Down-regulation of myasthenogenic T cell responses by a dual altered peptide ligand via CD4+CD25+-regulated events leading to apoptosis
AUTOR(ES)
Ben-David, Hava
FONTE
National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
The myasthenogenic peptides p195–212 and p259–271 are sequences of the human acetylcholine receptor and were shown to induce myasthenia gravis-associated immune responses in mice. A dual altered peptide ligand (APL) composed of the two APLs of the myasthenogenic peptides inhibited, in vitro and in vivo, those responses. The aims of this study were to elucidate the events that follow the in vivo treatment with the dual APL and to characterize the cell population that is induced by the latter. We demonstrate here that s.c. administration of the dual APL up-regulates CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells that are characterized by up-regulated expression of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4, intracellular and membranal TGF-β, and Foxp3. Administration of the dual APL to mice concomitant with the immunization with either of the myasthenogenic peptides resulted also in the up-regulation of c-Jun-NH2-terminal kinase activity and of Fas signaling pathway molecules as determined by measuring Fas, Fas ligand, and caspase 8. Thus, our results suggest that the suppression of myasthenia gravis-associated T cell responses exerted by the dual APL is mediated by the CD4+CD25+ immunoregulatory T cell function via TGF-β or cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4, which further stimulate a cascade of events that up-regulates apoptosis.
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