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Naive, Effector, and Memory T Lymphocytes Efficiently Scan Dendritic Cells In Vivo: Contact Frequency in T Cell Zones of Secondary Lymphoid Organs Does Not Depend on LFA-1 Expression and Facilitates Survival of Effector T Cells¹

Jürgen Westermann^2,*, Ulrike Bode, Andrea Sahle, Uwe Speck^*, Nathan Karin, Eric B. Bell, Kathrin Kalies^* and Andreas Gebert^*

^* Institute of Anatomy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Department of Anatomy, Medical School of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; Department of Immunology, Technion, Haifa, Israel; and Immunology Research Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Contact between T cells and dendritic cells (DCs) is required for their subsequent interaction leading to the induction of adaptive immune responses. Quantitative data regarding the contact frequencies of T cell subsets in different lymphoid organs and species are lacking. Therefore, naive, effector, and memory CD4 T cells were injected into rats in absence of the cognate Ag, and 0.5–96 h later, spleen, lymph nodes, and Peyer’s patches were removed. Cryosections were analyzed for contact between donor T cells and endogenous DCs in the T cell zone, and donor cell proliferation. More than 60% of injected naive CD4 T cells were in contact with endogenous DCs at all time points and in all organs analyzed. Surprisingly, we were unable to detect any differences between naive, effector, and memory CD4 T cells despite different expression levels of surface molecules. In addition, contact frequency was similar for T cells in lymphoid organs of rats, mice, and humans; it was unaffected by the absence of LFA-1 (CD11a/CD18), and sustained effector T cells in an activated state. Thus, the architecture of the T cell zone rather than expression patterns of surface molecules determines the contact efficiency between T cells and DCs in vivo.

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