CD8αα+MHC-II+ Cell with Capacity to Terminate Autoimmune Inflammation Is A Novel Antigen-Presenting NK-like cell in Rats
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ABSTRACT: Discovery of immune tolerance mechanisms, which inhibit pre-existing autoimmune inflammation, may provide us with new strategies for treating autoimmune diseases. We have identified a CD8αα+MHC-II+ cell with professional APC capacity during our investigation on spontaneous recovery from autoimmune glomerulonephritis in a rat model. This cell actively invades inflamed target tissue to terminate an on-going autoimmune inflammation by selective killing of effector autoreactive T cells. Now, we showed that this cell used a cytotoxic machinery of Ly49s+ NK cells in killing of target T cells. Thus, this CD8αα+MHC-II+ cell, which previously was thought a professional APC, is an antigen presenting-NK (AP-NK) cell. Following its coupling with target T cells through antigen presentation, killing stimulatory receptor Ly49s6 and co-receptor CD8αα on this cell used non-classic MHC-I RT1CE16 on the target T cells as a ligand to initiate killing. Thus, activated effector T cells with elevated expression of RT1CE16 were highly susceptible to the killing by the CD8αα+ AP-NK cell. Granule cytolytic perforin/granzyme C from this cell subsequently mediated cytotoxicity, and thus, inhibition of granzyme C effectively attenuated the killing. As it can recognize and eliminate effector autoreactive T cells in the inflamed target tissue, CD8αα+ AP-NK cell not only represents a new type of immune cell involved in immune tolerance, but also is a potential candidate for developing a cell-based therapy for pre-existing autoimmune diseases.
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
PROVIDER: GSE87099 | GEO | 2016/09/20
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA343500
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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