The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 8 2617-2628, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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An accessory cell-derived costimulatory signal acts independently of protein kinase C activation to allow T cell proliferation and prevent the induction of unresponsiveness

DL Mueller, MK Jenkins and RH Schwartz
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Presentation of Ag to type I CD4+ T cell clones by chemically fixed APC results in the induction of a long-lasting state of proliferative unresponsiveness in the T cell. Ag-specific TCR interactions do occur during this stimulation, as Ag- and Ia molecule-dependent increases in intracellular calcium free ion concentration can be demonstrated, yet free inositol phosphate generation is low and neither IL-2 synthesis nor proliferation occur. The addition of normal allogeneic accessory cells during this stimulation can restore the T cell proliferative response, as well as prevent the induction of unresponsiveness, thus defining an accessory cell-dependent costimulatory activity necessary for proliferation. We have now examined the biochemical effects of this costimulatory activity on early T cell activation. Normal accessory cell costimulatory activity was found to be incapable of augmenting the generation of free inositol phosphate in response to either fixed APC plus Ag or Con A alone. Furthermore, protein kinase C-dependent CD3 gamma-chain phosphorylation occurred in response to either fixed APC plus Ag or Con A alone, and the addition of normal accessory cells had no effect on the level of this phosphorylation. Finally, minimal CD3 zeta-chain tyrosine phosphorylation occurred during the induction of unresponsiveness with Ag and fixed APC alone and this also was not affected by the costimulatory activity. Our results demonstrate that T cell Ag receptor-mediated increases in intracellular calcium free ion concentration and protein kinase C activation occur independently of an accessory cell-derived costimulatory signal. In the absence of this costimulatory signal, these two intracellular second messengers are insufficient to induce a maximal proliferative response and in fact lead to a state of unresponsiveness.

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