scholarly journals CCR4-dependent regulatory T cell function in inflammatory bowel disease

2007 ◽  
Vol 204 (6) ◽  
pp. 1327-1334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Yuan ◽  
Shannon K. Bromley ◽  
Terry K. Means ◽  
Krister J. Jones ◽  
Fumitaka Hayashi ◽  
...  

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an idiopathic inflammatory disease of the intestine. CD4+ T lymphocytes play an important role in both initiating and regulating intestinal inflammatory immune responses. CD4+CD25+CD45RBlow regulatory T (T reg) cells are capable of preventing the development of colitis in a mouse model of IBD. The precise mechanism of T reg cell–mediated prevention of colitis in this model is unclear, and the role of chemokine receptors in the trafficking and function of T reg cells in this model has not been determined. We examined the role of the chemokine receptor CCR4 in in vivo trafficking and suppressive function of T reg cells in a mouse adoptive transfer model of IBD. CCR4-deficient T reg cells failed to accumulate in the mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs) at early time points (2–5 d) after adoptive transfer, resulting in a failure to suppress the generation of pathogenic T cells and the development of colitis. Moreover, although CCR4-deficent T cells had equivalent in vitro suppressive activity and accumulated in MLNs at later time points (42–56 d), they were unable to suppress colitis. Our study demonstrates that CCR4 plays an important role in T reg cell trafficking in LNs and that this is critical for T reg cell suppressive function in vivo.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 980-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. T. Chyuan ◽  
H. F. Tsai ◽  
C. S. Wu ◽  
P. N. Hsu

AbstractTumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) induces cell apoptosis by transducing apoptosis signals. Recently, accumulating evidence demonstrated that TRAIL regulates autoimmune inflammation and immune cell homeostasis in several autoimmune animal models, suggesting a novel immunoregulatory role of TRAIL in autoimmune diseases. However, the impact of TRAIL in inflammatory bowel disease is yet undefined. This study is to address the therapeutic effects and immunoregulatory role of TRAIL in autoimmune gut inflammation. We demonstrated herein that TRAIL significantly suppressed gut inflammation and reduced the severity of colitis in a dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis model. Suppression of gut inflammation was not due to induction of apoptosis in colonic T cells, dendritic cells, or epithelium cells by TRAIL. In contrast, TRAIL directly inhibited activation of colitogenic T cells and development of gut inflammation in an adoptive transfer-induced colitis model. The anti-inflammatory effects of TRAIL on colitis were abolished when T cells from TRAIL receptor (TRAIL-R) knockout mice were adoptively transferred, suggesting that TRAIL regulates autoreactive colitogenic T-cell activation in the development of gut inflammation. Our results demonstrate that TRAIL effectively inhibited colonic T-cell activation and suppressed autoimmune colitis, suggesting a potential therapeutic application of TRAIL in human inflammatory bowel disease.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaely Casalegno Garduño ◽  
Jan Däbritz

CD8+ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a complex multifactorial chronic disease. Here, we present an overview of the current research with the controversial findings of CD8+ T cell subsets and discuss some possible perspectives on their therapeutic value in IBD. Studies on the role of CD8+ T cells in IBD have contradictory outcomes, which might be related to the heterogeneity of the cells. Recent data suggest that cytotoxic CD8+ T cells (Tc1) and interleukin (IL) 17-producing CD8+ (Tc17) cells contribute to the pathogenesis of IBD. Moreover, subsets of regulatory CD8+ T cells are abundant at sites of inflammation and can exhibit pro-inflammatory features. Some subsets of tissue resident memory CD8+ T cells (Trm) might be immunosuppressant, whereas others might be pro-inflammatory. Lastly, exhausted T cells might indicate a positive outcome for patients. The function and plasticity of different subsets of CD8+ T cells in health and IBD remain to be further investigated in a challenging field due to the limited availability of mucosal samples and adequate controls.


