Altered gut microbiota activate and expand insulin B15-23-Reactive CD8+ T-Cells

Pearson, James A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2867-2269, Kakabadse, Dimitri, Davies, Joanne, Peng, Jian, Warden-Smith, Jeremy, Cuff, Simone ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0546-3579, Lewis, Mark, Camargo da Rosa, Larissa, Wen, Li and Wong, F. Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2812-8845 2019. Altered gut microbiota activate and expand insulin B15-23-Reactive CD8+ T-Cells. Diabetes 68 (5) , pp. 1002-1013. 10.2337/db18-0487

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Abstract

Insulin is a major autoantigen in type 1 diabetes, targeted by both CD8 and CD4 T-cells. We studied an insulin-reactive T-cell receptor (TCR) alpha-chain transgenic non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse on a TCRCα and proinsulin2 (PI2)-deficient background, designated as A22Cα-/-PI2-/-NOD mice. These mice develop a low incidence of autoimmune diabetes. To test the role of gut microbiota on diabetes development in this model system, we treated the A22Cα-/-PI2-/-NOD mice with enrofloxacin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic. The treatment led to male mice developing accelerated diabetes. We found that enrofloxacin increased the frequency of the insulin-reactive CD8+ T-cells and activated the cells in the Peyer’s patches (PP) and pancreatic lymph nodes (PLNs), together with induction of immunological effects on the antigen-presenting cell populations. The composition of gut microbiota differed between the enrofloxacin-treated and untreated mice and also between the enrofloxacin-treated mice that developed diabetes, compared with those that remained normoglycemic. Our results provide evidence that the composition of the gut microbiota is important for determining the expansion and activation of insulin-reactive CD8+ T-cells.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	American Diabetes Association
ISSN:	0012-1797
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 May 2019
Date of Acceptance:	13 February 2019
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2024 22:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/120068

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