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Activation Requirements, Lytic Mechanism, and Development of a Novel Anti-CD8-Resistant CTL Population¹

Susan A. McCarthy^2,*,, Michael S. Mainwaring^*, David S. Dougall^* and Esi S. Lamouse-Smith

Departments of ^* Surgery and Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Almost all conventional CD8⁺ CTL and their CD8⁺ precursors are inhibited by anti-CD8 mAb. This requirement for CD8 function reflects both an avidity-augmentation role and a signal-transduction role for CD8 on T cells. We have, however, previously identified and partially characterized a novel functional population of CD8⁺, but anti-CD8-resistant, MHC class I-allospecific CTL. These CTL have unusual activation requirements in that their efficient generation in vitro requires inhibition of the CD8 avidity contribution (but not the CD8 signaling contribution), by anti-CD8 mAb. In this study, we have investigated the relationship of anti-CD8-sensitive and anti-CD8-resistant CTL by several criteria. These CTL populations share the phenotypic markers we have tested to date, they have similar but not identical Ag-specific repertoires, and they both appear to be generated from naive unprimed T cells. However, anti-CD8-sensitive and anti-CD8-resistant CTL populations exhibit important functional differences. They differ in their kinetics of activation in vitro, their dependence on exogenous cytokines, their use of lytic effector mechanisms, and their tissue distribution during ontogeny. Based on these results, we favor the hypothesis that these CTL populations represent distinct T cell lineages or subsets, and not merely different TCR avidity ranges within a single T cell lineage or subset.

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				E. S. N. Lamouse-Smith, D. S. Dougall, and S. A. McCarthy Cytokine Requirements for Production of a Novel Anti-CD8-Resistant CTL Population J. Immunol., October 15, 1999; 163(8): 4160 - 4167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]