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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Antigen-specific activation thresholds of CD8⁺ T cells are independent of IFN-I-mediated partial lymphocyte activation |
Other Titles: | Antigen-specific activation thresholds of CD8(+) T cells are independent of IFN-I-mediated partial lymphocyte activation |
Author: | Wijesundara, D. Kumar, S. Alsharifi, M. Mullbacher, A. Regner, M. |
Citation: | International Immunology, 2010; 22(9):757-767 |
Publisher: | Oxford Univ Press |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISSN: | 0953-8178 1460-2377 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Danushka K. Wijesundara, Sheetal Kumar, Mohammed Alsharifi, Arno Müllbacher and Matthias Regner |
Abstract: | Type-I IFN (IFN-I) are highly pleiotropic cytokines known to modulate immune responses and play an early central role in mediating antiviral defenses. We have shown that IFN-I mediate transient up-regulation of a distinct subset of lymphocyte surface activation markers on both B and T cells in vivo independent of cognate antigen: a state referred to as ‘partial lymphocyte activation’. Here we investigated in vitro the possibility that partial lymphocyte activation may serve to lower the antigen-specific activation thresholds for T cells. We found that the kinetics of Ca2+ flux in T cells responding to TCR cross-linking was not enhanced in partially activated T cells. Furthermore, following TCR stimulation with anti-cluster of differentiation (CD) 3ε, a lower proportion of partially activated than naive T cells proliferated. In contrast, the proliferation of partially activated and naive ovalbumin peptide (OVAp, SIINFEKL) specific CD8+ T cells (OT-I CD8+ T cells) was similar when stimulated with OVAp. Surprisingly, using an enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assay for IFN-γ secretion, we found that a higher number of partially activated OT-I CD8+ T cells expressed effector functions than did naive OT-I CD8+ T cells. This is most readily explained by an increased survival of activated antigen-specific CD8+ T cells from a pool of partially activated T cells than naive T cells. Overall, when examining the effects of early (Ca2+ flux), intermediate (proliferation) or late events (IFN-γ secretion) of T-cell activation, we found that partial activation promotes the survival but does not alter the antigen-specific activation thresholds of CD8+ T cells. |
Keywords: | Ca2⁺ IFN IFN-γ r-IFN-β proliferation |
Rights: | © The Japanese Society for Immunology. 2010. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1093/intimm/dxq064 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intimm/dxq064 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Microbiology and Immunology publications |
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