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MUCOSAL BIOLOGY

Intestinal epithelial cells from inflammatory bowel disease patients preferentially stimulate CD4+ T cells to proliferate and secrete interferon-

Immunobiology Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Submitted 5 July 2006 ; accepted in final form 6 March 2007

Previous studies have suggested that intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) have the capacity to function as nonprofessional antigen presenting cells that in the normal state preferentially activate CD8+ T cells. However, under pathological conditions, such as those found in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), persistent activation of CD4+ T cells is seen. The aim of this study was to determine whether the IBD IECs contribute to CD4+ T cell activation. Freshly isolated human IECs were obtained from surgical specimens of patients with or without IBD and cocultured with autologous or allogeneic peripheral blood T lymphocytes. Cocultures of normal T cells and IECs derived from IBD patients resulted in the preferential activation of CD4+ T cell proliferation that was associated with significant IFN-, but not IL-2, secretion. Cytokine secretion and CD4+ T cell proliferation was inhibited by pretreatment of the IBD IECs with the anti-DR MAb L243. In contrast, normal IECs stimulated the proliferation and cytokine secretion by CD4+ T cells to a significantly lesser degree than IBD IECs. Furthermore, blockade of human leukocyte antigen-DR had a lesser effect in the normal IEC-CD4+ T cell cocultures. We conclude that IECs can contribute to the ongoing CD4+ T cell activation seen in IBD. We suggest that the apparent differences between the secreted levels of IFN- indicate that it may play a dual role in intestinal homeostasis, in which low levels contribute to physiological inflammation whereas higher levels are associated with an uncontrolled inflammatory state.

mucosal inflammation; Crohn's disease; ulcerative colitis; interferon-; cytokines

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