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Defects in the Bcl-2-regulated apoptotic pathway lead to preferential increase of CD25 low Foxp3+ anergic CD4+ T cells.


ABSTRACT: Defects in the Bcl-2-regulated apoptotic pathway inhibit the deletion of self-reactive T cells. What is unresolved, however, is the nature and fate of such self-reactive T cells escaping deletion. In this study, we report that mice with such defects contained increased numbers of CD25(low)Foxp3(+) cells in the thymus and peripheral lymph tissues. The increased CD25(low)Foxp3(+) population contained a large fraction of cells bearing self-reactive TCRs, evident from a prominent increase in self-superantigen-specific Foxp3(+)V?5(+)CD4(+) T cells in BALB/c Bim(-/-) mice compared with control animals. The survival rate of the expanded CD25(low)Foxp3(+) cells was similar to that of CD25(high)Foxp3(+) CD4 T cells in vitro and in vivo. IL-2R stimulation, but not TCR ligation, upregulated CD25 on CD25(low)Foxp3(+)CD4(+) T cells in vitro and in vivo. The expanded CD25(low)Foxp3(+)CD4(+) T cells from Bim(-/-) mice were anergic but also had weaker regulatory function than CD25(high)Foxp3(+) CD4(+) T cells from the same mice. Analysis of Bim(-/-) mice that also lacked Fas showed that the peripheral homeostasis of this expanded population was in part regulated by this death receptor. In conclusion, these results show that self-reactive T cell escapes from thymic deletion in mice defective in the Bcl-2-regulated apoptotic pathway upregulate Foxp3 and become unresponsive upon encountering self-Ag without necessarily gaining potent regulatory function. This clonal functional diversion may help to curtail autoaggressiveness of escaped self-reactive CD4(+) T cells and thereby safeguard immunological tolerance.

SUBMITTER: Zhan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3150360 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Defects in the Bcl-2-regulated apoptotic pathway lead to preferential increase of CD25 low Foxp3+ anergic CD4+ T cells.

Zhan Yifan Y   Zhang Yuxia Y   Gray Daniel D   Carrington Emma M EM   Bouillet Philippe P   Ko Hyun-Ja HJ   O'Reilly Lorraine L   Wicks Ian P IP   Strasser Andreas A   Lew Andrew M AM  

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20110708 4


Defects in the Bcl-2-regulated apoptotic pathway inhibit the deletion of self-reactive T cells. What is unresolved, however, is the nature and fate of such self-reactive T cells escaping deletion. In this study, we report that mice with such defects contained increased numbers of CD25(low)Foxp3(+) cells in the thymus and peripheral lymph tissues. The increased CD25(low)Foxp3(+) population contained a large fraction of cells bearing self-reactive TCRs, evident from a prominent increase in self-su  ...[more]

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