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Antigen Exposure during Enhanced CTLA-4 Expression Promotes Allograft Tolerance In Vivo¹

Paolo R. O. Salvalaggio^2,*, Geoffrey Camirand^2,, Charlotte E. Ariyan^*, Songyan Deng, Linda Rogozinski, Giacomo P. Basadonna^3, and David M. Rothstein^3,4,

^* Department of Surgery and Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510; and Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655

The role of CTLA-4 in tolerance is primarily inferred from knockout and blocking studies. Anti-CD45RB mediates allograft tolerance in mice by inducing CTLA-4 expression on CD4 cells, providing a novel opportunity to determine how therapeutic enhancement of CTLA-4 promotes tolerance. We now show that induced CTLA-4 expression normally resolves by day 17. Although thymectomy prolongs enhanced CTLA-4 expression, long-term engraftment is unaffected. To address the temporal relationship between increased CTLA-4 expression and engraftment, transplantation was delayed for various times after anti-CD45RB treatment. Delaying transplantation for 7 days (when CTLA-4 expression had peaked but treatment mAb was no longer detectable), resulted in long-term engraftment comparable to transplantation with no delay (day 0). Delaying transplantation from 10 to 18 days led to a progressively poorer outcome as CTLA-4 expression returned to baseline. This suggested that Ag exposure while CTLA-4 expression is enhanced is sufficient to induce long-term engraftment. To substantiate this, on day 0, anti-CD45RB-treated mice received BALB/c vs unrelated alloantigen, followed by transplantation of BALB/c islets 10 days later. Whereas recipients exposed to unrelated Ag experienced acute rejection, recipients exposed to donor Ag achieved long-term engraftment. Anti-CD45RB-treated mice exposed to alloantigen exhibited anergic CD4⁺CD25^– effector cells and regulatory CD4⁺CD25⁺ cells. Moreover, CD25 depletion in the peritransplant period prevented anti-CD45RB-mediated engraftment. Thus, exposure of CD4 cells expressing CTLA-4 to donor Ag is necessary and sufficient to induce long-term engraftment which appears to be mediated by both regulation and anergy.

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