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Cancer Sciences Division, Tenovus Research Laboratory, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom
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The anti-CD40 (3/23), anti-A31 lymphoma Id (Mc39-16) (both rat IgG2a), and anti-Fc
II and III receptors mAbs (2.4G2) were provided by Prof. M. Glennie (University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.). PE-labeled H-2Kb OVA peptide 257264 (OVAp) tetramers were obtained from Proimmune (Oxford, U.K.). The anti-CD70 mAb (IgG2a) was generated by immunizing LOU rats with soluble recombinant CD70 protein (sCD70) (20) and splenocytes from immunized rats were fused with NS1 myeloma cells. Bone marrow-derived DCs (BM-DCs) were prepared by culturing bone marrow cells in IL-4 (5 ng/ml) and GM-CSF (5 ng/ml) for 6 days. In some cultures, soluble recombinant Fc-CD154 (10 µg/ml) was added 24 or 48 h before cell harvesting.
Mice and in vivo experiments
OVA-specific H-2Kb-restricted TCR transgenic T cells (1 x 106) from OT-I mice were transferred by i.v. injection into sex-matched C57BL/6 recipients. After 1 or 2 days, T cells were primed by i.p. administration of OVA (5 mg) in combination with: anti-CD40 and control anti-A31 lymphoma Id mAb (500 µg of each), or anti-CD40 and anti-CD70 mAb (500 µg of each). The next day mice received an additional injection of control anti-A31 lymphoma Id mAb, or anti-CD70 mAb (500 µg). CD4 T cell depletion (>99% efficient) was conducted by i.p. injection of anti-CD4 mAbs (2 x 1 mg of YTA 3.1.2 and 2 x 0.5 mg of YTS 191.2). Secondary stimulation was conducted by i.v. injection of OVAp (20 nmol). Endogenous OVA-specific CD8 T cell responses were examined in C57BL/6 mice using the above immunization protocol. Animal experiments were conducted according to the U.K. Home Office license guidelines and approved by the University of Southamptons ethical committee.
Flow cytometry
For tracking Ag-specific T cells, blood samples (50 µl), or lymph node/spleen cells were stained with PE-labeled H-2Kb OVAp tetramers and allophycocyanin-labeled anti-CD8
(20). Expression of CD70 on BM-DCs was determined using biotinylated mAb in the presence of anti-Fc
II and III receptors mAb (2.4G2).
CFSE dilution analysis
OT-I T cells were labeled with CFSE (Molecular Probes, Leiden, The Netherlands) as described previously (20). One million cells were then administered by i.v. injection to C57BL/6 mice. Twenty-four hours later, mice were immunized as above, or left unstimulated. The level of CFSE in CD8+ tetramer+ cells was analyzed by flow cytometry.
In vivo cytotoxicity assay
C57BL/6 splenocytes, unpulsed or pulsed with OVAp (1 µM) for 90 min at 37°C, were labeled with low (0.5 µM) and high (10 µM) concentrations of CFSE, respectively, and coinjected in a 1:1 ratio (2.6 x 107 total cells) into mice. Sixteen hours later, spleens were removed and the ratio of CFSElow/CFSEhigh cells was determined by flow cytometry. The CFSElow/CFSEhigh cell ratio in naive mice defined the 0% lysis level.
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The anti-CD70 mAb, generated by immunization with sCD70, bound to COS-7 cells transfected with membrane-bound CD70 but did not bind to untransfected cells (data not shown). This mAb did not stain resting CD11c+ BM-DCs, however, binding was observed upon their stimulation via CD40 (Fig. 1). The binding of the anti-CD70 mAb to CD40-stimulated BM-DCs was abolished by incubation with sCD70, thus confirming the specificity of the binding (Fig. 1).
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Initially we showed that the anti-CD70 mAb was capable of blocking the interaction between sCD70 and membrane-expressed CD27 in vitro (data not shown). Having demonstrated that the anti-CD70 mAb is a blocking reagent, we next examined the effects of blocking the CD70/CD27 interaction on CD40-driven expansion of CD8 OT-I T cells in vivo. Lefrançois et al. (12) have previously shown that administration of agonistic anti-CD40 mAb prevents the induction of CD8 T cell tolerance resulting from injection of soluble OVA. Furthermore, they showed that the agonistic anti-CD40 mAb mediated its effects indirectly by activation of APCs and in the absence of MHC class II, suggesting that CD4 T cells are not required for this response (12). Consistent with their findings, we show here that injection of agonistic anti-CD40 mAb together with OVA enhances the expansion and survival of adoptively transferred CD8 OT-I T cells compared with administration of OVA alone (Fig. 2A). When animals were injected with agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and anti-CD70 mAb, the clonal expansion of CD8 OT-I T cells at the peak of the response was substantially reduced (3- to 4-fold) (Fig. 2A). Furthermore,
3-fold fewer CD8 OT-I T cells survived after the contraction phase (day 14) in animals that received anti-CD70 mAb together with the agonistic anti-CD40 mAb, compared with the group of animals that received agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and control IgG (Fig. 2A). Similarly, the anti-CD70 mAb blocked the clonal expansion of CD8 OT-I T cells triggered by immunization with agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and OVAp, the antigenic peptide epitope recognized by CD8 OT-I T cells (data not shown). In addition, CD70 blockade inhibited the CD40-driven expansion of OT-I T cells in the absence of CD4 T cells (Fig. 2B). Injection of anti-CD70 mAb without agonistic anti-CD40 mAb did not affect the CD8 T cell response to OVA (data not shown). Together, these results suggest that CD40-induced expression of CD70 on APCs directly stimulates activated CD8 T cells via CD27 signaling.
