Experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection alters the shaping of the central and peripheral T-cell repertoire.

Abstract:

:We investigated the thymic and peripheral T-lymphocyte subsets in BALB/c mice undergoing acute or chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection, in terms of expression of particular Vbeta rearrangements of the T-cell receptor. We first confirmed the severe depletion of CD4(+)CD8(+) thymocytes following acute T. cruzi infection. By contrast, the numbers of CD4(+)CD8(+) cells in subcutaneous lymph nodes increased up to 16 times. In subcutaneous lymph nodes, we found CD4(+)CD8(+) cells that expressed prohibited segments TCRVbeta5 and TCRVbeta12 (which are physiologically deleted in the thymus of BALB/c mice), as did some mature single-positive cells (CD4(+)CD8(-) and CD4(-)CD8(+)). In the thymus of infected animals, although higher numbers of immature cells bearing such Vbeta segments were seen, they were no longer detected in the mature single-positive stage, suggesting that negative selection occurs normally. We also found increased numbers of cells bearing the potentially autoreactive phenotype TCRVbeta5(+) and TCRVbeta12(+) in T-lymphocyte subsets from subcutaneous lymph nodes of T. cruzi chronically infected mice. In conclusion, our data indicate that immature T lymphocytes bearing prohibited TCRVbeta segments leave the thymus and gain the lymph nodes, where they further differentiate into mature CD4(+) or CD8(+) cells. Conjointly, these findings show changes in the shaping of the central and peripheral T-cell repertoire in both acute and chronic phases of murine T. cruzi infection. The release of potentially autoreactive T cells in the periphery of the immune system may contribute to the autoimmune process found in both murine and human Chagas' disease.

journal_name

Microbes Infect

journal_title

Microbes and infection

authors

Mendes-da-Cruz DA,de Meis J,Cotta-de-Almeida V,Savino W

doi

10.1016/s1286-4579(03)00156-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-08-01 00:00:00

pages

825-32

issue

10

eissn

1286-4579

issn

1769-714X

pii

S1286457903001564

journal_volume

5

pub_type

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