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Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Laboratory of Experimental Laboratory Medicine and
Department of Pathophysiology, Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; and
Macrozyme B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Protection against infection with pneumococci is provided by anti-capsular polysaccharide (caps-PS) Abs. We investigated whether CD40 ligand (CD40L) plays a role in T lymphocyte-mediated regulation of the immune response to caps-PS, which are considered thymus-independent Ags. Administration of MR1, an antagonist mAb against murine CD40L, in BALB/c mice immunized with Pneumovax resulted in an inhibition of the IgM and IgG Ab response for various caps-PS serotypes. Evidence for the involvement of CD4+ T lymphocytes in the Ab response to caps-PS was obtained in SCID/SCID mice that, when reconstituted with B lymphocytes and CD4+ T lymphocytes, mounted a higher specific IgM response compared with SCID/SCID mice reconstituted with only B lymphocytes. This helper effect of CD4+ T lymphocytes was abrogated by MR1. Blocking CD40L in vitro decreased the IgM response to caps-PS and abolished the helper effect of CD4+ T lymphocytes. CD8+ T lymphocyte-depleted murine spleen cells mounted a higher in vivo immune response than total murine spleen cells, which provided evidence for a suppressive role of CD8+ T lymphocytes on the anti-caps-PS immune response. CD4+ T lymphocyte-depleted murine spleen cells, leaving a B and CD8+ T lymphocyte fraction, elicited only a weak in vivo and in vitro Ab response, which was enhanced after MR1 administration. In summary, our data provide evidence that T lymphocytes contribute to the regulation of the anti-caps-PS immune response in a CD40L-dependent manner.
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