By
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From the * Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Medical and
Research Center, Denver, Colorado 80206; Department of Biochemistry Biophysics and Genetics
and § Departments of Immunology and Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,
Denver, Colorado 80206; and the §St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
Although much is known about the activation, proliferation, and function of CD4+ T cells, little is known about how they survive as resting T cells in animals. Resting T cells have a half-life in animals of more than a week; however, when they are removed from animals and placed in tissue culture their half-life falls to ~24 h. In this paper, we show that the survival of resting T cells in vitro is promoted by two cytokines, interleukins 4 and 7 (IL-4, IL-7). They may do this in part by maintaining levels of survival-promoting proteins such as Bcl-2 in the cells, because the levels of Bcl-2 and Bcl-Xl in resting T cells fall rapidly after the cells are isolated from animals, and are maintained by culture in IL-4. Because the IL-4 receptor is known to signal through the JAK1 and JAK3/Stat6 pathway, we tested whether Stat6 was required for IL-4- dependent T cell survival. Surprisingly, we found that IL-4 rescued T cells from apoptosis in what appeared to be a Stat6-independent manner. These results demonstrate that the survival of resting T cells is an active process that can be affected by signals delivered by cytokines and also suggest that the IL-4 receptor on resting T cells may use a novel signaling pathway to facilitate T cell viability.
Many investigators have studied the life expectancy of
B and T cells (1). Some aspects of this subject are
very controversial; for example, argument continues to
rage over the matter of whether immunological memory
depends upon lymphocyte proliferation in response to antigen stored in the animal versus a very long half-life for
memory cells (5). Even for virgin cells, the question of half-life is not settled. Early studies suggested that a population of T cells in unprimed mice might have a half-life of only
~2 wk (6); however, later studies have suggested that some
virgin T cells may have life expectancies that are longer
than this (3). In general, most students of this subject
would agree that virgin, nondividing T cells have half-lives
in vivo that are at least several weeks in length.
Although a good deal is known about what keeps activated T cells alive, surprisingly little is known about what is
needed to maintain resting T cells in animals. Of course, it
is possible that these cells receive no external signals, and
that their half-lives in vivo are simply a reflection of their
own internal clocks. Two results suggest that this simple
hypothesis may not be correct. First, the half-life of peripheral T cells in animals is shortened if the cells do not express
the To test the idea that the animal provides factors which
keep virgin T cells alive and which are absent in tissue culture, we studied the effects of various cytokines on the life
expectancy in vitro of T cells expressing a transgenic TCR.
We reasoned that most of the T cells in these animals
would not have been previously exposed to antigen and
therefore would be virgin, resting cells. Experiments showed
that these cells died readily in vitro but that their death
could be prevented by addition of IL-4 or IL-7. Levels of
the survival-related proteins, Bcl-2 and Bcl-Xl (11), dropped rapidly in T cells after they were isolated from animals and placed in tissue culture. Culture with IL-4 prevented this drop, suggesting that the effects of IL-4 on T
cell survival might be due to its ability to maintain Bcl-2
levels in T cells. IL-4 prevented T cell death even if the
cells came from a Stat6-deficient animal, although slightly
higher amounts of IL-4 were required to achieve the rescue. Stat6 is a signaling protein often associated with IL-4
driven effects. Thus, IL-4 and IL-7, which share the Mice.
The AD10 TCR reacts with a peptide from pigeon cytochrome c bound to I-Ek (16). Mice transgenic for this TCR
were the gift of Dr. S. Hedrick. They were bred in the Animal
Care Facility at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, CO). Normal C57BL/10 animals were purchased
from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME). Stat6 Preparation and Culture of T Cells.
T cells were isolated by nylon wool purification as previously reported (19), and resuspended at 5 × 106 cells/ml in DMEM supplemented with 10% of
a batch of fetal bovine serum previously tested for its ability to
maintain hybridoma cells at excellent viability. The medium also
contained essential and nonessential amino acids (GIBCO BRL,
Gaithersburg, MD), 5 × 10 Analysis of Cell Death.
