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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 179, Issue 10, Pages 6389-6394Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.10.6389
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- NCI NIH HHS [P01CA100265-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
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Veto cells have been defined as cells capable of inducing apoptosis of effector CD8 cells recognizing their disparate MHC Ags. Tolerance induced by donor-type veto cells is desirable, because it is restricted to depletion of anti-donor clones without depletion of other immune specificities. It has been shown that anti-third party CTLs exhibit marked veto activity with reduced capacity to induce graft-vs-host disease, when tested on naive effector cells. However, presensitized T cells could play an important role in graft rejection, and therefore, their sensitivity to veto cells could be critical to the implementation of the latter cells in bone marrow transplantation. To address this question, we compared naive and presensitized TCR transgenic effector CD8 T cells, bearing a TCR against H-2 d. Both cell types exhibited similar predisposition to killing by veto CTLs in vitro, and this killing was dependent in both cell types on Fas-FasL signaling as shown by using Fas-deficient CD8 T cells from (Iprx2c) F-1 mice. When tested in a stringent mouse model, in which bone marrow rejection is mediated by adoptively transferred host type T cells into lethally irradiated recipients, veto CTLs were equally effective in overcoming rejection of naive or presensitized. host T cells.
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