Regulatory T cells
Regulatory T cells
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DOI:
10.1007/s00281-006-0043-2
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2006-08
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S. Sakaguchi
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S. Sakaguchi
Our immune system protects us from a myriad of potengreat controversy among immunologists and has been tially pathogenic microorganisms while avoiding regiven little credibility for many years, largely because of acting with constituents of our body; ie, we are tolerant the paucity of reliable markers for defining the cell, the of “self.” Failure of immunologic self-tolerance often ambiguity in the molecular basis of suppressive pheleads to the development of autoimmune disease, which nomena, and even the elusive nature of some supis estimated to afflict up to 5% of the population. Alpressive phenomena themselves. Nevertheless, if one though the etiology of autoimmune disease is at present asks which mechanism of self-tolerance should, when largely unknown, it is well documented that T cells are it goes awry, directly lead to autoimmune disease or the key mediators of many autoimmune diseases, such which one, when strengthened, can prevent autoimas insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), autoimmune disease, accumulating experimental evidence mune thyroiditis, and autoimmune gastritis accompanow suggests that removal or inactivation of a certain nying pernicious anemia. Furthermore, there is mounting regulatory T cell population can break natural self-tolerevidence that normal healthy individuals harbor potenance, leading to spontaneous development of various tially pathogenic self-reactive T cells. For example, imautoimmune diseases. Studies on transplantation tolermunization of normal animals with a self-antigen in poance have also documented that T cells actively inhibit tent adjuvant can induce dormant self-reactive T cells to effector T cells from rejecting grafts in a certain tolerant attack the antigen, eliciting inflammatory tissue damage. state. Furthermore, recent advances in cytokine re-Self-reactive T cell clones can also easily be isolated search have revealed that T cells secreting immunosupfrom the peripheral blood of normal healthy individuals pressive cytokines behave as regulatory T cells and inby repeated in vitro stimulation with self-molecules. deed downregulate autoimmunity and responses to Moreover, many tumor-associated antigens recognized transplants. This review will discuss recent advances in by autologous T cells in cancer patients have now turned our understanding of the key role of regulatory T cells out to be normal self-constituents, not abnormal prodin immunologic tolerance. ucts of mutated genes, indicating that tumor immunity Self-Tolerance Is Maintained by CD4+ is in part an autoimmunity. One of the current key issues Regulatory T Cells in immunology is therefore to elucidate how potentially The existence of regulatory T cells with autoimmunehazardous (or sometimes beneficial) self-reactive T cells inhibitory activity has been suggested in various animal are generated in physiological or disease states, and models of autoimmune disease since the early 1980s how they are regulated to avoid autoimmune disease(references cited in Itoh et al., 1999). For example, in (or not to attack autologous tumor cells). A better under- NOD (non-obese diabetic) mice or BB (Bio-Breeding) standing of the mechanisms underlying immunologic rats, which spontaneously develop IDDM and autoimtolerance will lead to better treatments for autoimmune mune thyroiditis, inoculation with CD4 T cells from disease, cancer, and transplant rejection. histocompatible normal animals effectively prevented During T cell maturation in the thymus, immature T IDDM. On the other hand, characterization of effector T cells express an enormously diverse range of T cell cells mediating these organ-specific autoimmune …