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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 191, Issue 7, Pages 3614-3623Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1300509
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Japanese Government
- Global Centers of Excellence Program (Global Center for Education and Research in Immune System Regulation and Treatment) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23591432, 23591458, 24390207, 23591113, 24790989] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The tumor suppressor p53 plays a central role in tumor suppression by inducing apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, senescence, and DNA repair. In addition to the antitumor functions of p53, accumulating evidence using systemic p53-deficient mice suggests that p53 suppresses autoimmunity. However, it remains unknown how p53 suppresses autoimmunity. In this study, we generated T cell-specific p53-deficient mice (CD4-Cre p53(fl/fl) mice, or p53 conditional knockout [cKO] mice) and found that aged p53-cKO mice spontaneously developed inflammatory lesions in various organs, including lung, liver, stomach, thyroid gland, submandibular gland, and kidney. Additionally, anti-nuclear Abs and autoantibodies against gastric parietal cells were detected in p53-cKO mice but not in control p53(fl/fl) mice (p53 wild-type mice). Importantly, the number of Foxp3(+)CD4(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the spleen and lung as well as in vitro differentiation of induced Tregs was significantly reduced in p53-cKO mice as compared with that in p53 wild-type mice. Regarding the mechanisms underlying p53-mediated Treg induction, p53 enhanced the transcription of Foxp3 by binding to the promoter and the conserved noncoding DNA sequence-2 of the Foxp3 gene. Taken together, these results suggest that p53 expressed in T cells functions as a suppressor for autoimmunity by inducing Treg differentiation.
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