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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 148, 1935-1948, Copyright © 1996 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Cytokine secretion and adhesion molecule expression by granuloma T lymphocytes in Mycobacterium avium infection

RE Sacco, RJ Jensen, CO Thoen, M Sandor, J Weinstock, RG Lynch and MO Dailey
Department of Pathology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

Mice experimentally infected with Mycobacterium avium develop a chronic disease characterized by widespread noncaseating granulomas. In this report, we describe the phenotype and cytokine secretion profile of these granuloma-infiltrating effector T lymphocytes. In response to specific antigen, granuloma T cells and, to a lesser extent, spleen cells secrete interferon-gamma, but no interleukin-4 or -5. The importance of this Th1-like response to the host was demonstrated by the massively increased bacterial load and lethal disease in interferon- gamma knockout mice. One function of localized cytokine secretion is to recruit inflammatory T cells bearing surface adhesion molecules complementary to counter-receptors on vascular endothelial cells. Granuloma T cells express high levels of these pro-inflammatory adhesion molecules but have down-regulated their expression of L- selectin (CD62L). The expression of these adhesion molecules on granuloma-infiltrating T lymphocytes would alter the migration pathway of these cells and is likely to be important in facilitating the traffic of effector T cells to the granulomatous inflammatory site. In addition, T cells from Schistosoma mansoni granulomas express the same set of adhesion molecules, showing that this phenotype is not specifically dependent upon the Th1 pattern of cytokine secretion.

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