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Pan M, Winslow MM, Chen L, Kuo A, Felsher D, Crabtree GR. Enhanced NFATc1 nuclear occupancy causes T cell activation independent of CD28 costimulation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 178:4315-21. [PMID: 17371988 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.7.4315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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TCR signals induce the nuclear localization of NFATc proteins, which are removed from the nucleus after rephosphorylation by glycogen synthase kinase 3 and other kinases. Rapid nuclear export might allow continuous monitoring of receptor occupancy, making the transcriptional response proportional to the duration of TCR/CD28 signaling. To investigate this possibility, we analyzed mice in which T cells express a NFATc1 variant (NFATc1(nuc)) with serine-to-alanine changes at the glycogen synthase kinase 3 phosphorylation sites. NFATc1(nuc) T cells have constitutively nuclear NFATc1, enhanced T cell activation in vivo, and calcineurin-independent proliferation in vitro. NFATc1(nuc) T cells are hypersensitive to TCR/CD3 stimulation, resulting in enhanced proliferation and cytokine production that is independent of CD28 costimulation. These results support the notion that CD28 inhibits nuclear export of NFATc transcription factors. In addition, NFATc1(nuc) destabilizes a positive feedback loop in which NFATc1 activates its own transcription as well as its targets, such as CD40 ligand and Th1/Th2 cytokines.
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- Minggui Pan
- Division of Oncology, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Savignac M, Mellström B, Naranjo JR. Calcium-dependent transcription of cytokine genes in T lymphocytes. Pflugers Arch 2007; 454:523-33. [PMID: 17334777 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-007-0238-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2006] [Accepted: 02/14/2007] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The increase in intracellular calcium ion concentration is a general signaling mechanism used in many biological systems. In T lymphocytes, calcium is essential for activation, differentiation, and effector functions. In this study, we will summarize recent developments of how intracellular calcium concentrations are modified in T cells to affect the activity of three major calcium-dependent transcriptional effectors, i.e., NFAT, MEF2, and DREAM, involved in cytokine gene expression.
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- Magali Savignac
- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain
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Xue L, Gyles SL, Barrow A, Pettipher R. Inhibition of PI3K and calcineurin suppresses chemoattractant receptor-homologous molecule expressed on Th2 cells (CRTH2)-dependent responses of Th2 lymphocytes to prostaglandin D2. Biochem Pharmacol 2007; 73:843-53. [PMID: 17196174 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2006.11.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2006] [Revised: 11/20/2006] [Accepted: 11/27/2006] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Interaction of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) with chemoattractant receptor-homologous molecule expressed on Th2 cells (CRTH2) triggers chemotaxis and pro-inflammatory cytokine production by Th2 lymphocytes. We have investigated the role of inhibitors of various cell-signalling pathways on the responses of human CRTH2+ CD4+ Th2 cells to PGD2. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and Ca2+/calcineurin/nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) pathways were activated by PGD2 in Th2 cells in a CRTH2-dependent manner. Inhibition of the PI3K pathway with LY294002 significantly reduced both PGD2-induced cell migration and cytokine (interleukin-4, interleukin-5 and interleukin-13) production. The inhibitory effect of LY294002 on cell migration is likely to be related to cytoskeleton reorganization as it showed a similar potency on PGD2-induced actin polymerization. The calcineurin inhibitors, tacrolimus (FK506) and cyclosporin A, had no effect on cell migration but completely blocked both cytokine production and the nuclear translocation of NFATc1 suggesting that Ca2+/calcineurin/NFAT is involved in CRTH2-dependent cytokine production but not chemotaxis. The promotion of NFAT nuclear location by PI3K activation may be mediated by negative regulation of glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK3beta), since the PGD2-stimulated increase in phospho-GSK3beta was down-regulated by LY294002, and inhibition of GSK3beta by SB216763 enhanced PGD2-induced Th2 cytokine production and reversed the inhibitory effect of LY294002. These data suggest that PI3K and Ca2+/calcineurin/NFAT signalling pathways are critically involved in pro-inflammatory responses of Th2 cells to PGD2.
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- Luzheng Xue
- Oxagen Limited, 91 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RY, United Kingdom.
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Chen YC, Tsai WJ, Wu MH, Lin LC, Kuo YC. Suberosin inhibits proliferation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells through the modulation of the transcription factors NF-AT and NF-kappaB. Br J Pharmacol 2007; 150:298-312. [PMID: 17179947 PMCID: PMC2013892 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0706987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2006] [Revised: 10/26/2006] [Accepted: 10/30/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Extracts of Plumbago zeylanica containing suberosin exhibit anti-inflammatory activity. We purified suberosin from such extracts and studied its effects on a set of key regulatory events in the proliferation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated by phytohemagglutinin (PHA). EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Proliferation of PBMC in culture was measured by uptake of 3H-thymidine; production of cytokines and cyclins by Western blotting and RT-PCR. Transcription factors NF-AT and NF-kappaB were assayed by immunocytochemistry and EMSA. KEY RESULTS Suberosin suppressed PHA-induced PBMC proliferation and arrested cell cycle progression from the G1 transition to the S phase. Suberosin suppressed, in activated PBMC, transcripts of interleukin-2 (IL-2), interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), and cyclins D3, E, A, and B. DNA binding activity and nuclear translocation of NF-AT and NF-kappaB induced by PHA were blocked by suberosin. Suberosin decreased the rise in intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in PBMC stimulated with PHA. Suberosin did not affect phosphorylation of p38 and JNK but did reduce activation of ERK in PHA-treated PBMC. Pharmacological inhibitors of NF-kappaB, NF-AT, and ERK decreased expression of mRNA for the cyclins, IL-2, and IFN-gamma and cell proliferation in PBMC activated by PHA. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS The inhibitory effects of suberosin on PHA-induced PBMC proliferation, were mediated, at least in part, through reduction of [Ca2+]i, ERK, NF-AT, and NF-kappaB activation, and early gene expression in PBMC including cyclins and cytokines, and arrest of cell cycle progression in the cells. Our observations provide an explanation for the anti-inflammatory activity of P. zeylanica.
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- Y-C Chen
- Institute of Pharmacology, National Yang-Ming University Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
- Institute of Life Science, National Tai-Tung University Taitung, Taiwan, ROC
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- Institute of Pharmacology, National Yang-Ming University Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Institute of Life Science, Fu-Jen University Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, ROC
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Sanyal M, Tung JW, Karsunky H, Zeng H, Selleri L, Weissman IL, Herzenberg LA, Cleary ML. B-cell development fails in the absence of the Pbx1 proto-oncogene. Blood 2007; 109:4191-9. [PMID: 17244677 PMCID: PMC1885499 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-10-054213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Pbx1, a homeodomain transcription factor that was originally identified as the product of a proto-oncogene in acute pre-B-cell leukemia, is a global regulator of embryonic development. However, embryonic lethality in its absence has prevented an assessment of its role in B-cell development. Here, using Rag1-deficient blastocyst complementation assays, we demonstrate that Pbx1 null embryonic stem (ES) cells fail to generate common lymphoid progenitors (CLPs) resulting in a complete lack of B and NK cells, and a partial impairment of T-cell development in chimeric mice. A critical role for Pbx1 was confirmed by rescue of B-cell development from CLPs following restoration of its expression in Pbx1-deficient ES cells. In adoptive transfer experiments, B-cell development from Pbx1-deficient fetal liver cells was also severely compromised, but not erased, since transient B lymphopoiesis was detected in Rag-deficient recipients. Conditional inactivation of Pbx1 in pro-B (CD19(+)) cells and thereafter revealed that Pbx1 is not necessary for B-cell development to proceed from the pro-B-cell stage. Thus, Pbx1 critically functions at a stage between hematopoietic stem cell development and B-cell commitment and, therefore, is one of the earliest-acting transcription factors that regulate de novo B-lineage lymphopoiesis.
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- Mrinmoy Sanyal
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Klein M, Klein-Hessling S, Palmetshofer A, Serfling E, Tertilt C, Bopp T, Heib V, Becker M, Taube C, Schild H, Schmitt E, Stassen M. Specific and redundant roles for NFAT transcription factors in the expression of mast cell-derived cytokines. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 177:6667-74. [PMID: 17082579 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.10.6667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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By virtue of their ability to express a plethora of biologically highly active mediators, mast cells (MC) are involved in both adaptive and innate immune responses. MC-derived Th2-type cytokines are thought to act as local amplifiers of Th2 reactions, including chronic inflammatory disorders such as allergic asthma, whereas MC-derived TNF-alpha is a critical initiator of antimicrobial defense. In this study, we demonstrate that the transcription factors NFATc1 and NFATc2 are part of a MC-specific signaling network that regulates the expression of TNF-alpha and IL-13, whereas NFATc3 is dispensable. Primary murine bone marrow-derived MC from NFATc2(-/-) mice, activated by either ionomycin or IgE/Ag cross-link, display a strong reduction in the production of these cytokines, compared with bone marrow-derived MC from wild-type mice. Detailed analyses of TNF-alpha and IL-13 expression using small interfering RNA-mediated knockdown reveals that both NFATc2 and NFATc1 are able to drive the expression of these cytokines, whereas neither degranulation nor the expression of IL-6 depends on NFAT activity. These results support the view that high NFAT activity is necessary for TNF-alpha and IL-13 promoter induction in MC, irrespective of whether NFATc2 or NFATc1 or a combination of both is present.
