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MUCOSAL BIOLOGY

Human intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes and epithelial cells coinduce interleukin-8 production through the CD2-CD58 interaction

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Submitted 16 August 2008 ; accepted in final form 16 December 2008

Human intestinal CD3⁺TCRβ⁺CD8⁺ intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) are intimately associated with epithelial cells (ECs) through binding of CD103 to E-cadherin. How these two cell types functionally interact is largely unknown. IEL-EC cross talk was determined using HT-29 cells as the model EC and IL-8 as the readout. IL-8 was derived from both cell types and synergistically increased when the cells were combined. This synergistic effect required active transcription by both IELs and HT-29 cells. Cell contact was required as shown by the loss of the synergistic increase in IL-8 when the two cell types were separated by Transwells. Specifically, IL-8 release required the binding of CD2 on the IELs to CD58 on the HT-29 cells. The association of the CD3/TCR complex with major histocompatibility antigen class I antigens was not involved. Antibody neutralization of tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-), but not interferon- (IFN-), resulted in increased IL-8 production by the coculture. Although both TNF- and IFN- increased IL-8 synthesis and CD58 expression by the HT-29 cells, only IFN- reduced IL-8 production by IELs. IL-8 production by either cell type involved phosphorylation of p38 and JNK. In summary, the synergistic synthesis of IL-8 occurs when IELs are stimulated through the CD2 pathway by CD58 on HT-29 cells, resulting in TNF- release that, in turn, augments IL-8 synthesis and CD58 expression by the HT-29 cells.

intraepithelial lymphocytes; epithelial cells; interleukin-8; tumor necrosis factor-; interferon-