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Blood, 1 April 2007, Vol. 109, No. 7, pp. 2968-2977. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on November 21, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-10-050724.
IMMUNOBIOLOGY Physiologic and aberrant regulation of memory T-cell trafficking by the costimulatory molecule CD281 Department of Immunology, Division of Medicine, 2 MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, United Kingdom; 3 Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Productive T-cell immunity requires both the activation and the migration of specific T cells to the antigenic tissue. The costimulatory molecule CD28 plays an essential role in the initiation of T-cellmediated immunity. We investigated the possibility that CD28 may also regulate migration of primed T cells to target tissue. In vitro, CD28-mediated signals enhanced T-cell transendothelial migration, integrin clustering, and integrin-mediated migration. In vivo, T cells bearing a mutation in the CD28 cytoplasmic domain, which abrogates PI3K activation, displayed normal clonal expansion but defective localization to antigenic sites following antigenic rechallenge. Importantly, antibody-mediated CD28 stimulation led to unregulated memory T-cell migration to extra-lymphoid tissue, which occurred independently of T-cell receptor (TCR)derived signals and homing-receptor expression. Finally, we provide evidence that CD28- and CTLA-4mediated signals exert opposite effects on T-cell trafficking in vivo. These findings highlight a novel physiologic function of CD28 that has crucial implications for the therapeutic manipulation of this and other costimulatory molecules.
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