Witkowski P, Liu J W, Jin M X, Liu Z, Suciu-Foca N, Hardy M A
Department of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.
Transplant Proc. 2005 Jan-Feb;37(1):43-5. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.12.081.
CD8+CD28- human T-suppressor cells (Ts), which can be generated in vitro, act directly on APC rendering them tolerogenic to unprimed and primed CD4+ T cells. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility that CD8+ T cells mediate the induction of tolerance in a heart transplantation model in rodents.
Blood from Lewis rats was UV-B-irradiated and transfused into ACI recipients on days -21, -14, and -7 before heart allograft transplantation on day 0. CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells were positively selected from ACI rats, which had tolerated Lewis heart allografts for more than 100 days and were adoptively transferred to naive ACI rats pretreated (day -1) with gamma irradiation. These ACI rats underwent transplantation with Lewis hearts 24 hours after adoptive transfer of putative T-suppressor cells.
Adoptive transfer of CD8(+) T cells from tolerant ACI to naive ACI rats significantly prolonged Lewis heart mean allograft survival time (MST +/- SD) to 69 +/- 13 days as compared with 15 +/- 1 and 14 +/- 1 days in animals adoptively transferred with CD4+ T cells or untreated controls, respectively (P < .001). Similarly, adoptive transfer of CD8(+) T cells from secondary ACI recipients to naive syngeneic animals also significantly prolonged survival of heart allografts to MST +/- SD of 72 +/- 4 for CD8(+) and 15 +/- 4 days for CD4(+) T cells (P < .001).
These data demonstrate that allogeneic tolerance induced in ACI recipients by treatment with UV-B-irradiated blood from Lewis donors is mediated by CD8+ T-suppressor cells.
体外产生的CD8⁺CD28⁻人T抑制细胞(Ts)可直接作用于抗原呈递细胞(APC),使其对未致敏和已致敏的CD4⁺T细胞产生耐受性。本研究的目的是探讨CD8⁺T细胞在啮齿动物心脏移植模型中介导耐受性诱导的可能性。
在心脏同种异体移植手术日(第0天)前的第-21、-14和-7天,将经紫外线B照射的Lewis大鼠血液输注到ACI受体中。从耐受Lewis心脏同种异体移植超过100天的ACI大鼠中阳性选择CD4⁺和CD8⁺T细胞,并将其过继转移到经γ射线照射预处理(第-1天)的未致敏ACI大鼠中。这些ACI大鼠在过继转移假定的T抑制细胞24小时后接受Lewis心脏移植。
将来自耐受ACI大鼠的CD8⁺T细胞过继转移到未致敏ACI大鼠中,与分别过继转移CD4⁺T细胞的动物或未处理对照相比,显著延长了Lewis心脏平均同种异体移植存活时间(MST±SD)至69±13天,而CD4⁺T细胞过继转移组和未处理对照组的存活时间分别为15±1天和14±1天(P<0.001)。同样,将来自二次ACI受体的CD8⁺T细胞过继转移到未致敏的同基因动物中,也显著延长了心脏同种异体移植的存活时间,CD8⁺T细胞组的MST±SD为72±4天,CD4⁺T细胞组为15±4天(P<0.001)。
这些数据表明,用来自Lewis供体的紫外线B照射血液处理ACI受体所诱导的同种异体耐受性是由CD8⁺T抑制细胞介导的。