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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue 11, Pages 8096-8102Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.11.8096
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17591168]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17591168] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Gold compounds clinically used as immunomodulators have high potential to evoke hypersensitivity reactions as an adverse effect. To explore the mechanism of gold allergy, we immunologically characterized T cells infiltrating skin rashes and generated 44 gold-specific T cell clones and lines from a rheumatoid arthritis patient who developed skin rashes and systemic symptoms after gold treatment. CD4(+) and CD8(+) cells predominantly infiltrating the skin rashes and some of the T cell clones and lines shared common V beta s. These cells exhibited Th0-like, Th2-like, and Tc1-like cytokine profiles, and showed chemotactic activities for thymus and activation-regulated chemokine and IFN-gamma-inducible protein-10 corresponding to the cytokine profiles. T cell recognition of gold consisted of MHC-restricted and MHC-independent pathways. Blocking studies with anti-MHC Abs indicated that the groove of MHC in APCs, where Ags should ordinarily be settled, did not serve as a conjugating site of gold for these T cells in certain cases. These observations raise the possibility that gold-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells and APCs promiscuously interact under stimulation with gold, resulting in various clinical manifestations in gold allergy. The Journal of Immunology, 2008, 181: 8096-8102.
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