STAT蛋白
干扰素γ
免疫学
过继性细胞移植
肿瘤坏死因子α
T细胞
结肠炎
干扰素
斯达
生物
状态4
T辅助细胞
细胞因子
癌症研究
医学
信号转导
细胞生物学
免疫系统
车站3
作者
Stephen J. Simpson,Samir A. Shah,Martina Comiskey,Ype P. de Jong,Baoping Wang,Emiko Mizoguchi,Atul K. Bhan,Cox Terhorst
标识
DOI:10.1084/jem.187.8.1225
摘要
The requirements for interleukin (IL)-12/signal transducer and activator of transcription (Stat)-4 signaling and induction of T cell–specific interferon (IFN)-γ expression in the development of T helper cell (Th)1–type pathology were examined in two different models of experimental colitis. In each model, abnormal reconstitution of the T cell compartment in immunodeficient mice by adoptive cell transfer leads to a wasting syndrome and inflammation of the colon, induced by IFN-γ and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α–producing T cells. We show here that treatment with anti–IL-12 antibodies in one of the models, or reconstitution with T cells from Stat-4–deficient (Stat-4null) mice in both models resulted in a milder disease in the majority of recipient animals, compared with those that were left untreated or that had been reconstituted with wt cells. Protected mice in each group also harbored lower frequencies of IFN-γ–producing T cells than did diseased mice, suggesting that effects on wasting and colitis resulted from the attenuation of IFN-γ expression by T cells. To test whether the development of pathogenic T cells in the two colitis models was directly dependent on T cell–specific IFN-γ expression, IFN-γnull donors were used for T cell reconstitution in each system. Surprisingly, large numbers of IFN-γnull–reconstituted mice developed wasting and colitis, which in many cases was of comparable severity to that seen in animals reconstituted with wt cells. Furthermore, T cells from these animals expressed TNF-α, demonstrating that they had retained the ability to produce another proinflammatory cytokine. Taken together, these results demonstrate that in some forms of chronic experimental colitis the development of pathogenic T cells is influenced predominantly, though not exclusively, by IL-12 via the actions of Stat-4 proteins. Furthermore, our data suggest that in the models of colitis studied here the effects of IL-12/Stat-4 or other Th1 promoting pathways are not limited to the induction of IFN-γ gene expression in T lymphocytes.
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