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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 198, Issue 12, Pages 4672-4681Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601005
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- ALF Goteborg [71580]
- Strategic ALF/Transplantation [74080]
- Cancer and Allergy Foundation [149781]
- Health and Medical Care Committee of the Regional Executive Board of Region Vastra Gotaland [96490]
- Inga Britt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation
- University of Gothenburg
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Eosinophils have the capacity to regulate the function of T cell subsets. Our aim was to test the hypothesis of the existence of a regulatory subset of eosinophils. Human eosinophils were incubated with T cells that were stimulated with allogeneic leukocytes or CD3/ CD28 cross-linking. After 2 d of coculture, 11% of the eosinophils gained CD16 expression. A CD16(hi) subset of eosinophils, encompassing 1-5% of all eosinophils, was also identified in the blood of healthy subjects. FACS sorting showed that these CD16(hi) eosinophils were significantly stronger suppressors of T cell proliferation than were conventional CD16 neg eosinophils. Human eosinophils contain stores of the immunoregulatory protein galectin-10. We found that Ab-mediated neutralization of galectin-10 partially abrogated the suppressive function of the eosinophils. Moreover, recombinant galectin-10 by itself was able to suppress T cell proliferation. Finally, we detected galectin-10-containing immune synapses between eosinophils and lymphocytes. To conclude, we describe a subset of suppressive eosinophils expressing CD16 that may escape detection because CD16-based negative selection is the standard procedure for the isolation of human eosinophils. Moreover, we show that galectin-10 functions as a T cell-suppressive molecule in eosinophils.
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