通过cGAS激活的内皮细胞-T细胞交叉对话启动了三级淋巴体结构的形成
Ruibo Zhao1,2, Jinghe Zhang2, Jialu Ma1,2
1Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Key Laboratory of Immune Response and Immunotherapy, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province 230007, China.
Science immunology
|August 2, 2024
概括
干扰素基因 (cGAS-STING) 循环氨酸单酸-氨酸单酸合成酶-刺激器通路的异常激活驱动自身免疫. 这项研究揭示了cGAS信号建立了三级淋巴体结构,导致自身免疫组织损伤.
科学领域:
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 病理学 病理学 病理学
背景情况:
- 干扰素基因 (cGAS-STING) 循环氨酸单酸-氨酸单酸合成酶-刺激器通路的异常激活与人类和小鼠的自身免疫有关.
- 通过cGAS-STING途径启动适应性免疫和组织病理的确切机制仍然不完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 研究cGAS-STING通路激活在驱动自身免疫反应和组织病理学的作用.
- 阐明cGAS信号促进在自身免疫性疾病中形成有组织的淋巴体结构的机制.
主要方法:
- 使用cGAS knockin (KI) 鼠标模型表现出系统性自身免疫.
- 分析肺组织以识别淋巴状结构并描述免疫细胞群和分子信号.
- 研究了CD8+ T细胞,CCL5和CCR5在第三级淋巴细胞结构 (TLS) 通过阻断和耗尽策略的形成中的作用.
主要成果:
- cGAS-KI小鼠发展出系统性自身免疫,有组织的淋巴状组织类似于封闭肺血管的三级淋巴状结构 (TLS).
- 细胞内在的cGAS诱导在CD8+T细胞中调节了CCR5,并在血管内皮细胞中诱导了CCL5的产生.
- 招募的外围CD8+T细胞产生CXCL13和干扰素-γ,这触发了内皮细胞死亡,增强了CCL5的产生,对TLS的建立至关重要.
- 阻断CCL5或CCR5或耗尽CD8+T细胞,显著损害了TLS的形成.
- 通过cGAS介导的TLS形成也被发现可以增强幽默和抗瘤免疫反应.
结论:
- cGAS信号传递是专门的淋巴细胞结构形成的关键驱动因素,是自身免疫组织病理的基础.
- 该cGAS-STING途径策划了一连串涉及CD8+T细胞的招募和激活,导致TLS的发展,并导致自身免疫性疾病.
- 针对cGAS-STING通路组件或下游介质,如CCL5/CCR5,可以为自身免疫性疾病提供治疗策略.
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