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From the * Department of Immunobiology, DNAX Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Palo Alto,
California 94304; the Division of Biology 156-29 and Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125; and the § Department of Microbiology
and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Abstract |
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Natural killer (NK) cells have been implicated in early immune responses against certain viruses, including cytomegalovirus (CMV). CMV causes downregulation of class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) expression in infected cells; however, it has been proposed that a class I MHC homolog encoded by CMV, UL18, may act as a surrogate ligand to prevent NK cell lysis of CMV-infected cells. In this study, we examined the role of UL18 in NK cell recognition and lysis using fibroblasts infected with either wild-type or UL18 knockout CMV virus, and by using cell lines transfected with the UL18 gene. In both systems, the expression of UL18 resulted in the enhanced killing of target cells. We also show that the enhanced killing is due to both UL18-dependent and -independent mechanisms, and that the killer cell inhibitory receptors (KIRs) and CD94/NKG2A inhibitory receptors for MHC class I do not play a role in affecting susceptibility of CMV-infected fibroblasts to NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity.
Key words: cytomegalovirus; class I major histocompatibility complex; UL18; natural killer cell; cytotoxicity ![]() |
Introduction |
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Human cytomegalovirus (hCMV)1 is an extremely widespread infectious agent. Healthy individuals acquiring hCMV postnatally are usually asymptomatic, although the virus persists in the host for life (1). Both T and NK cells play a critical role in controlling the initial infection and the disease that follows viral reactivation in immunocompromised individuals (2, 3). The importance of NK cells is highlighted by the fact that patients with an NK cell deficiency are extremely susceptible to hCMV infection and its associated diseases (4). In addition, NK cells also play an important role in the control of mouse CMV (5). Strain-dependent mouse CMV resistance or susceptibility has been mapped to the NK complex (NKC) region of murine chromosome 6 (6). The NKC region contains genes involved in modulating murine NK cell functions and codes for molecules that can trigger (NKR-P1) or inhibit (Ly49) NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity (7). Murine Ly49 molecules and their human functional counterparts, the KIRs (killer cell inhibitory receptors) and CD94/ NKG2A receptors, inhibit NK cell cytotoxicity after cognate interaction with class I MHC molecules (8). Since many viruses downregulate host cell class I MHC expression upon infection, the hypothesis that NK cell inhibitory receptors serve as a physiological means to monitor for viral infection is compelling.
Both human (9) and mouse CMV (10) encode glycoproteins with homology to class I MHC heavy chains, designated UL18 (human) and M144 (mouse), respectively. It has been suggested that these molecules serve as surrogates for class I MHC molecules to engage inhibitory NK cell class I MHC receptors. In support of this hypothesis, Farrel et al. (10) have shown that mouse CMV lacking the M144 gene is more virulent in vivo. Transfection studies using the human CMV UL18 gene have implicated this protein in the protection of B lymphoblastoid cells from lysis by NK cells expressing CD94/NKG2A receptor (11). In addition, Cosman and coworkers (12, 13) have recently demonstrated that UL18 is specifically recognized by LIR-1, a membrane of the Ig receptor superfamily, which is predominantly expressed on monocytes, B cells, and a minor subset of NK cells (12, 13). In this study we examined the roles of endogenous class I MHC and an hCMV encoded class I homolog (UL18) in modulating NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity during hCMV infection.
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Materials and Methods |
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Cell lines, NK Cell Lines, and Clones.
293EBV is a human kidney cell line expressing the EBNA-1 nuclear antigen (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). COS-7, Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-K1, 293EBV, and human foreskin fibroblast (HFF) cell lines were maintained in RPMI (MediaTech, Herndon, VA) supplemented with 10% FCS (GIBCO BRL, Bethesda, MD). NK cells were cloned and cultured as previously described (14, 15). HFF cell lines were prepared and cultured as previously described (16).Constructs.
The UL18 open reading frame was subcloned into the EBV episomal expression vectors pREP10 and pCEP4 (Invitrogen). The cDNA for CD32 and CD94 were cloned into pBJneo. The hCMV gB (UL55) cDNA in the pRcCMV vector (Invitrogen) was a gift from Dr. L. Pereira (University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA).Transient Transfection.
