Affiliation:
1. Department of Pathology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110
Abstract
The events that initiate autoimmune diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice remain poorly understood. CD4
+
and CD8
+
T cells are both required to develop disease, but their relative roles in initiating disease are unclear. To test whether CD4
+
T cell infiltration into islets requires damage to β cells induced by autoreactive CD8
+
T cells, we inactivated
Wdfy4
in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice (NOD.
Wdfy4
−/−-
) using CRISPR/Cas9 targeting to eliminate cross-presentation by type 1 conventional dendritic cells (cDC1s). Similar to C57BL/6
Wdfy4
−/−
mice, cDC1 in NOD.
Wdfy4
−/−
mice are unable to cross-present cell-associated antigens to prime CD8
+
T cells, while cDC1 from heterozygous NOD.
Wdfy4
+/−
mice cross-present normally. Further, NOD.
Wdfy4
−/−
mice fail to develop diabetes while heterozygous NOD.
Wdfy4
+/−
mice develop diabetes similarly to wild-type NOD mice. NOD.
Wdfy4
−/−
mice remain capable of processing and presenting major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II)-restricted autoantigens and can activate β cell-specific CD4
+
T cells in lymph nodes. However, disease in these mice does not progress beyond peri-islet inflammation. These results indicate that the priming of autoreactive CD8
+
T cells in NOD mice requires cross-presentation by cDC1. Further, autoreactive CD8
+
T cells appear to be required not only to develop diabetes, but to recruit autoreactive CD4
+
T cells into islets of NOD mice, perhaps in response to progressive β cell damage.
Funder
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cited by
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