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Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520; the First Department of Pathology, Kansai Medical University, Osaka 570-0074, Japan; and the || Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York 10021
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. When immature DCs from I-Ab mice were cultured for 5–20 h with activated I-E+ B blasts, either necrotic or apoptotic, the DCs produced the epitope recognized by the Y-Ae monoclonal antibody and stimulated T cells reactive with the same MHC–peptide complex. Antigen transfer was also observed with human cells, where human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR includes the same peptide sequence as mouse I-E. Antigen transfer was preceded by uptake of B cell fragments into MHC class II–rich compartments. Quantitation of the amount of I-E protein in the B cell fragments revealed that phagocytosed I-E was 1–10 thousand times more efficient in generating MHC–peptide complexes than preprocessed I-E peptide. When we injected different I-E– bearing cells into C57BL/6 mice to look for a similar phenomenon in vivo, we found that short-lived migrating DCs could be processed by most of the recipient DCs in the lymph node. The consequence of antigen transfer from migratory DCs to lymph node DCs is not yet known, but we suggest that in the steady state, i.e., in the absence of stimuli for DC maturation, this transfer leads to peripheral tolerance of the T cell repertoire to self.
Key Words: apoptosis • necrosis • dendritic cells • major histocompatibility complex–peptide complexes • immature dendritic cells
Abbreviations used: DC, dendritic cell; MIIC, MHC class II compartment.
During the maintenance of tolerance (1–3) and the rejection of malignant cells (4) and transplants (5–12), there is a transfer of antigens from tissues to the MHC class I and II products of APCs. Mechanisms underlying this "cross-presentation" phenomenon need to be elucidated, and a priori may simply involve the release of peptides from donor cells (e.g., tumor, transplant, self-tissue) to recipient APCs. Recent tissue culture studies have used T cell readouts to demonstrate that dendritic cells (DCs)1 can present antigen to influenza-specific CTLs after transfer of a dominant matrix peptide from apoptotic cells (13, 14). Here we directly monitor the formation of specific MHC class II–peptide complexes in vitro and in vivo after the phagocytosis of cell fragments. We find that DCs, known for strong costimulatory functions, are also unusually efficient at forming MHC–peptide complexes from phagocytosed cells, some 1–10 thousand times more efficiently than an exposure to preprocessed peptide. A comparable phenomenon is observed in vivo when short-lived migratory DCs migrate via afferent lymphatics to the T cell areas of the lymph node. Antigen is transferred from the injected DCs to the recipient DCs in the lymph node, a phenomenon that may underlie cross-priming after transplantation, and cross-tolerance to self-tissues in the steady state.
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Antibodies.
Capture of Cell-derived Peptides In Vitro.
Confocal Microscopy.
Antigen-presentation Assays.
Quantitation of I-E Molecules in B Cells.
Capture of Cell-derived Peptides In Vivo.
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Adult 6–8-wk-old mice (BALB/c, C57BL/6, C57BL/6 x DBA/2 F1) of both sexes were from Taconic Farms Inc. (Germantown, NY) and Japan SLC (Hamamatsu, Japan), and B10.A(4R) from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME). B6.I-E transgenic mice, line 107 (15), were provided by Dr. R. Flavell (Yale University, New Haven, CT).
DCs were generated from bone marrow progenitors by culture in rGM-CSF as described (16). The cultures were set up in 24-well plates (Costar Corp., Cambridge, MA) and used at day 6 when the wells were covered with aggregates of immature DCs. By days 7–8, aggregates release 
105 mature DCs/well (16). Immature but not mature DCs are phagocytic (17). B blasts were induced for 3–4 d with LPS (Escherichia coli 0111:B4, 25 µg/ ml; Sigma Chemical Co, St. Louis, MO), or for 2 d with anti-µ (5 µg/ml F(ab')2 goat anti–mouse IgM; Jackson ImmunoResearch Labs, West Grove, PA) and IL-4 (5 ng/ml; GIBCO BRL, Gaithersburg, MD). Both types of B blasts gave similar results in tests for antigen transfer. Small B cells were spleen cells passed over Sephadex G10 columns and depleted of T cells with antibodies (Thy-1, TIB 99; CD4, L3T4; and CD8, TIB 211; all from American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, MD) and complement. Human cells were plastic adherent monocytes from PBMCs and EBV-transformed B cell lines. Necrosis was induced either by freeze–thawing three to four times, or in the case of mouse B cells, with monoclonal J11d and rabbit complement in MEM. Apoptosis was induced by exposure to UV light. The surface of most cells became annexin V–positive after 8–10 h.
