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CD2 Facilitates Differentiation of CD4 Th Cells Without Affecting Th1/Th2 Polarization¹

Laboratory of Immunobiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115

The role of CD2 in murine CD4 helper T cell differentiation and polarization was examined using TCR-Cyt-5CC7-I transgenic recombination activating gene-2^-/- H-2^a mice on CD2^+/+ or CD2^-/- backgrounds. In the absence of CD2, thymic development was abnormal as judged by reduction in the steady state number of total, double-positive, and CD4 single-positive (SP) thymocytes, as well as a defect in their restorative dynamics after peptide-induced negative selection in vivo. In addition, in CD2^-/- animals, lymph node CD4 SP T cells manifest a 10- to 100-fold attenuated activation response to cytochrome c (CytC) agonist peptides as judged by induction of CD25 and CD69 cell surface expression or [³H]TdR incorporation; differences in the magnitude of responsiveness and requisite molar peptide concentrations were even greater for altered peptide ligands. Although the presence or absence of CD2 did not impact the final Th1 or Th2 polarization outcome, CD2 expression reduced the CytC peptide concentration threshold necessary to facilitate both Th1 and Th2 differentiation. In vivo administration of CytC peptide to CD2^-/- animals yielded an impaired CD4 SP T cell effector/memory phenotype compared with similarly treated CD2^+/+ mice. Analysis of TCR-Cyt-5CC7-I human CD2 double-transgenic mice similarly failed to reveal a preferential Th1 vs Th2 polarization. Collectively, these results indicate that CD2 is important for the efficient development of CD4 SP thymocytes and TCR-dependent activation of mature CD4 lymph node T cells, but does not direct a particular helper T cell subset polarity.

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