Peptide-Specific CD8 T Regulatory Cells Use IFN-γ to Elaborate TGF-β-Based Suppression

  • Myers L
  • Croft M
  • Kwon B
  • et al.
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Abstract

We identified a murine peptide-specific CD8 T regulatory cell population able to suppress responding CD4 T cells. Immunization with OVA, poly(I:C), and anti-4-1BB generated a population of SIINFEKL-specific CD8 T regulatory cells that profoundly inhibited peptide-responding CD4 T cells from cellular division. The mechanism of suppression required IFN-γ, but IFN-γ alone was not sufficient to suppress the responding CD4 T cells. The data show that CD8 T regulatory cells were unable to suppress unless they engaged IFN-γ. Furthermore, even in the absence of recall with peptide, the CD8 T regulatory cells suppressed CD4 responses as long as IFN-γ was present. To examine the effector mechanism of suppression, we showed that neutralizing TGF-β inhibited suppression because inclusion of anti-TGF-β rescued the proliferative capacity of the responding cells. TGF-β-based suppression was dependent completely upon the CD8 T regulatory cells being capable of binding IFN-γ. This was the case, although peptide recall of primed IFN-γ −/− or IFN-γR−/− CD8 T cells up-regulated pro-TGF-β protein as measured by surface latency-associated peptide expression but yet were unable to suppress. Finally, we asked whether the CD8 T regulatory cells were exposed to active TGF-β in vivo and showed that only wild-type CD8 T regulatory cells expressed the TGF-β-dependent biomarker CD103, suggesting that latency-associated peptide expression is not always congruent with elaboration of active TGF-β. These data define a novel mechanism whereby IFN-γ directly stimulates CD8 T regulatory cells to elaborate TGF-β-based suppression. Ultimately, this mechanism may permit regulation of pathogenic Th1 responses by CD8 T regulatory cells.

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Myers, L., Croft, M., Kwon, B. S., Mittler, R. S., & Vella, A. T. (2005). Peptide-Specific CD8 T Regulatory Cells Use IFN-γ to Elaborate TGF-β-Based Suppression. The Journal of Immunology, 174(12), 7625–7632. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.174.12.7625

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