At the time that the T cells were isolated and 24 and 48 h thereafter, samples of the cells were stained
to measure their DNA content as previously described (21). In
brief, the 96-well plates were spun, and supernatant removed
from the wells by gentle dumping. A DNA staining mixture,
comprised of 5 µg/ml propidium iodide (PI)1, 0.3% saponin
(both from Sigma Chem. Co., St. Louis, MO), 5 mM EDTA and
50 µg/ml RNAse (Boehringer Mannheim, Indianapolis, IN) was
then added as 180 µl to each well. The plates were left at room
temperature for 30 min and then kept on ice. These last two procedures were carried out in the dark. The intensity of PI staining, a measure of DNA content, was assayed using a Becton Dickinson FACScan® instrument (Beckton Dickinson, Immunocytometry Systems, San Jose, CA).
Immunoprecipitation and Western Blots.
Lymph node T cells were
isolated and cultured at 5 × 106 cells/ml as described above. At 0, 4, 24, and/or 48 h T cells were lysed in 0.5% NP-40, 20 mM
Hepes, pH 7.2, 100 mM NaCl, 2 mM DTT, 1 mM EDTA, 1.0 mM PMSF, 1 µg/ml aprotinin (all reagents purchased from
Sigma). The nuclei were pelleted for 10 min at 14,000 rpm in the
cold in a microfuge. Supernatants were removed and 2 × 106 cell
equivalents were fractionated by SDS-PAGE, using 10% acrylamide, and blotted onto Immobilon PVDF membranes (Millipore, Bedford, MA) using a Trans-Blot apparatus (BioRad, Freemont, CA) for 30 min at 15 V. Blots were blocked with 5%
powdered milk in Tris-buffered saline pH 7.5, Bcl-2 and Bcl-Xl
were detected with rabbit polyclonal antibodies purchased from
Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA). A goat anti-rabbit
Ig peroxidase-conjugated antibody (Boehringer Mannheim) was
used as the secondary reagent. Bands were detected using Amersham ECL reagents (Arlington Heights, IL).
chain (
c; reference 7), which is common to the receptors for a number of cytokines including IL-2, IL-4, IL-7,
IL-9, and IL-15 (8). Second, the life expectancy of isolated virgin T cells is much shorter in tissue culture than it
is in animals. In vitro, isolated T cells have a half-life of
only 1-2 d, rather than the half-life of 2 wk or more found in vivo. Although this latter result could be due to inadequate tissue culture conditions, it is also possible that isolated T cells in vitro are deprived of some factor(s) that is
available to them in vivo and that is essential for their existence.
c in
their receptors (9), may affect T cell survival via some common signaling pathway that does not involve Stat6.
/
mice
(17, 18) were bred at the Animals Care Facility, St. Jude Children's Hospital (Memphis, TN). All mice were maintained under
specific pathogen-free conditions.
5 M 2-mercaptoethanol, sodium
pyruvate, glutamine, and antibiotics (20). Cultures were set up in
96-well tissue culture plates at 100 µl/well. Cytokines were
added at the beginning of the culture period at the indicated concentrations. IL-4 was obtained from Genzyme (Cambridge, MA).
The other cytokines were purchased from R&D Systems, (Minneapolis, MN).
T cells bearing the transgenic TCR, AD10, were purified from the lymph node cells of young mice and set up in culture. Most of these cells were resting cells that had not been exposed to antigen, as judged by their small size, low frequency (<10%) of CD69 expression, and maintenance of a TCR, AD10, not expected to engage environmental antigens. At 0 time and 24 or 48 h later, viability of the cells was assessed by measuring the amount of DNA they contained, using PI (21). Cells that have died by apoptosis, the primary mechanism of death in these cultures, degrade their DNA into small fragments, consequently the nuclei of such cells contain less than 2 N DNA.
Sample data from such an experiment are shown in Fig. 1.
Before culture less than 5% of the cells were dead. However, 24 and 48 h later 50 and 77%, of the cells had died respectively.
Using this assay, we measured the effects of various cytokines on the appearance of dead cells in vitro. To do this,
T cells were cultured for 24 or 48 h in the presence or absence of the cytokines, used at concentrations above those
known to be active in vitro as judged by publications on
the subject and the manufacturer's recommendations. Many
cytokines had no effect on the death of resting T cells in
culture. Such cytokines included IL-1, IL-3, IL-5, huIL-8,
IL-9, IL-10, IL-12, IFN-
, TNF-
, TNF-
, RANTES, MIP-1
, MIP-1
, MIP-2, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor
(PEGF), and TGF-
. As we have previously reported, IL-6
proved to be an excellent survival factor (22; data not
shown). However, we were surprised to find that two
other cytokines, IL-4 and IL-7, also rescued resting T cells
from death in culture very effectively. For example, as
shown in Fig. 1 a, addition of IL-4 or IL-7 reduced the
percent of dead cells after 24-h culture from 50% to 15 or
20%, respectively.
