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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 180, Issue 8, Pages 5569-5574Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.8.5569
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI055962] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [P30 DK34845] Funding Source: Medline
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T cell-mediated adaptive immunity is required to help clear infection with the facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium), yet development of T cell-mediated adaptive immunity to S. Typhimurium has been described as slow and inefficient. A key step in inducing T cell-mediated adaptive immunity is T cell priming; the activation, proliferation, and differentiation of naive T cells following initial encounter with Ag. We previously demonstrated that S. Typhimurium had a direct inhibitory effect on naive T cells from mouse, blocking their proliferation. In this study, we show that S. Typhimurium down-modulates expression of the TCR beta-chain, a molecule that is essential for Ag recognition and T cell function. Specifically, we demonstrate that reduced amounts of surface and intracellular TCR-beta protein and decreased levels of tcr beta transcript are expressed by T cells cultured in the presence of S. Typhimurium. We further show that the down-modulation of TCR-beta expression requires contact between S. Typhimurium and the T cells and that once contact occurs, a factor capable of reducing TCR-beta expression is secreted. These results provide new insight into the mechanism by which S. Typhimurium may inhibit T cell priming and avoid clearance by the adaptive immune system.
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