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Trifari S, Sitia G, Aiuti A, Scaramuzza S, Marangoni F, Guidotti LG, Martino S, Saracco P, Notarangelo LD, Roncarolo MG, Dupré L. Defective Th1 cytokine gene transcription in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome patients. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 177:7451-61. [PMID: 17082665 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.10.7451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) protein (WASP) plays a key role in TCR-mediated activation and immunological synapse formation. However, the effects of WASP deficiency on effector functions of human CD4+ and CD8+ T cells remain to be determined. In this study, we report that TCR/CD28-driven proliferation and secretion of IL-2, IFN-gamma, and TNF-alpha are strongly reduced in CD8+ T cells from WAS patients, compared with healthy donor CD8+ T cells. Furthermore, WAS CD4+ T cells secrete low levels of IL-2 and fail to produce IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha, while the production of IL-4, IL-5, and IL-10 is only minimally affected. Defective IL-2 and IFN-gamma production persists after culture of naive WAS CD4+ T cells in Th1-polarizing conditions. The defect in Th1 cytokine production by WAS CD4+ and CD8+ T cells is also present at the transcriptional level, as shown by reduced IL-2 and IFN-gamma mRNA transcripts after TCR/CD28 triggering. The reduced transcription of Th1 cytokine genes in WAS CD4+ T cells is associated with a defective induction of T-bet mRNA and a reduction in the early nuclear recruitment of NFAT-1, while the defective activation of WAS CD8+ T cells correlates with reduced nuclear recruitment of both NFAT-1 and NFAT-2. Together, our data indicate that WASP regulates the transcriptional activation of T cells and is required specifically for Th1 cytokine production.
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- Sara Trifari
- San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy
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Patra AK, Drewes T, Engelmann S, Chuvpilo S, Kishi H, Hünig T, Serfling E, Bommhardt UH. PKB Rescues Calcineurin/NFAT-Induced Arrest of Rag Expression and Pre-T Cell Differentiation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 177:4567-76. [PMID: 16982894 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.7.4567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Protein kinase B (PKB), an Ag receptor activated serine-threonine kinase, controls various cellular processes including proliferation and survival. However, PKB function in thymocyte development is still unclear. We report PKB as an important negative regulator of the calcineurin (CN)-regulated transcription factor NFAT in early T cell differentiation. Expression of a hyperactive version of CN induces a profound block at the CD25+CD44- double-negative (DN) 3 stage of T cell development. We correlate this arrest with up-regulation of Bcl-2, CD2, CD5, and CD27 proteins and constitutive activation of NFAT but a severe impairment of Rag1, Rag2, and intracellular TCR-beta as well as intracellular TCR-gammadelta protein expression. Intriguingly, simultaneous expression of active myristoylated PKB inhibits nuclear NFAT activity, restores Rag activity, and enables DN3 cells to undergo normal differentiation and expansion. A correlation between the loss of NFAT activity and Rag1 and Rag2 expression is also found in myristoylated PKB-induced CD4+ lymphoma cells. Furthermore, ectopic expression of NFAT inhibits Rag2 promoter activity in EL4 cells, and in vivo binding of NFATc1 to the Rag1 and Rag2 promoter and cis-acting transcription regulatory elements is verified by chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis. The regulation of CN/NFAT signaling by PKB may thus control receptor regulated changes in Rag expression and constitute a signaling pathway important for differentiation processes in the thymus and periphery.
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- Amiya K Patra
- Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Kim HP, Imbert J, Leonard WJ. Both integrated and differential regulation of components of the IL-2/IL-2 receptor system. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 2006; 17:349-66. [PMID: 16911870 DOI: 10.1016/j.cytogfr.2006.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Interleukin-2 was discovered in 1976 as a T-cell growth factor. It was the first type I cytokine cloned and the first for which a receptor component was cloned. Its importance includes its multiple actions, therapeutic potential, and lessons for receptor biology, with three components differentially combining to form high, intermediate, and low-affinity receptors. IL-2Ralpha and IL-2Rbeta, respectively, are markers for double-negative thymocytes and regulatory T-cells versus memory cells. gamma(c), which is shared by six cytokines, is mutated in patients with X-linked severe-combined immunodeficiency. We now cover an under-reviewed area-the regulation of genes encoding IL-2 and IL-2R components, with an effort to integrate/explain this knowledge.
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- Hyoung Pyo Kim
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Immunology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1674, United States.
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Serfling E, Chuvpilo S, Liu J, Höfer T, Palmetshofer A. NFATc1 autoregulation: a crucial step for cell-fate determination. Trends Immunol 2006; 27:461-9. [PMID: 16931157 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2006.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2006] [Revised: 07/17/2006] [Accepted: 08/09/2006] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Nuclear factor of activated T cell c (NFATc) transcription factors appeared in evolution with the emergence of lymphocytes in jawed fish. They have decisive roles in the development of the immune system and adaptive immune responses. Following immunoreceptor stimulation, NFAT factors control the expression of a large set of genes and thereby the fate of peripheral lymphocytes. NFATc1 and NFATc2 are the most prominent NFAT factors in peripheral T cells; they overlap in their function but differ remarkably in the mode of expression. NFATc2 is constitutively synthesized in T cells, whereas the expression of NFATc1/alphaA, the most prominent of six NFATc1 isoforms in peripheral T cells, is strongly induced following T-cell receptor and co-receptor stimulation and maintained by positive autoregulation. Findings concerning NFATc1 autoregulation in peripheral T lymphocytes and other cells suggest that positive autoregulation of NFATc1 is a crucial step in cell-fate determination.
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- Edgar Serfling
- Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Pathology, University of Wuerzburg, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany.
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Glucocorticoids have been the main agents for preventing organ rejection,but unfortunately they possess serious side effects. Newer immunosuppressive agents have therefore been introduced to overcome these effects and have had a dramatic impact on reducing the incidence of organ rejection, enhancing donor organ acceptance, and hence patient survival posttransplantation. However, calcineurin inhibitors (CIs), such as cyclosporine and tacrolimus, also have serious effects causing rapid and severe bone loss in animal models and humans. The mechanism accounting for this action is unclear at present, but the role of T lymphocyte action via RANKL seems to be of essence in triggering bone loss. The mechanism is complex and in vitro studies often produce results that are opposite to those seen in vivo. In addition to acute, rapid, and severe bone loss (ARSBL), the clinical picture shows an extremely high incidence of fractures at all sites, and depends upon the organ transplanted, preexisting bone disease, interval before transplantation, and the dose and duration of multiple immunosuppressive drugs. Other immune-modifying drugs, such as azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil, and sirolimus, which are used in conjunction with glucocorticoids and CIs have not been shown to promote bone loss experimentally or clinically. With the exception of glucocorticoids, all of the agents discussed here demand further investigation with regard to their effects on bone health in the clinical setting.
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- Ronald Tamler
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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Grayson MH. Lung dendritic cells and the inflammatory response. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2006; 96:643-51; quiz 652-3, 678. [PMID: 16729776 DOI: 10.1016/s1081-1206(10)61061-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To discuss the role of conventional and plasmacytoid dendritic cells in inducing and modulating immune responses in the lung. DATA SOURCES The primary literature and selected review articles studying the role of dendritic cells in both rodent and human lungs as identified via a PubMed/MEDLINE search using the keywords dendritic cell, antigen-presenting cell, viral airway disease, asthma, allergy, and atopy. STUDY SELECTION The author's knowledge of the field was used to identify studies that were relevant to the stated objective. RESULTS Dendritic cells are well positioned in the respiratory tract and other mucosal surfaces to respond to any foreign protein. These cells are crucial to the initiation of the adaptive immune response through induction of antigen specific T-cell responses. These cells also play an important role in the regulation of developing and ongoing immune responses, an area that is currently under intense investigation. This review discusses the various subsets of human and rodent dendritic cells and the pathways involved in antigen processing and subsequent immune regulation by dendritic cells in the lung using both viral and nonviral allergenic protein exposure as examples. CONCLUSIONS Conventional and plasmacytoid dendritic cells are uniquely situated in the immune cascade to not only initiate but also modulate immune responses. Therapeutic interventions in allergic and asthmatic diseases will likely be developed to take advantage of this exclusive position of the dendritic cell.
