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Functional tolerance of CD8+ T cells induced by muscle-specific antigen expression.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Calbo, Sébastien Delagrèverie, Héloïse M. Arnoult, Christophe Authier, F. J. Tron, François Boyer, Olivier |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Skeletal muscles account for more than 30% of the human body, yet mechanisms of immunological tolerance to this tissue remain mainly unexplored. To investigate the mechanisms of tolerance to muscle-specific proteins, we generated transgenic mice expressing the neo-autoantigen OVA exclusively in skeletal muscle (SM-OVA mice). SM-OVA mice were bred with OT-I or OT-II mice that possess a transgenic TCR specific for OVA peptides presented by MHC class I or class II, respectively. Tolerance to OVA did not involve clonal deletion, anergy or an increased regulatory T cell compartment. Rather, CD4+ T cell tolerance resulted from a mechanism of ignorance revealed by their response following OVA immunization. In marked contrast, CD8+ T cells exhibited a loss of OVA-specific cytotoxic activity associated with up-regulation of the immunoregulatory programmed death-1 molecule. Adoptive transfer experiments further showed that OVA expression in skeletal muscle was required to maintain this functional tolerance. These results establish a novel asymmetric model of immunological tolerance to muscle autoantigens involving Ag ignorance for CD4+ T cells, whereas muscle autoantigens recognized by CD8+ T cells results in blockade of their cytotoxic function. These observations may be helpful for understanding the breakage of tolerance in autoimmune muscle diseases. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 1 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.jimmunol.org/content/181/1/408.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 18566407v1 |
| Volume Number | 181 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Journal | Journal of immunology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Anatomical compartments Autoantigens Autoimmune Diseases Clonal Anergy Clonal Deletion Clone Compartment of cell Immune Tolerance Leukemia, B-Cell Skeletal muscle structure T-Cell Receptor Transcriptional Activation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |