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Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520; and
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Autoantibodies directed at a diverse group of proteins of the U1/Sm ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) are characteristic of systemic lupus erythematosus and are found in the MRL murine model of this disease. This study examines the role of transgenic B lymphocytes in the regulation of autoreactive T cells to the snRNP autoantigen. Transgenic mice were developed bearing an Ig heavy chain gene specific for the D protein component of murine snRNP. B lymphocytes in these mice are neither deleted nor anergic and are of an immature (heat-stable Aghigh) phenotype. T lymphocytes from anti-snRNP transgenic mice were examined using a recombinant form of the D protein of the murine snRNP complex. Our results revealed that transgenic anti-snRNP B cell APCs stimulated CD4 T cells from wild-type C57BL/6 and MRL lpr/lpr mice, while nonspecific APCs failed to stimulate CD4 T cells. This study demonstrates that autoreactive T cells are not deleted from wild-type mice, although their activation is facilitated by autoantigen-specific APCs. The snRNP-reactive T cells in C57BL/6 transgenic mice are tolerized, in contrast to those T cells from MRL lpr/lpr transgenic mice. These studies implicate a role for autoreactive B lymphocytes in the in vivo activation and/or diversification of autoreactive T cells.
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