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- Mitchell H Grayson
- Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
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Martins GA, Cimmino L, Shapiro-Shelef M, Szabolcs M, Herron A, Magnusdottir E, Calame K. Transcriptional repressor Blimp-1 regulates T cell homeostasis and function. Nat Immunol 2006; 7:457-65. [PMID: 16565721 DOI: 10.1038/ni1320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 299] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2005] [Accepted: 02/14/2006] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein 1 (Blimp-1) transcriptional repressor is required for terminal differentiation of B lymphocytes. Here we document a function for Blimp-1 in the T cell lineage. Blimp-1-deficient thymocytes showed decreased survival and Blimp-1-deficient mice had more peripheral effector T cells. Mice lacking Blimp-1 developed severe colitis as early as 6 weeks of age, and Blimp-1-deficient regulatory T cells were defective in blocking the development of colitis. Blimp-1 mRNA expression increased substantially in response to T cell receptor stimulation. Compared with wild-type CD4(+) T cells, Blimp-1-deficient CD4(+) T cells proliferated more and produced excess interleukin 2 and interferon-gamma but reduced interleukin 10 after T cell receptor stimulation. These results emphasize a crucial function for Blimp-1 in controlling T cell homeostasis and activation.
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- Gislâine A Martins
- Department of Microbiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Winslow MM, Gallo EM, Neilson JR, Crabtree GR. The calcineurin phosphatase complex modulates immunogenic B cell responses. Immunity 2006; 24:141-52. [PMID: 16473827 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2005.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2005] [Revised: 11/19/2005] [Accepted: 12/20/2005] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A series of signal-directed transitions regulates the development of distinct populations of self-tolerant B cells and ultimately the production of antibody-producing plasma cells. We studied the role of calcineurin/NFAT signaling in B cells by deleting the regulatory b1 subunit of calcineurin specifically in B cells. Follicular (FO) and marginal zone (MZ) B cells develop normally in these mice, but B1 cell numbers are reduced. In vitro, calcineurin b1-deficient B cells have a cell-intrinsic proliferation defect downstream of the B cell receptor. These mice have higher total serum IgM despite the absence of B1 cells and have enhanced T cell-independent-1 responses. Conversely, mice with calcineurin b1-deficient B cells develop larger germinal centers and have reduced plasma cell development and antigen-specific antibody production during T cell-dependent immune responses. By several different criteria, calcineurin is dispensable for B cell tolerance, indicating that this phosphatase complex modulates immunogenic, but not tolerogenic, responses in vivo.
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- Monte M Winslow
- Program in Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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So T, Song J, Sugie K, Altman A, Croft M. Signals from OX40 regulate nuclear factor of activated T cells c1 and T cell helper 2 lineage commitment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:3740-5. [PMID: 16501042 PMCID: PMC1450148 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600205103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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T cell helper type 2 (Th2) differentiation is driven by a source of IL-4 receptor (IL-4R) that mobilizes IL-4R signaling pathways and the transcription factor GATA-3. Naïve CD4 cells can secrete IL-4 independently of IL-4R signals, but how this secretion is regulated is not understood. Here we demonstrate that costimulation through the tumor necrosis factor receptor family molecule OX40, in synergy with CD28, is essential for high levels of nuclear factor of activated T cells c1 to accumulate in the nucleus of a recently activated naïve T cell. This action is not dependent on either IL-4R or IL-2R signals and results in OX40 controlling initial naïve T cell IL-4 transcription. OX40 signals subsequently enhance nuclear GATA-3 accumulation through an IL-4R-dependent action, leading to Th2 differentiation. These data show that, in the absence of an exogenous source of IL-4, OX40 provides a critical synergistic and temporal signal with other noncytokine receptors to modulate nuclear factor of activated T cells c1 and to promote optimal Th2 generation.
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MESH Headings
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Differentiation
- Interleukin-4/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-4/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- NFATC Transcription Factors/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptors, Interleukin-4/metabolism
- Receptors, OX40
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/deficiency
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- Th2 Cells/cytology
- Th2 Cells/immunology
- Th2 Cells/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Up-Regulation
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- Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, CA 92121
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- Divisions of *Molecular Immunology
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Division of Immunochemistry, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121. E-mail:
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Wu W, Misra RS, Russell JQ, Flavell RA, Rincón M, Budd RC. Proteolytic regulation of nuclear factor of activated T (NFAT) c2 cells and NFAT activity by caspase-3. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:10682-90. [PMID: 16455648 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m511759200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The nuclear factor of activated T (NFAT) cell family of transcription factors is important in regulating the expression of a broad array of genes, including cytokines, T cell surface receptors, and other transcription factors. NFATc1 and NFATc2 are two principal NFAT members that are expressed in peripheral T cells. Levels of NFAT expression in T cells are partly transcriptionally regulated, but less is understood regarding their post-transcriptional control. We show here that NFATc1 and NFATc2 are rapidly degraded in apoptotic T cells. NFATc2 is highly sensitive to cleavage by caspase-3, whereas NFATc1 is only weakly sensitive to caspase-3 or caspase-8. Two potential caspase-3 cleavage sites were identified in the N-terminal transactivation domain. These sites were confirmed by in vitro caspase cleavage assays. Abolition of NFATc2 cleavage by mutation of these two cleavage sites resulted in augmented NFAT transcriptional activity. Furthermore, NFAT activity could be augmented in wild-type effector T cells by inhibition of caspase activity. Of particular interest was that non-apoptotic T cells from cellular FLIP long transgenic (c-FLIP(L)-Tg) mice that manifest elevated caspase activity have greatly reduced levels of NFATc2 protein and NFAT transcriptional activity. Our findings reveal a new post-transcriptional regulation of NFATc2 that operates, not only during apoptosis, but also in non-apoptotic effector T cells.
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- Wenfang Wu
- Immunobiology Program, Department of Medicine, The University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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Kumar S, Skeen MJ, Adiri Y, Yoon H, Vezys VD, Lukacher AE, Evavold BD, Ziegler HK, Boss JM. A cytokine promoter/yellow fluorescent protein reporter transgene serves as an early activation marker of lymphocyte subsets. Cell Immunol 2006; 237:131-40. [PMID: 16405934 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2005.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2005] [Revised: 11/22/2005] [Accepted: 11/23/2005] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A mouse containing an IL-4 promoter linked to the yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) reporter transgene was created to follow aspects of lymphocyte development and function. Following stimulation with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and ionomycin, anti-CD3/CD28, antigen-specific peptide, or allogeneic cells, both CD4 and CD8 T cells expressed the transgene within 24h in a manner that was consistent with cellular activation markers. Transgene induction was inhibited by cyclosporine and FK506, suggesting that its activation occurs in an NFAT-dependent manner. B lymphocytes were also able to express the transgene when stimulated with LPS. This induction was inhibited in part by rapamycin. The results suggest that this transgene can function as an indicator of lymphocyte activation. Because YFP is not toxic and requires no preparation of the cells to view the reporter gene, this system provides a unique tool to follow lymphocyte activation in a number of model systems, such as those involving transplantation, allergy, and vaccine development.
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- Shantha Kumar
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Asagiri M, Sato K, Usami T, Ochi S, Nishina H, Yoshida H, Morita I, Wagner EF, Mak TW, Serfling E, Takayanagi H. Autoamplification of NFATc1 expression determines its essential role in bone homeostasis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 202:1261-9. [PMID: 16275763 PMCID: PMC2213228 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20051150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 682] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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NFATc1 and NFATc2 are functionally redundant in the immune system, but it was suggested that NFATc1 is required exclusively for differentiation of osteoclasts in the skeletal system. Here we provide genetic evidence that NFATc1 is essential for osteoclast differentiation in vivo by adoptive transfer of NFATc1−/− hematopoietic stem cells to osteoclast-deficient Fos−/− mice, and by Fos−/− blastocyst complementation, thus avoiding the embryonic lethality of NFATc1−/− mice. However, in vitro osteoclastogenesis in NFATc1-deficient cells was rescued by ectopic expression of NFATc2. The discrepancy between the in vivo essential role of NFATc1 and the in vitro effect of NFATc2 was attributed to selective autoregulation of the NFATc1 gene by NFAT through its promoter region. This suggested that an epigenetic mechanism contributes to the essential function of NFATc1 in cell lineage commitment. Thus, this study establishes that NFATc1 represents a potential therapeutic target for bone disease and reveals a mechanism that underlies the essential role of NFATc1 in bone homeostasis.
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- Masataka Asagiri
- Department of Cell Signaling, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
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Wein MN, Jones DC, Glimcher LH. Turning down the system: counter-regulatory mechanisms in bone and adaptive immunity. Immunol Rev 2005; 208:66-79. [PMID: 16313341 DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2005.00322.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Major advances have been made in recent years toward the identification of transcription factors that control cell-type-specific gene expression in the skeletal and adaptive immune systems. However, the identification of factors necessary and sufficient to drive production of effector cell proteins such as matrix components and cytokines represents the first step toward understanding how cells in bone and the adaptive system achieve their highly specialized functions. Here, we provide selected examples of counter-regulatory mechanisms that serve to turn down cells involved in extracellular matrix biosynthesis and adaptive immunity at the level of the transcription factors Runx2 and nuclear factor for the activation of T cells.
