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Tryptophan deprivation sensitizes activated T cells to apoptosis prior to cell division.

Abstract：

:Cells expressing indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an enzyme which catabolizes tryptophan, prevent T-cell proliferation in vitro, suppress maternal antifetal immunity during pregnancy and inhibit T-cell-mediated responses to tumour-associated antigens. To examine the mechanistic basis of these phenomena we activated naïve murine T cells in chemically defined tryptophan-free media. Under these conditions T cells expressed CD25 and CD69 and progressed through the first 12 hr of G0/G1 phase but did not express CD71, cyclin D3, cdk4, begin DNA synthesis, or differentiate into cytotoxic effector cells. In addition, activated T cells with their growth arrested by tryptophan deprivation exhibited enhanced tendencies to die via apoptosis when exposed to anti-Fas antibodies. Apoptosis was inhibited by caspase inhibitor and was not observed when T cells originated from Fas-deficient mice. These findings suggest that T cells activated in the absence of free tryptophan entered the cell cycle but cell cycle progression ceased in mid-G1 phase and T cells became susceptible to death via apoptosis, in part though Fas-mediated signalling. Thus, mature antigen-presenting cells expressing IDO and Fas-ligand may induce antigen-specific T-cell tolerance by blocking T-cell cycle progression and by rapid induction of T-cell activation induced cell death in local tissue microenvironments.

journal_name

Immunology

journal_title

Immunology

authors

Lee GK,Park HJ,Macleod M,Chandler P,Munn DH,Mellor AL

doi

10.1046/j.1365-2567.2002.01526.x

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-12-01 00:00:00

pages

452-60

issue

4

eissn

0019-2805

issn

1365-2567

pii

1526

journal_volume

107

pub_type

杂志文章

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