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The State of CD4⁺ T Cell Activation Is a Major Factor for Determining the Kinetics and Location of T Cell Responses to Oral Antigen¹

Departments of Medicine and Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611

Current models suggest that inductive immune responses to enteric Ag are initiated in Peyer’s patches (PP) and mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) followed by migration of activated, memory-like CD4⁺ T cells to extralymphoid sites in the intestinal lamina propria (LP). The resultant immune system contains both naive and activated T cells. To examine the differential responses of naive and memory-like T cells to oral Ag, bone marrow chimeras (BMC) were generated. Irradiated BALB/c hosts were reconstituted with a mix of DO11.10 x RAG-1^-/- and BALB/c bone marrow. In unprimed DO11.10 and BMC models, LP and PP DO11.10 T cells responded to oral Ag with similar kinetics. Responses of activated, memory-like T cells to oral Ag were examined in thymectomized BMC 60 days after i.p. immunization with OVA peptide in Freund’s adjuvant (OVA_323–339/CFA). Results indicate that i.p. OVA_323–339/CFA generated a high proportion of memory-like CD45RB^low DO11.10 T cells in peripheral lymphoid (40%) and intestinal LP (70%) tissue. Previously activated DO11.10 T cells in the LP responded to oral Ag earlier and at 50% higher levels compared with memory CD4⁺ T cells localized to PP tissue. These data indicate that responses to oral Ag in antigenically naive animals are initiated in PP whereas in Ag-experienced animals LP T cells respond earlier and more vigorously than cells in PP. Taken together, these data suggest that previous activation alters the hierarchy of T cell responses to oral Ag by enhancing the efficiency of LP T cell activation.

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