The TL MHC class Ib molecule has only marginal effects on the activation, survival and trafficking of mouse small intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes

Nathalie Pardigon 1 Sylvie Darche 1 Brian Kelsall 1 Jack R Bennink 1 Jonathan W Yewdell 1
1 NIH - National Institutes of Health [Bethesda]
Abstract : Thymus leukemia antigen (TL) is an MHC class Ib molecule that is highly conserved in rats and mice with no obvious human homolog. TL is expressed in mouse small intestinal epithelial cells and is known to interact with CD8alphaalpha homodimers, which are expressed by intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs), some other T cell subsets and some non-T cells such as a subset of dendritic cells. We show here that TL is abundantly expressed on the basolateral surface of mouse small intestinal epithelial cells and that expression is abrogated in beta2m-/- mice but unaffected in TCR-/- mice or CD8alpha chain-/- mice. We demonstrate that the interaction between TL and CD8alphaalpha is not necessary for IEL survival in vitro or in vivo and does not modulate IEL trafficking in vivo. TL co-stimulation of alpha-CD3 antibody-activated IELs resulted in modestly enhanced production of IFN-gamma in one subset of IELs. The lack of effect on IEL survival and trafficking and the modest effect on IFN-gamma production suggest that the functional consequences of TL interaction with CD8alphaalpha as well as the more general biological role of TL in mucosal immunity remains to be discovered.
Keywords : mouse small intestine thymic leukemia ag intraepithelial lymphocytes
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International Immunology, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2004, 16 (9), pp.1305 - 1313. 〈10.1093/intimm/dxh133〉
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Nathalie Pardigon, Sylvie Darche, Brian Kelsall, Jack R Bennink, Jonathan W Yewdell. The TL MHC class Ib molecule has only marginal effects on the activation, survival and trafficking of mouse small intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes. International Immunology, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2004, 16 (9), pp.1305 - 1313. 〈10.1093/intimm/dxh133〉. 〈pasteur-01659364〉

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