293EBV were plated at 60-80% confluence and transfected with pREP10 UL18 using Lipofectamine (GIBCO BRL). 48 h after transfection, cells were trypsinized and stained with anti-UL18 mAb (10C7), followed by PE-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG. Viable UL18 positive cells were sorted and cultured for 48 h before use in cytotoxicity assays. COS-7 and CHO-K1 were transfected with pCEP4 UL18 and sorted as above. Flow cytometry was performed as previously described (17).Antibodies.
10C7 (mouse IgG1) was generated by immunizing mice with soluble, partially deglycosylated UL18. The mAbs against KIRs were: DX9 (KIR3DL1); DX27 (KIR2DL2, KIR2DL3, and KIR2DS2); DX30 (KIR3DL1, KIR3DL2); DX31 (KIR3DL2); and HP-3E4 (KIR2DL1, KIR2DS1, and KIR2DS4). DX22 mAb is against CD94. Anti-class I mAbs (DX15, DX16, and DX17) have been previously described (18). Anti-CMV UL55 (gB) was purchased from the Goodwin Institute (Goodwin Institute, Plantation, FL). Anti-hCMV IE mAb was purchased from Chemicon (Temecula, CA). All other mAbs were provided by Becton Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems (San Jose, CA).Cytotoxicity Assays.
Cell-mediated cytotoxicity was assessed using 4-h 51Cr-release assays. In these assays, effector cells at various concentrations were incubated with 5 × 103 target cells in U-bottomed 96-well microtiter plates at 37°C. Percentage of lysis was determined as previously described (18). Spontaneous 51Cr release was <10% of total counts. Only cells with >80% viability were used for labeling. The spontaneous release of 293EBV UL18 cells and 293EBV controls were similar.Western Blot.
Infected HFFs were lysed in 0.5 ml of lysis buffer (Tris buffered saline, 50 mM Tris, 150 mM NaCl, pH 8.0, with 1% NP-40). Lysates were resolved by SDS-PAGE on 12% gels. Western blots were performed using 10C7 anti-UL18 or anti-hCMV IE mAbs, followed by horseradish peroxidase-conjugated second antibodies as previously described (19).hCMV Infection.
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Results and Discussion |
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Fibroblasts downregulate class I MHC expression upon hCMV infection (21). In Fig. 1 A, we show that class I MHC is downregulated 10-fold in hCMV-infected HFFs, but a significant level of class I MHC is still present on the cell surface. This downregulation was seen by 24 h and was maintained for the duration of the studies (5 d, data not shown). The `missing self' hypothesis stipulates that the loss of class I MHC expression confers susceptibility to NK cell killing (22). The expectation from this hypothesis is that infected cells would become more susceptible to NK cell-mediated lysis. To address this question, we performed NK cell cytotoxicity assays using hCMV-infected and mock-infected cells. In repeated experiments, NK cells efficiently lysed hCMV-infected HFFs, but not mock-infected cells (Fig. 1 B). This inability to efficiently kill mock-infected HFFs may be due to their high level of class I MHC expression. If NK cells were restrained from killing uninfected HFFs by a class I MHC-dependent mechanism, blocking the KIRs and/or CD94/NKG2A receptors on the effector cells or class I MHC on the fibroblasts should reverse the protection. Experiments performed with anti-class I or a cocktail of mAbs against CD94 and KIRs did not induce killing (Fig. 1 C). This inability to kill was evident using a variety of NK clones and lines (data not shown). The KIR and CD94/ NKG2A receptors expressed by these NK cells were functional against B lymphoblastoid target cells transfected with relevant class I MHC genes, with the target cell protection being reversed using anti-class I MHC or anti-CD94 + anti-KIR mAbs. Therefore, class I MHC expression alone by HFFs does not prevent NK cell-mediated killing. It can be argued that mock-infected HFFs lack positive signals needed to trigger NK cells, and that class I MHC may be functional in the context of infected cells, which have upregulated ligands for the `triggering' receptors. To address this, we repeated these experiments using hCMV-infected HFFs. Again, blocking class I MHC, KIRs, or CD94 neither augmented nor attenuated NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity (Fig. 1 D).
