Mycobacterium smegmatis expressing a chimeric protein MPT64-proteolipid protein (PLP) 139-151 reorganizes the PLP-specific T cell repertoire favoring a CD8-mediated response and induces a relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
Chiara NicolòFrancesco Ria

Abstract

We infected SJL mice with a recombinant Mycobacterium smegmatis expressing a chimeric protein containing the self-epitope of proteolipid protein 139-151 (p139) fused to MPT64, a secreted protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (rMS(p139)). Infected mice developed a relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), showing a prevailing demyelination of the CNS, and disease severity was significantly lower in comparison with the one that follows immunization with p139. rMS(p139) was not detected in lymph node or spleen in the course of clinical disease development or in the CNS during relapse. Infection with rMS(p139) modified the p139-specific T cell repertoire, recruiting the spontaneous p139-specific repertoire and activating CD4(+) T cells carrying the BV4 semiprivate rearrangement. T cells carrying the public BV10 rearrangement that are consistently found in the CNS during flares of disease were not activated by infection with rMS(p139) because lymph node APCs infected with rMS(p139) selectively fail to present the epitope for which BV10 cells are specific. Simultaneously, rMS(p139) expanded p139-specific CD8(+) cells more efficiently than immunization with peptide in adjuvant. SJL mice vaccinated against the CDR3 seq...Continue Reading

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