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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 185, Issue 12, Pages 7186-7198Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1001437
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
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Human peripheral CD4(+)CD25(-) T cells can be induced to express Foxp3 when activated in vitro by TCR stimulation with TGF-beta and IL-2. However, these TGF-beta-induced Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (iTregs) lack a regulatory phenotype. From libraries of nuclear receptor ligands and bioactive lipids, we screened three peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)alpha (bezafibrate, GW7647, and 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid) and two PPAR gamma agonists (ciglitazone and 15-deoxy-Delta-(12,14)-PG J(2)) as molecules that increased Foxp3 expression in human iTregs significantly compared with that in DMSO-treated iTregs (control). These PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma agonist-treated iTregs maintained a high level of Foxp3 expression and had suppressive properties. There were no significant differences in the suppressive properties of iTregs treated with the three PPAR alpha and two PPAR gamma agonists, and all of the treated iTregs increased demethylation levels of the Foxp3 promoter and intronic conserved noncoding sequence 3 regions. Furthermore, PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma agonists, together with TGF-beta, more strongly inhibited the expression of all three DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) (DNMT1, DNMT3a, and DNMT3b) in activated CD4(+) T cells. These results demonstrate that PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma agonists together with TGF-b elicit Foxp3 DNA demethylation through potent downregulation of DNMTs and induce potent and stable Foxp3 expression, resulting in the generation of functional iTregs. Moreover, trichostatin A and retinoic acid enhanced the generation of iTregs synergistically with PPAR alpha and PPAR gamma agonists. The Journal of Immunology, 2010, 185: 7186-7198.
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