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Natural and Induced CD4+CD25+ Cells Educate CD4+CD25− Cells to Develop Suppressive Activity: The Role of IL-2, TGF-β, and IL-10

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Zheng, Song Guo, Wang, Ju Hua, Gray, J Dixon, Soucier, Harold, Horwitz, David A·2004·The Journal of Immunology

Abstract

Thymus-derived, natural CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells can educate peripheral CD4+CD25− cells to develop suppressive activity by poorly understood mechanisms. TGF-β has IL-2-dependent costimulatory effects on alloactivated naive, human CD4+ T cells and induces them ex vivo to become potent contact-dependent, cytokine-independent suppressor cells. In this study, we report that CD4+CD25+ cells are the targets of the costimulatory effects of IL-2 and TGF-β. These cells do not divide, but, instead, greatly increase the numbers of CD4+CD25− cells that become CD25+ cytokine-independent suppressor cells. These CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells, in turn, induce other alloactivated CD4+CD25− cells to become potent suppressor cells by mechanisms that, surprisingly, require both cell contact and TGF-β and IL-10. The suppressive effects of these secondary CD4+CD25+ cells depend upon TGF-β and IL-10. Moreover, both the naive CD4+ cells induced by IL-2 and TGF-β to become suppressor cells, and the subsequent CD4+CD25− cells educated by them to become suppressors express FoxP3. We suggest that the long-term effects of adoptively transferred natural-like CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells induced ex vivo are due to their ability to generate new cytokine-producing CD4+ regulatory T cells in vivo.

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Authors
Zheng, S. G., Wang, J. H., Gray, J. D., Soucier, H., & Horwitz, D. A.
Venue
The Journal of Immunology
Published
2004-05-01
Volume
172
Issue
9
Pages
5213-5221
ISSN
  • 0022-1767 (ISSN-L)
  • 1550-6606
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21.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Zheng, S. G., Wang, J. H., Gray, J. D., Soucier, H., & Horwitz, D. A. (2004). Natural and Induced CD4+CD25+ Cells Educate CD4+CD25− Cells to Develop Suppressive Activity: The Role of IL-2, TGF-β, and IL-10. The Journal of Immunology. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5213

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