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Antigen-stimulated CD4 T cell expansion can be limited by their grazing of peptide-MHC complexes1 #MMPMID23606541
De Boer RJ; Perelson AS
J Immunol 2013[Jun]; 190 (11): 5454-8 PMID23606541show ga
It was recently shown that the expansion of CD4+ T cells during a primary immune reaction to a peptide from cytochrome c decreases approximately 0.5 log for every log increase in the number of cognate precursor cells, and that this remains valid over more than four orders of magnitude [Quiel, et al., Antigen-stimulated CD4 T-cell expansion is inversely and log-linearly related to precursor number. PNAS, 2011, 108: 3312]. This observed ?power law? was explained by a mechanism where non-dividing mature T cells inhibit the proliferation of less-differentiated cells of the same specificity. Here we interpret the same data by a mechanism where CD4+ T cells acquire cognate peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes from the surface of antigen presenting cells (APCs), thereby increasing the loss rate of pMHC. We show that a mathematical model implementing this ?T cell grazing" mechanism, and having a T cell proliferation rate that is determined by the concentration of pMHC, explains the data equally well. As a consequence, the data no longer unequivocally support the previous explanation, and the increased loss of pMHC complexes on APCs at high T cell densities is an equally valid interpretation of this striking data.