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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 208, Issue 4, Pages 633-641Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20110251
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- National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease [T32DK007233]
- National Institutes of Health [A1037988]
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Cell populations are regulated in size by at least two forms of apoptosis. More recently, necroptosis, a parallel, nonapoptotic pathway of cell death, has been described, and this pathway is invoked in the absence of caspase 8. In caspase 8-deficient T cells, necroptosis occurs as the result of antigen receptor-mediated activation. Here, through a genetic analysis, we show that necroptosis in caspase 8-deficient T cells is related neither to the programmed necrosis as defined by the requirement for mitochondria! cyclophilin D nor to autophagy as defined by the requirement for autophagy-related protein 7. Rather, survival of caspase 8-defective T cells can be completely rescued by loss of receptor-interacting serine-threonine kinase (Ripk) 3. Additionally, complementation of a T cell-specific caspase 8 deficiency with a loss of Ripk3 gives rise to lymphoproliferative disease reminiscent of lpr or gld mice. In conjunction with previous work, we conclude that necroptosis in antigen-stimulated caspase 8-deficient T cells is the result of a novel Ripk1- and Ripk3-mediated pathway of cell death.
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