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T Cells in Humans
* Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892; and Departments of
Pediatrics and
Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
T cell receptors consist either of an 
-chain combined with a 
-chain or a 
-chain combined with a 
-chain. T cells constitute the majority of T cells in human blood throughout life. Flow cytometric analyses presented in this study, which focus on the representation of the developmental (naive and memory) subsets of T cells, show by function and phenotype that this lineage contains both naive and memory cells. In addition, we show that the representation of naive T cells is higher among than T cells in adults and that the low frequency of naive T cells in adults reflects ontological differences between the two major subsets, which are distinguished by expression of V1 vs V2 -chains. V1 cells, which mirror cells with respect to naive representation, predominate during fetal and early life, but represent the minority of cells in healthy adults. In contrast, V2 cells, which constitute the majority of adult cells, show lower frequencies of naive cells than V1 early in life and show vanishingly small naive frequencies in adults. In essence, nearly all naive V2 cells disappear from blood by 1 year of life. Importantly, even in children less than 1 year old, most of the nonnaive V2 cells stain for perforin and produce IFN- after short-term in vitro stimulation. This represents the earliest immunological maturation of any lymphocyte compartment in humans and most likely indicates the importance of these cells in controlling pathology due to common environmental challenges.
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