The Y-Ae hybridoma was provided by Dr. C. Janeway, Jr. (Yale University, New Haven, CT) and grown serum-free. The IgG2b antibody was purified on protein A–Sepharose, biotinylated, and used in the FACS® along with PE-streptavidin to detect MHC class II–peptide complexes (18). A mouse IgG2b anti–human TCR antibody was the nonreactive control (PharMingen, San Diego, CA). The cells were double labeled for FACS® and for microscopy with FITC antibodies to CD8, CD11c, CD86, I-Ab (AF6-120.1), I-Ad (39-10-8), and I-E (14-4-4S; all from PharMingen).
Bone marrow DCs were generated in 24-well plates for 6 d in GM-CSF, gently washed to remove mature floating DCs, and then fed B blasts, human cells, or peptide (residues 56–73 of I-E). Alternatively, the 6-d DCs were added to the B blasts. During uptake, the DCs matured with high levels of surface CD86.
Cells were resuspended in serum-free RPMI 1640, attached to Alcian Blue–coated glass coverslips for 20–30 min at 37°C, fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 20 min at room temperature, washed three times in PBS, and permeabilized for 15 min in PS (0.05% saponin, 10 mM Hepes, pH 7.4, 10 mM glycine, pH 8, 10% goat serum, RPMI 1640). All incubations and washes were then in PS. Cells were incubated in primary antibody (see figure legends) for 30 min at room temperature, washed four times in PBS, followed by secondary FITC- or Texas Red–conjugated antibody for 30 min at room temperature, washed four times in PS, once in PBS, once in water, and mounted in Mowiol (Calbiochem Corp., La Jolla, CA) on glass slides for analysis by immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy (0.5–1.0-µ optical sections). The observed double labeling of phagocytic vacuoles for donor B cell antigens and recipient DC MHC II was verified by an examination of perpendicular sections through the phagosomes.
The 20.6 T–T hybridoma recognizes the MHC II–peptide complex that is detected with Y-Ae mAb (19). Graded doses of APCs, which had been fixed in 1.0% HCHO for 10 min at room temperature, were added to 2 x 104 hybridoma cells in flat-bottomed microtest plates. At 24 h, IL-2 in the supernatants was detected using a growth assay for Con A–stimulated T blasts.
Mature I-E heterodimers were quantified in a binding assay with 125I-labeled 14-4-4S mAb (PharMingen). The B blasts were fixed in 4% PFA and in some cases, 0.05% saponin, to include intracellular pools. To verify that the bulk of the I-E in 4-d B blasts was recognized by 14-4-4S, whole cell lysates were lysed in 50 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 100 mM NaCl, 0.5% Triton X-100, and protease inhibitors. Lysates were precleared with preimmune rabbit sera and zysorbin (Zymed Laboratories, Inc., So. San Francisco, CA). Protein A–Sepharose CL-4B (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Inc., Piscataway, NY) was incubated with rabbit anti–mouse IgG2a bridging antibody and then with 14-4-4S (or control Ig). Total and immunoadsorbed lysates were run on 10% SDS-PAGE, transferred to nitrocellulose, and blotted for total I-E using a rabbit antiserum specific for the cytoplasmic tail of I-E (provided by Dr. R. Germain, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD).
2 x 106 I-E+ DCs from BALB/c or B6.I-E transgenic mice were injected in PBS into the footpads of C57BL/6 (H-2b) mice. At 2 d, the popliteal lymph nodes were frozen in OCT embedding medium, sectioned, fixed in absolute acetone for 10 min, and stained successively with biotin–Y-Ae (or anti–human TCR IgG2b as control), avidin–alkaline phosphatase conjugates, rat antibody to B220 to label B cell follicles, and peroxidase-labeled mouse anti–rat Ig. We thereby located blue Y-Ae+ cells relative to B cells in brown. Negative controls were mice that lacked I-E on the donor B blasts (B10.A[4R] or C57BL/6) or I-Ab in the recipients (CBA/J, H-2k). To identify Y-Ae+ cells in the FACS®, DCs were enriched from the nodes (20) and double labeled with biotin Y-Ae (or nonreactive IgG2b mAb as control), PE-streptavidin, and different FITC conjugates to CD8, B220, CD11c, I-Ab, and I-Ad.
