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- Document 0642
- DOCN M9620642
- TI Normal clonal expansion but impaired Fas-mediated cell death and anergy
- induction in interleukin-2-deficient mice.
- DT 9602
- AU Kneitz B; Herrmann T; Yonehara S; Schimpl A; Institute of Virology and
- Immunobiology, Wurzburg, Germany.
- SO Eur J Immunol. 1995 Sep;25(9):2572-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96011869
- AB Despite a normal development of all major lymphoid subsets, with time,
- interleukin-2 (IL-2)-deficient mice develop a fatal immunopathology. The
- disease phenotype is characterized by lymphoadenopathy, splenomegaly, T
- cell infiltration of various organs, overproduction of a number of
- cytokines and autoantibody formation. Phenotypically, CD4+ and CD8+ T
- cells exhibit features characteristic of antigenically experienced
- cells. The accumulation of cells with a memory phenotype together with
- the previous suggestion of an involvement of IL-2 in the termination
- phase of immune responses prompted us to study the fate of
- superantigen-reactive T cells in IL-2-deficient mice in comparison to
- their IL-2-producing littermates. We show that expansion in vivo of CD4+
- and, to a lesser extent, CD8+ T cells reactive to the superantigens
- staphylococcal enterotoxin A and B (SEA and SEB) proceeds normally in
- the absence of IL-2, but that fewer CD4+ cells are subsequently deleted.
- The residual superantigen-reactive cells fail to become anergic as
- measured by proliferation in vitro in response to the same superantigen.
- T cell blasts generated in vitro from lymph node cells of IL-2-deficient
- mice by superantigen stimulation in the absence of exogenous IL-2 also
- fail to become anergic. In contrast to cells from IL-2-producing
- littermates, they do not exhibit Fas-induced apoptosis when cultured on
- anti-Fas antibody-coated plates, although Fas expression by
- IL-2-deficient cells is normal or even elevated compared to the
- IL-2-producing control cells. The data suggest that activation of T
- cells in the absence of IL-2 fails to generate a signal which is
- necessary to activate the apoptotic pathway and thus leads to an
- accumulation of antigen-experienced cells and the chronic inflammatory
- responses observed in IL-2-deficient mice.
- DE Animal Antigens, CD95/*IMMUNOLOGY Apoptosis/IMMUNOLOGY Cell
- Differentiation CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*IMMUNOLOGY CD8-Positive
- T-Lymphocytes/*IMMUNOLOGY Enterotoxins/IMMUNOLOGY
- Interleukin-2/*DEFICIENCY Mice Superantigens/IMMUNOLOGY Support,
- Non-U.S. Gov't JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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