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Institute of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
T cell anergy has been proposed as one of the mechanisms underlying peripheral T cell tolerance. In recent years, the functional relevance of T cell anergy has been studied extensively in vitro and in vivo, using different species, cell systems, and ways to induce anergy. Although these studies concurred about the induction of unresponsiveness, conflicting findings were obtained with respect to the function of anergic T cells and to the persistence of T cell anergy. In the present study, T cell anergy was induced through T-T presentation of the specific Ag by rat MHC class II+ T cells in the absence of professional APC. We show that, depending on the Ag dose with which T cells were incubated, distinct anergic phenotypes were induced. Incubation of T cell clones with a low (suboptimal) Ag dose induced hyporesponsiveness. Incubation with a higher (optimal) Ag dose induced an anergic state capable of exerting immunoregulatory effects. Incubation with a high (supraoptimal) Ag dose led to an anergic suppressive phenotype that was persistent and was not reversed by APC, Ag, and rIL-2. These findings demonstrate that T cell anergy is not confined to a single state of functional inactivation. Instead, multiple levels of T cell anergy exist. Thus, anergic T cells can contribute to the regulation of the immune response either in a persistent and active manner or in a passive manner, depending on their level of T cell anergy.
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