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The Journal of Immunology, 2001, 167: 4051-4058.
Copyright © 2001 by The American Association of Immunologists

Clonal Biases of Peripheral CD8 T Cell Repertoire Directly Reflect Local Inflammation in Polymyositis1

Junko Nishio, Mihoko Suzuki, Nobuyuki Miyasaka and Hitoshi Kohsaka2

Department of Bioregulatory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Polymyositis (PM) involves destruction of striated muscles by autoaggressive CD8 T cells, which accumulate and secrete cytotoxic effector molecules in the affected muscles. Previous studies of peripheral T cell repertoires from normal individuals and patients with viral infections have shown that primed CD8 T cells, unlike CD4 T cells, are prone to expand clonally and persist as large populations in the peripheral blood. These facts made us assume that autoaggressive myocytotoxic CD8 T cells would expand clonally in the peripheral blood from patients with PM. By clonal analyses of peripheral T cells from patients and age-matched controls, we show here that clonal expansion of CD8 T cells was more frequent in patients. This was not significant in CD4 T cells. In analogy to virus-specific T cells, the expanded T cells persisted as large populations over time. Analysis of the muscle biopsy specimens revealed that some of the expanded clones were infiltrating in the affected muscles from the same patients. These results provide the first evidence that local autoimmune reaction directly elicits significant biases in peripheral T cell repertoire. The expanded cells, which should be candidate autoaggressive T cells, were readily isolated from the peripheral blood for analysis of expressed genes including perforin. Thus, our findings should give us an immediate clue to analysis of the pathogenic T cells in PM.




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