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Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520
Self-reactive T cells are known to be eliminated by negative selection in the thymus or by the induction of tolerance in the periphery. However, developmental pathways that allow self-reactive T cells to inhabit the normal repertoire are not well-characterized. In this investigation, we made use of anti-small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP) Ig transgenic (Tg) mice (2-12 Tg) to demonstrate that autoreactive T cells can be detected and activated in both normal naive mice and autoimmune-prone MRL lpr/lpr mice. In contrast, autoreactive T cells of nonautoimmune Tg mice are tolerized by Tg B cells in the periphery. In adoptive transfer studies, autoreactive T cells from MRL lpr/lpr mice can stimulate autoantibody synthesis in nonautoimmune anti-snRNP Tg mice. Transferred CD4 T cells migrate to regions of the spleen proximal to the B cell follicles, suggesting that cognate B cell-T cell interactions are critical to the autoimmune response. Taken together, our studies suggest that anti-snRNP B cells are important APCs for T cell activation in autoimmune-prone mice. Additionally, we have demonstrated that anti-snRNP B cell anergy in nonautoimmune mice may be reversed by appropriate T cell help.
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