T Cells from NOD-PerIg Mice Target Both Pancreatic and Neuronal Tissue

Autor: Rachel Ettinger, David V. Serreze, Torrian Green, Zoë Bichler, Timothy J. Hines, Jeremy J. Racine, Brynn M Cairns, Laura C. Anderson, Abigail L. D. Tadenev, Rosalinda Doty, Jacqueline K. White, Robert W. Burgess, Janine M Wotton, Harold D. Chapman, Meaghan E Dyer
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The Journal of Immunology. 205:2026-2038
ISSN: 1550-6606
0022-1767
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000114
Popis: It has become increasingly appreciated that autoimmune responses against neuronal components play an important role in type 1 diabetes (T1D) pathogenesis. In fact, a large proportion of islet-infiltrating B lymphocytes in the NOD mouse model of T1D produce Abs directed against the neuronal type III intermediate filament protein peripherin. NOD-PerIg mice are a previously developed BCR-transgenic model in which virtually all B lymphocytes express the H and L chain Ig molecules from the intra-islet–derived anti-peripherin–reactive hybridoma H280. NOD-PerIg mice have accelerated T1D development, and PerIg B lymphocytes actively proliferate within islets and expand cognitively interactive pathogenic T cells from a pool of naive precursors. We now report adoptively transferred T cells or whole splenocytes from NOD-PerIg mice expectedly induce T1D in NOD.scid recipients but, depending on the kinetics of disease development, can also elicit a peripheral neuritis (with secondary myositis). This neuritis was predominantly composed of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. Ab depletion studies showed neuritis still developed in the absence of NOD-PerIg CD8+ T cells but required CD4+ T cells. Surprisingly, sciatic nerve–infiltrating CD4+ cells had an expansion of IFN-γ− and TNF-α− double-negative cells compared with those within both islets and spleen. Nerve and islet-infiltrating CD4+ T cells also differed by expression patterns of CD95, PD-1, and Tim-3. Further studies found transitory early B lymphocyte depletion delayed T1D onset in a portion of NOD-PerIg mice, allowing them to survive long enough to develop neuritis outside of the transfer setting. Together, this study presents a new model of peripherin-reactive B lymphocyte–dependent autoimmune neuritis.
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