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BLOOD
Volume 97, Issue 9, Pages 2886-2895Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V97.9.2886
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- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA008748, 5PO1 CA39542] Funding Source: Medline
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In allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) donor T cells are primarily responsible for antihost activity, resulting in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and for antileukemia activity, resulting in the graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect. The relative contributions of the Fas ligand (Fast) and perforin cytotoxic pathways in GVHD and GVL activity were studied by using FasL-defective or perforin-deficient donor T cells in murine parent --> F1 models for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. It was found that FasL-defective B6.gld donor T cells display diminished GVHD activity but have intact GVL activity. In contrast, perforin-deficient B6.pfp(-/-) donor T cells have intact GVHD activity but display diminished GVL activity. Splenic T cells from recipients of B6,gld or B6.pfp(-/-) T cells had identical proliferative and cytokine responses to host antigens; however, splenic T cells from recipients of B6.pfp-/- T cells had no cytolytic activity against leukemia cells in a cytotoxicity assay, In experiments with selected CD4(+) or CD8(+) donor T cells, the FasL pathway was important for GVHD activity by both CD4(+) and CD8+ T cells, whereas the perforin pathway was required for CD8-mediated GVL activity. These data demonstrate in a murine model for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation that donor T cells mediate GVHD activity primarily through the FasL effector pathway and GVL activity through the perforin pathway. This suggests that donor T cells make differential use of cytolytic pathways and that the specific blockade of one cytotoxic pathway may be used to prevent GVHD without interfering with GVL activity. (Blood. 2001;97: 2886-2895) (C) 2001 by The American Society of Hematology.
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