记忆性T细胞的形成、维持和功能

免疫记忆是指机体在对某一抗原产生特异性识别及应答的同时,记住该抗原,当再次遭遇同一抗原时,能发生快速和强烈的免疫应答。树突状细胞吞噬病原微生物后,通过主要组织相容性复合体分子提呈抗原短肽段,与T细胞相互作用。在T细胞抗原受体信号和共刺激信号的协同作用下,抗原特异性T细胞增殖,收缩,小部分细胞作为记忆细胞长期存活。免疫记忆T细胞在表型特征和功能上都存在多样性。深入研究机体记忆性T细胞的特征,不仅能指导新型疫苗的设计,而且可望帮助治疗疾病。     

记忆T细胞平行分化模型的理论研究

为了从理论上讨论T细胞记忆维持机制的问题,基于T细胞的平行分化假说建立了非线性理论模型,利用此模型,在不同的抗原初值下得到了三种不同类型的应答。用优化剂量的抗原免疫生物体并且抗原存在时记忆能持续很长的时间,而失去抗原的同时将失去记忆,得出记忆T细胞平行分化模型确有记忆机制;并发现记忆强度与剩余抗原量有直接的关系,还进一步讨论了记忆细胞寿命的问题,并对体外情况作了预言。     

T细胞记忆的理论研究

基于CD8⁺ T记忆细胞的线性和逆线性分化假说分别建立了数学模型,并研究了各种T细胞亚类的动力学.发现在优化剂量抗原入侵的条件下,两个模型均能产生记忆,并可较好地模拟实验结果.通过进一步模拟发现CD8⁺ T细胞记忆与抗原的存在紧密相关,再次证实了抗原在维持T细胞记忆中的作用.另外还讨论了记忆细胞寿命的问题.认为逆线性假说具有更强的反应性和记忆性.     

记忆性CD8细胞产生、维持及CD4细胞的辅助作用

记忆性T淋巴细胞的形成及其在体内的长期维持,是一个复杂的多层次调控过程,CD4细胞及相关的细胞因子通过间接和直接作用,对CD8记忆细胞的形成起到重要的促进作用。CD8记忆细胞需要不同信号的刺激以保证其在体内的长期维持,是一个动态平衡的过程。     

纠正T细胞的功能

文章L. Collison et al., ＂The inhibitory cytokine IL-35 contributes to regulatory T-cell function[抑制性细胞因子IL-35有利于调控T细胞功能】,     

调节性T细胞及其调节机制

免疫系统中许多细胞相互作用以保护机体免受各种病原体造成的伤害,同时机体又发展了多种机制调控免疫系统以预防对自身抗原的免疫应答或对病原体的过度应答。除了抗原刺激免疫活性细胞激活和分化的内在稳态调节机制外,调节性T细胞所介导的外源性机制在免疫调节中发挥着举足轻重的作用。目前发现的调节性T细胞主要包括CD4+CD25+调节性T细胞、Tr1调节性T细胞、Th3调节性T细胞、CD8+调节性T细胞、NK T细胞、TCRγδ+T细胞、DN T细胞。本文介绍这些调节性T细胞的表型和作用机制的研究进展。     

天然调节T 细胞与诱导调节T 细胞的生物学特性

CD4+CD25+FOXP3+的调节T细胞(regulatory T cells,Treg)在维持机体免疫平衡方面起着重要的作用。体外扩增Treg细胞用于治疗自身免疫病、哮喘及诱导器官移植免疫耐受引起人们极大的兴趣。Treg细胞可分为2个亚群,分别为nTreg和iTreg,两者有不同的生物学特性。nTreg在特定条件下,可以分泌具有促进炎症的IL-17;iTreg在体内可丢失FOXP3,失去其免疫抑制功能。Treg细胞用于临床治疗,还有许多问题需要研究解决。     

流感病毒感染中的T细胞应答

本文中总结了应用T细胞受体转基因模型和主要组织相容性复合物Ⅰ类四聚体研究流感感染时的效应细胞和记忆细胞应答,包括抗原特异性CDC4CD+T细胞的生成,多样性及其向肺部的移动,以及其在清除病毒中的作用.对于效应细胞和记忆细胞在病毒感染中的作用以及效应细胞如何转变为记忆细胞,都有比较详尽的阐述.     

