Thy-1+ Dendritic Epidermal Cells Belong to the T-cell Lineage

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1987 Apr 1

PMID 2882517

Citations 28

Authors

G Stingl

K C Gunter

E Tschachler

H Yamada

R I Lechler

W M Yokoyama

G Steiner

R N Germain

E M Shevach

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Abstract

The murine epidermis contains a population of dendritic, Thy-1+ cells (Thy-1+ DEC). Although it is now clear that these cells are of bone marrow origin, extensive morphological, histochemical, and cell-membrane marker studies have not definitively placed them in any known hematopoietic differentiation pathway. Based on the observation that Thy-1+ DEC can be propagated in vitro with Con A and interleukin 2, we have established three cell lines (Tehy 184, Tehy 245, and Yety 245) that can be continuously grown in medium with lectin-lymphokine-rich culture supernatants of rat spleen cells. With the exception of the loss of reactivity with anti-asialo-GM1 antibodies (Tehy 184 and Tehy 245) and the gain of interleukin 2 receptor expression, the cultured cell lines bear the same surface characteristics as freshly isolated Thy-1+ DEC: Thy-1+, Ly-5+, Lyt-1-, Lyt-2-, L3T4-, Ia-, sIg-. Using Southern and RNA gel blot analysis, we now demonstrate that these Thy-1+ DEC-derived cell lines exhibit various patterns of rearrangements in the gene complexes encoding the T-cell receptor (related) beta and gamma chains and contain mature and/or incomplete transcripts from the T-cell receptor alpha- and beta-chain genes, as well as transcripts from the receptor-related gamma-chain genes. Tehy 184 cells, the only cells containing both mature alpha- and beta-chain transcripts, react positively with the F23.1 monoclonal antibody, which recognizes the product of a subset of T-cell receptor beta-chain variable region gene segments. This antibody precipitates a surface protein of 84-88 kDa from these cells that after reduction separates into two 40- to 44-kDa chains, characteristic of Ti alpha/beta heterodimers. These data strongly suggest that Thy-1+ DEC belong to the T-cell lineage and point to the epidermis as a site either of immature thymocyte migration or of extrathymic T-cell differentiation.

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