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Medical Research Council Group on Organ Injury, Transplant Research Division, The Toronto Hospital, and Departments of Surgery and Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
The immunoadhesin (OX2:Fc) comprising the extracellular domain of
murine OX2 linked to IgG2aFc, inhibits production of IL-2 and IFN-
by activated T cells and increases allograft and xenograft survival in
vivo. Increased expression of OX2 on dendritic cells (DC) in vivo
following preimmunization via the portal vein is also associated with
elevated expression of MD-1. We have used antisense
oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) to MD-1 to investigate the effect of
inhibition of expression of MD-1 by DC on their function as
allostimulatory cells. We also investigated by FACS analysis the cell
surface expression of OX2, CD80, and CD86 on DC incubated with ODN-1
blocking MD-1 expression. Blocking MD-1 gene expression inhibits
surface expression of CD80 and CD86, but not of OX2. DC incubated with
ODN-1 to MD-1 did not stimulate IL-2 or IFN-
production, but
generated cells able to suppress, in a second culture of fresh DC plus
allogeneic T cells, production of IL-2 and IFN-
. This inhibition was
blocked by anti-OX2 mAb. Infusion of DC preincubated with ODN-1
prolonged renal allograft survival, an effect also reversed by
anti-OX2 mAb. By FACS, incubation of DC with anti-MD-1 Ab to
promote capping eliminated cell surface expression of MD-1 and CD14
without altering DEC205, DC26, CD80, CD86, or OX2 expression. Thus OX2
and MD-1 are independent surface molecules on DC that may
reciprocally regulate T cell stimulation. MD-1 is linked to CD14, a
"danger receptor complex," and activation of this complex can
regulate cell surface expression of CD80/CD86, which signal T
cells.
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