Journal article
Aberrant Contraction of Antigen-Specific CD4 T Cells after Infection in the Absence of Gamma Interferon or Its Receptor
Infection and immunity, Vol.74(11), pp.6252-6263
11/2006
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00847-06
PMCID: PMC1695510
PMID: 16966404
Abstract
Several lines of evidence from different model systems suggest that gamma interferon (IFN-γ) is an important regulator of T-cell contraction after antigen (Ag)-driven expansion. To specifically investigate the role of IFN-γ in regulating the contraction of Ag-specific CD4 T cells, we infected IFN-γ
−/−
and IFN-γR1
−/−
mice with attenuated
Listeria monocytogenes
and monitored the numbers of Ag-specific CD4 T cells during the expansion, contraction, and memory phases of the immune response to infection. In the absence of IFN-γ or the ligand-binding portion of its receptor, Ag-specific CD4 T cells exhibited normal expansion in numbers, but in both strains of deficient mice there was very little decrease in the number of Ag-specific CD4 T cells even at time points later than day 90 after infection. This significant delay in contraction was not due to prolonged infection, since mice treated with antibiotics to conclusively eliminate infection exhibited the same defect in contraction. In addition to altering the number of Ag-specific CD4 T cells, the absence of IFN-γ signaling also changed the phenotype of cells generated after infection. IFN-γR1
−/−
Ag-specific CD4 T cells reacquired expression of CD127 more quickly than wild-type cells, and more IFN-γR1
−/−
CD4 T cells were capable of producing both IFN-γ and interleukin 2 following Ag stimulation. From these data we conclude that IFN-γ regulates the contraction, phenotype, and function of Ag-specific CD4 T cells generated after infection.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Aberrant Contraction of Antigen-Specific CD4 T Cells after Infection in the Absence of Gamma Interferon or Its Receptor
- Creators
- Jodie S Haring - Department of MicrobiologyJohn T Harty - Department of Microbiology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infection and immunity, Vol.74(11), pp.6252-6263
- DOI
- 10.1128/IAI.00847-06
- PMID
- 16966404
- PMCID
- PMC1695510
- NLM abbreviation
- Infect Immun
- ISSN
- 0019-9567
- eISSN
- 1098-5522
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2006
- Academic Unit
- Pathology
- Record Identifier
- 9984047985902771
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