Mu Chuanyong, Zhang Xueshu, Wang Lu, Xu Aizhang, Ahmed Khawaja Ashfaque, Pang Xueqin, Chibbar Rajni, Freywald Andrew, Huang Jianan, Zhu Yehan, Xiang Jim
Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, Soochow, China.
Cancer Research Department, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
J Leukoc Biol. 2017 May;101(5):1221-1231. doi: 10.1189/jlb.3A0716-295RR. Epub 2017 Jan 17.
Compared with CD425 regulatory T cells (T), the mechanisms for natural, polyclonal CD825 T immune suppression have been significantly less studied. We previously showed that polyclonal T cells can acquire antigen-specific targeting activity through arming with exosomal peptide-MHC (pMHC). In this study, we assessed the suppressive effect of CD825 T or CD825 T armed with ovalbumin (OVA)-specific exosomes on other immune cells and OVA-specific dendritic cell (DC)-stimulated antitumor immunity. We demonstrate that CD825 T inhibit T cell proliferation in vitro in a cell contact-dependent fashion but independent of the expression of immunosuppressive IL-10, TGF-β, and CTLA-4. CD825 T anergize naïve T cells upon stimulation by up-regulating T cell anergy-associated and down-regulating IL-2 production. T also anergize DCs by preventing DC maturation through the down-regulation of Ia, CD80, CD86, and inflammatory cytokines, leading to defects in T cell stimulation. Moreover, CD825 T inhibit CTLs through inducing CTL death via perforin-mediated apoptosis and through reducing effector CTL cytotoxic activity via down-regulating CTL perforin-production and degranulation. In addition, we show that CD825 T suppress DC-stimulated CTL responses in priming and effector phases and inhibit immunity against OVA-expressing CCL lung cancer. Remarkably, polyclonal CD825 T armed with OVA-specific exosomal pMHC class-II (pMHC-II), or pMHC class-I (pMHC-I) complexes exert their enhanced inhibition of CTL responses in the priming and the effector phases, respectively. Taken together, our investigation reveals that assigning antigen specificity to nonspecific polyclonal CD825 T for enhanced immune suppression can be achieved through exosomal pMHC arming. This principle may have a great effect on T-mediated immunotherapy of autoimmune diseases.
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