Kiljan, Martha ORCID: 0000-0002-5581-1359 (2023). Reactivation of TH1 cells in peripheral tissues. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
CD4+ T cells play, as a key player of the adaptive immune system, a critical role in orchestrating an effective immune response during infections, autoimmunity or cancer. Few studies have addressed antigen-mediated reactivation of effector T cells in peripheral tissues, as opposed to the well-studied primary activation (priming) in lymph nodes. In this thesis, I investigated the transcriptional changes of reactivated TH1 cells that occur independent to changes during naïve T cell priming and T cell differentiation. OT-II/Nur77GFP mice were used which allowed direct identification of T cell receptor (TCR) activated T cells. Transcriptome analysis of in vitro cultured and sorted naïve (CD62L+, CD44-, CD69-, Nur77GFP-), activated naïve (CD62Lint, CD44, CD69+, Nur77GFP +), TH1 (CD62L+, CD44+, Nur77GFP-) and reactivated TH1 cells (CD62L+, CD44+, Nur77GFP+) revealed 10736 differentially expressed genes of TH1 reactivation. Of these, 3106 genes were predominantly specifically regulated in reactivated TH1 cells and 447 genes were solely regulated in reactivated TH1 cells and did not appear in the other comparisons. Furthermore, I compared the expression of some identified genes in different CD4+ T cell subpopulations: TH1, TH2, TH17 and Treg cells. Gene expression was similar in TH1 and TH17 cells, while the difference in TH2 and Treg cells was greater.Subsequently, selected genes were analyzed in two CD4+ T cell-dependent in vivo models, the Nephrotoxic Nephritis (NTN) and the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), revealing discrepancies between in vitro and in vivo experiments as well as tissue-specific differences. Finally, selected genes were analyzed in human TH1 cells, polarized from peripheral blood of healthy donors, showing differences in gene expression of selected genes in reactivated human TH1 cells compared to reactivated murine TH1 cells. Here, I report a unique signature to TH1 cell reactivation that goes beyond lineage alterations. I showed that gene expression of some reactivation-specific genes differed between different reactivated CD4+ T cell subpopulations in vitro and reactivated CD4+ T cells from different tissues in vivo as well as in reactivated human TH1 cells in vitro. These findings increase the understanding of the peripheral T cell response as a pathophysiological process in autoimmune diseases and could serve as new targets for future therapies, especially immunotherapy.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-710825 | ||||||||
Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Biology > Institute for Genetics | ||||||||
Subjects: | Life sciences | ||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 10 August 2022 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/71082 |
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