2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
Charlie C Hsu ◽  
Karuna Patil ◽  
Audrey Seamons ◽  
Thea L Brabb ◽  
Piper M Treuting ◽  
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Murine norovirus (MNV) infection is highly prevalent in laboratory mice. Although MNV infection does not typically induce clinical disease in most laboratory mice, infection may nonetheless affect mouse models of disease by altering immune responses. We previously reported that MNV altered the bacterial-induced mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using Helicobacter-infected Mdr1a–/– mice. Therefore, we hypothesized that MNV infection would exacerbate another mouse model of IBD, the T-cell adoptive transfer (AT) model. In this model, Helicobacter infection is used to accelerate the progression of IBD induced by AT of naïve CD4+CD45RBhigh T cells into B6.129S7- Rag1tm1Mom/J (Rag1–/–) mice. We evaluated the effects of MNV infection in both Helicobacter-accelerated as well as Helicobacter-free AT models. In our studies, Helicobacter-infected Rag1–/– mice that received CD4+CD45RBhigh T cells through AT rapidly developed weight loss and typhlocolitis; MNV infection had no effect on disease severity or rate of progression. In the absence of Helicobacter infection, progression of IBD caused by AT of CD4+CD45RBhigh T cells was slower and typhlocolitis was less severe; this inflammation likewise was unaltered by MNV infection. These results indicate that MNV infection does not alter IBD progression and severity in the CD4+CD45RBhigh T-cell AT model in Rag1–/– mice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 214 (8) ◽  
pp. 1095-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu-Feng Pei ◽  
Long-Lei Cao ◽  
Fang Huang ◽  
Xu Qiao ◽  
Jie Yu ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 281 (3) ◽  
pp. G764-G778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Burich ◽  
Robert Hershberg ◽  
Kim Waggie ◽  
Weiping Zeng ◽  
Thea Brabb ◽  
...  

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is thought to result from a dysregulated mucosal immune response to luminal microbial antigens, with T lymphocytes mediating the colonic pathology. Infection with Helicobacter spp has been reported to cause IBD in immunodeficient mice, some of which lack T lymphocytes. To further understand the role of T cells and microbial antigens in triggering IBD, we infected interleukin (IL)-10−/−, recombinase-activating gene (Rag)1−/−, T-cell receptor (TCR)-α−/−, TCR-β−/−, and wild-type mice with Helicobacter hepaticus or Helicobacter bilis and compared the histopathological IBD phenotype. IL-10−/−mice developed severe diffuse IBD with either H. bilis or H. hepaticus, whereas Rag1−/−, TCR-α−/−, TCR-β−/−, and wild-type mice showed different susceptibilities to Helicobacter spp infection. Proinflammatory cytokine mRNA expression was increased in the colons of Helicobacter-infected IL-10−/−and TCR-α−/−mice with IBD. These results confirm and extend the role of Helicobacter as a useful tool for investigating microbial-induced IBD and show the importance, but not strict dependence, of T cells in the development of bacterial-induced IBD.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Bora ◽  
Margherita T. Cantorna

Vitamin D/UVR effects on T cells that are important in the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).


Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1847
Author(s):  
Sushmita Negi ◽  
Sheetal Saini ◽  
Nikunj Tandel ◽  
Kiran Sahu ◽  
Ravi P.N. Mishra ◽  
...  

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in humans, afflicted in genetically predisposed individuals due to dysregulated immune response directed against constituents of gut flora. The defective immune responses mounted against the regulatory mechanisms amplify and maintain the IBD-induced mucosal inflammation. Therefore, restoring the balance between inflammatory and anti-inflammatory immunepathways in the gut may contribute to halting the IBD-associated tissue-damaging immune response. Phenotypic and functional characterization of various immune-suppressive T cells (regulatory T cells; Tregs) over the last decade has been used to optimize the procedures for in vitro expansion of these cells for developing therapeutic interventional strategies. In this paper, we review the mechanisms of action and functional importance of Tregs during the pathogenesis of IBD and modulating the disease induced inflammation as well as role of mouse models including humanized mice repopulated with the human immune system (HIS) to study the IBD. “Humanized” mouse models provide new tools to analyze human Treg ontogeny, immunobiology, and therapy and the role of Tregs in developing interventional strategies against IBD. Overall, humanized mouse models replicate the human conditions and prove a viable tool to study molecular functions of human Tregs to harness their therapeutic potential.


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