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The Journal of Immunology, 2000, 164: 3047-3055.
Copyright © 2000 by The American Association of Immunologists

Single Cell Analysis Reveals That IL-4 Receptor/Stat6 Signaling Is Not Required for the In Vivo or In Vitro Development of CD4+ Lymphocytes with a Th2 Cytokine Profile

Dragana Jankovic1,2,*, Marika C. Kullberg1,*, Nancy Noben-Trauth{dagger}, Patricia Caspar*, William E. Paul{dagger} and Alan Sher*

* Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, and {dagger} Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892

The concept that IL-4 is the primary signal for Th2 lymphocyte differentiation has recently been put in doubt by studies in which the production of Th2-associated cytokines was detected in mice deficient in IL-4 synthesis or IL-4R triggering. In this study, we formally demonstrate by single cell analysis that CD4+ lymphocytes with a classical Th2 phenotype (IL-4+, IL-5+, IFN-{gamma}-, IL-2-) develop in significant numbers in helminth-infected mice deficient in either IL-4R {alpha}-chain or Stat6. While an expanded population of Th1 (IL-4-, IL-5-, IFN-{gamma}+, IL-2+) lymphocytes was observed in the same animals, surprisingly, cells with a mixed Th0 cytokine pattern were rare. The cytokine production phenotypes of the Th1 and Th2 subpopulations generated in infected Stat6-deficient mice were unaffected by in vitro neutralization of endogenous IL-4 or IFN-{gamma}. Nevertheless, while addition of exogenous rIL-12 resulted in transitory IFN-{gamma} production by Th2 lymphocytes from both wild-type and Stat6-deficient mice, IL-4 synthesis was preserved in the former, but temporarily ablated in the latter cells. Importantly, IL-4+ IFN-{gamma}- and IL-4- IFN-{gamma}+ populations similar to those arising in helminth-infected Stat6-deficient mice could also be generated in vitro by repetitive polyclonal stimulation of CD4+CD62Lhigh lymphocytes from uninfected mice of the same strain. Together, the results of these single cell analysis experiments demonstrate that IL-4R/Stat6 signaling, while influencing the final frequency of Th2 lymphocytes, is not essential for Th2 cell development, and suggest that this pathway has a previously unrecognized function in stabilizing Th2 populations once they have emerged.




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