ニシオ　ジュンコ   Nishio Junko   西尾　純子    所属   東邦大学  医学部 医学科    職種   教授（寄付講座）
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Anti-CD3 therapy permits regulatory T cells to surmount T cell receptor-specified peripheral niche constraints.
掲載誌名	正式名：The Journal of experimental medicine
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	207(9),pp.1879-89
著者・共著者	Junko Nishio,Markus Feuerer,Jamie Wong,Diane Mathis,Christophe Benoist
担当区分	筆頭著者
発行年月	2010/08/30
概要	Treatment with anti-CD3 is a promising therapeutic approach for autoimmune diabetes, but its mechanism of action remains unclear. Foxp3(+) regulatory T (T reg) cells may be involved, but the evidence has been conflicting. We investigated this issue in mice derived from the NOD model, which were engineered so that T reg populations were perturbed, or could be manipulated by acute ablation or transfer. The data highlighted the involvement of Foxp3(+) cells in anti-CD3 action. Rather than a generic influence on all T reg cells, the therapeutic effect seemed to involve an approximately 50-60-fold expansion of previously constrained T reg cell populations; this expansion occurred not through conversion from Foxp3(-) conventional T (T conv) cells, but from a proliferative expansion. We found that T reg cells are normally constrained by TCR-specific niches in secondary lymphoid organs, and that intraclonal competition restrains their possibility for conversion and expansion in the spleen and lymph nodes, much as niche competition limits their selection in the thymus. The strong perturbations induced by anti-CD3 overcame these niche limitations, in a process dependent on receptors for interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IL-7.
DOI	10.1084/jem.20100205
PMID	20679403