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. 1997 Aug;91(4):628–634. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1997.00292.x

A step-wise expansion of intestinal intraepithelial T lymphocytes in association with microbial colonization is defined by sensitivity to cyclosporin A.

M Kawaguchi-Miyashita 1, M Nanno 1, S Shimada 1, N Nagaoka 1, Y Okada 1, S Matsumoto 1, Y Umesaki 1, Y Matsuoka 1, M Ohwaki 1
PMCID: PMC1363886  PMID: 9378505

Abstract

Murine intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) consist of T cells bearing alpha beta-antigen receptor (alpha beta-IELs) and those bearing gamma delta-IELs). Although gamma delta-IELs outnumber alpha beta-IELs in germ-free (GF) mice, oral inoculation of fecal suspension from conventional (CV) mice into GF mice induced the increase in number of alpha beta-IELs, leaving the number of gamma delta-IELs unchanged, and the number of alpha beta-IELs reached the level of CV mice by 3 weeks after conventionalization. Expansion of alpha beta-IELs and increase in their CD44+ subset in conventionalized mice were not affected until 2 weeks after beginning of daily injection of cyclosporin A (CsA). However, further expansion of alpha beta-IELs during 2-3 weeks after conventionalization was blocked by injection of CsA. Although the relative constitution of CD4- 8-, CD4+ 8-, CD4- 8 alpha alpha+, CD4- 8 alpha beta+ and CD4+ 8+ subsets among alpha beta-IELs was comparable between control and CsA-treated groups, CsA injection resulted in the decrease in ratio of high-density fraction cells to low density fraction cells in IELs. CsA completely abrogated the expansion of T cells in peripheral lymph nodes stimulated by alloantigens in vivo, and proliferation of IELs from GF mice induced by immobilized anti-alpha beta-T-cell receptor (TCR) monoclonal antibodies (mAb) in vitro was also eliminated by CsA. These results indicate that microbial colonization-induced expansion of alpha beta-IELs is subdivided into two steps: the early phase of expansion takes place via TCR-non-mediated pathway and the late phase of expansion requires TCR-mediated signal transduction.

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