miRNA对T细胞分化与功能的调节作用

miRNA是一类长度为19~24 nt的内源性非编码小分子RNA,主要通过抑制mRNA的翻译或使其降解对靶基因实现转录后水平的调控。miRNA与T细胞的分化及功能密切相关,参与自身免疫性疾病、感染性疾病、肿瘤等多种病理过程的免疫调控。本文综述了近年来发现的miRNA在T细胞分化与功能调节中的作用,特别是其在抗感染与抗肿瘤免疫中的作用。     

调节性T细胞与胶质瘤的免疫治疗

调节性T细胞（regulatory T cell,Treg）是一群具有抑制其它免疫细胞功能的起负性调控的细胞群. Treg细胞能抑制多种免疫细胞,如CD4+T和CD8+T淋巴细胞、NK细胞、B淋巴细胞以及树突状细胞的活化和增殖,是体内维持免疫系统稳定,防止出现自身免疫性疾病重要因素.最新研究表明,Treg细胞在肿瘤免疫逃逸中也发挥重要作用. 肿瘤细胞通过扩增或招募Treg细胞,抑制机体对肿瘤的免疫作用,由此可知,Treg细胞在肿瘤的发生和发展过程中发挥重要作用. 因此,抑制Treg细胞的活性和数量是包括胶质瘤在内的肿瘤免疫治疗有效的方式.     

Strong homeostatic TCR signals induce formation of self‐tolerant virtual memory CD8 T cells

Virtual memory T cells are foreign antigen‐inexperienced T cells that have acquired memory‐like phenotype and constitute 10–20% of all peripheral CD8⁺ T cells in mice. Their origin, biological roles, and relationship to naïve and foreign antigen‐experienced memory T cells are incompletely understood. By analyzing T‐cell receptor repertoires and using retrogenic monoclonal T‐cell populations, we demonstrate that the virtual memory T‐cell formation is a so far unappreciated cell fate decision checkpoint. We describe two molecular mechanisms driving the formation of virtual memory T cells. First, virtual memory T cells originate exclusively from strongly self‐reactive T cells. Second, the stoichiometry of the CD8 interaction with Lck regulates the size of the virtual memory T‐cell compartment via modulating the self‐reactivity of individual T cells. Although virtual memory T cells descend from the highly self‐reactive clones and acquire a partial memory program, they are not more potent in inducing experimental autoimmune diabetes than naïve T cells. These data underline the importance of the variable level of self‐reactivity in polyclonal T cells for the generation of functional T‐cell diversity.     

Expression and function of Toll-like receptor on T cells

Toll is the founder of a group of pattern recognition receptors, which play a critical role in the innate immunity in Drosophila. At least 13 distinct Toll-like receptors (TLRs), recognising pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMPs), have now been identified in humans. Most investigations on TLRs have focused on cells of the innate system. We report here that na?ve human T cells expressed high levels of cell surface TLR2 after activation by anti-T cell receptor (TCR) antibody and interferon-alpha. Activated cells produced elevated levels of cytokines in response to the TLR2 ligand, bacterial lipopeptide (BLP). Furthermore, CD4(+)CD45RO(+) memory T cells from peripheral blood constitutively expressed TLR2 and produced IFNgamma in response to BLP. BLP also markedly enhanced the proliferation and IFNgamma production by CD45RO(+) T cells in the presence of IL-2 or IL-15. Thus, TLR2 serves as a co-stimulatory receptor for antigen-specific T cell development and participates in the maintenance of T cell memory. This suggests that pathogens, via their PAMPs, may contribute directly to the perpetuation and activation of long term T cell memory in both antigen dependent and independent manner.     

A CD8+ T cell clone specific for antigen also recognizes peptidomimics present in anti-idiotypic antibody: implications for T cell memory

The relay hypothesis [R. Nayak, S. Mitra-Kaushik, M.S. Shaila, Perpetuation of immunological memory: a relay hypothesis, Immunology 102 (2001) 387-395] was earlier proposed to explain perpetuation of immunological memory without requiring long lived memory cells or persisting antigen. This hypothesis envisaged cycles of interaction and proliferation of complementary idiotypic B cells (Burnet cells) and anti-idiotypic B cells (Jerne cells) as the primary reason for perpetuation of immunological memory. The presence of peptidomimics of antigen in anti-idiotypic antibody and their presentation to antigen specific T cells was postulated to be primary reason for perpetuation of T cell memory. Using a viral hemagglutinin as a model, in this work, we demonstrate the presence of peptidomimics in the variable region of an anti-idiotypic antibody capable of functionally mimicking the antigen derived peptides. A CD8+ CTL clone was generated against the hemagglutinin protein which specifically responds to either peptidomimic synthesizing cells or peptidomimic pulsed antigen presenting cells. Thus, it appears reasonable that a population of activated antigen specific T cells is maintained in the body by presentation of peptidomimic through Jerne cells and other antigen presenting cells long after immunization.     

