PATHOGENIC ANTI-DNA AUTOANTIBODY-INDUCING T-HELPER CELL-LINES FROM PATIENTS WITH ACTIVE LUPUS NEPHRITIS - ISOLATION OF CD4-8- T-HELPER CELL-LINES THAT EXPRESS THE GAMMA-DELTA-T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR
PATHOGENIC ANTI-DNA AUTOANTIBODY-INDUCING T-HELPER CELL-LINES FROM PATIENTS WITH ACTIVE LUPUS NEPHRITIS - ISOLATION OF CD4-8- T-HELPER CELL-LINES THAT EXPRESS THE GAMMA-DELTA-T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.87.18.7020
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发表时间:
1990-09-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
DATTA, SK
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作者:
RAJAGOPALAN, S;ZORDAN, T;DATTA, SK
The antigen responsible for autoimmunization in systemic lupus erythematosus is unknown. Inspite of this obstacle, we show that T helper (Th) cells that are functionally relevant to this disease can be established in vitro. We derived a total of 396 interleukin 2-dependent T-cell lines from the in vivo activated T cells of five patients with lupus nephritis. Only 59 (.apprxeq. 15%) of these lines had the ability to selectively augmented the production of pathogenc anti-DNA autoantibodies that were IgG in class, cationic in charge, specific for native DNA, and clonally restricted in spectrotype. Forty-nine of these autoantibody-inducing Th lines were CD4+ and expressed the .alpha..beta. T-cell receptors (TCR). The other 10 were CD4-8- (double negative), 3 expressing the .alpha..beta. TCR and 7 expressing the .gamma..delta. TCR. All of the autoantibody-inducing Th lines responded to some endogenous antigen presented by autologous B cells. The autoreactive responses of the CD4+ Th lines were restricted to HLA class II antigens, whereas those of the double-negative cells were not. Endogenous heat shock or stress proteins of the HSP60 family that were expressed by the lupus patients'' B cells were involved in stimulating an autoreactive proliferation of the .gamma..delta. Th cells. These studies demonstrate a novel helper activity of certain .gamma..delta. T cells in a spontaneous autoimmune response.