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hCMV encodes a glycoprotein with homology to class I MHC (9). This molecule is able to form a
complex with 2-microglobulin (
2M)(23) and contains a
peptide-binding groove (24). KIR recognition of class I
MHC requires the formation of a trimeric complex comprising class I MHC,
2M, and peptide (25, 26). It was
therefore hypothesized that UL18 would interact with NK
cell class I receptors to inhibit killing of CMV-infected
cells. We examined this by infecting HFFs with wild-type
AD169 CMV virus or
18 (a mutant virus with the UL18
gene deleted). The level of class I MHC downregulation
by the two viruses was comparable (Fig. 2 A). A 69-kD
UL18 protein was detectable by 24 h in AD169-infected
HFFs by Western blot analysis, but not in
18-infected
HFF lysates (Fig. 2 B). Although UL18 protein was readily
detected by Western blot analysis in HFF infected with
AD169 virus, analysis by flow cytometry suggested that
very little UL18 was expressed on the cell surface (data not
shown). The amounts of hCMV IE protein (Fig. 2 B) and
class I MHC (data not shown) in lysates prepared from
18-infected HFFs were comparable to those detected in
HFF infected with AD169 wild-type CMV. Furthermore,
the titer of AD169 and
18 viruses were comparable, as assessed by plaque formation assays (data not shown) and the HFFs were homogeneously infected as assessed by the uniform downregulation of class I in all the cells (Fig. 2 A).
Many NK cell lines and clones killed AD169-infected cells
somewhat better than they did
18-infected cells (Fig. 2
C). However, HFFs infected with AD169 or
18 showed
enhanced killing when compared with mock infected cells
(Fig. 2 C). Therefore, UL18 confers a slight enhancement of susceptibility to NK cell killing, although UL18-independent mechanism(s) also exists.
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To examine directly the ability of UL18 to confer increased susceptibility to NK cell killing in the absence of viral infection, we transfected 293EBV cells with a UL18 expression vector. Fig. 2 D shows the expression of UL18 on the surface of transfectants using a UL18-specific mAb. In a series of experiments, 293EBV UL18 cells consistently showed enhanced lysis compared with 293EBV (Fig. 2 E). In addition, UL18-dependent enhancement of NK cell killing could also be demonstrated in transfected COS-7 and CHO-K1 cells (data not shown) using several NK clones and lines. These clones included those expressing functional KIRs and CD94 (Table 1). Inhibition of NK cell killing by UL18-expressing target cells was never observed in any of these experiments. The enhanced lysis of 293EBV cells transfected with UL18 was not affected by mAbs against CD94 or KIR (data not shown), although it should be noted that not all KIR isoforms are recognized by the available mAbs. The enhanced killing of 293EBV UL18 transfectants versus 293EBV was not due to changes in the level of class I MHC or adhesion molecules (data not shown). As controls, cells were transfected with expression constructs encoding CD32, CD94, an hCMV surface glycoprotein (gB), or vector only; none of these transfectants showed enhanced susceptibility to NK cell lysis (data not shown).
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Hence, the hypothesis that UL18 replaces class I MHC
molecules to prevent NK cell lysis does not seem to apply
to hCMV-infected HFFs and transfected epithelial and
ovary cells (293, COS-7, and CHO-K1). It was recently
reported that UL18 inhibits NK cell lysis of 721.221 B
lymphoblastoid targets, mediated through CD94 (11). In
repeated studies, we never observed inhibition of NK cell
killing against UL18 expressing targets using clones with
functional CD94 or KIR. In view of this discrepancy, several aspects of the previous report should be highlighted.
First, in the prior study UL18 was transfected into 721.221 targets; however, transfectants were isolated on the basis of
surface 2M expression, not UL18. Second, we have failed
to generate stable UL18 transfectants in 721.221 or in 15 other human or mouse lines, because it seems that prolonged expression (>2 wk) of UL18 results in cell death.
We could only generate UL18 transfectants in high efficiency transient transfection systems such as 293, COS-7,
and CHO-K1. Notably, 721.221 cells express low levels of
HLA-E (27) and -F (28). Since Reyburn et al. (11) sorted
UL18-transfected 721.221 on the basis of
2M surface expression, rather than UL18, cells expressing HLA-E or -F
may have been inadvertently enriched and could be responsible for the protection against NK cell lysis. In fact, a
recent study demonstrated that the endogenous HLA-E expressed by 721.221 cells can protect these target cells from
lysis by NK cells expressing the inhibitory CD94/NKG2A
receptor (29). Although HLA-E molecules bind peptides
derived from the leader segments of certain other MHC
class I proteins (27), the leader of UL18 does not conform to the preferred peptide bound by HLA-E. Therefore, it is
possible that Reyburn et al. (11) simply selected for a variant of 721.221 that expressed higher levels of the endogenous HLA-E protein.
