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Blood, 15 December 2001, Vol. 98, No. 13, pp. 3727-3732
IMMUNOBIOLOGY
A rheostatic mechanism for T-cell inhibition based on elevation
of activation thresholds
Jacob Rachmilewitz,
Gregory
J. Riely,
Jui-Han Huang,
Aoshuang Chen, and
Mark L. Tykocinski
From the Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH.
The activation of discrete T-cell responses depends on the
triggering of individualized threshold numbers of T-cell receptors (TCRs). The results of this study indicate that the lipocalin placental
protein 14 (PP14), a T-cell inhibitor produced by cells of the
reproductive and hematopoietic systems, mediates its anti-inflammatory activity by elevating the T-cell activation threshold, thereby rendering T cells less sensitive to stimulation. Significantly, the
data demonstrate hierarchical sensitivity of selected cytokine responses to PP14-mediated inhibition, with the hierarchy reflecting their respective activation thresholds. These findings suggest a novel
paradigm for immunoinhibition wherein negative regulators can finely
tune, rather than inactivate, T-cell responses, and thereby skew the
cytokine output of immunologic responses.

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