A novel pathway of human T lymphocyte activation. Identification by a monoclonal antibody generated against a rheumatoid synovial T cell line

Substantial evidence indicates that compartmentalized infiltrates of T lymphocytes are central to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, but the mechanisms by which such cells become activated remain unknown. To define surface components of activation pathways importan...

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Published in:The Journal of immunology (1950) Vol. 140; no. 11; pp. 3758 - 3765
Main Authors: Higgs, JB, Zeldes, W, Kozarsky, K, Schteingart, M, Kan, L, Bohlke, P, Krieger, K, Davis, W, Fox, DA
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Bethesda, MD Am Assoc Immnol 01-06-1988
American Association of Immunologists
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Summary:Substantial evidence indicates that compartmentalized infiltrates of T lymphocytes are central to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, but the mechanisms by which such cells become activated remain unknown. To define surface components of activation pathways important in the function of these cells, we have generated mAb against a rheumatoid synovial T cell line. One such antibody, termed anti-UM4D4, reacts with an Ag, termed UM4D4, which is strongly expressed on most rheumatoid synovial T cell lines and clones, and on a subset of peripheral blood T cells, resting or activated. Anti-UM4D4 is mitogenic in soluble form for PBMC and certain T cell clones, and is comitogenic with the phorbol ester PMA for purified resting T lymphocytes. These functional effects are similar to those previously observed with antibodies to epitopes of CD2 and CD3, surface Ag involved in two well defined pathways of human T cell activation. Binding of anti-UM4D4 to T cells is not, however, blocked by antibodies directed at various epitopes of CD2 and CD3. Moreover, UM4D4 does not comodulate with CD3, and is expressed on a T cell line that lacks CD2, CD3, and CD28. The data, therefore, indicate that anti-UM4D4 identifies a T cell activation pathway, distinct from those previously described, that could play a role in the pathogenesis of T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases.
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ISSN:0022-1767
1550-6606
DOI:10.4049/jimmunol.140.11.3758