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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 149, Issue 9 3097-3106, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists
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T Giese and WF Davidson
Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Mice homozygous for lpr and gld develop profound lymphadenopathy characterized by the accumulation of two functionally anergic T cell subsets, a predominant B220+CD4-CD8- double negative (DN) population and a minor, closely related CD4 dull+ B220+ population. Lymph nodes from diseased lpr and gld mice also contain abnormally high numbers of conventional T cells, and we reported recently that a high proportion of lpr and gld CD4+B220- T cells have the hallmarks of primed or memory T cells. In the present study, we further investigated the extent, ontogeny, and possible causes of T cell activation in lpr and gld mice. The criteria used to identify primed or memory T cells included activation-dependent increases in the expression of CD44, LFA-1, and the early activation Ag, CD69, and decreases in the expression of Mel- 14 and CD45RB, as well as quantitative differences in the in vitro production of IFN-gamma and the TNF-alpha by stimulated cells. A comparison of TCR V beta gene utilization by lpr T cell subsets also was undertaken. The results showed that T cell activation was widespread and complex. CD8+ T cells exhibited a similar pattern of activation to CD4+B220- T cells. The activation of these two subsets occurred in parallel, was in evidence by 4 to 6 wk of age, and was both chronic and progressive. The proportions of CD44hiLFA-1hi, CD4+B220-, and CD8+ T cells increased steadily between 4 and 20 wk of age, but changes in T cell growth, Mel-14, and CD45RB expression and cytokine secretion were not observed until mice were older than 11 wk. A very different pattern of activation was observed for B220+ T cells. At all ages, B220+ DN and CD4+B220+ T cells were CD44hiMel-14hi and 60 to 75% were CD69+. The expression of CD69 appeared to be stimulus dependent rather than constitutive, suggesting that these cells, too, may be chronically stimulated in vivo. In keeping with their anergic state, DN T cells responded poorly to cross-linking of CD69. The stimuli inducing chronic activation of CD4+B220- and CD8+ T cells are unlikely to include inappropriate reactions to autoantigens because there was no evidence for selective accumulation of CD4+ or CD8+ T cells bearing particular V beta genes or potentially self-reactive cells that normally are deleted in the thymus. By comparison, C3H-lpr DN cells displayed some potentially significant differences in V beta 6 and V beta 9 expression from CD4+B220- and CD8+ T cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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