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Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Immunology and Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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| Introduction |
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CD30 is a molecule that was first identified as a cell surface marker
of Reed-Sternberg and Hodgkins cells of Hodgkins disease patients.
CD30 is also found on a variety of other non-Hodgkins lymphomas, on
virally transformed T and B cell blasts, as well as on the surface of
HIV-infected lymphocytes (14, 15). CD30 is normally
expressed on activated T and B cells and therefore appears to be
associated with an activated phenotype. Interestingly, in contrast to
the other TNF receptor family members that can clearly deliver
apoptotic signals, CD30 does not contain a death domain in its
cytoplasmic tail. CD30 has been shown to associate with TNFR-associated
factor (TRAF)3 1 and
TRAF2, which signal activation of NF-
B (16, 17, 18, 19).
However, no apoptosis-specific signaling molecules have been identified
for the CD30 pathway.
Another molecule known to be involved in thymic cell death is the transcription factor Nur77, whose expression is induced in response to TCR stimulation (20, 21). Dominant negative Nur77-transgenic mice exhibit partial defects of negative selection. In contrast, constitutive expression of Nur77 (Nur77-FL) leads to massive thymic apoptosis (22). During our efforts to further define the downstream targets for Nur77, we found that CD30 levels were elevated on thymocytes from Nur77FL mice compared with the wild-type littermates. Subsequent analysis of Nur77-FL mice in CD30-/- background, however, revealed that CD30 does not play a direct role in Nur77-mediated apoptosis in the thymus (22). To confirm the role of CD30 in negative selection, we examined the effect of CD30 mutation on apoptosis mediated by alloreactivity against I-As in transgenic mice that express the cytochrome c/I-E-specific TCR (23). We were surprised to find that the CD30 deficiency failed to rescue thymocytes from negative selection in these AND mice. We have since obtained similar data with the class I-restricted H-Y TCR-transgenic mice (24). Apoptosis of male Ag-specific H-Y TCR-transgenic T cells occurs normally in the CD30-/- background. We conclude that in contrast to a previous report (13), CD30 does not play a role in negative selection.
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C57BL/6 and AND mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME). AND mice were crossed to SJL mice (H-2s). Both H-Y(H-2b) and AND x SJL (H-2b/s) mice were crossed with CD30-/- mice (a generous gift from Pamela Ohashi and Tak Mak, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Mice were analyzed at 510 wk of age.
PCR analysis
PCR analysis was used to genotype mice from the
CD30-/- x TCR-transgenic mice. CD30
primers used were as previously described (13) using
CD30g-(common) primer, 5'-CAACCCTGGCTGAGTTACTC, CD30 wild-type primer,
5'-AGCGGCAGGTTCTTCAGGTA, and tv30neo primer
5'-TATCAGGACATAGCGTTGGCTACC. For typing H-Y-transgenic mice, the H-Y
PCR primers to the TCR
-chain are HYF
5'-AACAGGAGGAAAGGTGACATTGAG and HYB
5'-GGACAAAAACTGGCTCTGGCTATC. For AND TCR mice, they were genotyped
using primers for TCR gene V
11 (5'-GCTCAGCTAAGTTCCTATTA)
and J
84 (5'-TGGAATCCATAGAAAGAGAC). The MHC backgrounds were typed
using primers specific for H-2b
(5'-CCATGGTTTTTGGAATACTG and 5'-CCGCACAAGGAATTTATCCG) and
H-2s (5'-CCATGGTTTTTGGAATATTC and
5'-CGGCACAAGGAATTTATCCA).
Northern blot analysis
Thymi from CD30-/- and C57BL/6 mice were removed and homogenized using a VIRTISHEAR homogenizer (Virtis, Gardiner, NY). Total RNA was isolated using the RNase-All method (25). Total RNA was run on a 1.2% formaldehyde gel, 1x MOPS buffer and blotted overnight onto nylon filter. Hybridization was done using the ExpressHyb hybridization solution (Clontech, Palo Alto, CA). Murine CD30 cDNA (a generous gift from Eckhard Podack, Miami University, Miami, FL) was labeled with 32P by a random priming method and used as a probe for the Northern blot.
Flow cytometry analysis
Thymocytes were isolated from mice at 510 wk of age and teased
apart in tissue culture media with glutamine (Life Technologies, Grand
Island, NY). Cells were stained with mAbs to CD4, CD8
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TCR
(Caltag, South San Francisco, CA), V
11 (PharMingen, San Diego, CA),
and clonotypic anti-H-Y Ab (T3.70) (a generous gift from James
Allison, University of California, Berkeley). Cells were stained in 1x
PBS (0.2 g/L KCl, 0.2 g/L
KH2PO4, 8.0 g/L NaCl, 2.16
g/L
Na2HPO4.7H2O),
2% FCS, and 0.1% sodium azide on ice for 20 min and then analyzed
using a Coulter flow cytometer (Coulter Pharmaceutical, Palo Alto,
CA).
