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- Title
CD25 Shedding by Human Natural Occurring CD4<sup>+</sup>CD25<sup>+</sup> Regulatory T Cells does not Inhibit the Action of IL-2.
- Authors
Pedersen, A. E.; Lauritsen, J. P.
- Abstract
Regulatory T (Treg) cells are important for the maintenance of peripheral tolerance and inhibition of pathogenic T-cell responses. Therefore, they are important for the limitation of chronic inflammation but can also be deleterious by e.g. limiting antitumour immune responses. Natural occurring Tregs are known to inhibit CD4+ T cell in a contact-dependent manner, but at the same time, various suppressive factors are secreted. We, here, demonstrate that human naturally occurring CD4+CD25+ Tregs are able to shed large amounts of soluble CD25 upon activation. Secretion of sCD25 could add to the inhibitory effect of Tregs as such secretion in other settings has been proposed to act as a sink for local IL-2. However, we here demonstrate that supernatant from human Tregs containing high concentration of sCD25 does not inhibit proliferation of CD4+CD25− T cells or inhibit the action of IL-2 in an in vitro bioassay.
- Subjects
T cells; IMMUNE response; CD4 antigen; BIOLOGICAL assay; INFLAMMATION; GENETICS
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Immunology, 2009, Vol 70, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
0300-9475
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-3083.2009.02268.x