Cytotoxic and interferon gamma-producing activities of gamma delta T cells in the mouse intestinal epithelium are strain dependent.
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 90 (17), 8204-8208
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.90.17.8204
Abstract
We have analyzed the cytolytic activity of freshly isolated intraepithelial T cells (i-IEL) from the intestines of several different mouse strains in an anti-T-cell receptor monoclonal antibody-mediated redirected lysis assay. The cytolytic activity of gamma delta i-IEL but not that of alpha beta i-IEL was strain dependent. Mouse strains could be divided into high (H), marginal (M), and null (N) strains. The anti-gamma delta T-cell receptor monoclonal antibody-induced interferon gamma production showed the same strain-dependent variability, but the proliferative responses to gamma delta T-cell receptor crosslinking did not show this variability. The N phenotype of gamma delta i-IEL was found to be dominant in (H x N)F1 mice. In radiation bone-marrow chimeras the H/N phenotype was determined by the genotype of the reconstituting bone-marrow-derived cells but was not determined by the genotype of the radioresistant host cells. Analysis of (H x N)F1 backcross animals indicated that at least two genes are involved in determination of the H/N phenotype. One of these genes is major-histocompatibility-complex linked. No difference in the use of the variable region segment of the gamma-chain or delta-chain was seen between the gamma delta i-IEL from H and N strains. Various models that might explain the strain-dependent gamma delta i-IEL phenotypes are discussed.Keywords
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