PMID- 17202345 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070222 LR - 20190516 IS - 0022-1767 (Print) IS - 0022-1767 (Linking) VI - 178 IP - 2 DP - 2007 Jan 15 TI - Donor CD8+ T cells mediate graft-versus-leukemia activity without clinical signs of graft-versus-host disease in recipients conditioned with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody. PG - 838-50 AB - Donor CD8(+) T cells play a critical role in mediating graft-vs-leukemia (GVL) activity, but also induce graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) in recipients conditioned with total body irradiation (TBI). In this study, we report that injections of donor C57BL/6 (H-2(b)) or FVB/N (H-2(q)) CD8(+) T with bone marrow cells induced chimerism and eliminated BCL1 leukemia/lymphoma cells without clinical signs of GVHD in anti-CD3-conditioned BALB/c (H-2(d)) recipients, but induced lethal GVHD in TBI-conditioned recipients. Using in vivo and ex vivo bioluminescent imaging, we observed that donor CD8(+) T cells expanded rapidly and infiltrated GVHD target tissues in TBI-conditioned recipients, but donor CD8(+) T cell expansion in anti-CD3-conditioned recipients was confined to lymphohematological tissues. This confinement was associated with lack of up-regulated expression of alpha(4)beta(7) integrin and chemokine receptors (i.e., CXCR3) on donor CD8(+) T cells. In addition, donor CD8(+) T cells in anti-CD3-conditioned recipients were rendered unresponsive, anergic, Foxp3(+), or type II cytotoxic T phenotype. Those donor CD8(+) T cells showed strong suppressive activity in vitro and mediated GVL activity without clinical signs of GVHD in TBI-conditioned secondary recipients. These results indicate that anti-CD3 conditioning separates GVL activity from GVHD via confining donor CD8(+) T cell expansion to host lymphohemological tissues as well as tolerizing them in the host. FAU - Zhang, Chunyan AU - Zhang C AD - Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. FAU - Lou, Jingwei AU - Lou J FAU - Li, Nainong AU - Li N FAU - Todorov, Ivan AU - Todorov I FAU - Lin, Chia-Lei AU - Lin CL FAU - Cao, Yu-An AU - Cao YA FAU - Contag, Christopher H AU - Contag CH FAU - Kandeel, Fouad AU - Kandeel F FAU - Forman, Stephen AU - Forman S FAU - Zeng, Defu AU - Zeng D LA - eng GR - K01 DK 071716/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 DK 71002/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R24 CA 92862/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Immunol JT - Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) JID - 2985117R RN - 0 (Antibodies, Monoclonal) RN - 0 (CD3 Complex) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antibodies, Monoclonal/*immunology MH - CD3 Complex/*immunology MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology/*immunology MH - Cell Proliferation MH - Graft vs Host Disease/*immunology MH - Leukemia/*immunology/pathology MH - Lymphoid Tissue/immunology/pathology MH - Mice MH - Time Factors MH - *Tissue Donors MH - Transplantation Chimera/immunology MH - Up-Regulation EDAT- 2007/01/05 09:00 MHDA- 2007/02/23 09:00 CRDT- 2007/01/05 09:00 PHST- 2007/01/05 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/02/23 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/01/05 09:00 [entrez] AID - 178/2/838 [pii] AID - 10.4049/jimmunol.178.2.838 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Immunol. 2007 Jan 15;178(2):838-50. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.2.838.