Expression and biological activity of interleukin-1 receptors in mouse gamma/delta thymocytes during ontogeny.

Eur J Immunol

Unité d'Immunochimie analytique, Départment d'Immunologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Published: November 1992

We have recently shown that the response of mouse thymocytes to interleukin (IL)-1 + IL-2 was maximal at birth and that the responding cells displayed a CD4-CD8- T cell receptor (TcR) gamma/delta + phenotype. Unexpectedly, despite their high proportion of gamma/delta + cells, fetal thymocyte populations responded only weakly to IL-1 + IL-2. In this report, we demonstrate that the discrepancy between the day 17.5 fetal and newborn sensitivities to the combined action of IL-1 and IL-2 is a consequence of the different patterns of high-affinity IL-1 receptor (IL-1R) expression displayed by these two cell subsets. Actually, high- and low-affinity IL-1R are found in TcR gamma/delta + newborn cells and, in contrast, only low-affinity IL-1R are detectable in day 17.5 fetal cells. Our binding and functional studies strongly support the hypothesis that high-affinity IL-1R on the one hand, and low-affinity ones on the other hand, are involved in the response to IL-1 + IL-2 of newborn and day 17.5 fetal thymocytes, respectively. In addition, the high-affinity IL-1R appear to be far more efficient than the low-affinity receptors in promoting IL-2 responsiveness of thymocytes.

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