Role of CD4(+)CD25(+) T regulatory cells in IL-2-induced vascular leak |
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Authors: | Melencio Louise McKallip Robert J Guan Hongbing Ramakrishnan Rupal Jain Reena Nagarkatti Prakash S Nagarkatti Mitzi |
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Institution: | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, 6439 Garner's Ferry Road, Columbia, SC 29209, USA. |
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Abstract: | T regulatory cells (CD4(+)CD25(+)) play an important role in the regulation of the immune response. However, little is known about the ability of T regulatory cells to regulate endothelial cell (EC) damage following activation of lymphocytes with IL-2. Therefore, in the current study, we examined the role of T regulatory cells and the subsequent T(h)1/T(h)2 bias in IL-2-mediated EC injury using the well-characterized C57BL/6 (T(h)1-biased) and BALB/c (T(h)2-biased) models. Following IL-2 treatment, BALB/c mice were less susceptible to IL-2-induced vascular leak syndrome (VLS) compared with C57BL/6 mice. Splenocytes from BALB/c mice displayed less cytotoxicity against ECs compared with those from C57BL/6 mice. Interestingly, BALB/c mice had significantly higher numbers of CD4(+)CD25(+) T regulatory cells, which proliferated more profoundly following IL-2 treatment, compared with CD4(+)CD25(+) T regulatory cells from C57BL/6 mice. In addition, T regulatory cells from naive BALB/c mice were more potent suppressors of anti-CD3 mAb-stimulated proliferation of T cells than similar cells from C57BL/6 mice. Depletion of T regulatory cells in both BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice led to a significant increase in IL-2-induced VLS. Together, the results from this study suggest that CD4(+)CD25(+) T regulatory cells play an important role in the regulation of IL-2-induced EC injury. |
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Keywords: | IL-2 Th1/Th2 cytokine T regulatory cells vascular leak |
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