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Transfer of Antigen from B Blasts to the MHC Class II Products of DCs.
To demonstrate that DCs could present peptides from other cells, we cultured C57BL/6 DCs (I-E–, I-Ab+) with activated BALB/c B blasts (I-E+, I-Ab–) and monitored reactivity with Y-Ae mAb. Y-Ae is specific for an MHC class II–peptide complex formed when I-Ab presents the I-E 56–73 peptide (18). The DCs were from 6-d GM-CSF–stimulated marrow cultures, known to have phagocytic activity, whereas mature nonphagocytic DCs predominate at days 7–8 (17). When H-2b DCs were exposed for 20 h to 1 µM I-E peptide, the specific MHC– peptide detected by Y-Ae developed (Fig. 1 A). Y-Ae signal also developed when I-E+ B blasts, but not I-E– B blasts, were added at a ratio of 2–10 blasts per DC (Fig. 1 A). The Y-Ae+ cells had mature DC markers (CD86high, CD11c+, I-Ab+, I-Ad–; Fig. 1 B). No Y-Ae was detected when B blasts were added to H-2d DCs, and 4-d blasts gave much stronger Y-Ae signals than unstimulated B cells (not shown).
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has the identical sequence to mouse I-E 56–73 (21, 22). A Y-Ae signal developed when mouse DCs were cultured with either apoptotic or necrotic human B lymphoblastoid cell lines (Fig. 1 C) or monocytes (not shown).
The functionality of the Y-Ae epitope was tested using a hybridoma that responds to a similar I-Ab/I-E peptide complex (19). After a 20-h exposure to either I-E peptide or B blasts, the DCs were almost as potent APCs as DCs expressing endogenous I-Ab complexes (I-Ab x I-E+ F1 mice), as indicated by IL-2 production (Fig. 1 D).
Antigen Processing Is Required for Transfer of Peptide from B Blasts to DCs.
To approach mechanisms, we first ruled out release of peptide from B blasts to DCs. Y-Ae labeling did not develop if the cells were separated by Transwell filters, or if B blasts were added to mature DCs that express high surface MHC II but are nonphagocytic (Fig. 2 A). Both apoptotic (induced by exposing the B blasts to UV light 10 h before addition to the DCs; not shown) and necrotic B blasts (induced by freeze–thawing in Fig. 1 C, and by antibody and complement–mediated lysis in Fig. 2 A) were processed by DCs. A fraction (20–40%) of mouse B cells and human EBV lines die during overnight culture, and we could not demonstrate an increase in antigen transfer if these cells were induced to apoptose or necrose before coculture with immature DCs (compare B blast with Ab/C in Fig. 2 A).
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We then used confocal microscopy to look directly for the internalization of B blasts by DCs. We rarely observed profiles of intact B cells in DCs, but after 6 h of coculture, most DCs contained B cell fragments (I-Ad, I-Ed, and B220+) in vacuoles that had markers of MHC II–rich compartments or MHC II compartments (MIICs) (MHC II, LAMP+, and H-2M+; Fig. 2 C, arrows).
Phagocytosis of B Blasts Precedes Formation of MHC II–Peptide Complexes by DCs.
To demonstrate that phagocytosis preceded the formation of the Y-Ae epitope, B blasts were fed to DCs in 20 mM NH4Cl. After 20 h, DCs were FACS® separated from residual B blasts and recultured for 12 h without NH4Cl. NH4Cl completely blocked Y-Ae epitope development (Fig. 3 A, top), even within saponin-permeabilized cells (not shown), but the Y-Ae reappeared after removal of NH4Cl (Fig. 3 A, bottom). The block imposed by NH4Cl seemed primarily at the level of I-E processing, rather than peptide loading, since addition of I-E peptide for 20 h to NH4Cl cultures led to strong Y-Ae signals comparable to nonblocked cultures (Fig. 3 B).