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The effect of CD70 blockade during the primary response on the function of memory CD8 OT-I T cells
Approximately 3-fold fewer memory CD8 OT-I T cells were generated when the CD70/CD27 interaction was blocked during the primary response (Fig. 3A; day 0 before rechallenge and Fig. 3C). In addition to these quantitative effects we sought to address whether CD70 blockade during the primary response affects the quality of the memory CD8 T cells generated. Therefore, we examined the ability of memory CD8 OT-I T cells to expand upon secondary encounter with Ag. Groups of animals that had been previously injected with OVA, OVA with agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and control IgG, or OVA with agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and anti-CD70 mAb, were rechallenged 40 days later with OVAp. Memory CD8 OT-I T cells generated by immunization with OVA and agonistic anti-CD40 mAb expanded by 9-fold, whereas those generated in the absence of CD70/CD27 interaction responded poorly, increasing by only 2-fold (Fig. 3A). Under certain conditions CD8 T cells display split anergy; they have lytic activity but do not proliferate in response to Ag (21). Therefore, we investigated whether blockade of CD70 also affected the differentiation of naive CD8 OT-I T cells into CTLs. The cytolytic activities of CD8 OT-I T cells were examined 45 days after priming using an in vivo assay of specific killing. No target cell killing was detected in mice that received OVA alone, whereas in mice that received OVA with agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and control IgG, or OVA with agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and anti-CD70 mAb, target cells were killed efficiently (Fig. 3B). The slightly lower level of target cell killing in animals injected with agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and anti-CD70 mAb compared with the group that received agonistic anti-CD40 mAb and control IgG is consistent with the lower number of surviving OT-I T cells in the former group (Fig. 3C). Furthermore, using an ex vivo cytotoxicity assay and equivalent cell numbers, we did not detect differences in the lytic activity of OT-I T cells isolated from animals 11 days after priming with OVA and anti-CD40 mAb, or OVA and anti-CD40/anti-CD70 mAbs (data not shown). Thus, the CD70/CD27 interaction during priming appears to be dispensable for the differentiation of CD8 OT-I T cells into cytotoxic cells, but essential for their ability to expand upon rechallenge with the Ag.
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The observed dependence of CD40-mediated priming of CD8 T cells on CD70 could have been influenced by the relatively high frequency of Ag-specific cells following adoptive transfer of OT-I T cells. Therefore, we examined the consequence of CD70 blockade on the response of endogenous OVA-specific CD8 T cells. As with OT-I T cells, the CD40-mediated expansion of endogenous OVA-specific CD8 T cells was profoundly inhibited by administration of anti-CD70 mAb (Fig. 4A). Furthermore, whereas animals primed with OVA and anti-CD40 mAb generated strong secondary responses, those primed with OVA alone or OVA with anti-CD40 and anti-CD70 generated weak responses upon antigenic rechallenge (Fig. 4B). We also addressed the possibility that the anti-CD70 mAb could have mediated its effects by depletion of CD70-expressing cells. We took advantage of the fact that CD40 triggering activates B cells and stimulates their expression of CD70 (14). In contrast with the effects of the anti-CD70 mAb on CD8 T cell priming, CD40-triggered B cell expansion was not affected by the anti-CD70 mAb (data not shown). This indicates that the anti-CD70 mAb does not deplete CD70-expressing cells in vivo.
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By blocking the CD70/CD27 interaction only during the primary response we demonstrated an important role for this interaction in the generation of fully competent memory CD8 T cells. Thus, blockade of CD70 in the primary response resulted in the generation of CD8 T cells capable of lysing target cells (Fig. 3B and data not shown), but unable to expand efficiently in response to a secondary antigenic challenge (Fig. 3A). Our results are in agreement with recent findings demonstrating that the program of differentiation of naive CD8 T cells into cells that respond effectively upon secondary encounter with Ag is initiated at the priming stage (22, 23, 24). In addition, we show for the first time that the CD27 signaling pathway constitutes an important part of this instructional programming of CD8 T cells. The results presented in this study support a progressive model of T cell differentiation (8). Thus, we demonstrate that the ability of naive CD8 T cells to gain cytolytic function and differentiate into cells capable of expanding rapidly following secondary encounter with Ag are governed by different activation thresholds.
A number of studies have shown that CD4 T cell help for CD8 T cell responses occurs indirectly via CD40-mediated activation of DCs (2, 5, 9, 11). Recently, an alternative mechanism of CD4 T cell help for CD8 T cells has been proposed. Bourgeois et al. (25) showed that CD4 T cell help for CD8 T cell responses against the male histocompatibility-Y Ag is mediated directly via CD40 on CD8 T cells. However, the contribution of this pathway to CD8 T cell responses in our model is unlikely. Using the same in vivo model that we have used in this study, it was shown previously that the effect of the agonistic anti-CD40 mAb was completely abolished when wild-type CD8 T cells were transferred into CD40-deficient hosts (12). Taken together, our results are consistent with the CD40-licensing model of APCs by CD4 T cells and imply a role for CD70 expression on APCs in CD4 T cell help for CD8 T cell responses.
| Acknowledgments |
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1 This study was supported by grants from Cancer Research U.K. and Tenovus. ![]()
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Aymen Al-Shamkhani, Tenovus Research Laboratory, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, U.K. E-mail address: aymen{at}soton.ac.uk ![]()
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: DC, dendritic cell; sCD70, soluble CD70; OVAp, OVA peptide 257264; BM-DC, bone marrow-derived DC. ![]()
Received for publication June 7, 2004. Accepted for publication October 1, 2004.
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