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* Department of Medicine and
Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104;
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom;
Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; and
¶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Biesecker Pediatric Liver Disease Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Partial T cell depletion is used in solid organ transplantation as a valuable strategy of peritransplant induction immunosuppression. Using a murine cardiac allograft model, we recently demonstrated that this led to lymphopenia-induced (homeostatic) proliferation among the residual nondepleted lymphocytes. Rather than promoting tolerance, peritransplant T cell-depleting Abs actually resulted in resistance to tolerance induction by costimulatory blockade. In this study we show that memory T cells predominate shortly after subtotal lymphodepletion due to two distinct mechanisms: relative resistance to depletion and enhanced homeostatic proliferation. In contrast, regulatory cells (CD4+CD25+Foxp3+) are depleted as efficiently as nonregulatory cells and exhibit reduced homeostatic expansion compared with memory cells. The resistance to tolerance induction seen with subtotal T cell depletion can be overcome in two different ways: first, by the adoptive transfer of additional unprimed regulatory cells at the time of transplant, and second, by the adjunctive use of nondepleting anti-CD4 and anti-CD8 mAbs, which effectively block homeostatic expansion. We conclude that the resistance to tolerance induction seen after subtotal lymphocyte depletion can be attributed to alterations in the balance of naive, memory, and regulatory T cells. These data have clinically relevant implications related to the development of novel strategies to overcome resistance to tolerance.
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