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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 189, Issue 4, Pages 1545-1550Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200405
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- National Science Council Grant [NSC 100-2320-B-002-090-MY3]
- National Health Research Institutes Grant [NHRI-EX100-9941SI]
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Maf proteins are involved in a variety of biological processes, such as oncogenesis, lens development, and differentiation. In immune system, c-Maf transactivates IL-4 promoter, and ectopic expression of c-Maf skews primary T cell response toward the Th2 pathway. Numerous transcription factors are subjected to posttranslational modification. In this study, to our knowledge, we show for the first time that c-Maf is subjective to tyrosine phosphorylation in Th cells and that the level of its tyrosine phosphorylation positively correlates with IL-4 expression by peripheral Th cells, but is negatively associated with the severity of disease in NOD mice. c-Maf undergoes tyrosine phosphorylation at Tyr(21), Tyr(92), and Tyr(131) residues in Th2 cells. Furthermore, tyrosine phosphorylation at these three residues is critical for the recruitment of c-Maf to IL-4 promoter and IL-4 production in Th cells. Taken together, this study sheds new light on the role of posttranslational modification of c-Maf in IL-4 production and Th cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. The Journal of Immunology, 2012, 189: 1545-1550.
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