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* Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine, and
Department of Rheumatology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908; and
Department of Genomics and Information Sciences, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, NJ 07110
Although high dose exposure to inhaled cat allergen (Fel d 1) can cause a form of tolerance (modified Th2 response), the T cell mechanism for this phenomenon has not been studied. T cell responses to Fel d 1 were characterized in both allergic (IgEpos) and modified Th2 (IgEnegIgGpos) responders as well as serum Ab-negative controls (IgEnegIgGneg). Fel d 1 stimulated high levels of IL-10 in PBMC cultures from all individuals, with evidence of Th2 and Th1 cytokine skewing in allergic and control subjects, respectively. Using overlapping peptides, epitopes at the N terminus of Fel d 1 chain 2 were shown to stimulate strong T cell proliferation and to preferentially induce IL-10 (peptide 2:1 (P2:1)) or IFN-
(P2:2) regardless of the allergic status of the donor. Injection of cat extract during conventional immunotherapy stimulated expansion of IL-10- and IFN--producing chain 2 epitope-specific T cells along with increased Fel d 1-specific serum IgG and IgG4 Ab. Six of 12 modified responders expressed the major HLA-DRB1 allele, *0701, and both P2:1 and P2:2 were predicted ligands for this allele. Cultures from DR7-positive modified responders produced the highest levels of IL-10 to P2:1 in addition to other major and minor epitopes within chains 1 and 2. In the presence of anti-IL-10 mAb, both T cell proliferation and IFN- production were enhanced in a Fel d 1- and epitope-specific manner. We conclude that IL-10-producing T cells specific for chain 2 epitopes are relevant to tolerance induction, and that DR7-restricted recognition of these epitopes favors a modified Th2 response.
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