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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 2, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1272
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Japan Society of the Promotion of Science
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Mochida Memorial Foundation
- National Institute of Biomedical Innovation
- Medical Research Council [G1000215] Funding Source: researchfish
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19059014, 23390123, 22590438, 21500305, 22249009, 23790346] Funding Source: KAKEN
- MRC [G1000215] Funding Source: UKRI
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Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have a central role in maintaining immune homoeostasis through various mechanisms. Although the Forkhead transcription factor Foxp3 defines the Treg cell lineage and functions, the molecular mechanisms of Foxp3 induction and maintenance remain elusive. Here we show that Foxp3 is one of the direct targets of Nr4a2. Nr4a2 binds to regulatory regions of Foxp3, where it mediates permissive histone modifications. Ectopic expression of Nr4a2 imparts Treg-like suppressive activity to naive CD4(+) T cells by inducing Foxp3 and by repressing cytokine production, including interferon-gamma and interleukin-2. Deletion of Nr4a2 in T cells attenuates induction of Tregs and causes aberrant induction of Th1, leading to the exacerbation of colitis. Nr4a2-deficeint Tregs are prone to lose Foxp3 expression and have attenuated suppressive ability both in vitro and in vivo. Thus, Nr4a2 has the ability to maintain T-cell homoeostasis by regulating induction, maintenance and suppressor functions of Tregs, and by repression of aberrant Th1 induction.
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