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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 155, Issue 10 4711-4718, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists
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D Vanhecke, B Verhasselt, V Debacker, G Leclercq, J Plum and B Vandekerckhove
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
We investigated at which point during thymocyte differentiation functions were acquired that are characteristic for mature Th cells. Differentiation from CD3+CD69-, CD4+CD8+ double-positive (DP) cells to terminally differentiated CD3+, CD4+CD8- single-positive (SP) cells was broken down into six discrete stages that were purified by four-color sorting: CD69-CD3+DP (stage 0), CD69+CD27-DP (stage 1), CD69+CD27- CD4+SP (stage 2), CD27+CD1+CD4+SP (stage 3), CD1-CD45RO+CD4+SP (stage 4), and CD1-CD45RO-CD4+SP cells (stage 5). Phenotypically, these stages seem to describe consecutive steps in differentiation from immature stage 0 to the terminally matured stage 5. Functionally, the capacity to proliferate on IL-2 after stimulation was absent in CD69- stage 0 cells, but was acquired gradually during stages 1 to 4. Clonal expandability and the capacity to respond to stimulation with the production of cytokines were acquired later and rather abruptly by CD1- stage 4 and 5 cells. Activation markers such as CD69 expression and in vivo IL-2 gene transcription came up simultaneously at the DP stage and peaked at stage 3 to 4. These data suggest that functional maturation of Th cells occurs over an extended period in differentiation, stages 1 to 4, and coincides with a gradual increase in activation markers. After completion of functional differentiation, at stage 5, in vivo IL- 2 mRNA transcription and CD69 expression are down-regulated, and the cells become functionally resting naive T cells expressing CD45RA+.
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