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Immunobiology Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029
Mucosal tolerance is believed to be partly mediated by regulatory T cells. Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) may play an important role in the generation of such regulatory cells, because they are able to process and present Ag to T cells. Furthermore, we have previously demonstrated that IECs are able to generate regulatory CD8+ T cells in vitro. In the present study, we have analyzed lamina propria (LP) lymphocytes for the presence of such regulatory CD8+ T cells in normal individuals as well as in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The results of the present study show that LP CD8+ T cells derived from normal controls possess regulatory activity, whereas both unfractionated LP lymphocytes and purified LP CD4+ T cells do not. The LP CD8+ T cells suppress Ig production by pokeweed mitogen-stimulated PBMCs by 31–80%, in a cell contact-dependent manner. No significant difference in suppression between CD28+ and CD28–CD8+ LP T cells was observed. In contrast to CD8+ T cells from normal LP, CD8+ T cells isolated from LP of IBD patients, did not suppress Ig production by pokeweed mitogen-stimulated PBMC (five of six ulcerative colitis specimens; six of six Crohn’s disease specimens). Furthermore, we demonstrate that the frequency of TCR V
5.1-positive CD8+ T cells, which we previously have demonstrated to be regulatory and to be expanded by IECs in vitro, is decreased in IBD LP compared with normal LP. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that CD8+ T cells with regulatory activity are present in the LP of normal healthy individuals, but not in patients with IBD, suggesting that these cells might play an active role in mucosal tolerance.
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