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- Marc N Wein
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Xie H, Sadim MS, Sun Z. RORgammat recruits steroid receptor coactivators to ensure thymocyte survival. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 175:3800-9. [PMID: 16148126 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.6.3800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Thymocytes undergo apoptosis unless a functional TCR is assembled. Steroid receptor coactivators (SRCs) regulate nuclear receptor-mediated transcription by associated histone acetyltransferase activity. However, it has been a challenge to demonstrate the in vivo function of SRCs due to the overlapping functions among different members of SRCs. In this study, we show that recruitment of SRCs is required for thymic-specific retinoic acid-related orphan receptor gamma (RORgamma)t-regulated thymocyte survival in vivo. An activation function 2 domain, identified at the carboxyl terminus of RORgammat, is responsible for recruiting SRCs. A mutation in the activation function domain (Y479F) of RORgammat disrupted the interaction with SRCs and abolished RORgammat-mediated trans-activation but not its ability to inhibit transcription. Transgenes encoding the wild-type RORgammat, but not the mutant, restored thymocyte survival in RORgamma null mice. Our results thus clearly demonstrate that RORgammat recruits SRCs to impose a gene expression pattern required to expand the life span of thymocytes in vivo, which increases the opportunities for assembling a functional TCR.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- Cell Survival
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 3
- Protein Binding
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/genetics
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/metabolism
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/physiology
- Receptors, Steroid/metabolism
- Receptors, Thyroid Hormone/genetics
- Receptors, Thyroid Hormone/metabolism
- Receptors, Thyroid Hormone/physiology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Transcriptional Activation
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- Huimin Xie
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Willard-Gallo KE, Badran BM, Ravoet M, Zerghe A, Burny A, Martiat P, Goldman M, Roufosse F, Sibille C. Defective CD3γ gene transcription is associated with NFATc2 overexpression in the lymphocytic variant of hypereosinophilic syndrome. Exp Hematol 2005; 33:1147-59. [PMID: 16219537 DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2005.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2005] [Revised: 06/15/2005] [Accepted: 06/27/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Determine the molecular defects underlying the CD3(-)CD4(+) T-cell phenotype and persistence of this clonal population in patients with hypereosinophilic syndrome. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients in this study suffer from the lymphocytic variant of hypereosinophilic syndrome distinguished by a CD3(-)CD4(+) T-cell clone that overexpresses Th2 cytokines upon activation and thereby provokes the eosinophilia. Interleukin-2-dependent CD3(-)CD4(+) T-cell lines were derived from patient blood at various disease stages and used to investigate the molecular modifications correlated with their abnormal phenotype. RESULTS We demonstrate that the CD3(-)CD4(+) T cells, characterized by a clonal TCRbeta gene rearrangement, maintained the same immunophenotype over the 6-year period of our study, during which one patient progressed from premalignant disease to CD3(-)CD4(+) T-cell lymphoma. We show that a specific loss of CD3gamma gene transcripts is responsible for the defect in TCR/CD3 surface expression. In addition, the level of NFATc2 binding to NFAT motifs in the CD3gamma gene promoter was greatly increased in the abnormal T cells. Our studies indicate that CD3gamma promoter activity can be positively influenced by NFATc1 plus NF-kappaB p50 and negatively regulated by NFATc2 containing complexes. We show that in patients' CD3(-)CD4(+) T cells, an increase in nuclear NFATc2 occurs in parallel with a decrease in NFATc1 and NF-kappaB gene expression. CONCLUSION Hypereosinophilic syndrome joins the growing number of pathological conditions where a defect in surface expression and/or function of the TCR/CD3 complex results from altered regulation of CD3gamma gene expression.
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- Karen E Willard-Gallo
- Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
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Khanna AK, Plummer M, Nilakantan V, Pieper GM. Recombinant p21 protein inhibits lymphocyte proliferation and transcription factors. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:7610-7. [PMID: 15944261 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.12.7610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cellular proliferation determines the events leading to the initiation and development of inflammation, immune activation, cancer, atherogenesis, and other disorders associated with aberrant cell proliferation. Cyclin inhibitor p21 plays a unique role in limiting cell cycle progression. However, its effectiveness can only be demonstrated with direct in vitro and in vivo delivery to control aberrant proliferation. We demonstrate that using a protein-transducing domain p21 protein a) localizes within the nuclear compartments of cells, b) interacts with transcription factors, NF-kappaB, and NFATs (NFATc and NFATp), and c) inhibits lymphocyte proliferation and expression of proinflammatory cytokines. This study using lymphocyte proliferation as a model suggests that the recombinant p21 protein can directly be delivered as a therapeutic protein to provide a novel, viable, and powerful strategy to limit proliferation, inflammation, alloimmune activation, cancer, and vascular proliferative disorders such as atherosclerosis.
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- Ashwani K Khanna
- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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Corn RA, Hunter C, Liou HC, Siebenlist U, Boothby MR. Opposing Roles for RelB and Bcl-3 in Regulation of T-Box Expressed in T Cells, GATA-3, and Th Effector Differentiation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 175:2102-10. [PMID: 16081776 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.4.2102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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CD4+ T cells with a block in the NF-kappaB signaling pathway exhibit decreases in Th1 responses and diminished nuclear levels of multiple transactivating NF-kappaB/Rel/IkappaB proteins. To determine the lineage-intrinsic contributions of these transactivators to Th differentiation, T cells from mice deficient in specific subunits were cultured in exogenous cytokines promoting either Th1 or Th2 differentiation. RelB-deficient cells exhibited dramatic defects in Th1 differentiation and IFN-gamma production, whereas no consistent defect in either Th1 or Th2 responses was observed with c-Rel-deficient cells. In sharp contrast, Bcl-3-null T cells displayed no defect in IFN-gamma production, but their Th2 differentiation and IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 production were significantly impaired. The absence of RelB led to a dramatic decrease in the expression of T-box expressed in T cells and Stat4. In contrast, Bcl-3-deficient cells exhibited decreased GATA-3, consistent with evidence that Bcl-3 can transactivate a gata3 promoter. These data indicate that Bcl-3 and RelB exert distinct and opposing effects on the expression of subset-determining transcription factors, suggesting that the characteristics of Th cell responses may be regulated by titrating the stoichiometry of transactivating NF-kappaB/Rel/IkappaB complexes in the nuclei of developing helper effector cells.
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- Radiah A Corn
- Department of Microbiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, USA
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Since the discovery of the first nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) protein more than a decade ago, the NFAT family of transcription factors has grown to include five members. It has also become clear that NFAT proteins have crucial roles in the development and function of the immune system. In T cells, NFAT proteins not only regulate activation but also are involved in the control of thymocyte development, T-cell differentiation and self-tolerance. The functional versatility of NFAT proteins can be explained by their complex mechanism of regulation and their ability to integrate calcium signalling with other signalling pathways. This Review focuses on the recent advances in our understanding of the regulation, mechanism of action and functions of NFAT proteins in T cells.
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- Fernando Macian
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
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Takeda A, Hamano S, Shiraishi H, Yoshimura T, Ogata H, Ishii K, Ishibashi T, Yoshimura A, Yoshida H. WSX-1 over-expression in CD4(+) T cells leads to hyperproliferation and cytokine hyperproduction in response to TCR stimulation. Int Immunol 2005; 17:889-97. [PMID: 15908443 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxh268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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WSX-1 is a component of the IL-27R. Analyses of WSX-1 knockout (WSX-1(-/-)) mice have shown that IL-27/WSX-1 signaling is essential for the proper development of T(h)1 responses and that WSX-1 can suppress cellular activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine production. We have generated transgenic mouse lines over-expressing the WSX-1 gene under the control of the T cell-specific CD2 promoter (WSX-1 Tg mice). Unexpectedly, like activated CD4(+) T cells from WSX-1(-/-) mice, activated CD4(+) T cells from WSX-1 Tg mice showed increased proliferation, augmented IL-2 production and up-regulated surface expression of activation markers. IL-27-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT1 was also enhanced in WSX-1 Tg CD4(+) T cells, but STAT3 activation was normal. Exogenous IL-27 supported the proliferation of wild-type CD4(+) T cells but suppressed that of WSX-1 Tg cells. WSX-1 over-expression increased IFN-gamma production in T(h)1-polarized CD4(+) T cells, but also promoted T(h)2 cytokine production under T(h)1-polarizing conditions. Importantly, WSX-1 over-expression failed to suppress T(h)2 cytokine production under T(h)2-polarizing conditions. Cytokine hyperproduction was also observed in vivo in WSX-1 Tg mice injected with Con A. Our data suggest that WSX-1 plays a pivotal role in regulating T cell responsiveness to TCR stimulation and that the correct balance of STAT1/STAT3 activation downstream of IL-27R engagement is crucial for the physiological function of IL-27.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- CD2 Antigens/genetics
- CD2 Antigens/immunology
- Cell Proliferation/drug effects
- Cells, Cultured
- Concanavalin A/administration & dosage
- Gene Expression Regulation/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation/immunology
- Interleukin-2/biosynthesis
- Interleukins/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation/drug effects
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Knockout
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Cytokine/genetics
- Receptors, Cytokine/immunology
- Receptors, Interleukin
- STAT3 Transcription Factor/immunology
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Th1 Cells/immunology
- Th2 Cells/immunology
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- Atsunobu Takeda
- Division of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Schwartzberg PL, Finkelstein LD, Readinger JA. TEC-family kinases: regulators of T-helper-cell differentiation. Nat Rev Immunol 2005; 5:284-95. [PMID: 15803148 DOI: 10.1038/nri1591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The TEC-family protein tyrosine kinases ITK, RLK and TEC have been identified as key components of T-cell-receptor signalling that contribute to the regulation of phospholipase C-gamma, the mobilization of Ca(2+) and the activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases. Recent data also show that TEC kinases contribute to T-cell-receptor-driven actin reorganization and cell polarization, which are required for productive T-cell activation. Functional studies have implicated TEC kinases as important mediators of pathways that control the differentiation of CD4(+) T helper cells. Here, we review studies of signalling pathways that involve TEC kinases and how these pathways might contribute to the regulation of T-helper-cell differentiation and function.
