The Journal of Immunology, Vol 133, Issue 4 1775-1781, Copyright © 1984 by American Association of Immunologists

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Cloned cytolytic T cells can suppress primary cytotoxic responses directed against them

PJ Fink, HG Rammensee and MJ Bevan

In vivo and in vitro, murine peripheral T cells can suppress or "veto" the activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes directed against antigens presented by those T cells. This suppression is antigen-specific and H- 2-restricted. The recognition event initiating this suppression appears to be unidirectional; precursors of cytotoxic T lymphocytes recognize the antigen-bearing veto cell and are thereby inactivated--the veto cell need not recognize the CTL precursor. We show here that 3/3 cytolytic T cell clones can exert veto activity in vitro on normal spleen cells which do not bear antigens the T cell clones can recognize. This suppression results in greatly diminished cytotoxic activity generated during a primary 5-day mixed lymphocyte culture against antigens which the veto cell expresses, but not against third- party antigens present in the same culture. In this same system, a noncytolytic T cell clone will not serve as a source of veto cells. Secondary cytotoxic responses are relatively resistant to the veto cell activity of cloned cytolytic T cells. The cloned veto cells do not suppress the generation of cytotoxic activity directed against antigens they recognize (and presumably carry over via antigen-specific receptors). Cold target competition during the cytotoxic assay has been eliminated as a possible mechanism for T cell clone-induced suppression, and suppression cannot be reversed by the addition to the mixed lymphocyte cultures of supernatants from concanavalin A-activated spleen cells. It is suggested that this mechanism of inactivating primary cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses could play an important role in the maintenance of self-tolerance and in the induction and maintenance of tolerance to allografts.

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