Recent studies by Cosman and coworkers (12, 13) have
shown that the human CMV UL18 protein interacts with a
membrane receptor designated ILT2 (30) or LIR-1 (12,
13), which is expressed predominantly on monocytes, B
cells, and a subset of NK cells. Binding of a UL18-Ig Fc fusion protein to NK cells and monocytes was completely
blocked using an anti-ILT2/LIR-1 mAb, suggesting that
ILT2/LIR-1 is the predominant, if not exclusive, receptor for UL18 expressed on leukocytes (12). It is possible that
ILT2/LIR-1 on NK cells might interact with UL18 on
CMV-infected cells, preventing NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity. However, it should be appreciated that ILT2/
LIR-1 is expressed on only a minor subset of NK cells (12,
31); therefore, the physiological significance of ILT2/LIR-1 on NK cells during a CMV infection is uncertain. Although prior studies of UL18 and its mouse homolog
M144 have focused on a potential role for these proteins in
NK cell-mediated immunity (10, 11), an alternative possibility is that these molecules may be more important in affecting monocyte and dendritic cell function during CMV
infection. For example, interactions between UL18 and
ILT2/LIR-1 on monocytes or dendritic cells during a
CMV infection may suppress IL-12 production, which
would in turn limit IFN- secretion by NK cells and thus
alter the early host immune response. This scenario could
potentially explain the increased virulence of mouse CMV virus lacking M144 (10). This is of particular interest given the recent finding that dendritic cells may serve as the reservoir for latent CMV infection (32).
Since enhanced killing was observed in
HFF infected with both AD169 and 18, other molecules
in addition to UL18 were also playing a role. To examine
what molecules were upregulated after infection, we
stained mock-infected and hCMV-infected HFFs with a
panel of mAb against cell surface adhesion/costimulatory
molecules. The only molecule examined that was consistently upregulated in the infected cells was intracellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1; CD54) (Fig. 3 A). Blocking
of ICAM-1 interaction with its ligand using anti-LFA-1
(CD18) was able to prevent the killing of infected HFF
(Fig. 3 B). These data suggest that ICAM-1 is a crucial
component in NK cell-mediated killing of hCMV-infected
cells, but does not exclude the existence of other molecules
capable of triggering NK cell cytotoxicity.
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Based on our observations, the hypothesis that KIRs and CD94/NKG2A class I MHC inhibitory receptors are a physiological surveillance mechanism for viral infection may not be universally applicable. Similarly, we have previously shown that in certain target cells (e.g., Jurkat and K562), the expression of an appropriate class I MHC allele recognized by KIR3DL1 (i.e., HLA-B*5801) was insufficient to prevent killing of these transfected target cells (14).
hCMV has evolved many strategies that allow its highly successful dissemination throughout the population. Although infected individuals are generally clinically asymptomatic (1), further viral transmission still occurs. In cases where the infection is not effectively controlled, death often results, thereby limiting the opportunity for further viral dissemination. Therefore, the UL18-dependent and independent mechanisms may serve to limit the severity of CMV-induced disease by rendering infected cells more susceptible to immune destruction.
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Footnotes |
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Address correspondence to Clement Leong, DNAX Research Institute, 901 California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304. Phone: 650-496-1241; Fax: 650-496-1200; E-mail: leong{at}dnax.org
Received for publication 3 December 1997 and in revised form 26 February 1998.
DNAX Research Institute is supported by the Schering Plough Corporation. T.L Chapman is supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.We thank the members of the DNAX FACS facility for flow cytometry, and Dr. Lenore Pereira, Debra Liggett, Sasha Lazetic, and Brian Corliss for advice and reagents.
Abbreviations used in this paper
2M,
2-microglobulin;
CHO, Chinese
hamster ovary;
cIg, control Ig;
hCMV, human cytomegalovirus;
HFF, human foreskin fibroblasts;
ICAM-1, intracellular adhesion molecule 1;
KIR, killer cell inhibitory receptor;
MOI, multiplicity of infection.
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