We sought to determine whether osteoblasts (OBs) can serve as accessory cells (ACs) for T-cell activation and whether T cells directly activate OB production of IL-6, using primary human OBs (NHOst), the transformed fetal osteoblast line hFOB1.19, and an osteosarcoma line SaOS-2. Robust, bidirectional activating interactions were shown using each of these three human ostoblast lines.Introduction: Osteoblasts (OBs) could come into contact with lymphocytes during inflammatory joint destruction and fracture repair. Materials and Methods: We used several in vitro assays to assess the ability of T cells and OBs to interact in the generation of immune and inflammatory responses. Results: By flow cytometry, three OB cell lines all were found to express ligands for T-cell co-stimulation. The integrin ligand CD54/ICAM-1 was constitutively expressed by hFOB1.19 and NHOst and was upregulated on SaOS-2 by IFN-␥. MHC Class II was upregulated on all three lines by IFN-␥. CD166/ALCAM, a ligand of the T-cell molecule CD6, was constitutively expressed on all three lines. A second putative CD6 ligand designated 3A11 was expressed on hFOB1.19 and NHOst, but not consistently on SaOS-2. The ectoenzyme CD26 (dipeptidyl peptidase IV) was expressed on hFOB1.19 and NHOst, but not on SaOS-2. All three cell lines presented superantigen to T cells, especially after treatment with IFN-␥. Superantigen presentation was inhibited by antibodies to the leukocyte integrin CD11a/CD18 (LFA-1), MHC Class II, and CD54/ICAM-1. T cells, particularly when cytokine activated for 7 days before co-culture, stimulated all three osteoblast lines to produce interleukin (IL)-6, and this effect was boosted when IL-17 was added to the co-cultures with either resting T cells or cytokine-activated T cells. Conclusions: Bidirectional activating interactions are readily shown between human T cells and several types of human OBs. The expression by OBs of ligands for the T cell-specific molecule CD6, as well as other molecules involved in immune interactions, strongly suggests that such in vitro interactions are representative of physiologic or pathologic events that occur in vivo.
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