Journal
JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 96, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2021.108788
Keywords
Calcitriol; Retinoic acid; VDR; RAR; IL-9
Funding
- Department of Science & Technology, Government of India [YSS/2015/001147]
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Vitamins play a crucial role in regulating the differentiation of T helper cells, with calcitriol and retinoic acid exhibiting hormone-like properties and antagonizing each other in this process. The recruitment of PU.1 to the Il9 gene is significantly impaired in the presence of either vitamin alone, but their combined treatment increases the recruitment. Interestingly, retinoic acid dampens the binding of VDR on the Il9 gene, negating the effect of calcitriol.
Distinct T helper cells, including Th9 cells help maintain homeostasis in the immune system. Vitamins play pivotal role in the immune system through many mechanisms, including regulating the differentiation of T helper cells. Calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3) and retinoic acid possess hormone-like properties and are the bioactive metabolites of vitamin D and A, respectively, that signal through heterodimers containing the common retinoid X receptor. In contrast to individual treatment with the vitamins that significantly attenuates IL-9 production from Th9 cells, Th9 cells treated with both vitamins demonstrated IL-9 production similar to untreated Th9 cells. This is associated with reciprocal expression of PU.1 and Foxp3. While the recruitment of PU.1 was significantly impaired to the Il9 gene in the presence of calcitriol or retinoic acid in Th9 cells, addition of both vitamins together increased the recruitment of PU.1 to the Il9 gene. Calcitriol and retinoic acid together impaired the recruitment of HDAC1 to the Il9 gene without impacting Gcn5 recruitment. Importantly, retinoic acid negated the effect of calcitriol and impaired the binding of VDR on the Il9 gene by dampened VDR-RXR formation. Collectively, our data show that calcitriol and retinoic acid antagonize each other to regulate the differentiation of Th9 cells. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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