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- Pamela L Schwartzberg
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 4A38/49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Tanaka Y, So T, Lebedeva S, Croft M, Altman A. Impaired IL-4 and c-Maf expression and enhanced Th1-cell development in Vav1-deficient mice. Blood 2005; 106:1286-95. [PMID: 15845902 PMCID: PMC1895205 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-10-4074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Although c-Maf is crucial for Th2 differentiation and production of interleukin 4 (IL-4), its regulation is poorly understood. We report that Vav1-/- CD4+ T cells display deficient T-cell receptor (TCR)/CD28-induced IL-4 and c-Maf expression and, conversely, enhanced interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) production and T-bet expression (even when cultured under Th2-polarizing conditions), but intact expression of other Th2 cytokines and GATA-3. Up-regulation of c-Maf was dependent on Ca2+/nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT) and, together with IL-4 production, could be rescued in Vav1-/- T cells by Ca2+ ionophore. Deficient IL-4 production was restored by retrovirus-mediated Vav1 expression, but only partially by retroviral c-Maf expression. Similar IL-4 --> IFN-gamma skewing was observed in intact, antigen-primed Vav1-/- mice. Thus, Vav1 is selectively required for IL-4 and c-Maf expression, a requirement reflecting, at least in part, the dependence of c-Maf expression on Ca2+/NFAT signaling.
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- Yoshihiko Tanaka
- Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 10355 Science Center Dr, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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Nair A, Michael B, Hiraragi H, Fernandez S, Feuer G, Boris-Lawrie K, Lairmore M. Human T lymphotropic virus type 1 accessory protein p12I modulates calcium-mediated cellular gene expression and enhances p300 expression in T lymphocytes. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2005; 21:273-84. [PMID: 15943569 PMCID: PMC2668121 DOI: 10.1089/aid.2005.21.273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the etiologic agent of adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), an aggressive CD4+ T lymphocyte malignancy. Activation of T lymphocytes is required for effective retroviral integration into the host cell genome and subsequent viral replication, but the molecular mechanisms involved in HTLV-1-mediated T cell activation remain unclear. HTLV-1 encodes various accessory proteins such as p12I, which has been demonstrated to be critical for HTLV-1 infectivity in vivo in rabbits and in vitro in quiescent primary human T lymphocytes. This hydrophobic protein localizes in the endoplasmic reticulum, increases intracellular calcium, and activates nuclear factor of activated T cell-mediated transcription. To further elucidate the role of p12I in regulation of cellular gene expression, we performed gene array analysis on stable p12I-expressing Jurkat T cells, using Affymetrix U133A arrays. Our data indicate that p12I altered the expression of genes associated with a network of interrelated pathways including T cell signaling, cell proliferation, and apoptosis. Expression of several calcium-regulated genes was found to be altered by p12I, consistent with known properties of the viral protein. Gene array findings were confirmed by semiquantitative RT-PCR in Jurkat T cells and primary CD4+ T lymphocytes. Furthermore, dose-dependent expression of p12I in Jurkat T cells resulted in significant increases in p300 and p300-dependent transcription. This is the first report of a viral protein influencing the transcription of p300, a rate-limiting coadapter critical in HTLV-1-mediated T cell activation. Collectively, our data strongly indicate that HTLV-1 p12I modulates cellular gene expression patterns to hasten the activation of T lymphocytes and thereby promote efficient viral infection.
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- Amrithraj Nair
- Center for Retrovirus Research and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Watanabe M, Watanabe S, Hara Y, Harada Y, Kubo M, Tanabe K, Toma H, Abe R. ICOS-mediated costimulation on Th2 differentiation is achieved by the enhancement of IL-4 receptor-mediated signaling. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:1989-96. [PMID: 15699127 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.4.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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ICOS is the third member of the CD28 family molecules and plays a critical role in many T cell-dependent immune responses. Although accumulated data suggest that ICOS costimulatory signals play an important role in Th2-mediated immune responses, the molecular basis for this selective differentiation mechanism is largely unknown. To clarify this mechanism, we used DO11.10 TCR transgenic ICOS-/- mice and evaluated the nature of ICOS costimulatory signals during the process of Ag-specific activation and differentiation of naive CD4+ T cells. Results obtained from these experiments demonstrated that Ag stimulation of naive CD4+ T cells in the absence of an ICOS signal resulted in impaired Th2 development. Unlike previous reports, we found that primary IL-4 production by these T cells was intact and that IL-4R sensitivity of these T cells was reduced as evidenced by a profound defect in IL-4-induced Stat6 phosphorylation and the early induction of GATA-3. The fact that ICOS ligation of wild-type T cells significantly enhanced IL-4-induced Stat6 phosphorylation and primary GATA-3 induction, but not IL-4 transcription, of naive CD4+ T cells was consistent with the results obtained from ICOS-/- T cell experiments. These observations led us to propose that the predominant effect of ICOS-mediated costimulation on Th2 differentiation is achieved by the enhancement of IL-4R-mediated signaling.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/genetics
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/physiology
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/physiology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- DNA-Binding Proteins/biosynthesis
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- GATA3 Transcription Factor
- Inducible T-Cell Co-Stimulator Protein
- Interleukin-4/biosynthesis
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Interleukin-4/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Interleukin-4/genetics
- Receptors, Interleukin-4/physiology
- Repressor Proteins/physiology
- Resting Phase, Cell Cycle/immunology
- STAT6 Transcription Factor
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling 3 Protein
- Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling Proteins
- Th2 Cells/cytology
- Th2 Cells/immunology
- Th2 Cells/metabolism
- Trans-Activators/biosynthesis
- Trans-Activators/metabolism
- Trans-Activators/physiology
- Transcription Factors/physiology
- Transcription, Genetic/immunology
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- Masashi Watanabe
- Division of Immunobiology, Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan
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Shin HY, Song YS, Hwang CY, Shin TY, Kim HM. Suppression of nuclear translocation of nuclear factor-kappaB and nuclear factor of activated T cells by Younggaechulgam-tang. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol 2005; 26:545-58. [PMID: 15658604 DOI: 10.1081/iph-200042303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Younggaechulgam-tang (YGCGT) is known to suppress inflammatory and autoimmune responses, and it has clinically been used among Oriental medical doctors in South Korea. We investigated YGCGT-mediated changes in downstream T cell signal transduction. The expression levels of nuclear factor-kappaB (NFkappaB) subunit RelA and nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFATc1) in cytoplasm and nucleus were examined by western blot analysis. Interlukin-2 (IL-2) expression in MOLT-4 cells activated by phytohemagglutinin (PHA) was determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Western blot analysis. IL-2 secretion was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). PHA-induced translocation of Rel A and NFATcl to the nucleus were markedly reduced by YGCGT treatment. Furthermore, IL-2 mRNA and protein levels and IL-2 secretion were significantly diminished by YGCGT treatment. In conclusion, YGCGT treatment of T cells inhibits selectively nuclear translocation of RelA and NFATc1, resulting in diminished production of IL-2. These results suggest that YGCGT may have potential as immunosuppressive drugs with improved efficacy and reduced side effects.
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- Hye-Young Shin
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
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Transcription factors activated in response to T cell receptor (TCR) signaling include nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) family, which is highly phosphorylated and thereby maintained in the cytoplasm of resting T cells, the nuclear factor NF-kappaB, which is kept in the cytoplasm of resting cells through its association with the inhibitor protein IkappaB, and activating protein-1 (AP-1), which is only transcribed after TCR stimulation. Negative regulators of TCR signaling can be divided into two groups: Class 1 regulators help maintain the quiescent state of unstimulated T cells, whereas class 2 regulators are themselves transcriptionally induced in response to TCR signaling and serve to limit and terminate the activating signal. Class 1 regulators include the autoinhibitory domain of the phosphatase calcineurin; IkappaB and its transcriptional activators Foxj1 and Foxo3a; and various transcriptional coregulators that inhibit interleukin-2 (IL-2) production. Class 2 regulators include the calcipressins, which, like NFATp and NFAT4 are feedback inhibitors of calcineurin-NFAT signaling, IkappaB, and the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphatases, which inhibit MAPK signaling and thus the nuclear localization of AP-1 components.
