Title
Cutting Edge: Early Attrition of Memory T Cells during Inflammation and Costimulation Blockade Is Regulated Concurrently by Proapoptotic Proteins Fas and Bim
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Molecular Medicine; Department of Pathology; Davis Lab
Publication Date
2019-02-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Hemic and Immune Systems | Immunology and Infectious Disease
Abstract
Apoptosis of CD8 T cells is an essential mechanism that maintains immune system homeostasis, prevents autoimmunity, and reduces immunopathology. CD8 T cell death also occurs early during the response to both inflammation and costimulation blockade (CoB). In this article, we studied the effects of a combined deficiency of Fas (extrinsic pathway) and Bim (intrinsic pathway) on early T cell attrition in response to lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection and during CoB during transplantation. Loss of Fas and Bim function in Bcl2l11(-/-)Fas(lpr/lpr) mice inhibited apoptosis of T cells and prevented the early T cell attrition resulting from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. Bcl2l11(-/-)Fas(lpr/lpr) mice were also resistant to prolonged allograft survival induced by CoB targeting the CD40-CD154 pathway. These results demonstrate that both extrinsic and intrinsic apoptosis pathways function concurrently to regulate T cell homeostasis during the early stages of immune responses and allograft survival during CoB.
DOI of Published Version
10.4049/jimmunol.1800278
Source
J Immunol. 2019 Feb 1;202(3):647-651. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1800278. Epub 2019 Jan 4. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
Related Resources
PubMed ID
30610162
Repository Citation
Jangalwe S, Kapoor VN, Xu J, Girnius N, Kennedy NJ, Edwards YJ, Welsh RM, Davis RJ, Brehm MA. (2019). Cutting Edge: Early Attrition of Memory T Cells during Inflammation and Costimulation Blockade Is Regulated Concurrently by Proapoptotic Proteins Fas and Bim. Program in Molecular Medicine Publications. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1800278. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/pmm_pp/107