{"doi":"10.17615/47km-w720","title":"Divergent Effects of T Cell Costimulation and Inflammatory Cytokine Production on Autoimmune Peripheral Neuropathy Provoked by Aire Deficiency","abstract":"Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) results from autoimmune destruction of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and is a component of the multi-organ autoimmunity syndrome which results from Autoimmune Regulator (Aire) gene mutations in humans. In parallel, PNS autoimmunity resembling CIDP develops spontaneously in NOD mice with a partial loss of Aire function (NOD.AireGW/+ mice), and is a T cell-mediated disease. In this study, we analyze how key aspects of T cell activation and function modulate disease development in Aire-deficient mice. We show here that genetic ablation of the Th1 cytokine IFNγ completely prevents clinical and electrophysiological evidence of neuropathy in NOD.AireGW/+ mice. IFNγ deficiency is associated with absence of immune infiltration and decreased expression of the T cell chemoattractant IP-10 in sciatic nerves. Thus, IFNγ is absolutely required for the development of autoimmune peripheral neuropathy in NOD.AireGW/+ mice. Because IFNγ secretion is enhanced by B7-CD28 costimulation of T cells, we sought to determine the effects of these costimulatory molecules on neuropathy development. Surprisingly, B7-2 deficiency accelerated neuropathy development in NOD.AireGW/+ mice, and antibody blockade of both B7-1 and B7-2 resulted in fulminant, early-onset neuropathy. Thus, in contrast to IFNγ, B7-2 alone and B7-1/B7-2 in combination function to ameliorate neuropathy development in NOD.AireGW/+ mice. Together, these findings reveal distinct and opposing effects of T cell costimulatory pathways and IFNγ production on the pathogenesis of autoimmune peripheral neuropathy.","journal":"UNC Libraries","year":2020,"id":136366,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9534,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":595440,"name":"Colin Jamal Smith","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":595441,"name":"Xiaopei Lily Zeng","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":270885,"name":"James F. Howard","orcid":"0000-0002-7136-8617","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":595442,"name":"Anil Nagavalli","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":339087,"name":"Maureen A. Su","orcid":"0000-0002-3680-9982","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:16:48.793683Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}