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Infectious Nickel Tolerance: A Reciprocal Interplay of Tolerogenic APCs and T Suppressor Cells That Is Driven by Immunization ¹

Karin Roelofs-Haarhuis^*, Xianzhu Wu^*, Michael Nowak^*, Min Fang^*, Suzan Artik and Ernst Gleichmann^2,*

^* Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung and Dermatology Clinic, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Previously, we reported that tolerance to nickel, induced by oral administration of Ni²⁺ ions, can be adoptively transferred to naive mice with only 10² splenic T cells. Here we show that 10² T cell-depleted spleen cells (i.e., APCs) from orally tolerized donors can also transfer nickel tolerance. This cannot be explained by simple passive transfer of the tolerogen. The APCs from orally tolerized donors displayed a reduced allostimulatory capacity, a tolerogenic phenotype, and an increased expression of CD38 on B cells. In fact, it was B cells among the APCs that carried the thrust of tolerogenicity. Through serial adoptive transfers with Ly5.1⁺ donors and two successive sets of Ly5.2⁺ recipients, we demonstrated that nickel tolerance was infectiously spread from donor to host cells. After the transfer of either T cells or APCs from orally tolerized donors, the spread of tolerance to the opposite cell type of the recipients (i.e., APCs and T cells, respectively) required recipient immunization with NiCl₂/H₂O₂. For the spread of tolerance from a given donor cell type, T cell or APC, to the homologous host cell type, the respective opposite cell type in the host was required as intermediate. We conclude that T suppressor cells and tolerogenic APCs induced by oral administration of nickel are part of a positive feedback loop that can enhance and maintain tolerance when activated by Ag associated with a danger signal. Under these conditions, APCs and T suppressor effector cells infectiously spread the tolerance to naive T cells and APCs, respectively.

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