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Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 8301-8308, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Efficient Class II Major Histocompatibility Complex Presentation of Endogenously Synthesized Hepatitis C Virus Core Protein by Epstein-Barr Virus-Transformed B-Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines to CD4+ T Cells

Ming Chen,* Mutsunori Shirai,dagger Zijuan Liu, Tatsumi Arichi, Hidemi Takahashi,Dagger and Mikio Nishioka

Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa, Japan

Received 18 August 1997/Accepted 2 July 1998

The induction of an efficient CD4+ T-cell response against hepatitis C virus (HCV) is critical for control of the chronicity of HCV infection. The ability of HCV structural protein endogenously expressed in an antigen-presenting cell (APC) to be presented by class II major histocompatibility complex molecules to CD4+ T cells was investigated by in vitro culture analyses using HCV core-specific T-cell lines and autologous Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (B-LCLs) expressing structural HCV antigens. The T- and B-cell lines were generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells derived from HCV-infected patients. Expression and intracellular localization of core protein in transfected cells were determined by immunoblotting and immunofluorescence. By stimulation with autologous B-LCLs expressing viral antigens, strong T-cell proliferative responses were induced in two of three patients, while no substantial stimulatory effects were produced by B-LCLs expressing a control protein (chloramphenicol acetyltransferase) or by B-LCLs alone. The results showed that transfected B cells presented mainly endogenously synthesized core peptides. Presentation of secreted antigens from adjacent antigen-expressing cells was not enough to stimulate a core-specific T-cell response. Only weak T-cell proliferative responses were generated by stimulation with B-LCLs that had been pulsed beforehand with at least a 10-fold-higher amount of transfected COS cells in the form of cell lysate, suggesting that presentation of antigens released from dead cells in the B-LCL cultures had a minimal role. Titrating numbers of APCs, we showed that as few as 104 transfected B-LCL APCs were sufficient to stimulate T cells. This presentation pathway was found to be leupeptin sensitive, and it can be blocked by antibody to HLA class II (DR). In addition, expression of a costimulatory signal by B7/BB1 on B cells was essential for T-cell activation.

* Corresponding author. Present address: Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, NA2.116 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75235-9048. Phone: (214) 648-5945. Fax: (214) 648-5905. E-mail: m.chen{at}mci2000.com.

dagger Present address: Department of Microbiology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube City, Yamaguchi 755, Japan.

Dagger Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nippon Medical School, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan.

Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 8301-8308, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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