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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
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).