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The Unusual Efficiency of Processing of Phagocytosed B Cells.
In kinetic studies comparing Y-Ae expression derived from preprocessed I-E peptide with B blasts, we found that MHC–peptide complexes appeared after 5 h of culture, reached a plateau at 15–25 h, and remained stable for 3 d; 1 µM peptide gave comparable Y-Ae signals to 106 B blasts (Fig. 4 A).
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We verified that free I-E peptide was not being quickly degraded upon addition to DCs. If the medium was removed from DCs that had been pulsed with I-E peptide and added to fresh DCs, the Y-Ae signal was 10–30% that seen with fresh peptide (Fig. 4 D). Therefore, even if every I-E chain were successfully processed to form an MHC– peptide complex, B blasts (0.3 nM I-E concentration) would still be 3,000 times more efficient than free I-E peptide (1 µM) for charging the I-Ab molecules of DCs to form the Y-Ae epitope. This is an underestimate, since phagocytosis of B cell fragments by contaminating MHC II– macrophages greatly reduced the pool of I-E available to DCs. In fact, macrophages had 10–20 B cell fragments on average versus 1–7 fragments per DC (Fig. 4 E).
Efficient Uptake of Donor DCs by Recipient DCs in the T Cell Areas of Lymph Node.
We next asked if DCs could process antigens from other cells in vivo. We tried injecting into the footpads of C57BL/6 mice many different cell types that expressed the I-E peptide and that had been cultured 10 h after being induced to apoptose with UV light treatment. Only infrequent cells in the T cell area expressed Y-Ae 2 d later. However, when we injected living, marrow-derived BALB/c DCs into C57BL/6 mice, large Y-Ae+ cells were found throughout the T cell area, but not in the B cell follicles or in the macrophage-rich subcapsular sinus and medullary regions (Fig. 5 A). These profiles were shown to be recipient DCs by FACS® analysis (Fig. 5 B). The DCs were first enriched on dense Nycodenz or BSA columns (20), and then the preparations were double labeled, e.g., for the CD11c integrin that is abundant on DCs. All the Y-Ae was found on CD11c+ B220– I-Ab+ cells, i.e., recipient DCs. The transfer of I-E peptide from injected DCs to recipient DCs was efficient, since 2 x 106 DCs contain <10 x 1011 I-E molecules or 0.05 µg of I-E protein.
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(18, 29). MHC molecules often present peptides derived from other MHC products (30), so this kind of complex is not uncommon. Moreover, the Y-Ae complex can be particularly abundant, especially on DCs within the lymphoid tissues of F1 mice formed from the cross of C57BL/6 (I-Ab+) and either DBA/2 or BALB/c (I-E+; reference 20) mice. The use of Y-Ae proved valuable for outlining a newly recognized function for DCs, the processing of peptides from other cells. This processing of cellular fragments was uncovered in studies of HLA-A2.1+ DCs from human blood (13, 14). The DCs would present an influenza matrix peptide from HLA-A2.1– cells that were either infected or transfected with the influenza matrix gene. MHC class I–peptide complex formation was monitored with functional assays, i.e., presentation to CD8+ CTLs. The complexes only formed when apoptotic cells were given to DCs, whereas our current studies indicate that processing of cellular fragments onto MHC class II occurs with both apoptotic and necrotic cells.
It is not surprising that immature DCs present antigens from endocytosed particulates, as shown for bacteria (17, 31, 32). However, what is surprising is the efficiency with which peptides can be extracted from phagocytosed cellular fragments, in our case from the plasma membrane of B blasts (Fig. 4). The finding (Fig. 3) that antigen transfer requires acidic compartments implies that the MIICs of DCs are processing and presentation machines. A protein from phagocytosed cells can be presented 1–10 thousand times better than preprocessed peptide, even though the latter is reasonably stable in culture and is administered to the same DCs that are fed dying B cells. In ongoing experiments in which we have monitored MHC–peptide formation by marrow-derived DCs (and in reports where other APCs have been studied [26, 27]), 1–10 µM concentrations of soluble protein and preprocessed peptide must be added to observe MHC class II–peptide formation. In contrast, when I-E protein in B blasts is offered to immature DCs, <1 nM protein leads to strong signals for MHC–peptide formation, and preprocessed peptide in parallel is >1,000 times less efficient. This calculation assumes that every I-E protein molecule is successfully processed to form an MHC–peptide complex. Therefore, we suspect that the success with which DCs process particulate antigens into MHC–peptide complexes reflects two things: (a) increased antigen uptake during adsorptive phagocytosis plus (b) the capacity of DCs to extract peptides from internalized protein for presentation on MHC II, as opposed to complete destruction down to the level of amino acids.
