Murine gamma delta T Cells Render B Cells Refractory to Commitment of IgA Isotype Switching
IMMUNE NETWORK
Authors: Han, Hye-Ju; Jang, Young-Saeng; Seo, Goo-Young; Park, Sung-Gyoo; Kang, Seung Goo; Yoon, Sung-il; Ko, Hyun-Jeong; Lee, Geun-Shik; Kim, Pyeung-Hyeun
Abstract
gamma delta T cells are abundant in the gut mucosa and play an important role in adaptive immunity as well as innate immunity. Although gamma delta T cells are supposed to be associated with the enhancement of Ab production, the status of gamma delta T cells, particularly in the synthesis of IgA isotype, remains unclear. We compared Ig expression in T cell receptor delta chain deficient (TCRd(-/-)) mice with wild-type mice. The amount of IgA in fecal pellets was substantially elevated in TCRd(-/-) mice. This was paralleled by an increase in surface IgA expression and total IgA production by Peyer's patches (PPs) and mesenteric lymph node (MLN) cells. Likewise, the TCRd(-/-) mice produced much higher levels of serum IgA isotype. Here, surface IgA expression and number of IgA secreting cells were also elevated in the culture of spleen and bone marrow (BM) B cells. Germ-line alpha transcript, an indicator of IgA class switch recombination, higher in PP and MLN B cells from TCRd(-/-) mice, while it was not seen in inactivated B cells. Nevertheless, the frequency of IgA(+) B cells was much higher in the spleen from TCRd(-/-) mice. These results suggest that gamma delta T cells control the early phase of B cells, in order to prevent unnecessary IgA isotype switching. Furthermore, this regulatory role of gamma delta T cells had lasting effects on the long-lived IgA-producing plasma cells in the BM.
Logic and Event Based Semantic Relationship Evolution in Service Semantic Link Network
JOURNAL OF INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Yu, Yu; Zhao, Anping
Abstract
To facilitate reasoning and predicting service evolution relationships with incomplete, partial or uncertain knowledge for supporting an intelligent service application and to preserve the relationship consistency in the whole service networks during Web service evolution processes over time. An approach was presented for event-based relationships evolution detection and reasoning among web services by combining first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models in a single representation. The Web service relationship evolution model was constructed by using available probability information and knowledge based on the related event and their inherent service relationship dependencies. And S-MLN was taken as a logical framework for Web service relationships evolution reasoning with uncertainty to discover and predict evolutionary service relationship classification. The events and evolutionary measures of the research were found to be helpful for evaluating Web service evolution relationships. And it is effective to evaluate the quality of service set classification by S-MLN based evolution relationships prediction. The study identifies the theoretical foundations of web service evolution discovery in the context of SLN. This study, based on an established theoretical foundation, will help the research community to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic relationship in the semantic context of the web services network.