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Laboratoire d’Immunologie Cellulaire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale CJF 9711, Paris, France;
Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 277, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; and
Département de Gastroenterologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Lille, France
Insulin-dependent diabetes is an autoimmune disease targeting pancreatic ß-islet cells. Recent data suggest that autoreactive CD8+ T cells are involved in both the early events leading to insulitis and the late destructive phase resulting in diabetes. Although therapeutic injection of protein and synthetic peptides corresponding to CD4+ T cell epitopes has been shown to prevent or block autoimmune disease in several models, down-regulation of an ongoing CD8+ T cell-mediated autoimmune response using this approach has not yet been reported. Using CL4-TCR single transgenic mice, in which most CD8+ T cells express a TCR specific for the influenza virus hemagglutinin HA512–520 peptide:Kd complex, we first show that i.v. injection of soluble HA512–520 peptide induces transient activation followed by apoptosis of Tc1-like CD8+ T cells. We next tested a similar tolerance induction strategy in (CL4-TCR x Ins-HA)F1 double transgenic mice that also express HA in the ß-islet cells and, as a result, spontaneously develop a juvenile onset and lethal diabetes. Soluble HA512–520 peptide treatment, at a time when pathogenic CD8+ T cells have already infiltrated the pancreas, very significantly prolongs survival of the double transgenic pups. In addition, we found that Ag administration eliminates CD8+ T cell infiltrates from the pancreas without histological evidence of bystander damage. Our data indicate that agonist peptide can down-regulate an autoimmune reaction mediated by CD8+ T cells in vivo and block disease progression. Thus, in addition to autoreactive CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells may constitute targets for Ag-specific therapy in autoimmune diseases.
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