TY - JOUR
T1 - Natural and Induced CD4+CD25+ Cells Educate CD4 +CD25- Cells to Develop Suppressive Activity
T2 - The Role of IL-2, TGF-β, and IL-10
AU - Zheng, Song Guo
AU - Wang, Ju Hua
AU - Gray, J. Dixon
AU - Soucier, Harold
AU - Horwitz, David A.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2004/5/1
Y1 - 2004/5/1
N2 - Thymus-derived, natural CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells can educate peripheral CD4+CD25- cells to develop suppressive activity by poorly understood mechanisms. TGF-β has IL-2-dependent costimulatory effects on alloactivated naive, human CD4 + T cells and induces them ex vivo to become potent contact-dependent, cytokine-independent suppressor cells. In this study, we report that CD4+CD25+ cells are the targets of the costimulatory effects of IL-2 and TGF-β. These cells do not divide, but, instead, greatly increase the numbers of CD4+CD25- cells that become CD25+ cytokine-independent suppressor cells. These CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells, in turn, induce other alloactivated CD4+CD25- cells to become potent suppressor cells by mechanisms that, surprisingly, require both cell contact and TGF-β and IL-10. The suppressive effects of these secondary CD4 +CD25+ cells depend upon TGF-β and IL-10. Moreover, both the naive CD4+ cells induced by IL-2 and TGF-β to become suppressor cells, and the subsequent CD4+CD25- cells educated by them to become suppressors express FoxP3. We suggest that the long-term effects of adoptively transferred natural-like CD4 +CD25+ regulatory cells induced ex vivo are due to their ability to generate new cytokine-producing CD4+ regulatory T cells in vivo.
AB - Thymus-derived, natural CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells can educate peripheral CD4+CD25- cells to develop suppressive activity by poorly understood mechanisms. TGF-β has IL-2-dependent costimulatory effects on alloactivated naive, human CD4 + T cells and induces them ex vivo to become potent contact-dependent, cytokine-independent suppressor cells. In this study, we report that CD4+CD25+ cells are the targets of the costimulatory effects of IL-2 and TGF-β. These cells do not divide, but, instead, greatly increase the numbers of CD4+CD25- cells that become CD25+ cytokine-independent suppressor cells. These CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells, in turn, induce other alloactivated CD4+CD25- cells to become potent suppressor cells by mechanisms that, surprisingly, require both cell contact and TGF-β and IL-10. The suppressive effects of these secondary CD4 +CD25+ cells depend upon TGF-β and IL-10. Moreover, both the naive CD4+ cells induced by IL-2 and TGF-β to become suppressor cells, and the subsequent CD4+CD25- cells educated by them to become suppressors express FoxP3. We suggest that the long-term effects of adoptively transferred natural-like CD4 +CD25+ regulatory cells induced ex vivo are due to their ability to generate new cytokine-producing CD4+ regulatory T cells in vivo.
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U2 - 10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5213
DO - 10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5213
M3 - Article
C2 - 15100259
AN - SCOPUS:1242290580
SN - 0022-1767
VL - 172
SP - 5213
EP - 5221
JO - Journal of Immunology
JF - Journal of Immunology
IS - 9
ER -