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- Jun O Liu
- Department of Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Michael B, Nair AM, Hiraragi H, Shen L, Feuer G, Boris-Lawrie K, Lairmore MD. Human T lymphotropic virus type-1 p30II alters cellular gene expression to selectively enhance signaling pathways that activate T lymphocytes. Retrovirology 2004; 1:39. [PMID: 15560845 PMCID: PMC538277 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-1-39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2004] [Accepted: 11/23/2004] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is a deltaretrovirus that causes adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and is implicated in a variety of lymphocyte-mediated disorders. HTLV-1 contains both regulatory and accessory genes in four pX open reading frames. pX ORF-II encodes two proteins, p13II and p30II, which are incompletely defined in the virus life cycle or HTLV-1 pathogenesis. Proviral clones of the virus with pX ORF-II mutations diminish the ability of the virus to maintain viral loads in vivo. Exogenous expression of p30II differentially modulates CREB and Tax-responsive element-mediated transcription through its interaction with CREB-binding protein/p300 and represses tax/rex RNA nuclear export. Results Herein, we further characterized the role of p30II in regulation of cellular gene expression, using stable p30II expression system employing lentiviral vectors to test cellular gene expression with Affymetrix U133A arrays, representing ~33,000 human genes. Reporter assays in Jurkat T cells and RT-PCR in Jurkat and primary CD4+ T-lymphocytes were used to confirm selected gene expression patterns. Our data reveals alterations of interrelated pathways of cell proliferation, T-cell signaling, apoptosis and cell cycle in p30II expressing Jurkat T cells. In all categories, p30II appeared to be an overall repressor of cellular gene expression, while selectively increasing the expression of certain key regulatory genes. Conclusions We are the first to demonstrate that p30II, while repressing the expression of many genes, selectively activates key gene pathways involved in T-cell signaling/activation. Collectively, our data suggests that this complex retrovirus, associated with lymphoproliferative diseases, relies upon accessory gene products to modify cellular environment to promote clonal expansion of the virus genome and thus maintain proviral loads in vivo.
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- Bindhu Michael
- Center for Retrovirus Research and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Safety Assessment, Merck &Co., Inc. WP45-224, West Point PA 19486, USA
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- Center for Retrovirus Research and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Safety Assessment, Merck &Co., Inc. WP45-224, West Point PA 19486, USA
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- Center for Retrovirus Research and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Statistics, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA
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- Center for Retrovirus Research and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Center for Retrovirus Research and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Barlic J, McDermott DH, Merrell MN, Gonzales J, Via LE, Murphy PM. Interleukin (IL)-15 and IL-2 Reciprocally Regulate Expression of the Chemokine Receptor CX3CR1 through Selective NFAT1- and NFAT2-dependent Mechanisms. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:48520-34. [PMID: 15347678 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m406978200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have recently reported that interleukin (IL)-15 and IL-2, which signal through IL-2Rbetagamma, oppositely regulate expression of the proinflammatory chemokine receptor CX3CR1. Here we delineate molecular mechanisms responsible for this paradox. By using a luciferase reporter plasmid, we identified a 433-bp region spanning the major transcriptional start point of human CX3CR1 that, when expressed in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), possessed strong constitutive promoter activity. IL-2 and IL-15 treatment increased and abolished this activity, respectively, mimicking their effects on endogenous CX3CR1. IL-2 and IL-15 have been reported to also have opposite effects on the immunoregulatory transcription factor NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cells), and the 433-bp region contains a kappaB-like NFAT site. The effects of IL-15 and IL-2 on both CX3CR1 reporter activity and endogenous CX3CR1 transcription in PBMCs were abolished by the NFAT inhibitors cyclosporin A and VIVIT. Moreover, mutation of the kappaB-like NFAT sequence markedly attenuated IL-2 and IL-15 modulation of CX3CR1 promoter-reporter activity in PBMCs. Furthermore, chromatin immunoprecipitation revealed that IL-15 promoted specific recruitment of NFAT1 but not NFAT2 to the CX3CR1 promoter, whereas IL-2 had the converse effect. This appears to be relevant in vivo because mouse CX3CR1 mRNA was expressed in both PBMCs and splenocytes from NFAT1-/- mice injected with recombinant IL-15 but was undetectable in cells from IL-15-injected NFAT1+/+ BALB/c mice; as predicted, IL-2 up-regulated cx3cr1 in both mouse strains to a similar extent. Thus, by pharmacologic, genetic, and biochemical criteria in vitro and in vivo, our results suggest that IL-15 and IL-2 oppositely regulate CX3CR1 gene expression by differentially recruiting NFAT1 and NFAT2 to a kappaB-like NFAT site within the CX3CR1 promoter. We propose that expression of CX3CR1 and possibly other immunoregulatory genes may be determined in part by the balance of NFAT1 and NFAT2 activity in leukocytes.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- CX3C Chemokine Receptor 1
- Cell Line
- Chromatin/metabolism
- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Exons
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes, Reporter
- Humans
- Immunoprecipitation
- Interleukin-15/physiology
- Interleukin-2/metabolism
- Interleukin-2/physiology
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism
- Luciferases/metabolism
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis
- Mutation
- NFATC Transcription Factors
- Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
- Open Reading Frames
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA/metabolism
- Receptors, Chemokine/metabolism
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Time Factors
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
- Up-Regulation
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- Jana Barlic
- Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Host Defenses, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Patel DR, Kaplan MH, Chang CH. Altered Th1 Cell Differentiation Programming by CIITA Deficiency. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:5501-8. [PMID: 15494498 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.9.5501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CD4 T cell differentiation is a complex process affected by many transcription factors interacting in a tightly regulated manner. We have previously shown that CIITA-deficient mouse Th1 cells expressed Th2-type cytokines, while IFN-gamma expression was normal. In this study, we show that CIITA-deficient Th1 cells contain three distinct populations: cells secreting IL-4 alone, IFN-gamma alone, and both IL-4 and IFN-gamma together. This novel phenotype is stable over multiple rounds of stimulation in the presence of Th1-inducing factors. CIITA-deficient Th1 cells require TCR-mediated signaling to express Th2 cytokines, and this occurs with similar kinetics as wild-type Th2 cells. Both GATA-3 and IL-4 appear to be required for CIITA-deficient Th1 cells to express Th2-type cytokines. Interestingly, however, CIITA-deficient Th1 cells can produce IL-4 in the absence of exogenous IL-4. Introducing either CIITA or antisense GATA-3 during Th1 differentiation partially reduces Th2-type cytokine expression. With the exception of Th2-type cytokine expression, Th1 differentiation occurs normally in the absence of CIITA, as measured by expression of T-bet, IL-12Rbeta2, IL-18Ralpha, and IFN-gamma. Therefore, CIITA plays a key role to repress Th2-type cytokine expression as naive CD4 T cells differentiate toward the Th1 lineage.
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- Dipak R Patel
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Colgan J, Asmal M, Neagu M, Yu B, Schneidkraut J, Lee Y, Sokolskaja E, Andreotti A, Luban J. Cyclophilin A regulates TCR signal strength in CD4+ T cells via a proline-directed conformational switch in Itk. Immunity 2004; 21:189-201. [PMID: 15308100 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2004.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2004] [Revised: 06/11/2004] [Accepted: 06/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Cyclophilin A (CypA/Ppia) is a peptidyl-prolyl isomerase (PPIase) that binds the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine. The resulting complex blocks T cell function by inhibiting the calcium-dependent phosphatase calcineurin. To identify the native function of CypA, long suspected of regulating signal transduction, we generated mice lacking the Ppia gene. These animals develop allergic disease, with elevated IgE and tissue infiltration by mast cells and eosinophils, that is driven by CD4+ T helper type II (Th2) cytokines. Ppia(-/-) Th2 cells were hypersensitive to TCR stimulation, a phenotype consistent with increased activity of Itk, a Tec family tyrosine kinase crucial for Th2 responses. CypA bound Itk via the PPIase active site. Mutation of a conformationally heterogeneous proline in the SH2 domain of Itk disrupted interaction with CypA and specifically increased Th2 cytokine production from wild-type CD4+ T cells. Thus, CypA inhibits CD4+ T cell signal transduction in the absence of cyclosporine via a regulatory proline residue in Itk.
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- John Colgan
- Department of Microbiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 701 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Grumont R, Lock P, Mollinari M, Shannon FM, Moore A, Gerondakis S. The mitogen-induced increase in T cell size involves PKC and NFAT activation of Rel/NF-kappaB-dependent c-myc expression. Immunity 2004; 21:19-30. [PMID: 15345217 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2004.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2003] [Revised: 03/19/2004] [Accepted: 05/12/2004] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Cell growth during the G1 stage of the cell cycle is partly controlled by inducing c-myc expression, which in B cells is regulated by the NF-kappaB1 and c-Rel transcription factors. Here, we show that c-myc-dependent growth during T cell activation requires c-Rel and RelA and that blocking this growth by inhibiting protein kinase C theta (PKCtheta) coincides with a failure to upregulate c-myc due to impaired RelA nuclear import and inhibition of NFAT-dependent c-rel transcription. These results demonstrate that different Rel/NF-kappaB dimers regulate the mitogenic growth of mature T and B cells, with a signaling pathway incorporating PKCtheta and NFAT controlling c-Rel/RelA-induced c-myc expression in activated T cells.
