| First Author | Pauken KE | Year | 2013 |
| Journal | Diabetes | Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 8 | Pages | 2859-69 |
| PubMed ID | 23545706 | Mgi Jnum | J:208973 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:5565448 | Doi | 10.2337/db12-1475 |
| Citation | Pauken KE, et al. (2013) PD-1, but not PD-L1, expressed by islet-reactive CD4+ T cells suppresses infiltration of the pancreas during type 1 diabetes. Diabetes 62(8):2859-69 |
| abstractText | The inhibitory receptor programmed death-1 (PD-1) constrains type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse. However, how PD-1 influences diabetogenic CD4(+) T cells during natural diabetes is not fully understood. To address this question, we developed a novel model to investigate antigen-specific CD4(+) T cells under physiological conditions in vivo. We transferred a low number of naive CD4(+) T cells from the BDC2.5 mouse into prediabetic NOD mice to mimic a physiological precursor frequency and allowed the cells to become primed by endogenous autoantigen. Transferred BDC2.5 T cells became activated, differentiated into T-bet(+) IFN-gamma-producing cells, and infiltrated the pancreas. In this model, loss of PD-1, but not programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1), on the antigen-specific CD4(+) T cell resulted in increased cell numbers in the spleen, pancreas-draining lymph node, and pancreas. PD-1 deficiency also increased expression of the chemokine receptor CXCR3. Lastly, histological data showed that a loss of PD-1 caused BDC2.5 cells to penetrate deep into the islet core, resulting in conversion from peri-insulitis to destructive insulitis. These data support a model by which PD-1 regulates islet-reactive CD4(+) T cells in a cell intrinsic manner by suppressing proliferation, inhibiting infiltration of the pancreas, and limiting diabetes. |
