intermediate steps in thymic positive selection. generation of cd4-8+ t cells in culture from cd4+8+, cd4int8+, and cd4+8int thymocytes with up-regulated levels of tcr-cd3.

NLM AIDSLINE Intermediate steps in thymic positive selection. Generation of CD4-8+ T cells in culture from CD4+8+, CD4int8+, and CD4+8int thymocytes with up-regulated levels of TCR-CD3. Kydd R; Lundberg K; Vremec D; Harris AW; Shortman K; Walter and Eliza
January 30, 1996

J Immunol. 1995 Oct 15;155(8):3806-14. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE Minor thymus subpopulations representing possible intermediates in thymic positive selection were isolated by cell sorting from bcl-2 transgenic mice, and cultured 1 to 4 days in simple medium to assess their ability to spontaneously develop the surface phenotype of mature T cells. Recovery of cells was in the 60 to 80% range, and no cell proliferation occurred. Only cells originally expressing high, near mature T cell levels of CD3 developed further in culture by down-regulation of CD4 or CD8. The main mature cell product was CD4-8+, regardless of whether the starting phenotype of the CD3high intermediates was CD4+8+, CD4int8+, or CD4+8int; only an intermediate subpopulation expressing the highest levels of CD4 (CD4high8int) produced a dominance of CD4+8- mature progeny. Partial down-regulation of CD8 was therefore not a good indicator of CD4+ T lineage commitment. These and previous results indicate that maturation to the CD8+ T lineage involves a rapid up-regulation of the TCR-CD3 complex, but a relatively slow down-regulation of CD4; it may also involve a partial, transient reduction in surface CD8. In contrast, maturation to the CD4+ T lineage involves a relatively rapid down-regulation of CD8, with maintenance of high levels of CD4. There appears to be a marked asymmetry in the developmental steps leading from CD4+8+ thymocytes to the CD8+ or to the CD4+ T cell lineage. Animal Cell Differentiation CD4-CD8 Ratio CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/IMMUNOLOGY CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/IMMUNOLOGY Lymphocyte Transformation Mice Mice, Inbred C57BL Mice, Transgenic Proto-Oncogene Proteins/GENETICS Receptor-CD3 Complex, Antigen, T-Cell/METABOLISM Support, Non-U.S. Gov't T-Lymphocyte Subsets/IMMUNOLOGY Thymus Gland/CYTOLOGY Up-Regulation (Physiology)/*IMMUNOLOGY JOURNAL ARTICLE

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