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Department of Immunology, The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom;
Imperial Cancer Research Fund Tumour Immunology Unit and Department of Oncology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom; and
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
-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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