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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01788-z
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- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
- Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
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T-regulatory cells are an upsurge in the tumor microenvironment and induce immune-evasion. CD4(+) Treg cells are well characterized whereas the role of CD8(+) Tregs in cancer has recently started to crease attention. Here, we report an augmentation CD8(+) FOXP3(+) Tregs in breast tumor microenvironment. FOXP3, the lineage-specific transcription factor, is a dominant regulator of Treg cell development and function. FOXP3 is induced preferentially by divergent signaling in CD4(+) Treg cells. But how FOXP3 is induced and maintained in tumor-CD8(+) Tregs is the Cinderella of the investigation. We observed that RUNX3, a CD8(+) lineage-specific transcription factor, binds at the FOXP3-promoter to induce its transcription. In addition to promoter activation, involvement of cis-elements CNS1 and CNS2 in the transcriptional regulation of FOXP3 was also evident in these cells. SMAD3 binds to CNS1 region and acts as transcription inducer, whereas GATA3 plays a temporal role in the FOXP3 transcription by differential chromatin modification in CNS regions. In CNS1 region, GATA3 acts as a repressor for FOXP3 in naive CD8(+) T cells. Whereas in CD8(+) Tregs, GATA3 binds directly at CNS2 region and persuaded the maintenance of FOXP3. Therefore, the intervention of these concerted transcriptional machinery may have a therapeutic potential in immunotherapy of cancer.
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