Expression and regulation of IL-22 in the IL-17-producing CD4＋ T lymphocytes

IL-22 is a novel cytokine in the IL-10 family that functions to promote innate immunity of tissues against infection. Although CD4＋ helper T lymphocytes （TH） were found as a source of IL-22, the regulation of this cytokine has been poorly understood. Here, we show that IL-22 is expressed at both mRNA and protein levels by a novel subset of TH cells that also makes IL-17. IL-22 and IL-17 were found to be coordinately regulated by TGFI3 and IL-6 during TH differentiation by real-time PCR as well as ELISA analysis. However, IL-22 does not regulate TH differentiation; exogenous IL-22 or an IL-22 antagonist had no effect on TH differentiation. These data demonstrate a novel cytokine expressed by IL-17-producing T cells, and suggest interaction and synergy of IL-22 and IL-l 7 signaling pathways in tissue inflammation and autoimmune diseases.     

人FGF-1对免疫系统的影响

酸性成纤维细胞生长因子 (acidfibroblastgrowthfactor,aFGF或FGF-1 )是成纤维细胞生长因子家族成员之一 ,是一种重要的生长因子。人FGF 1 (FGF-1 )是一个 1 7～ 1 8kDa的非糖基化多肽 ,三胚层来源的细胞都可以表达。FGF-1的生物学效应非常广泛 ,在组织和器官发育、血管发生、血细胞生成、肿瘤发生、伤口愈合等方面发挥重要的作用。FGF-1对人体的免疫系统也有重要的影响 ,能提高多种刺激诱导的T细胞增殖、凋亡及细胞因子的产生。主要概述了FGF-1的生物学效应、对免疫系统的影响及其潜在的临床应用价值。     

Mathematically modeling dynamics of T cell responses: predictions concerning the generation of memory cells

Mathematical models of T cell population dynamics after infection typically assume that T cells differentiate according to a linear process in which they first become effector cells, and then after some time, differentiate further into memory cells. In this paper, we offer a different mathematical model which can equally well capture T cell dynamics, using data from lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCMV) infection. Our model assumes that memory cells are intermediates that further differentiate into effector cells only from additional or stronger antigenic stimulation. Our assumption naturally leads to a testable prediction about the generation of T cell memory-that the memory phenotype of T cells should be present in detectable numbers during the expansion phase of the response. We use our model to estimate a rate of differentiation from memory type cells to effectors. We argue that this differentiation assumption, where memory cells are intermediates, captures recent experimental work on T cell differentiation, and hence this new mathematical model could be helpful in doing further studies of T cell population dynamics. We also propose a method of distinguishing the models by examining the ratio of memory T cells detectable long after an infection to the peak numbers of T cells at the end of the expansion phase.     

Autologous stromal vascular fraction cells: A tool for facilitating tolerance in rheumatic disease

Since the days of Medawar, the goal of therapeutic tolerogenesis has been a “Holy Grail” for immunologists. While knowledge of cellular and molecular mechanisms of this process has been increasing at an exponential rate, clinical progress has been minimal. To provide a mechanistic background of tolerogenesis, we overview common processes in the naturally occurring examples of: pregnancy, cancer, oral tolerance and anterior chamber associated immune deviation. The case is made that an easily accessible byproduct of plastic surgery, the adipose stromal vascular fraction, contains elements directly capable of promoting tolerogenesis such as T regulatory cells and inhibitory macrophages. The high content of mesenchymal and hematopoietic stem cells from this source provides the possibility of trophic/regenerative potential, which would augment tolerogenic processes by decreasing ongoing inflammation. We discuss the application of this autologous cell source in the context of rheumatoid arthritis, concluding with some practical examples of its applications.