 DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2011.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2011] [Revised: 11/16/2011] [Accepted: 11/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Antigen presenting cells (APC) be they dendritic cells (DC) or macrophages reside in all tissues. Their role varies from presenting antigen, clearing the tissue from unwanted material, helping in the remodeling that follows injury and inflammation, to a supporting or trophic function. Their features, biology, and turnover may be unique for each organ, modulated by the particular anatomy and physiology of the tissue. These features affect the handling and presentation of antigens, either exogenous such as those from viruses or bacteria, or endogenous, autologous proteins in situations of autoimmunity. Herein, we focus on the resident APC of the islets of Langerhans and their role in autoimmune diabetes. The intra-islet APC are central cells in diabetogenesis by presenting beta cell derived antigens and by modulating the localization of T cells into the islets.
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- Boris Calderon
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Immunobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Snook AE, Magee MS, Marszalowicz GP, Schulz S, Waldman SA. Epitope-targeted cytotoxic T cells mediate lineage-specific antitumor efficacy induced by the cancer mucosa antigen GUCY2C. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2011; 61:713-23. [PMID: 22057677 DOI: 10.1007/s00262-011-1133-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2011] [Accepted: 10/18/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Guanylyl cyclase C (GUCY2C) is the index cancer mucosa antigen, an emerging class of immunotherapeutic targets for the prevention of recurrent metastases originating in visceral epithelia. GUCY2C is an autoantigen principally expressed by intestinal epithelium, and universally by primary and metastatic colorectal tumors. Immunization with adenovirus expressing the structurally unique GUCY2C extracellular domain (GUCY2C(ECD); Ad5-GUCY2C) produces prophylactic and therapeutic protection against GUCY2C-expressing colon cancer metastases in mice, without collateral autoimmunity. GUCY2C antitumor efficacy is mediated by a unique immunological mechanism involving lineage-specific induction of antigen-targeted CD8(+) T cells, without CD4(+) T cells or B cells. Here, the unusual lineage specificity of this response was explored by integrating high-throughput peptide screening and bioinformatics, revealing the role for GUCY2C-directed CD8(+) T cells targeting specific epitopes in antitumor efficacy. In BALB/c mice vaccinated with Ad5-GUCY2C, CD8(+) T cells recognize the dominant GUCY2C(254-262) epitope in the context of H-2K(d), driving critical effector functions including interferon gamma secretion, cytolysis ex vivo and in vivo, and antitumor efficacy. The ability of GUCY2C to induce lineage-specific responses targeted to cytotoxic CD8(+) T cells recognizing a single epitope mediating antitumor efficacy without autoimmunity highlights the immediate translational potential of cancer mucosa antigen-based vaccines for preventing metastases of mucosa-derived cancers.
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- Adam E Snook
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
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Bennett CL, Chakraverty R. Dendritic cells in tissues: in situ stimulation of immunity and immunopathology. Trends Immunol 2011; 33:8-13. [PMID: 22030236 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2011.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2011] [Revised: 09/22/2011] [Accepted: 09/27/2011] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Dendritic cells (DCs) prime and orchestrate naïve T cell immunity in lymphoid organs, but recent data also highlight the importance of DC-effector T cell interactions in tissues. These studies suggest that effector T cells require a second activating step in situ from tissue DCs to become fully competent for effector functions and/or proliferation and survival. DC stimulation of effector T cells within tissues has evolved as a mechanism to ensure that T cells are activated to their full potential only at the site of ongoing infection. Here, we propose that under conditions of uncontrolled inflammation and release of tissue antigens, the same DC-dependent checkpoint perpetuates a destructive response and immunopathology.
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- Clare L Bennett
- Department of Haematology, Division of Cancer Studies, UCL Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK.
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UNLABELLED Antigen cross-presentation is a principal function of specialized antigen-presenting cells of bone marrow origin such as dendritic cells. Although these cells are sometimes known as "professional" antigen-presenting cells, nonbone marrow-derived cells may also act as antigen-presenting cells. Here, using four-way liver cell isolation and parallel comparison of candidate antigen-presenting cells, we show that, depending on the abundance of antigen-donor cells, different subsets of liver cells could cross-present a hepatocyte-associated antigen. This function was observed in both liver sinusoidal endothelial cells and Kupffer cells even at very low antigen concentration, as well as when using soluble protein. Antigen cross-presentation by liver cells induced efficient CD8+ T-cell proliferation in a similar manner to classical dendritic cells from spleen. However, proliferated cells expressed a lower level of T-cell activation markers and intracellular interferon-gamma levels. In contrast to classical spleen dendritic cells, cross-presentation by liver antigen-presenting cells was predominantly dependent on intercellular adhesion molecule-1. CONCLUSION Hepatic sinusoids are an environment rich in antigen cross-presenting activity. However, the liver's resident antigen-presenting cells cause partial T-cell activation. These results clarify how the liver can act as a primary site of CD8+ T-cell activation, and why immunity against hepatocyte pathogens is sometimes ineffective.
