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Department of Immunobiology and Laboratory for Experimental and Clinical Immunology, Academic Medical Center, CLB, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and
Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Circulating CD8+ T cells with a
CD45RA+CD27- phenotype resemble cytolytic
effector cells because they express various cytolytic mediators and are
able to execute cytotoxicity without prior stimulation in vitro. We
here demonstrate that
CD8+CD45RA+CD27- T cells can use
both granule exocytosis and Fas/Fas ligand pathways to induce apoptosis
in target cells. The availability of these cytolytic mechanisms in
circulating T cells suggests that the activity of these cells must be
carefully controlled to prevent unwanted tissue damage. For this
reason, we analyzed the expression of surface receptors that either
enhance or inhibit T cell function. Compared with memory-type cells,
effector cells were found to express normal levels of CD3
and TCR
and relatively high levels of CD8. CTLA-4 was absent from freshly
isolated effector cells, whereas a limited number of unstimulated
memory cells expressed this molecule. In line with recent findings on
CD8+CD28- T cells,
CD45RA+CD27- T cells were unique in the
abundant expression of NK cell-inhibitory receptors, both of Ig
superfamily and C-type lectin classes. Binding of NK cell-inhibitory
receptors to classical and nonclassical MHC class I molecules may
inhibit the activation of the cytolytic machinery induced by either Ag
receptor-specific or nonspecific signals in
CD8+CD45RA+CD27- T
cells.
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