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Disruption of the CD30 gene has previously been shown
to rescue the deletion of self-reactive thymocytes in an H-Y
TCR-transgenic model but not in superantigen-mediated negative
selection model (13). Our experiments with the
CD30-/- Nur77FL-transgenic mice have
shown that CD30 is not involved in thymic apoptosis caused by Nur77
overexpression (22). In an effort to characterize CD30
further, we undertook a brief study of the
CD30-/- mice. CD30 knockout
mice were previously generated by replacement of the second to last
exon of the CD30 gene with the neomycin-resistant gene
(13). To rule out the possibility that there may be
residual activity from a truncated or aberrantly expressed CD30
molecule, we isolated total thymic RNA from
CD30-/- and wild-type C57BL/6 mice. We
then probed the RNA with the murine CD30 cDNA in a Northern
blot analysis. We found that CD30 transcript was absent in the thymus
of CD30-/- mice (Fig. 1
A). In contrast, CD30
expression was visible in the C57BL/6 thymus as had been shown
previously (26). These results confirm the lack of CD30
transcript in CD30-/- mice.
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We mated CD30-/- mice to AND
TCR-transgenic animals, a well-studied model of thymic selection. As a
control, we also crossed CD30-/- mice to
the H-Y TCR-transgenic mice. The AND TCR is specific for pigeon
cytochrome c and Ek. In transgenic
animals, transgene-expressing T cells are positively selected on
Ab molecule whereas negative selection occurs in
the presence of As (23). Negative
selection can also be initiated by injection of pigeon cytochrome
c peptide with mice in the H-2k/b
background. The alloreactive negative selection, however, is milder
than peptide-initiated apoptosis and does not involve killing by TNF
secreted by the stimulated transgenic peripheral T cells
(27). The genotypes for CD30 TCR-transgenic mice and their
MHC haplotypes were determined by PCR analysis (Fig. 1
B and
data not shown). Analysis of these mice show that transgenic T cells
are positively selected in the H-2b background,
with skewing toward the
CD4+CD8- lineage as shown
before (23). In the CD30 heterozygous,
H-2s background, negative selection takes place
as evidenced by the absence of positive selection and severalfold drop
of thymocyte cell number (Fig. 2
). In
CD30-/- H-2s
animals, however, thymocyte cell numbers and the FACS profiles remained
similar to those in the heterozygous littermates (30 millions,
n = 6 vs 37 millions thymocytes, n =
5). No increase in the representation or the number of
CD4+CD8+ thymocytes was
seen, as would be predicted if CD30 was involved in negative selection
(Fig. 2
). Cells were also stained with AND TCR-specific Ab
(anti-V
11) and again there were no differences in the staining
profiles or absolute cell numbers among CD30+/-,
AND H-2s and CD30-/-, and
AND H-2s mice (data not shown).
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, we gated the FACS profiles on
T3.70+ cells (T3.70 is a clonotypic Ab specific
for the H-Y TCR). Thymocytes were stained with anti-CD4 and
anti-CD8 Abs. As shown in Fig. 3
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Recently, overexpressing CD30 in transgenic mice was shown to enhance
negative selection but only in the presence of TCR signals
(28). The authors conclude that CD30 may act as a
costimulatory molecule for negative selection. Using Abs specific for
cell surface molecules, however, Kishimoto and Sprent (29)
found that anti-CD28 was the only Ab that could provide
costimulatory activity for TCR-dependent apoptosis of
CD4+CD8+ thymocytes in
vitro. Negative results were observed for Ab specific for CD30
(29). Furthermore, CD30 expression is confined to the
thymic medulla (14, 30). This is incompatible with the
purported role of CD30 in
CD4+CD8+ thymocytes, which
reside in the cortex. Studies of CD30 signal transduction have revealed
TRAF1 and TRAF2 as two signaling proteins that bind to CD30
(16, 17, 18, 19). Upon ligand engagement, these TRAF molecules
mediate NF-
B activation, which has an antiapoptotic activity. These
data, along with our TCR-transgenic experiments, argue for an
alternative role of CD30. Further detailed studies of
CD30-/- mice are needed to re-examine the
role of CD30 in the immune system.
| Acknowledgments |
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2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Astar Winoto, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, LSA, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200. ![]()
3 Abbreviation used in this paper: TRAF, TNFR-associated factor. ![]()
Received for publication August 3, 2000. Accepted for publication August 31, 2000.
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