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The Journal of Immunology, 1998, 161: 5909-5917.
Copyright © 1998 by The American Association of Immunologists

IL-7-Dependent Extrathymic Expansion of CD45RA+ T Cells Enables Preservation of a Naive Repertoire1

Maria Vieira, D. Soares*, Nicola J. Borthwick*, Mala K. Maini{dagger}, George Janossy*, Mike Salmon{ddagger} and Arne N. Akbar2,*

* Department of Immunology, The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom; {dagger} Imperial Cancer Research Fund Tumour Immunology Unit and Department of Oncology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom; and {ddagger} Department of Rheumatology, Birmingham University Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom

We have investigated the regulation of adult and cord blood CD45RA+ T cell proliferation and apoptosis to identify factors that may control the naive T cell pool. Cord CD45RA+ T cells were highly susceptible to spontaneous apoptosis as compared with CD45RA+ T cells from adults. Apoptosis was prevented by the addition of IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, and IL-15 which signal via the {gamma}-chain of the IL-2 receptor. IL-7 prevented the decrease in Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL and induced cell cycling in up to 20% of cord T cells after 8 days, resulting in a threefold increase in cord T cell numbers. However, the expanded cells retained a CD45RA+CD45RO- phenotype. Similar results were obtained with adult CD45RA+ T cells. IL-7-expanded CD45RA+RO- T cells expressed CD45RO after stimulation through the TCR. Investigations into the regulation of replicative senescence showed that after 12 days in culture with IL-7, cord blood CD45RA+ T cell proliferation resulted in telomere shortening. Nevertheless, IL-7-expanded cord blood T cells still maintained longer telomeres than unstimulated adult T cells. IL-7 but not IL-2 could directly induce high telomerase activity which probably retarded the rate of telomere shortening in cord blood T cells. These results suggest that proliferation induced by IL-7 may be important for extrathymic expansion of neonatal CD45RA+ T cells and may also contribute to the maintenance of the adult CD45RA+ T cell pool.




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