Donor-derived interferon γ separates graft-versus-leukemia effects and graft-versus-host disease induced by donor CD8 T cells
Donor-derived interferon γ separates graft-versus-leukemia effects and graft-versus-host disease induced by donor CD8 T cells
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DOI:
10.1182/blood.v99.11.4207
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发表时间:
2002-06-01
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影响因子:
20.3
通讯作者:
Sykes, M
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作者:
Yang, YG;Qi, J;Sykes, M
The graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effects and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-inducing activity of CD8 T cells was compared in murine recipients of wild-type (WT) or interferon gamma (IFN-gamma)-deficient (GKO) allogeneic donor cells. CD8 T cells (or CD4-depleted splenocytes) from GKO donor mice induced more severe GVHD in lethally irradiated allogeneic recipients compared to the same cell populations from WT donors. Consistent with GVHD severity, donor CD8 T-cell expansion in allogeneic recipients was augmented in the absence of IFN-gamma. These results demonstrate that IFN-gamma does not stimulate but instead down-modulates GVHD induced by donor CD8 T cells. Remarkably, anti-host lymphohematopoietic reactions, including GVL effects against host leukemia/lymphoma cells, of CD8 T cells correlated inversely with their GVHD-inducing activity, and those of GKO donors were markedly weaker than those mediated by WT donor CD8 T cells. These data show for the first time that GVHD-inducing activity and GVL effects of allogeneic CD8 T cells can be separated by a single cytokine, IFN-gamma. (C) 2002 by The American Society of Hematology.