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      A Critical Role for Fas Ligand in the Active Suppression of Systemic Immune Responses by Ultraviolet Radiation

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          Induction of antigen-specific suppression elicited by environmental insults, such as ultraviolet (UV)-B radiation in sunlight, can inhibit an effective immune response in vivo and may contribute to the outgrowth of UV-induced skin cancer. Although UV-induced DNA damage is known to be an initiating event in the immune suppression of most antigen responses, the underlying mechanism(s) of such suppression remain undefined. In this report, we document that Fas ligand (FasL) is critical for UV-induced systemic immune suppression. Normal mice acutely exposed to UV exhibit a profound suppression of both contact hypersensitivity and delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions and the development of transferable antigen-specific suppressor cells. FasL-deficient mice exposed to UV lack both transferable suppressor cell activity and primary suppression to all antigens tested, with the exception of the DTH response to allogeneic spleen cells. Interestingly, suppression of this response is also known to occur independently of UV-induced DNA damage. Delivery of alloantigen as protein, rather than intact cells, restored the requirement for FasL in UV-induced immune suppression of this response. These results substantiate that FasL/Fas interactions are essential for systemic UV-induced suppression of immune responses that involve host antigen presentation and suggest an interrelationship between UV-induced DNA damage and FasL in this phenomenon. Collectively, our results suggest a model whereby UV-induced DNA damage disarms the immune system in a manner similar to that observed in immunologically privileged sites.

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            The Fas antigen (Fas) belongs to the tumor necrosis factor (TNF)/nerve growth factor receptor family, and it mediates apoptosis. Using a soluble form of mouse Fas, prepared by fusion with human immunoglobulin Fc, Fas ligand was detected on the cell surface of a cytotoxic T cell hybridoma, PC60-d10S. A cell population that highly expresses Fas ligand was sorted using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter, and its cDNA was isolated from the sorted cells by expression cloning. The amino acid sequence indicated that Fas ligand is a type II transmembrane protein that belongs to the TNF family. The recombinant Fas ligand expressed in COS cells induced apoptosis in Fas-expressing target cells. Northern hybridization revealed that Fas ligand is expressed in activated splenocytes and thymocytes, consistent with its involvement in T cell-mediated cytotoxicity and in several nonlymphoid tissues, such as testis.
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              Autocrine T-cell suicide mediated by APO-1/(Fas/CD95)

              The APO-1/(Fas/CD95) cell surface receptor is a member of the nerve growth factor (NGF)/tumour necrosis factor (TNF) receptor superfamily and mediates apoptosis. Peripheral activated T cells (ATC) from lymphoproliferation (lpr/lpr) mutant mice that express a reduced number of APO-1 receptors have a defect in T-cell receptor (TCR)-induced apoptosis. This suggests that TCR-induced apoptosis involves APO-1. We tested this hypothesis in various human T cells: (1) malignant Jurkat cells, (2) an alloreactive T-cell clone (S13), and (3) peripheral ATC. TCR triggering through immobilized anti-CD3 antibodies or Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB) superantigen induced expression of the APO-1 ligand and apoptosis in these cells. Anti-CD3-induced apoptosis of Jurkat cells was demonstrated even in single-cell cultures. In all cases apoptosis was substantially inhibited by blocking anti-APO-1 antibody fragments and soluble APO-1 receptor decoys. The APO-1 ligand was found in the supernatant of activated Jurkat cells as a soluble cytokine. We propose that TCR-induced apoptosis in ATC can occur through an APO-1 ligand-mediated autocrine suicide. These results provide a mechanism for suppression of the immune response and for peripheral tolerance by T-cell deletion.
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                Author and article information

                Journal
                J Exp Med
                The Journal of Experimental Medicine
                The Rockefeller University Press
                0022-1007
                1540-9538
                19 April 1999
                : 189
                : 8
                : 1285-1294
                Affiliations
                From the Department of Immunology, University of  Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
                Author notes

                Address correspondence to Laurie B. Owen-Schaub, Department of Immunology, Box 178, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030. Phone: 713-792-8735; Fax: 713-745-1633; E-mail: lowensch@ 123456mdanderson.org

                Article
                2193030
                10209045
                473eff93-f099-4553-b087-932de5bd02b2
                Copyright @ 1999
                History
                : 2 December 1998
                : 18 February 1999
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                Medicine
                fas ligand,ultraviolet radiation,immunosuppression,cd95,t suppressor cells
                Medicine
                fas ligand, ultraviolet radiation, immunosuppression, cd95, t suppressor cells

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