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The Journal of Immunology, 2002, 169: 1993-2002.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Immunologists

Development and Compartmentalization of the Porcine TCR {delta} Repertoire at Mucosal and Extraintestinal Sites: The Pig as a Model for Analyzing the Effects of Age and Microbial Factors1

Wolfgang Holtmeier2,*, Judith Käller*, Wiebke Geisel*, Reinhard Pabst{dagger}, Wolfgang F. Caspary* and Hermann J. Rothkötter{dagger}

* Medizinische Klinik II, Division of Gastroenterology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and {dagger} Center of Anatomy, Medical School of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

{gamma}{delta} T cells are an important component of the mucosal immune system. Previously, we have shown that the TCR {delta} repertoire in human intestine is polyclonal at birth and becomes increasingly restricted with age. In this study, we expand those studies to the pig which allows more extensive experiments including several organs. Tissues from different mucosal sites like the stomach, duodenum, ileum, Peyer’s patches, jejunum, and colon, and also extraintestinal sites like the lung, spleen, thymus and mesenteric lymph nodes, were obtained from conventionally reared pigs aged 2 wk to 5.5 years. In addition, tissues were also obtained from 10-wk-old specified pathogen- and germ-free pigs. TCRDV1-DV5 transcripts were amplified by RT-PCR after which complementarity-determining region 3 spectratyping was performed. Individual bands were excised from the gels and directly sequenced. The intestinal TCR {delta} repertoire showed increasing restriction with age and was highly oligoclonal in the adult 2- to 5.5-year-old pigs. In old pigs, we observed a striking compartmentalization. Different TCR {delta} repertoires were present between the lungs and the intestinal mucosa but also within different parts of the gastrointestinal tract. However, occasionally we observed identical TCR {delta} transcripts in the intestine and the lungs and shared clones could be detected also along the entire gastrointestinal tract. Thus, subsets of {gamma}{delta} T cells are likely to transport immunological information between different compartments of the immune system. Furthermore, these data support the hypothesis that in each mucosal site, different Ags are responsible for selecting and maintaining the {gamma}{delta} TCR over time.




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