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CURRENT OPINION IN ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 22-28Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000261
Keywords
alloreactivity; graft versus host disease; T cell; T-cell receptors; transplantation
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- National Institutes of Health [K08 AI085039]
- American Society of Hematology
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Purpose of reviewT cells can mediate allograft rejection and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), but are necessary for tolerance and protective immunity. Identifying T-cell populations differentially responsible for these effects has been a goal in transplant research. This review describes investigation of a small subset of T cells naturally predisposed toward alloreactivity, cells expressing two T-cell receptors (TCRs).Recent findingsRare peripheral T cells express two TCRs. Their impact on T-cell development and function has been uncertain. Recent work demonstrates an important role for these cells in mouse models and human hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients with acute GVHD. Dual receptor T cells are preferentially activated and expanded in vitro and in vivo by allogeneic stimulation. Genetic elimination of dual TCR expression results in loss of approximately half of the alloreactive repertoire and impedes the earliest steps of GVHD.SummaryIdentification of dual TCR T cells as predisposed to alloreactivity provides an opportunity to examine responses limiting transplantation. Continued investigation will reveal significant fundamental features of T-cell alloreactivity and important information about the earliest events determining allograft rejection and self-tolerance.
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