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Rachel T van Beem, Willy A Noort, Carlijn Voermans, Marion Kleijer, Anja ten Brinke, S Marieke van Ham, C Ellen van der Schoot, Jaap Jan Zwaginga, The Presence of Activated CD4+ T Cells Is Essential for the Formation of Colony-Forming Unit-Endothelial Cells by CD14+ Cells, The Journal of Immunology, Volume 180, Issue 7, April 2008, Pages 5141–5148, https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.180.7.5141
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Abstract
The number of colony forming unit-endothelial cells (CFU-EC) in human peripheral blood was found to be a biological marker for several vascular diseases. In this study, the heterogeneous composition of immune cells in the CFU-ECs was investigated. We confirmed that monocytes are essential for the formation of CFU-ECs. Also, however, CD4+ T cells were found to be indispensable for the induction of CFU-EC colonies, mainly through cell-cell contact. By blocking or activating CD3 receptors on CD4+ T cells or blocking MHC class II molecules on monocytes, it was shown that TCR-MHCII interactions are required for induction of CFU-EC colonies. Because the supernatant from preactivated T cells could also induce colony formation from purified monocytes, the T cell support turned out to be cytokine mediated. Gene expression analysis of the endothelial-like colonies formed by CD14+ cells showed that colony formation is a proangiogenic differentiation and might reflect the ability of monocytes to facilitate vascularization. This in vitro study is the first to reveal the role of TCR-MHC class II interactions between T cells and monocytes and the subsequent inflammatory response as stimulus of monocytic properties that are associated with vascularization.