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Burton OT, Bricard O, Tareen S, Gergelits V, Andrews S, Biggins L, Roca CP, Whyte C, Junius S, Brajic A, Pasciuto E, Ali M, Lemaitre P, Schlenner SM, Ishigame H, Brown BD, Dooley J, Liston A. The tissue-resident regulatory T cell pool is shaped by transient multi-tissue migration and a conserved residency program. Immunity 2024; 57:1586-1602.e10. [PMID: 38897202 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2024.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
Abstract
The tissues are the site of many important immunological reactions, yet how the immune system is controlled at these sites remains opaque. Recent studies have identified Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells in non-lymphoid tissues with unique characteristics compared with lymphoid Treg cells. However, tissue Treg cells have not been considered holistically across tissues. Here, we performed a systematic analysis of the Treg cell population residing in non-lymphoid organs throughout the body, revealing shared phenotypes, transient residency, and common molecular dependencies. Tissue Treg cells from different non-lymphoid organs shared T cell receptor (TCR) sequences, with functional capacity to drive multi-tissue Treg cell entry and were tissue-agnostic on tissue homing. Together, these results demonstrate that the tissue-resident Treg cell pool in most non-lymphoid organs, other than the gut, is largely constituted by broadly self-reactive Treg cells, characterized by transient multi-tissue migration. This work suggests common regulatory mechanisms may allow pan-tissue Treg cells to safeguard homeostasis across the body.
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Affiliation(s)
- Oliver T Burton
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium; Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium; University of Antwerp, Center of Molecular Neurology, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Tissue Dynamics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Near-InfraRed Photo-Immunotherapy Research Institute, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium; Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium; Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK.
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Redondo-Antón J, Fontela MG, Notario L, Torres-Ruiz R, Rodríguez-Perales S, Lorente E, Lauzurica P. Functional Characterization of a Dual Enhancer/Promoter Regulatory Element Leading Human CD69 Expression. Front Genet 2020; 11:552949. [PMID: 33193627 PMCID: PMC7652794 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.552949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The CD69 gene encodes a C-type lectin glycoprotein with immune regulatory properties which is expressed on the cell surfaces of all activated hematopoietic cells. CD69 activation kinetics differ by developmental stage, cell linage and activating conditions, and these differences have been attributed to the participation of complex gene regulatory networks. An evolutionarily conserved regulatory element, CNS2, located 4kb upstream of the CD69 gene transcriptional start site, has been proposed as the major candidate governing the gene transcriptional activation program. To investigate the function of human CNS2, we studied the effect of its endogenous elimination via CRISPR-Cas9 on CD69 protein and mRNA expression levels in various immune cell lines. Even when the entire promoter region was maintained, CNS2-/- cells did not express CD69, thus indicating that CNS2 has promoter-like characteristics. However, like enhancers, inverted CNS2 sustained transcription, although at a diminished levels, thereby suggesting that it has dual promoter and enhancer functions. Episomal luciferase assays further suggested that both functions are combined within the CNS2 regulatory element. In addition, CNS2 directs its own bidirectional transcription into two different enhancer-derived RNAs molecules (eRNAs) which are transcribed from two independent transcriptional start sites in opposite directions. This eRNA transcription is dependent on only the enhancer sequence itself, because in the absence of the CD69 promoter, sufficient RNA polymerase II levels are maintained at CNS2 to drive eRNA expression. Here, we describe a regulatory element with overlapping promoter and enhancer functions, which is essential for CD69 gene transcriptional regulation.
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- Jennifer Redondo-Antón
- Immune Gene Regulation and Antigen Presentation Group, National Center for Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Immune Gene Regulation and Antigen Presentation Group, National Center for Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Immune Gene Regulation and Antigen Presentation Group, National Center for Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Molecular Cytogenetics and Genome Editing Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Molecular Cytogenetics and Genome Editing Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Immune Gene Regulation and Antigen Presentation Group, National Center for Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Immune Gene Regulation and Antigen Presentation Group, National Center for Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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Brait VH, Miró-Mur F, Pérez-de-Puig I, Notario L, Hurtado B, Pedragosa J, Gallizioli M, Jiménez-Altayó F, Arbaizar-Rovirosa M, Otxoa-de-Amezaga A, Monteagudo J, Ferrer-Ferrer M, de la Rosa X, Bonfill-Teixidor E, Salas-Perdomo A, Hernández-Vidal A, Garcia-de-Frutos P, Lauzurica P, Planas AM. CD69 Plays a Beneficial Role in Ischemic Stroke by Dampening Endothelial Activation. Circ Res 2019; 124:279-291. [PMID: 30582456 DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.118.313818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
RATIONALE CD69 is an immunomodulatory molecule induced during lymphocyte activation. Following stroke, T-lymphocytes upregulate CD69 but its function is unknown. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether CD69 was involved in brain damage following an ischemic stroke. METHODS AND RESULTS We used adult male mice on the C57BL/6 or BALB/c backgrounds, including wild-type mice and CD69-/- mice, and CD69+/+ and CD69-/- lymphocyte-deficient Rag2-/- mice, and generated chimeric mice. We induced ischemia by transient or permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion. We measured infarct volume, assessed neurological function, and studied CD69 expression, as well as platelet function, fibrin(ogen) deposition, and VWF (von Willebrand factor) expression in brain vessels and VWF content and activity in plasma, and performed the tail-vein bleeding test and the carotid artery ferric chloride-induced thrombosis model. We also performed primary glial cell cultures and sorted brain CD45-CD11b-CD31+ endothelial cells for mRNA expression studies. We blocked VWF by intravenous administration of anti-VWF antibodies. CD69-/- mice showed larger infarct volumes and worse neurological deficits than the wild-type mice after ischemia. This worsening effect was not attributable to lymphocytes or other hematopoietic cells. CD69 deficiency lowered the time to thrombosis in the carotid artery despite platelet function not being affected. Ischemia upregulated Cd69 mRNA expression in brain endothelial cells. CD69-deficiency increased fibrin(ogen) accumulation in the ischemic tissue, and plasma VWF content and activity, and VWF expression in brain vessels. Blocking VWF reduced infarct volume and reverted the detrimental effect of CD69-/- deficiency. CONCLUSIONS CD69 deficiency promotes a prothrombotic phenotype characterized by increased VWF and worse brain damage after ischemic stroke. The results suggest that CD69 acts as a downregulator of endothelial activation.
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- Vanessa H Brait
- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
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- Grupo de Activación Inmunológica, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain (L.N., P.L.)
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- Department of Cell Death and Proliferation (B.H., P.G.-d.-F.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- Departament de Farmacologia, Terapèutica i Toxicologia, Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain (F.J.A.)
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- Hemotherapy and Haemostasis Service, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain (J.M.)
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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- Department of Cell Death and Proliferation (B.H., P.G.-d.-F.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
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- Grupo de Activación Inmunológica, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain (L.N., P.L.)
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- From the Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration (V.H.B., F.M.-M., I.P.-d.-P., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., X.d.l.R., E.B.-T., A.M.P.), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain (V.H.B., F.M.-M., J.P., M.G., M.A.-R., A.O.-d.-A., M.F.-F., E.B.-T., A.S.-P., A.H.-V., A.M.P.)
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