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Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Stimulates Expansion of Autoreactive T Cells That Induce Apoptosis in Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Regulation of Autoreactive Responses by IL-10¹

Komei Ito^*, Hiromasa Takaishi^*, Yide Jin^*, Fei Song^*, Tim L. Denning^*, and Peter B. Ernst^2,*,,

Departments of ^* Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology and The Sealy Center for Molecular Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555

T cell responses to self Ags and normal microbial flora are carefully regulated to prevent autoreactivity. Because IL-10-deficient mice develop colitis, and this response is triggered by luminal flora, we investigated whether IL-10 regulates the ability of microbial Ags to induce autoreactive T cells that could contribute to intestinal inflammation. T cells from wild-type mice were primed with staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) in vitro, which induced an autoreactive proliferative response to syngeneic feeder cells. The cells were predominately CD3⁺ and CD4⁺. T cells from IL-10-deficient mice were constitutively autoreactive, and SEB priming enhanced this further. The autoreactive, proliferative response of T cells from wild-type mice was suppressed by IL-10 in the primary or secondary culture, and this effect was inhibited by neutralizing Abs to the IL-10R. To confirm that an autoreactive repertoire was expanded after SEB priming, we used CBA/J mice (Mls-1^a) in which autoreactive T cells recognizing the endogenous viral superantigen are depleted (Vß6, 7, 8.1 TCR-bearing cells). However, SEB rescued these autoreactive T cell repertoires. Adding anti-MHC class II Ab blocked the autoreactive response. SEB-primed splenic or colonic T cells also induced apoptosis in syngeneic intestinal epithelial cells that was blocked significantly by IL-10. Thus, microbial Ags have the potential to abrogate self tolerance by stimulating autoreactive T cells that become cytolytic to target cells. IL-10 plays a protective role in maintaining self tolerance after microbial stimulation by preventing the activation of T cells that contribute to epithelial cell damage.

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