Titrations were performed to compare the relative efficacy of the two cytokines (Fig. 2). On a nanograms per
milliliter basis, IL-4 was somewhat more effective than IL-7,
with a half-maximal effect at about 2 ng/ml (~1010 M)
versus 50 ng/ml (~3 × 10
9 M) for IL-7. The effective
concentration of IL-4 matched well with the dissociation
constant of its high affinity receptor, 10
10 M (23). However, the dissociation constant of the high affinity IL-7 receptor is reported to be only slightly greater, at 2 × 10
10 M
(24). Collectively, these data suggest that IL-4 may be acting via its high affinity receptor, whereas IL-7 may act via
some combination of high and low affinity receptors (the
latter have Kds of 10
8 M).
Two other cytokines, IL-2 and IL-15, also had, at very high concentrations, some effect on the viability of the cultured cells (Fig. 2). Their effects were small but reproducible in several assays. We believe that these small effects may have been due to engagement of these cytokines by low affinity forms of their receptors. Resting T cells are thought not to bear high affinity receptors for IL-2 and perhaps also IL-15.
IL-4 and IL-7 did not inhibit death by inducing cell cycle progression, because at 24 and 48 h T cells cultured with these cytokines were still in G0/G1 and did not contain more than 2-N amounts of DNA (see Fig. 1; data not shown). Thus, these two cytokines acted as true survival factors in this assay.
Culture with IL-4 Maintains Bcl-2 Levels in Resting T Cells.In many cases, lymphocyte survival is affected by
proteins in the Bcl-2 family (11). Therefore, we tested
whether culture in IL-4 had any effect on the levels of Bcl-2
and/or Bcl-Xl in the T cells. Purified resting T cells were
cultured with or without IL-4 for 4, 24, and 48 h. At each
timepoint, cells were lysed and lysates were electrophoresed in SDS polyacrylamide gels. The proteins were transferred onto immobilon and probed with antibodies directed to Bcl-2 or Bcl-Xl. At time 0 h, the T cell lysates
contained moderate levels of Bcl-2, which began to disappear at 4 h and were even lower at 24 and 48 h (Fig. 3 a).
Bcl-Xl disappeared with similar kinetics, although it was
less easily detectable in the starting population (Fig. 3 b). By
contrast, lysates of cells cultured with IL-4 continued to
express Bcl-2 and the small amounts of Bcl-Xl at 4, 24, and
even 48 h. In fact, levels of Bcl-2 appeared higher in cells
cultured for 24 or 48 h in IL-4 than they were in cells before culture. These data support the idea that IL-4 acts by
regulating the levels of Bcl-2-related proteins in T cells.
It is well known that IL-4 transduces signals through a
JAK/Stat pathway (17, 19, 25). The IL-4 receptor (IL-4R)
is made up of the IL-2R common chain and a ligand-specific
chain (9, 23). The common
chain associates with
JAK3 and the
chain with JAK1 (25, 26). Upon ligation,
Stat6 associates with the IL-4R complex and is tyrosine
phosphorylated by JAK1 (27). Activated Stat6 forms
homodimers and translocates to the nucleus (27). Because
Stat6 is activated by IL-4R ligation, we hypothesized that
Stat6 may be responsible for transducing the T cell survival
signal delivered by IL-4.
To test this, we compared the effects of IL-4 on the survival of resting T cells from Stat6-deficient (Stat6/
) and
normal mice (17, 18). The results are shown in Fig. 4 a. In
the absence of added cytokines, T cells from Stat6
/
mice,
like those from normal animals, died in culture. Increasing doses of IL-4 prevented the death of T cells from both
types of animals. The sensitivity of the two types of cells to
IL-4 was slightly different, with the Stat6
/
cells requiring
between two- and fivefold more IL-4 than normal T cells
for half-maximal rescue.
As a control we compared the sensitivity to IL-4 of B
cells from the two types of animals. B cell responses to IL-4
were measured by the ability of the cytokine to increase
MHC class II levels on the surfaces of the cells during 24 h
of culture. As shown in Fig. 4 b, high concentrations of IL-4
did induce increased amounts of class II on Stat6/
B cells.
