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Induction of CTLA-4-Mediated Anergy Contributes to Persistent Colonization in the Murine Model of Gastric Helicobacter pylori Infection¹

Kathleen M. Anderson^*, Steven J. Czinn, Raymond W. Redline^* and Thomas G. Blanchard^2,

^* Department of Pathology and Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106

Helicobacter pylori infection induces gastric inflammation but the host fails to generate protective immunity. Therefore, we evaluated the immunologic mechanisms that contribute to the failure of the T cells to promote active immunity to H. pylori in the mouse model of H. pylori infection. Spleen cells from infected C57BL/6 mice underwent significantly less proliferation and cytokine production than cells from immune mice upon in vitro stimulation with H. pylori lysate. Similar results were observed when stimulating with Ag-pulsed macrophages demonstrating that hyporesponsiveness was not due to a direct effect of H. pylori virulence factors on the T cells. Ag-specific hyporesponsiveness could be reversed by the addition of high-dose IL-2 but not by removal of CD4⁺CD25⁺ T cells, indicating that hyporesponsiveness was due to anergy and not due to active suppression. Cells from infected mice lacked significant suppressor activity as shown by the failure to reduce the recall response of cells from immune mice in coculture at physiologic ratios. Direct blockade of CTLA-4 using anti-CTLA-4 Fabs or indirect blockade using CTLA-4 Ig plus anti-CD28 Ab resulted in significantly increased T cell activation in vitro. The importance of CTLA-4 in establishing anergy was confirmed in an in vivo model of H. pylori infection in which mice that received anti-CTLA-4 Fabs responded to H. pylori challenge with significantly greater inflammation and significantly reduced bacterial load. These results suggest that CTLA-4 engagement induces and maintains functional inactivation of H. pylori-specific T cells during H. pylori infection resulting in a reduced immune response.

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