Piaopiao Pan , Miguel A. Pineda , Yilin Wang , Aneesah Khan , Mukanthu H. Nyirenda
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Abstract
CD20+ T cells comprise a highly inflammatory subset implicated in autoimmunity, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We sought to characterize the CD20+ T cell subset in the murine collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) model of RA and investigate the phenotype and functional relevance of CD3+CD20+ T cells in the lymph nodes and arthritic joints using flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry. We demonstrate that CD3+CD4+CD20+ and CD3+CD8+CD20+ T cells are expanded in the draining lymph nodes of CIA mice, produce increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines and are less susceptible to regulation by regulatory T cells. Notably, CD3+CD4+CD20+ and CD3+CD8+CD20+ T cells are enriched with CXCR5+PD-1+ T follicular helper cells and CXCR5-PD-1+ peripheral T helper cells, subsets of T cells implicated in promoting B-cell responses and antibody production within pathologically inflamed non-lymphoid tissues in RA. Our findings suggest CD20+ T cells are associated with inflammatory responses and may exacerbate pathology by promoting inflammatory B-cell responses.
期刊介绍:
Cellular Immunology publishes original investigations concerned with the immunological activities of cells in experimental or clinical situations. The scope of the journal encompasses the broad area of in vitro and in vivo studies of cellular immune responses. Purely clinical descriptive studies are not considered.
Research Areas include:
• Antigen receptor sites
• Autoimmunity
• Delayed-type hypersensitivity or cellular immunity
• Immunologic deficiency states and their reconstitution
• Immunologic surveillance and tumor immunity
• Immunomodulation
• Immunotherapy
• Lymphokines and cytokines
• Nonantibody immunity
• Parasite immunology
• Resistance to intracellular microbial and viral infection
• Thymus and lymphocyte immunobiology
• Transplantation immunology
• Tumor immunity.