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Opposing peripheral fates of tissue-restricted self antigen-specific conventional and regulatory CD4+ T cells
Authors:Zimeng Zhang  Francois P. Legoux  Spencer W. Vaughan  James J. Moon
Affiliation:1. Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA

Program in Immunology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Both authors contributed equally to this work.;2. Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA

Both authors contributed equally to this work.;3. Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA

Abstract:The development of self antigen-specific T cells is influenced by how the self antigen is expressed. Here, we created a mouse in which a model self antigen is conditionally expressed in different tissue environments. Using peptide:MHCII tetramer-based cell enrichment methods, we examined the development of corresponding endogenous self antigen-specific CD4+ T cell populations. While ubiquitous self antigen expression resulted in efficient deletion of self antigen-specific T cells in the thymus, some tissue-restricted expression patterns resulted in partial deletion of the population in peripheral lymphoid organs. Deletion specifically affected Foxp3 conventional T cells (Tconv) with a bias towards high avidity TCR expressing cells in the case of thymic, but not peripheral deletion. In contrast, Foxp3+ Treg exhibited elevated frequencies with increased TCR avidity. T cells surviving deletion were functionally impaired, with Tconv cells exhibiting more impairment than Tregs. Collectively, our results illustrate how postthymic recognition of tissue-restricted self antigens results in opposing developmental fates for Tconv and Treg cell subsets.
Keywords:Clonal deletion  Immune tolerance  Peptide:MHC tetramer  T cell selection  TCR
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