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- Raelene Grumont
- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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Marsland BJ, Soos TJ, Späth G, Littman DR, Kopf M. Protein kinase C theta is critical for the development of in vivo T helper (Th)2 cell but not Th1 cell responses. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 200:181-9. [PMID: 15263025 PMCID: PMC2212016 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20032229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The serine/threonine-specific protein kinase C (PKC)-θ is predominantly expressed in T cells and localizes to the center of the immunological synapse upon T cell receptor (TCR) and CD28 signaling. T cells deficient in PKC-θ exhibit reduced interleukin (IL)-2 production and proliferative responses in vitro, however, its significance in vivo remains unclear. We found that pkc-θ−/− mice were protected from pulmonary allergic hypersensitivity responses such as airway hyperresponsiveness, eosinophilia, and immunoglobulin E production to inhaled allergen. Furthermore, T helper (Th)2 cell immune responses against Nippostrongylus brasiliensis were severely impaired in pkc-θ−/− mice. In striking contrast, pkc-θ−/− mice on both the C57BL/6 background and the normally susceptible BALB/c background mounted protective Th1 immune responses and were resistant against infection with Leishmania major. Using in vitro TCR transgenic T cell–dendritic cell coculture systems and antigen concentration-dependent Th polarization, PKC-θ–deficient T cells were found to differentiate into Th1 cells after activation with high concentrations of specific peptide, but to have compromised Th2 development at low antigen concentration. The addition of IL-2 partially reconstituted Th2 development in pkc-θ−/− T cells, consistent with an important role for this cytokine in Th2 polarization. Taken together, our results reveal a central role for PKC-θ signaling during Th2 responses.
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- Benjamin J Marsland
- Molecular Biomedicine, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Wagistr. 27, CH8952 Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland
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Diehl S, Krahl T, Rinaldi L, Norton R, Irvin CG, Rincón M. Inhibition of NFAT specifically in T cells prevents allergic pulmonary inflammation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:3597-603. [PMID: 15004161 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.6.3597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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NFAT is a family of transcription factors important in the regulation of cytokine genes and is widely expressed in different lymphoid and nonlymphoid tissues. Consequently, the role of NFAT in CD4+ T cells during an in vivo immune response is not completely clear. In this study, we use transgenic mice expressing a dominant negative NFAT mutant exclusively in T cells to address the role of NFAT in T cells during a Th2 immune response in a model of allergic airway inflammation. We have observed that inhibition of NFAT in T cells results in a reduction of Ag-specific Th2 Ab levels and IL-4 production by CD4+ T cells. The accumulation of eosinophils in the bronchoalveolar lavage is delayed in dominant negative NFAT-transgenic mice. These mice are also more resistant to the development of lung pathology in response to allergen exposure. We, therefore, conclude that activation of NFAT in CD4+ T cells is required for the development of a Th2 immune response in vivo and allergic airway inflammation.
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- Sean Diehl
- Immunobiology Program, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Langland JO, Kao P, Jacobs BL. Regulation of IL-2 gene expression and nuclear factor-90 translocation in vaccinia virus-infected cells. J Interferon Cytokine Res 2004; 23:489-500. [PMID: 14565858 DOI: 10.1089/10799900360708614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nuclear factor-90 (NF-90) has been described as a regulatory subunit of a complex containing DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK), Ku, and NF-45, which are capable of binding the interleukin-2 (IL-2) enhancer region and stimulating IL-2 gene expression. Vaccinia virus (VV) infection of Jurkat cells induced a nuclear factor that bound specifically to the IL-2 promoter sequence and led to the expression of the IL-2 transcript. Induction of this IL-2 promoter binding factor occurred concomitantly with the induction of NF-90 and translocation of NF-90 to the nucleus. Electrophoretic mobility supershift analysis using specific anti-NF-90 serum suggested the presence of NF-90 in the IL-2 promoter binding complex. As NF-90 can bind to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and be phosphorylated by the dsRNA-dependent protein kinase, PKR, we investigated whether accumulation of dsRNA in VV-infected cells could regulate IL-2 gene expression. Infection of Jurkat cells with a VV mutant that produces free dsRNA led to similar levels of induced NF-90 within the cell, but the protein remained localized within the cytosol. This mutant did not lead to the accumulation of an IL-2 promoter binding complex or to the synthesis of IL-2 mRNA. Other VV mutants that produced excess dsRNA also inhibited protein binding to the IL-2 enhancer, suggesting that the presence of viral dsRNA has a role in retaining NF-90 in the cytosol and regulating IL-2 gene expression.
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- Jeffrey O Langland
- Department of Microbiology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-2701, USA
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GATA-3 plays a central role in regulating Th1 and Th2 cell differentiation. Upon interleukin (IL)-4 binding to its receptor, GATA-3 is induced through the action of Stat6. GATA-3 regulates Th2 cytokine expression not only at the transcription level, such as directly binding to the promoters of the IL-5 and IL-13 gene, but also by the involvement in the remodeling of the chromatin structure and opening the IL-4 locus. As a master control, GATA-3 stabilizes the Th2 phenotype by two methods. First, GATA-3 shuts down Th1 development through the repression the IL-12 receptor beta2-chain expression. Second, GATA-3 augments its own expression by a positive feedback autoregulation. In this article, we review the recent study of the function of GATA-3 in Th1 and Th2 differentiation.
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- Meixia Zhou
- Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Yamanaka A, Hamano S, Miyazaki Y, Ishii K, Takeda A, Mak TW, Himeno K, Yoshimura A, Yoshida H. Hyperproduction of Proinflammatory Cytokines by WSX-1-Deficient NKT Cells in Concanavalin A-Induced Hepatitis. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:3590-6. [PMID: 15004160 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.6.3590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Administration of Con A induces liver injury that is considered to be an experimental model for human autoimmune or viral hepatitis, where immunopathology plays roles mediated by activated lymphocytes, especially NK1.1+ CD3+ NKT cells, and inflammatory cytokines, including IFN-gamma and IL-4. In the present study we investigated the role of WSX-1, a component of IL-27R, in Con A-induced hepatitis by taking advantage of WSX-1 knockout mice. WSX-1-deficient mice were more susceptible to Con A treatment than wild-type mice, showing serum alanine aminotransferase elevation and massive necrosis in the liver. Although the development of NKT cells appeared normal in WSX-1 knockout mice, purified NKT cells from the knockout mice produced more IFN-gamma and IL-4 than those from wild-type mice in response to stimulation with Con A both in vitro and in vivo. In addition, hyperproduction of proinflammatory cytokines, including IL-1, IL-6, and TNF-alpha, was observed in the knockout mice after Con A administration. These data revealed a novel role for WSX-1 as an inhibitory regulator of cytokine production and inflammation in Con A-induced hepatitis.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Concanavalin A/administration & dosage
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Cytokines/blood
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Hepatitis, Animal/genetics
- Hepatitis, Animal/immunology
- Hepatitis, Animal/pathology
- Inflammation Mediators/metabolism
- Injections, Intravenous
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Interferon-gamma/physiology
- Interleukin-4/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-4/physiology
- Killer Cells, Natural/cytology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Receptors, Cytokine/deficiency
- Receptors, Cytokine/genetics
- Receptors, Cytokine/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Up-Regulation/genetics
- Up-Regulation/immunology
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- Atsushi Yamanaka
- Division of Molecular and Cellular Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Acuto O, Michel F. CD28-mediated co-stimulation: a quantitative support for TCR signalling. Nat Rev Immunol 2004; 3:939-51. [PMID: 14647476 DOI: 10.1038/nri1248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 504] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Oreste Acuto
- Molecular Immunology Unit, Department of Immunology, Institut Pasteur, 25 Rue du Dr Roux, Cedex 15, 75724 Paris, France.
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Arimura Y, Shiroki F, Kuwahara S, Kato H, Dianzani U, Uchiyama T, Yagi J. Akt is a neutral amplifier for Th cell differentiation. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:11408-16. [PMID: 14707136 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m309063200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Both CD28 and its relative, inducible costimulator (ICOS), have a binding motif for phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) in their cytoplasmic tail, and the binding of PI3K leads to activation of a serine/threonine kinase, Akt. The role of Akt in cytokine production and helper T (Th) cell differentiation remains obscure. In this study, we found that enforced expression of the constitutively active form (E40K) of Akt rendered CD4(+) T cells activated. Wild-type of Akt and E40K promoted Th1 cell differentiation in C57BL/6-derived and Th1-polarized BALB/c-derived CD4(+) T cells, while both promoted Th2 cell differentiation in BALB/c-derived and Th2-polarized C57BL/6 CD4(+) T cells. E40K also facilitated Th1 differentiation in CD4(+) T cells from IL-4-deficient mice with the BALB/c background. E40K up-regulated expression of NF-AT and c-Myb, which may be related to the augmentation of cytokine production by E40K. These findings indicate that the mechanism by which Akt augments cytokine production via CD28 and ICOS is Th cell type-specific and reflects the intracellular status affected by the cytokine milieu. We conclude that Akt is a neutral amplifier of T cell activation and Th differentiation.
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- Yutaka Arimura
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan.
