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Nuclear factor-B-dependent reversal of aging-induced alterations in T cell cytokines

Mei-Chuan Huang^*, Jia-Jun Liao^*, Stephen Bonasera^*, Dan L. Longo and Edward J. Goetzl^*,1

^* Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; and

National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

¹Correspondence: University of California, Room UB8B, 533 Parnassus at 4th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94143-0711, USA. E-mail: edward.goetzl{at}ucsf.edu

Immunosenescence is characterized by decreases in protective immune responses and increases in inflammation and autoimmunity. The T helper (Th)17 subset of cluster-of-differentiation (CD)4 T cells, which is identified by its generation of interleukin (IL) -17, is implicated in autoimmune pathogenesis. To elucidate immunosenescent changes in Th17 cell cytokines, splenic CD4 T cells from 22- to 24-month-old (old) mice and 6- to 10-wk-old (young) mice were incubated on anti-CD3 plus anti-CD28 (anti-T cell antigen receptor) antibodies. After 96 h, T cells of old C57BL/6 and CBA mice generated up to 20-fold more IL-17 and up to 3-fold more IL-6 than those of young mice; T cells of young mice generated up to 5-fold more IL-21 than those of old mice; and no difference was found for IFN-. At 24 h, cytokine mRNA levels paralleled 96 h cytokine concentrations. Naive CD4 T cells from old mice incubated on anti-T cell antigen receptor antibodies with transforming growth factor-β, IL-1, IL-6, and IL-23 to induce de novo differentiation of Th17 cells had more IL-17 mRNA and produced more IL-17 than those of young mice. BAY11-7082 and the phytochemicals triptolide and butein suppressed nuclear concentrations of nuclear factor-B and secreted levels of IL-17, IL-21, and IFN- in parallel, with greater potency in Th17 cells from young than old mice. Pharmacological correction of altered generation of Th17 cell cytokines in immunosenescence represents a novel therapeutic approach to aging-induced inflammatory diseases.—Huang, M.-C., Liao, J.-J., Bonasera, S., Longo, D. L., Goetzl, E. J. Nuclear factor-B-dependent reversal of aging-induced alterations in T cell cytokines.

Key Words: immunosenescence • inflammation • autoimmunity • phytochemicals