Our results also visualize a possible mechanism whereby antigens in peripheral tissues can be presented in lymph nodes to account for cross-priming in the case of transplants and cross-tolerance in the case of self-tissues. Foreign antigens in allografts and xenografts (5–12) are known to prime the recipient's immune system in association with recipient MHC II products, whereas self-antigens in pancreatic islets are known to tolerize the immune system in association with MHC I (1, 2) and II (3) products on lymph node APCs. The very act of transplantation causes DCs to differentiate, to express for example very high levels of MHC II and the CD86 costimulator, and to leave the transplant (33, 34). In contrast in the steady state, DCs would not be expected to be stimulated during their traffic through tissues to afferent lymph and then to the T cell areas of lymph nodes. Migratory DCs almost certainly die in the T cell areas, since DCs are not found in thoracic duct lymph (35–37). We find that migratory DCs can be processed, distributing their peptides widely and efficiently to other DCs to form MHC–peptide complexes. The latter, detected by the Y-Ae antibody, are unlikely to form in the periphery, since the turnover of DCs in lymphoid tissues requires 1–2 wk (38), yet most recipient DCs in lymph nodes formed Y-Ae in just 1–2 d.
The distinction between cross-priming and cross-tolerance may emanate from the maturation state of the incoming DC. If the DC has been activated in the peripheral tissues to express high levels of accessory molecules like CD86, then some of the incoming DCs should initiate the immune response. In this case, CD40L and TNF-related activation–induced cytokine (TRANCE) on the activated T cell would maintain DC viability (39). In contrast, when self-antigens from noninflamed tissues are brought to the T cell areas in the steady state, e.g, if immature DCs would phagocytose apoptotic cells during the normal turnover of tissues, T cell stimulation would not occur and the DCs would die quickly. Then presentation may be initiated by longer-lived recipient DCs in the lymph node that phagocytose the migratory DCs and express proposed regulatory and tolerogenic functions (40, 41).
We propose that in the steady state, antigens from apoptotic cells are picked up by peripheral DCs and are processed by lymph node DCs to purge the T cell repertoire of self-reactivity. DCs tolerize developing thymocytes (42– 44). Yet many self-antigens may not have access to the thymus, especially during development of the T cell repertoire in fetal and neonatal life (45). It may be essential for DCs to be able to tolerize the repertoire peripherally, since it seems obligatory that some self-antigens would be presented on DC MHC products whenever foreign antigens were being captured and presented. For example, when the I-E peptide we studied here is a self-antigen, the levels of MHC II–self peptide complexes are very high on DCs (20). DCs in the periphery are poised to capture antigens and to mature into strong stimulators of T cell immunity, events that are induced by inflammatory cytokines and microbial products (for reviews, see references 46 and 47). Because of the findings in this paper, i.e., the capacity of DCs to efficiently present peptides from phagocytosed cells and to do so in vivo during processing of migratory DCs, we suggest the following pathway to explain the capacity of the immune system to distinguish foreign from self-antigens. When DCs are presenting foreign, inflammatory, and dangerous antigens (45, 48), the DCs are mature, longer-lived, and stimulate T cells directly, but reactivity to self is avoided because self-reactive T cells have previously been inactivated. This inactivation of self-reactive T cells occurs via DCs in the thymus, but also in the periphery by the efficient transfer of self from peripheral to lymph node DCs.
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This work is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (AI-13013 and AI-39672 to R.M. Steinman, and AI-34098 and GM-33904 to I. Mellman), the Yamanouchi Fund, and the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan (08282104, 10153226, and 10044268 to K. Inaba).
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