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Xi H, Kersh GJ. Early Growth Response Gene 3 Regulates Thymocyte Proliferation during the Transition from CD4−CD8− to CD4+CD8+1. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:964-71. [PMID: 14707069 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.2.964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In thymocytes developing in the alphabeta lineage, the transition from CD4, CD8 double negative (DN) to CD4, CD8 double positive (DP) is associated with several rounds of cell division and changes in the expression of multiple genes. This transition is induced by the formation of a pre-TCR that includes a rearranged TCR beta-chain and the pre-TCR alpha-chain. The mechanism by which the pre-TCR influences both gene expression and proliferation has not been defined. We have evaluated the role played by early growth response gene 3 (Egr3) in translating pre-TCR signals into differentiation and proliferation. Egr3 is a transcriptional regulator that contains a zinc-finger DNA binding domain. We find that Egr3-deficient mice have a reduced number of thymocytes compared with wild-type mice, and that this is due to poor proliferation during the DN to DP transition. Treatment of both Egr3(+/+) and Egr3(-/-) mice on the Rag1(-/-) background with anti-CD3epsilon Ab in vivo results in similar differentiation events, but reduced cell recovery in the Egr3(-/-) mice. We have also generated transgenic mice that express high levels of Egr3 constitutively, and when these mice are bred onto a Rag1(-/-) background they exhibit increased proliferation in the absence of stimulation and have pre-TCR alpha-chain and CD25 down-regulation, as well as increased Calpha expression. The results show that Egr3 is an important regulator of proliferation in response to pre-TCR signals, and that it also may regulate some specific aspects of differentiation.
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- Hongkang Xi
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 1639 Pierce Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Stetson DB, Voehringer D, Grogan JL, Xu M, Reinhardt RL, Scheu S, Kelly BL, Locksley RM. Th2 Cells: Orchestrating Barrier Immunity. Adv Immunol 2004; 83:163-89. [PMID: 15135631 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(04)83005-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Daniel B Stetson
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, 94143, USA
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Miaw SC, Kang BY, White IA, Ho IC. A Repressor of GATA-Mediated Negative Feedback Mechanism of T Cell Activation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 172:170-7. [PMID: 14688323 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.1.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The NF-AT family is a group of potent transcription factors that are essential for T cell activation in vitro. However, NF-ATc2-deficient Th cells display hyperproliferation in response to stimulation, suggesting that NF-ATc2 functions as a negative regulator of Th cell activation/proliferation. In this study we show that the transcriptional repressor of GATA (ROG) is a direct target gene of NF-ATc2 and that NF-ATc2-deficient Th cells are unable to fully up-regulate ROG upon stimulation. Restoration of ROG expression in vivo partly corrects the hyperproliferation of NF-ATc2-deficient Th cells by attenuating TCR signals. Our data, therefore, depict a ROG-mediated negative feedback mechanism of T cell activation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cells, Cultured
- Cloning, Molecular
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA-Binding Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- DNA-Binding Proteins/deficiency
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Down-Regulation/genetics
- Down-Regulation/immunology
- Feedback, Physiological/genetics
- Feedback, Physiological/immunology
- GATA3 Transcription Factor
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred ICR
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- NFATC Transcription Factors
- Nuclear Proteins
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Repressor Proteins/biosynthesis
- Repressor Proteins/genetics
- Repressor Proteins/metabolism
- Repressor Proteins/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/metabolism
- Trans-Activators/antagonists & inhibitors
- Trans-Activators/physiology
- Transcription Factors/deficiency
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/physiology
- Up-Regulation/genetics
- Up-Regulation/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- Shi-Chuen Miaw
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Erb KJ, Twardzik T, Palmetshofer A, Wohlleben G, Tatsch U, Serfling E. Mice deficient in nuclear factor of activated T-cell transcription factor c2 mount increased Th2 responses after infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and decreased Th1 responses after mycobacterial infection. Infect Immun 2003; 71:6641-7. [PMID: 14573689 PMCID: PMC219542 DOI: 10.1128/iai.71.11.6641-6647.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Infection of nuclear factor of activated T-cell transcription factor c2 (NFATc2)-deficient mice with the helminth Nippostrongylus brasiliensis led to a distinct increase in interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-5 protein synthesis by lymph node and spleen cells and to elevated serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels in comparison to those seen with infected control mice. While IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 mRNA expression was also enhanced in lymph node cells from the lungs of infected NFATc2(-/-) mice, the number of T cells secreting Th2-type lymphokines remained the same in mice infected with N. brasiliensis. In contrast, lymphocytes from NFATc2-deficient mice infected with Mycobacterium bovis BCG secreted less gamma interferon than lymphocytes from infected control mice. These findings indicate that NFATc2 is an activator of Th1 responses and a suppressor of Th2 responses in vivo.
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Affiliation(s)
- Klaus J Erb
- Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Pathology, University of Wuerzburg, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany.
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Hamano S, Himeno K, Miyazaki Y, Ishii K, Yamanaka A, Takeda A, Zhang M, Hisaeda H, Mak TW, Yoshimura A, Yoshida H. WSX-1 Is Required for Resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi Infection by Regulation of Proinflammatory Cytokine Production. Immunity 2003; 19:657-67. [PMID: 14614853 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(03)00298-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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WSX-1 is a class I cytokine receptor with homology to the IL-12 receptors and is essential for resistance to Leishmania major infection. In the present study, we demonstrated that WSX-1 was also required for resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi. WSX-1-/- mice exhibited prolonged parasitemia, severe liver injury, and increased mortality over wild-type mice. WSX-1-/- splenocytes produced enhanced levels of Th2 cytokines, which were responsible for the prolonged parasitemia. Massive necroinflammatory lesions were observed in the liver of infected WSX-1-/- mice, and IFN-gamma that was overproduced in WSX-1-/- mice compared with wild-type mice was responsible for the lesions. In addition, vast amounts of various proinflammatory cytokines, including IL-6 and TNF-alpha, were produced by liver mononuclear cells in WSX-1-/- mice. Thus, during T. cruzi infection, WSX-1 suppresses liver injury by regulating production of proinflammatory cytokines, while controlling parasitemia by suppression of Th2 responses, demonstrating its novel role as an inhibitory regulator of cytokine production.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shinjiro Hamano
- The Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Berland R, Wortis HH. Normal B-1a cell development requires B cell-intrinsic NFATc1 activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:13459-64. [PMID: 14595020 PMCID: PMC263836 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2233620100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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B-1a cells, an anatomically, phenotypically, and functionally distinct subset of B cells that produce the bulk of natural serum IgM and much of gut-associated IgA, are an important component of the early response to pathogens. Because the induced expression of CD5, a hallmark of B-1a cells, requires a nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)-dependent enhancer, we examined the role of NFAT transcription factors in B-1a development. Here we show that the B-1a compartment is normal in mice lacking NFATc2 but essentially absent in mice lacking NFATc1. Loss of NFATc1 affects both peritoneal and splenic B-1a cells. Because there is a loss of B-1 cells defined by markers other than CD5, NFATc1 is not required simply for CD5 expression on B-1a cells. Using mixed-allotype chimeras and retroviral-mediated gene transduction we show that the requirement for NFATc1 is B cell-intrinsic. We also demonstrate that NFATc1 protein expression is elevated approximately 5-fold in B-1a cells compared with B-2 cells. This is the first definitive demonstration of a B cell-intrinsic function for an NFAT family transcription factor.
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Affiliation(s)
- Robert Berland
- Department of Pathology and Graduate Program in Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor activation of NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T-cells)-dependent transcription: a role for the transcription factor NFATc4 in neurotrophin-mediated gene expression. J Neurosci 2003. [PMID: 12954875 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-22-08125.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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A member of the neurotrophin family, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) regulates neuronal survival and differentiation during development. Within the adult brain, BDNF is also important in neuronal adaptive processes, such as the activity-dependent plasticity that underlies learning and memory. These long-term changes in synaptic strength are mediated through alterations in gene expression. However, many of the mechanisms by which BDNF is linked to transcriptional and translational regulation remain unknown. Recently, the transcription factor NFATc4 (nuclear factor of activated T-cells isoform 4) was discovered in neurons, where it is believed to play an important role in long-term changes in neuronal function. Interestingly, NFATc4 is particularly sensitive to the second messenger systems activated by BDNF. Thus, we hypothesized that NFAT-dependent transcription may be an important mediator of BDNF-induced plasticity. In cultured rat CA3-CA1 hippocampal neurons, BDNF activated NFAT-dependent transcription via TrkB receptors. Inhibition of calcineurin blocked BDNF-induced nuclear translocation of NFATc4, thus preventing transcription. Further, phospholipase C was a critical signaling intermediate between BDNF activation of TrkB and the initiation of NFAT-dependent transcription. Both inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3)-mediated release of calcium from intracellular stores and activation of protein kinase C were required for BDNF-induced NFAT-dependent transcription. Finally, increased expression of IP3 receptor 1 and BDNF after neuronal exposure to BDNF was linked to NFAT-dependent transcription. These results suggest that NFATc4 plays a crucial role in neurotrophin-mediated synaptic plasticity.
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