Presentation of the Plasmodium falciparum antigen Pf155/RESA to human T cells. Variations in responsiveness induced by antigen presenting cells from different but MHC class II identical donors

The antibody response in humans naturally primed to a malaria vaccine candidate antigen (Pf155/RESA) is genetically regulated. Here, the impact of antigen presenting cells (APC) on the control of in vitro T-cell responses induced by Pf155/RESA or synthetic peptides corresponding to its major Pf155/R...

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Published in:	Immunology letters Vol. 43; no. 1-2; p. 59
Main Authors:	Troye-Blomberg, M, Lepers, J P, Sjöberg, K, Rahalimalala, L, Larsson, A, Olerup, O, Perlmann, P
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands 01-12-1994
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Amino Acid Sequence Animals Antibodies, Protozoan - biosynthesis Antigen Presentation - immunology Antigen-Presenting Cells - immunology Antigens, Protozoan - immunology Antigens, Surface - immunology Cells, Cultured Child Child, Preschool Female HLA-D Antigens - immunology Humans Lymphocyte Activation - immunology Male Molecular Sequence Data Plasmodium falciparum - immunology Protozoan Proteins - immunology T-Lymphocytes - immunology
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Summary:	The antibody response in humans naturally primed to a malaria vaccine candidate antigen (Pf155/RESA) is genetically regulated. Here, the impact of antigen presenting cells (APC) on the control of in vitro T-cell responses induced by Pf155/RESA or synthetic peptides corresponding to its major Pf155/RESA epitopes was studied. T cells and APC were from the peripheral blood of monozygotic or dizygotic twins and their age matched siblings, all living in the central highlands of Madagascar. When induced to proliferate (thymidine incorporation) in vitro by antigenic peptides, the T-cell responses varied less within the twin pairs than between them and their siblings or the entire group, implying that they were genetically regulated. Occasional MHC class II associations of some of the responses were weak and did not reflect underlying MHC class II restrictions. When T cells and APC from different but MHC class II identical donors were incubated in various combinations, antigen charged APC from homologous donors induced in vitro T-cell proliferation which differed from that induced by the T-cell donors' own APC. Pretreatment of the APC with either paraformaldehyde or anti-class II antibodies inhibited or abolished this antigen dependent T-cell proliferation. The results suggest that the observed differences in T-cell responses induced by APC from different donors reflect differences at the level of these cells. Whether they reflect differences in the proteases involved in antigen processing, in the costimulatory signals provided by the APC to the T cells or in the secretion of other regulatory factors remains to be elucidated.
ISSN:	0165-2478
DOI:	10.1016/0165-2478(94)00163-4