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JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 2, Pages 192-201Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0508280
Keywords
tolerance; regulatory T cells; immune modulation; CD4(+)CD25(+) T-regs; proliferation
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [TI 169/8-1, TI 169/6-3, -4]
- EU [512074, 518234]
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HO-1 is the only inducible one of three isoenzymes that catalyzes the oxidative degradation of heme. HO-1 is inducible by various cellular stress factors and exerts cytoprotective and immunomodulatory effects. Recent publications demonstrated that HO-1 is constitutively expressed by CD4(+)CD25(+) T-regs and induced in CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells upon FoxP3 transfection. Here, we investigated whether HO-1 was essential and sufficient for human T-regs to exert immunosuppression in vitro. PGJ(2) induced pronounced expression of HO-1 in CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells without accompanying FoxP3 induction. Treatment of CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells with PGJ(2) decreased their proliferation, whereas the HO-1 inhibitor SnPP enhanced the proliferation of HO-1-expressing T-regs, suggesting that HO-1 may modulate the proliferative capacity of T lymphocytes. HO-1 modulation by SnPP treatment of T-regs or PGJ(2) treatment of CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells neither suppressed nor induced immune-modulatory function in these cells, respectively, as measured by responder-cell proliferation and/or IL-2 production. In summary, these data suggest that HO-1 expression by T-regs might contribute to their typical reluctance to proliferate but does not account independently for their suppressive functions. J. Leukoc. Biol. 87: 193-202; 2010.
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