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Transferable Anergy: Superantigen Treatment Induces CD4+ T Cell Tolerance That Is Reversible and Requires CD4−CD8− Cells and Interferon γ
Authors:Linda S. Cauley   Keith A. Cauley   Fillipa Shub   Gail Huston     Susan L. Swain
Affiliation:From the *Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York 12983; and Cancer Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
Abstract:Bacterial superantigens induce peripheral unresponsiveness in CD4+ T cell populations that express appropriate Vβ chains. We have used Vβ3/Vα11 T cell receptor transgenic (Tg) mice and the Vβ3-specific superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) to further investigate the mechanisms that contribute to such unresponsiveness. As in other models, in vivo exposure to SEA rendered the Tg CD4+ cells unresponsive to subsequent restimulation in vitro with antigen or mitogens. However, when the SEA-treated CD4+ cells were completely purified away from all other contaminating cells, they regained the ability to proliferate and secrete cytokines. Moreover, enriched CD4CD8 cells from the SEA-treated mice suppressed the responses of fresh control CD4+ cells in mixed cultures indicating that the apparent “anergy” was both transferable and reversible. Further analysis demonstrated that interferon γ, but not the Fas receptor, played a critical role in the suppression.
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