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T Lymphocytes Activated by Persistent Viral Infection Differentially Modify the Expression of Metalloproteinases and Their Endogenous Inhibitors, TIMPs, in Human Astrocytes: Relevance to HTLV-I-Induced Neurological Disease¹

Pascale Giraudon^2,*, Raphaël Szymocha^*, Stéphanie Buart^*, Arlette Bernard^*, Luis Cartier, Marie-Françoise Belin^* and Hideo Akaoka^*

^* Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U433, Faculté de Médecine R. Laënnec, Lyon, France; and Department of Neuroscience, Hospital del Salvador, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Activation of T lymphocytes by human pathogens is a key step in the development of immune-mediated neurologic diseases. Because of their ability to invade the CNS and their increased secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, activated CD4⁺ T cells are thought to play a crucial role in pathogenesis. In the present study, we examined the expression of inflammatory mediators the cytokine-induced metalloproteinases (MMP-2, -3, and -9) and their endogenous inhibitors, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMP-1, -2, and -3), in human astrocytes in response to activated T cells. We used a model system of CD4⁺ T lymphocytes activated by persistent viral infection (human T lymphotropic virus, HTLV-I) in transient contact with human astrocytes. Interaction with T cells resulted in increased production of MMP-3 and active MMP-9 in astrocytes despite increased expression of endogenous inhibitors, TIMP-1 and TIMP-3. These data suggest perturbation of the MMP/TIMP balance. These changes in MMP and TIMP expression were mediated, in part, by soluble factors (presumably cytokines) secreted by activated T cells. Integrin-mediated cell adhesion is also involved in the change in MMP level, since blockade of integrin subunits (₁, ₃, ₅, and ß₁) on T cells resulted in less astrocytic MMP-9-induced expression. Interestingly, in CNS tissues from neurological HTLV-I-infected patients, MMP-9 was detected in neural cells within the perivascular space, which is infiltrated by mononuclear cells. Altogether, these data emphasize the importance of the MMP-TIMP axis in the complex interaction between the CNS and invading immune cells in the context of virally mediated T cell activation.

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