T cells of staphylococcal enterotoxin B-tolerized autoimmune MRL-lpr/lpr mice require co-stimulation through the B7-CD28/CTLA-4 pathway for activation and can be reanergized in vivo by stimulation of the T cell receptor in the absence of this co-stimulatory signal

European Journal of Immunology
T ZhouJ D Mountz

Abstract

The CD28/CTLA-4 receptors on T cells interact with the B7 molecule on antigen-presenting cells (APC) to produce a co-stimulatory signal that determines the outcome of activation. The role of this co-stimulatory signal in T cell activation and loss of tolerance in autoimmune MRL-lpr/lpr mice has not been investigated previously. The present study examines the contribution of the CD28/CTLA-4 co-stimulatory pathway to the loss of T cell tolerance in V beta 8 transgenic MRL-lpr/lpr and (-)+/+ mice in which neonatal tolerance has been induced by the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB). An artificial APC transfected with the murine B7 gene, and a CTLA-4-Ig fusion protein were used to analyze the significance of the CD28/CTLA-4 pathway in vitro. The CTLA-4-Ig fusion protein was also used to inhibit the pathway in vivo. Our results demonstrate that CD28 and CTLA-4 mRNA was overexpressed in the lymph nodes of lpr/lpr mice (MRL, C57BL/6, C3H and AKR), but not in +/+ mice of the same background strain. Lymph node T cells and thymocytes from SEB neonatally tolerized MRL-lpr/lpr mice that had undergone tolerance loss, proliferated when cultured with SEB and B7+ fibroblasts in vitro, but did not proliferate when the SEB was prese...Continue Reading

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