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* Department of Pediatrics, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan;
Department of Pediatrics, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan;
First Department of Internal Medicine and Departments of
Pediatrics and
¶ Dermatology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan; and
|| Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Although the cytotoxic mechanisms of murine CTLs have been investigated extensively using various mutant and knockout mice, those of human CTLs, especially CD4+ CTLs, are still obscure. To clarify the roles of perforin in Ag-specific cytotoxicity mediated by human CD4+ CTLs, alloantigen-specific and HSV-specific human CD4+ T lymphocyte bulk lines and clones were established from a patient with hereditary perforin deficiency and her healthy father, and their cytotoxic activities were investigated. Alloantigen-specific CD4+ T lymphocytes expressing perforin exerted cytotoxicity against Fas-negative as well as Fas-positive allogeneic B lymphoblastoid cell lines established from members of a family with hereditary Fas deficiency. Perforin-deficient, but not perforin-expressing, CD4+ T lymphocytes failed to show strong cytotoxicity against HSV-infected autologous B lymphoblastoid cells. Perforin-deficient CD4+ T lymphocytes could exert relatively low level cytotoxicity against allogeneic IFN-
-treated keratinocytes. Although cytotoxicity mediated by perforin-expressing CD4+ CTLs was almost completely inhibited by concanamycin A, a potent inhibitor of the perforin-mediated cytotoxic pathway, cytotoxicity against IFN--treated keratinocytes mediated by perforin-deficient CD4+ T lymphocytes was inhibited only partially by concanamycin A, but was inhibited significantly by antagonistic anti-Fas Ab and anti-Fas ligand Ab. The combination of perforin-deficient effector T lymphocytes and Fas-negative target cells used in the present study provides a novel experimental system for studying the detailed mechanisms of human CTL-mediated cytotoxicity. The present data demonstrate that perforin-negative CD4+ CTLs can exert cytotoxicity against Fas-sensitive target cells; however, perforin plays essential roles in Ag-specific cytotoxicity mediated by human CD4+ as well as CD8+ CTLs.
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