Even so, at optimum IL-4 concentrations less class II appeared on the knockout cells. Also, half-maximal induction
of class II B cells from Stat6
/
mice required ~20 times
more IL-4 than normal B cells did. It has previously been
reported that IL-4 could not induce class II expression on
Stat6
/
B cells (17, 18). However, the previous experiments were done with low concentrations of IL-4, concentrations near the threshold required to observe the induction shown in Fig. 4 b.
These results suggested that the ability of IL-4 to rescue
resting T cells from death did not require the presence in T
cells of the transcription factor Stat6, which is usually associated with IL-4 signal transduction (27). However, the
presence of Stat6 caused the rescuing signal to be delivered
slightly more efficiently, suggesting that the Stat6 pathway
might act to amplify the rescuing signal. This conclusion
was supported by the effects on Stat6/
B cells of IL-4. As
in T cells, response to IL-4 occurred in Stat6
/
B cells, although the response was considerably amplified in the
presence of Stat6. Alternatively, it was possible that rescue required Stat6 and that the Stat6
/
cells contained some
very small residual Stat6 activity due to expression of a
modified Stat6 protein from the knocked out Stat6 gene
(18). If this latter explanation was correct, resting T cell responses to IL-4 were driven by lower amounts of signal than B cell responses were.
However, cells from genetically deficient animals are not always equivalent to those from normal mice. Sometimes they use intracellular signaling pathways that are not employed by normal cells. Therefore, we did a second experiment to find out whether or not Stat6 signaling was a component of IL-4 rescue of normal resting T cells from death. Nuclear lysates were prepared from resting T cells from normal mice, after various times of culture with or without IL-4. The lysates were immunoprecipitated with anti-phosphotyrosine polyclonal sera, the precipitate was electrophoresed, blotted onto immobilon, and probed with anti-Stat6. As shown in Fig. 3 c, phosphorylated Stat6 was present in resting T cells at the time they were harvested from the animals. This material rapidly disappeared from resting T cells cultured without cytokines and was not apparent after as little as 4 h in culture. Phosphorylated Stat6 increased somewhat in amount during the first 4 h of culture of resting T cells with IL-4 but then decreased to levels that were not detectable in T cells after 24 h in culture, whether or not IL-4 was present.
These data indicated that an early event in the signaling pathway whereby IL-4 rescued resting T cells from death might involve Stat6. However, activated Stat6 did not have to be in the cells permanently for rescue to occur. IL-4 prevented the death of normal cultured T cells 24 and 48 h after the beginning of the culture, at a time when levels of phosphorylated Stat6 were undetectable.
Collectively, these data suggest that Stat6 is not an essential component of the intracellular signaling pathway whereby IL-4 prevents the death of normal resting T cells after 24 and 48 h.
Do either of the cytokines studied in these experiments actually affect the life expectancy of mature resting T cells in vivo? In an uninfected animal it is unlikely that IL-4 levels are high enough to manage this. Resting B cells also bear high affinity IL-4R, yet in animals they do not have elevated class II MHC protein levels that would be expected of B cells exposed to inducing concentrations of IL-4 (32). However, during infections, IL-4 levels in lymphoid tissues are certainly high enough to bind to high affinity IL-4R and hence increase the half-lives of bystander resting T cells. Under these circumstances, IL-4 may affect the life expectancy of bystander resting T cells.
On the other hand, experiments suggest that IL-7 may be at effective concentrations in lymphoid tissues, even in uninfected animals, and IL-7 has already been reported to affect T cell turnover time (7, 33). Future experiments will determine whether IL-7 does affect T cell life expectancy in vivo.
Finally, it is worth noting that cytokines are known to increase the half-lives af activated T cells as well and that the cytokines that do this (IL-2, IL-4, IL-7; references 34, 35) are either the same as or related to the two cytokines identified here. Perhaps this is not a coincidence.
Address correspondence to Philippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackon St., Denver, Colorado 80206. Phone: 303-398-1322; FAX: 303-398-1396; E-mail: p.marrack{at}ispop.njc.org
Received for publication 2 April 1997 and in revised form 7 May 1997.
1 Abbreviation used in this paper: PI, propidium iodide.The authors thank Drs. B. Wheat and J. Hagman for their advice and assistance in preparation of the nuclear lysates and E. Kushnir and P. Mount very much for their help with animal breeding.
This work was supported by US Public Health Service grants AI-17134, AI-18785, and AI-22295.
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