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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 190, Issue 12, Pages 6104-6114Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201617
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- Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology [09SigmaYN-12-1074]
- European Commission [223151]
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Memory phenotype T cells, found in unimmunized mice, display phenotypic and functional traits of memory cells and provide essential protection against infections, playing a role in both innate and adaptive immune responses. Mechanisms governing homeostasis of these memory phenotype T cells remain ill-defined. In this study, we reveal a crucial role of the negative costimulator programmed death-1 (PD-1) in regulating developmental fates of memory phenotype cells. Thus, in lymphoid organs and tissues of PD-1 knockout (KO) mice a marked accumulation of functional effector memory (T-EM) phenotype CD8 T cells was observed. T-EM phenotype cells from PD-1 KO mice exhibit decreased proliferation but increased survival potential. These cells could produce effector molecules constitutively, in response to phorbol esters or through bystander activation by innate stimuli. Similarly, in lymphopenia-induced proliferating CD8 T cells, whereby normally naive T cells acquire a memory phenotype, skewing toward a T-EM phenotype was prominent in the absence of PD-1. Acquisition of the T-EM phenotype was a CD8 T cell-intrinsic phenomenon as demonstrated by mixed bone marrow transfer experiments. Importantly, adoptively transferred PD-1 KO CD8 central memory T (T-CM) cells converted into the T-EM phenotype, indicating that PD-1 sets a major checkpoint in the T-CM to T-EM phenotype differentiation process. This was reflected by distinct patterns of gene expression of PD-1 KO T-CM phenotype cells revealed by global transcriptional analysis. Additionally, adoptively transferred PD-1 KO T-EM phenotype cells converted to a lesser degree to a T-CM phenotype. Collectively, these data suggest that PD-1 shapes memory phenotype CD8 T cell subsets.
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