期刊
IMMUNOLOGY
卷 135, 期 4, 页码 344-354出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2011.03548.x
关键词
aggrecan; antigen processing and presentation; B cells; CD4+T cells; rheumatoid arthritis
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资金
- Arthritis Research UK
- Newcastle Healthcare Charity
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity
- Versus Arthritis [18595] Funding Source: researchfish
Effective immune responses require antigen uptake by antigen-presenting cells (APC), followed by controlled endocytic proteolysis resulting in the generation of antigen-derived peptide fragments that associate with intracellular MHC class II molecules. The resultant peptideMHC class II complexes then move to the APC surface where they activate CD4+ T cells. Dendritic cells (DC), macrophages and B cells act as efficient APC. In many settings, including the T helper type 1 (Th1) -dependent, proteoglycan-induced arthritis model of rheumatoid arthritis, accumulating evidence demonstrates that antigen presentation by B cells is required for optimal CD4+ T cell activation. The reasons behind this however, remain unclear. In this study we have compared the activation of CD4+ T cells specific for the proteoglycan aggrecan following antigen presentation by DC, macrophages and B cells. We show that aggrecan-specific B cells are equally efficient APC as DC and macrophages and use similar intracellular antigen-processing pathways. Importantly, we also show that antigen presentation by aggrecan-specific B cells to TCR transgenic CD4+ T cells results in enhanced CD4+ T cell interferon-? production and Th1 effector sub-set differentiation compared with that seen with DC. We conclude that preferential CD4+ Th1 differentiation may define the requirement for B cell APC function in both proteoglycan-induced arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
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