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- Mohammad R Ebrahimkhani
- Malaria Program, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, 307 Westlake Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109, USA
- MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biological Engineering, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 56-255, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Malaria Program, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, 307 Westlake Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Malaria Program, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, 307 Westlake Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109, USA
- Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Palumbo RN, Zhong X, Wang C. Polymer-mediated DNA vaccine delivery via bystander cells requires a proper balance between transfection efficiency and cytotoxicity. J Control Release 2011; 157:86-93. [PMID: 21907252 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2011.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2011] [Revised: 07/09/2011] [Accepted: 08/24/2011] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Direct targeting of dendritic cells is an ideal goal for DNA vaccine delivery in order to stimulate both arms of the immune system. However, dendritic cells are often difficult to transfect using nonviral polyplexes. Here we show that transfecting bystander cells such as fibroblasts with PEI/DNA complexes leads to efficient cross-presentation of a model antigen by dendritic cells and subsequent activation of antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells. Maturation of dendritic cells is also stimulated after co-culture with transfected fibroblasts. Such outcomes depend on a proper balance between transfection efficiency and polyplex-induced cytotoxicity in the fibroblasts. In fact, substantial cytotoxicity is desirable and even necessary for cross-presentation and cross-priming of T cells. This study illustrates a new pathway of polymer-based DNA vaccine delivery via bystander cells without direct targeting of antigen-presenting cells and highlights the importance of exploiting polymer-induced cytotoxicity for the benefit of immune activation.
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- R Noelle Palumbo
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 7-105 Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Hubert FX, Kinkel SA, Davey GM, Phipson B, Mueller SN, Liston A, Proietto AI, Cannon PZF, Forehan S, Smyth GK, Wu L, Goodnow CC, Carbone FR, Scott HS, Heath WR. Aire regulates the transfer of antigen from mTECs to dendritic cells for induction of thymic tolerance. Blood 2011; 118:2462-72. [PMID: 21505196 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-06-286393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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To investigate the role of Aire in thymic selection, we examined the cellular requirements for generation of ovalbumin (OVA)-specific CD4 and CD8 T cells in mice expressing OVA under the control of the rat insulin promoter. Aire deficiency reduced the number of mature single-positive OVA-specific CD4(+) or CD8(+) T cells in the thymus, independent of OVA expression. Importantly, it also contributed in 2 ways to OVA-dependent negative selection depending on the T-cell type. Aire-dependent negative selection of OVA-specific CD8 T cells correlated with Aire-regulated expression of OVA. By contrast, for OVA-specific CD4 T cells, Aire affected tolerance induction by a mechanism that operated independent of the level of OVA expression, controlling access of antigen presenting cells to medullary thymic epithelial cell (mTEC)-expressed OVA. This study supports the view that one mechanism by which Aire controls thymic negative selection is by regulating the indirect presentation of mTEC-derived antigens by thymic dendritic cells. It also indicates that mTECs can mediate tolerance by direct presentation of Aire-regulated antigens to both CD4 and CD8 T cells.
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- François-Xavier Hubert
- Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
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Inhibition and promotion of tumor growth with adeno-associated virus carcinoembryonic antigen vaccine and Toll-like receptor agonists. Cancer Gene Ther 2011; 18:850-8. [PMID: 21869824 PMCID: PMC4143190 DOI: 10.1038/cgt.2011.54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a cancer vaccines target. Several feature of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) are attractive for vaccine applications. Combining other viral vector vaccines with Toll like receptor (TLR) agonists enhances antitumor immunity. Wild-type and CEA transgenic (Tg) mice were immunized with rAAV expressing CEA, the TLR9 agonist, ODN1826, and the TLR7 agonist, imiquimod. Mice were challenged with MC38 colon tumor cells and MC38 cells expressing CEA. rAAV-CEA immunization combined with ODN1826 or imiquimod enhanced CEA-specific T-helper-1 immunity and protected against tumor challenge in wild-type but not in CEA-Tg mice. In contrast, immunization with rAAV-CEA in CEA-Tg mice could abrogate the antitumor effects of ODN1826 and promote tumor growth. Compared to wild-type, CEA-Tg mice were characterized by a greater myeloid suppressor cell and T-helper 2 response to TLR agonists and to syngeneic tumors. Depleting PDCA1+ plasmacytoid dendritic cells and Gr1+ myeloid cells increased anti-CEA immune responses in CEA-Tg mice to rAAV-CEA-ODN1826 immunization; depleting CD25+ T cells did not. There are differences in the response of wild-type and CEA-Tg mice to rAAV-CEA, TLR agonists, and syngeneic tumor. In CEA-Tg mice tumor growth can be promoted with rAAV-CEA and TLR agonists. Dendritic and myeloid cells play a regulatory role.
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