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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 7, Pages 1765-1773Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200838842
Keywords
DC; MHC; Immune regulation; T cells
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- Netherlands Cancer Foundation [UL 2002-2724]
- Dutch Arthritis Foundation [018661]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- Centre for Medical Systems Biology (CMSB)
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CD4(+) T cells are important for CD8(+) T-cell priming by providing cognate signals for DC maturation. We analyzed the capacity of CD4(+) T cells to influence CD8(+) T-cell responses induced by activated DC. Surprisingly, mice depleted for CD4(+) cells were able to generate stronger antigen-specific CD8(+) T-cell responses after DC vaccination than non-depleted mice. The same observation was made when mice were vaccinated with MHC class II-/- DC, indicating the presence of a MHC class II-dependent CD4(+) T-cell population inhibiting CD8(+) T-cell responses. Recently we described the expansion of DX5(+)CD4(+) T cells, a T-cell population displaying immune regulatory properties, upon vaccination with DC. Intriguingly, we now observe an inverse correlation between CD8(+) T-cell induction and expansion of DX5(+)CD4(+) T cells as the latter cells did not expand after vaccination with MHC class II-/- DC. In vitro, DX5(+)CD4(+) T cells were able to limit proliferation, modulate cytokine production and induce Foxp3(+) expression in OVA-specific CD8(+) T cells. Together, our data show an inhibitory role of CD4(+) T cells on the induction of CD8(+) T-cell responses by activated DC and indicate the involvement of DX5(+)CD4(+), but not CD4(+)CD25(+), T cells in this process.
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