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BLOOD
Volume 109, Issue 4, Pages 1627-1635Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-05-022319
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The BH3-only protein Bim is required for maintaining the homeostasis of the immune system, since Bim regulates the down-modulation of T-cell responses, mainly through cytokine deprivation. Using T-cell blasts from healthy donors and also from patients with autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndromes (ALPSs) due to homozygous loss-of-function mutation of FasL (ALPS-1c) or heterozygous mutation in the Fas/CD95 death domain (ALPS-la), it is shown that the induction of Bim expression during the process of human T-cell blast generation is strictly dependent on FasL/Fas-mediated signaling. The main pathway by which Fas signaling regulates the levels of Bim expression in human T-cell blasts is the death-domain and caspase-independent generation of discrete levels of H2O2, which results in the net increase of Foxo3a levels. The present results connect the 2 main pathways described until the moment for the control of T-cell responses: death receptor-mediated activation-induced cell death and apoptosis by cytokine deprivation.
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