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Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 345, Institut Necker, Paris, France; and
Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
How TCR and non-TCR signals are integrated by thymocytes to generate a decision to undergo either positive or negative selection remains incompletely understood. Recent evidence suggests that TCR signal transduction changes its quality during thymocyte maturation, but whether the contributions of various cosignaling or costimulatory pathways to thymocyte selection also are modified during development is unclear. Questions also remain about the possible selective roles of specific costimulatory pathways in induction of differentiation vs death among thymocytes at any given stage of maturity. To address these issues, a quantitative in vitro analysis of initiation of CD4+CD8+ thymocyte differentiation as measured by CD69 up-regulation/coreceptor down-modulation was conducted in parallel with an analysis of induction of death. Using transfected cells varying in their surface display of ICAM-1 or B7.1 along with antibody blocking experiments, we demonstrate here that ICAM-1 provides a selective boost to signaling for differentiation without substantially affecting induction of death among CD4+CD8+ cells, a property that is lost as thymocytes mature further. In contrast, B7 engagement enhances both cell activation and death in parallel. Based on these data, we propose that the high level of ICAM-1 on cortical epithelial cells plays a special role in opening a window between TCR signaling for differentiation vs death, permitting efficient initiation of positive selection on epithelial ligands. In contrast, late CD28-dependent cosignaling on hemopoietic cells in the medulla would help enforce negative selection by augmenting the effects of TCR engagement by low levels of high affinity ligands.
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