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CD25 Shedding by Human Natural Occurring CD4 + CD25 + Regulatory T Cells does not Inhibit the Action of IL‐2
Author(s) -
Pedersen A. E.,
Lauritsen J. P.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.934
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1365-3083
pISSN - 0300-9475
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2009.02268.x
Subject(s) - il 2 receptor , secretion , immune system , biology , limiting , microbiology and biotechnology , inflammation , t cell , immunology , biochemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering
Regulatory T (Treg) cells are important for the maintenance of peripheral tolerance and inhibition of pathogenic T‐cell responses. Therefore, they are important for the limitation of chronic inflammation but can also be deleterious by e.g. limiting antitumour immune responses. Natural occurring Tregs are known to inhibit CD4 + T cell in a contact‐dependent manner, but at the same time, various suppressive factors are secreted. We, here, demonstrate that human naturally occurring CD4 + CD25 + Tregs are able to shed large amounts of soluble CD25 upon activation. Secretion of sCD25 could add to the inhibitory effect of Tregs as such secretion in other settings has been proposed to act as a sink for local IL‐2. However, we here demonstrate that supernatant from human Tregs containing high concentration of sCD25 does not inhibit proliferation of CD4 + CD25 − T cells or inhibit the action of IL‐2 in an in vitro bioassay.