Natural killer cell acceptance of H-2 mismatch bone marrow grafts in transgenic mice expressing HLA-Cw3 specific killer cell inhibitory receptor (CD158b)
AUTOR(ES)
Cambiaggi, Anna
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
RESUMO
Natural killer (NK) cells express killer cell inhibitory receptors (KIRs) for major histocompatibility complex class I molecules. Engagement of these surface receptors inhibits NK cell cytotoxic programs. KIR can also be expressed on T cell subsets, and their engagement similarly results in inhibition of effector functions initiated by the CD3/T cell receptor complex. KIR genes belong to two distinct families: the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF KIRs) and dimeric C2 lectins (lectin-like KIRs). Whereas both IgSF (p58: CD158, p70, and p140) and lectin-like KIRs (CD94/NKG2A heterodimers) have been found in human, only lectin-like KIRs (all members of the Ly-49 family) have been described in the mouse. We have generated transgenic mice expressing an IgSF KIR, CD158b (p58.2), which recognizes HLA-Cw3. Our data show that CD158b is necessary and sufficient to confer specificity to NK cells, as well as to modulate T cell activation programs in vitro. In addition, we did not detect any adaptation of CD158b cell surface expression to that of HLA class I ligands in the CD158b × HLA-Cw3 double transgenic mice, in contrast to observations with Ly-49 in the mouse. Therefore, distinct strategies of selection/calibration appear to be used by IgSF and lectin-like KIRs. Finally, the transgenic expression of CD158b KIR prevents the in vivo rejection of H-2 mismatch bone marrow grafts, which express the cognate major histocompatibility class I HLA-Cw3 allele, demonstrating for the first time the in vivo implication of human IgSF KIRs in the negative regulation of NK cell function.
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