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International Immunology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 365-374, March 2000
© 2000 Japanese Society for Immunology

Comparison of Fas- versus perforin-mediated pathways of cytotoxicity in TCR- and Thy-1-activated murine T cells

Hidefumi Kojima1, Masahiro Toda2 and Michail V. Sitkovsky1

1 Biochemistry and Immunopharmacology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 10/llN3ll, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1892, Bethesda, MD 20892-1892, USA
2 Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan

Correspondence to: M. Sitkovsky

T cell-mediated cytotoxicity can be triggered by cross-linking of TCR or Thy-1 surface proteins. While the TCR-triggered signaling initiates both perforin- and Fas ligand (FasL)–Fas-mediated mechanisms of cytotoxicity, it was not clear which mechanism was utilized by Thy-1-triggered signals and which pathway of cytotoxicity was triggered at low levels of antigen expression. It is shown that glycophosphatidylinositol-linked surface glycoprotein Thy-1 preferentially activates FasL–Fas- but not perforin-mediated cytotoxicity. This is explained by the lesser intensity of Thy-1-mediated signaling in T cells. The data suggest that Thy-1-triggered Fas-mediated cytotoxicity is completely dependent on cross-talk between Thy-1 and TCR signals since mutations in TCR–CD3 complex molecules or inhibition of tyrosine kinases or calcineurin abolished or strongly inhibited Thy-1-triggered FasL–Fas-mediated cytotoxicity. Lower concentrations of antigenic peptide or levels of cross-linking with anti-TCR–CD3 mAb are required to trigger Fas-mediated than perforin-mediated cytotoxicity by different cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) lines and clones, and it is shown that cross-linking of Thy-1 is much less efficient in triggering accumulation of second messengers (intracellular Ca2+) than cross-linking of TCR on CTL. Taken together, these data reflect the possibility of differential activation of FasL and/or perforin pathways of cytotoxicity depending on the nature of activating stimuli and surface receptor.

Keywords: cytotoxic T lymphocyte, Fas ligand, perforin, retargeting, TCR, Thy-1

Transmitting editor: T. Saito


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