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作为淋巴细胞耐受性的基础的转录机制
Fernando Macián1, Francisco García-Cózar, Sin-Hyeog Im
1Center for Blood Research, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cell
|June 28, 2002
概括
淋巴细胞中的 (Ca2+) 信号决定了免疫反应. 无阻 Ca2+ 信号传递促进 T 细胞无反应,一种不响应的状态,由转录因子 NFAT 介导,与生产性免疫激活不同.
科学领域:
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 细胞信号传递 细胞信号传递
背景情况:
- 淋巴细胞激活依赖于集成的信号通路,包括 (Ca2+).
- 失调的Ca2+信号传递可以导致淋巴细胞耐受性或无能性,这是免疫调节的关键状态.
- 转录因子NFAT (激活T细胞的核因子) 是Ca2+依赖细胞反应的关键媒介.
研究的目的:
- 阐明NFAT在生产性淋巴细胞激活和T细胞激活中的特定作用.
- 识别与 anergy 与生产性免疫反应相关的独特基因表达程序.
- 研究NFAT与AP-1在调节T细胞命运中的相互作用.
主要方法:
- 在不同的信号条件下分析淋巴细胞中的基因表达特征.
- 在耐受性T细胞中对NFAT依赖基因上调调的研究.
- 对缺乏NFAT1的T细胞的研究以及NFAT1-AP-1相互作用中断的影响.
主要成果:
- 卡2+/氨酸信号传导诱导了一组特定的基因相关基因,主要依赖于NFAT.
- 缺少NFAT1的T细胞表现出对 anergy 诱导的抵抗力.
- 当NFAT1与AP-1的相互作用被阻止时,NFAT1会促进T细胞无能反应.
结论:
- 在淋巴细胞功能中,NFAT扮演着双重的角色,既调解生产激活,又调解 anergy.
- 在没有AP-1的情况下,NFAT强制执行一种激活促进的基因程序.
- NFAT和AP-1的合作复合体驱动生产性免疫反应,而NFAT单独可以诱导耐受性.
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