Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) are known to stimulate a large proportion of T cells. SE bind to MHC-class II molecules on APC and a particular segment of certain TCR V beta and V gamma gene products. Resting human T cells do not express HLA class II Ag and therefore cannot present SE to T cells. Activated human T cells, however, do express HLA-DR, -DP, and -DQ Ag and could consequently serve as APC for SE. As such, local immune responses to SE might be regulated and/or abrogated by SE-mediated T-T cell interactions leading to T cell destruction. We have investigated if such SE-mediated T-T cell interactions can occur in vitro using human cytolytic TCR-alpha beta+ and TCR-gamma delta+ T cell clones. We demonstrate that the TCR-alpha beta+ T cell clones can efficiently present staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) to each other: T cell clones coated with SEA are lysed by SEA-reactive T cell clones but not by a SEA-nonreactive T cell clone. Furthermore, the SEA-reactive TCR-alpha beta+ clones (but not the SEA-nonreactive clone) destruct themselves in the presence of SEA at low concentrations of SEA (less than 0.01 microgram/ml). Also, SEA-coated T cell clones can induce proliferative responses although such responses are much weaker than those induced when B cells are used as stimulator cells. In contrast, the SEA-reactive TCR-gamma delta+ T cell clones are resistant to autokilling in the presence of SEA and they do not lyse SEA-coated TCR-gamma delta+ targets. However, such targets can be lysed by TCR-alpha beta+ effector cells. These results indicate that TCR-gamma delta+ cells are relatively resistant to lysis and that during local nonspecific immune responses triggered by SE, which induces HLA-class II expression by the responding T cells, SE-mediated T-T cell interactions may play a role in the regulation and/or abrogation of these immune responses.

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