Mohagheghpour N, Damle N K, Takada S, Engleman E G
J Exp Med. 1986 Sep 1;164(3):950-5. doi: 10.1084/jem.164.3.950.
We have shown previously that CD8+ T cells proliferate upon exposure to autologous, antigen primed CD4+ T cells, and suppress the response of fresh T cells to the priming antigen but not irrelevant antigens. The stimulus and target of suppression in this system appears to be the antigen receptor on the surface of CD4+ cells, rather than the nominal antigen. In the current study, alloantigen primed CD4+ inducer cells and IL-2-containing medium were used to generate clones of suppressor cells from several individuals. The clones inhibited the response of fresh autologous T cells only to the original allogeneic stimulator cell and to stimulator cells that shared HLA-DR antigens with the priming cell. The clones were also genetically restricted, since they inhibited the response of HLA-A,B-compatible but not HLA-A,B-incompatible individuals. The availability of a method for reproducibly generating antigen receptor-specific suppressor T cell clones in vitro should make it possible to clarify the mechanism, whereby such cells are activated and exert their suppressive effect.
我们之前已经表明,CD8+ T细胞在接触自体、经抗原致敏的CD4+ T细胞后会增殖,并抑制新鲜T细胞对致敏抗原的反应,但不抑制对无关抗原的反应。该系统中抑制的刺激因素和靶点似乎是CD4+细胞表面的抗原受体,而非名义上的抗原。在当前研究中,使用经同种异体抗原致敏的CD4+诱导细胞和含白细胞介素-2的培养基从多个个体中生成抑制细胞克隆。这些克隆仅抑制新鲜自体T细胞对原始同种异体刺激细胞以及与致敏细胞共享HLA-DR抗原的刺激细胞的反应。这些克隆在遗传上也具有限制性,因为它们抑制HLA-A、B相容个体的反应,但不抑制HLA-A、B不相容个体的反应。体外可重复生成抗原受体特异性抑制性T细胞克隆的方法的可用性,应该能够阐明此类细胞被激活并发挥其抑制作用的机制。