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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 11, Pages 4722-4732Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-206060
Keywords
autoimmunity; cell fate; autoantibodies
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- Ministero della Salute
- Associazione Italiana Ricerca Cancro (AIRC) [MCO-9998]
- Programma di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
- U.S. National Institutes of Health [AI048079, AI072648]
- Alliance for Lupus Research
- Central New York Community Foundation
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Autophagy, the cytoprotection mechanism that takes place under metabolic impairment, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity. Here, we investigated the spontaneous and induced autophagic behavior of T lymphocytes from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared with that of T lymphocytes from healthy donors by measuring the autophagy marker microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3)-II. No significant differences in spontaneous autophagy were found between T lymphocytes from patients with SLE and from healthy donors, apart from CD4(+) naive T cells from patients with SLE in which constitutively higher levels of autophagy (P<0.001) were detected. At variance, whereas treatment of T lymphocytes from healthy donors with serum IgG from patients with SLE resulted in a 2-fold increase in LC3-II levels (P<0.001), T lymphocytes from SLE patients were resistant to autophagic induction and also displayed an up-regulation of genes negatively regulating autophagy, e.g., alpha-synuclein. These findings could open new perspectives in the search for pathogenetic determinants of SLE progression and in the development of therapeutic strategies aimed to recover T-cell compartment homeostasis by restoring autophagic susceptibility.-Alessandri, C., Barbati, C., Vacirca, D., Piscopo, P., Confaloni, A., Sanchez, M., Maselli, A., Colasanti, T., Conti, F., Truglia, S., Perl, A., Valesini, G., Malorni, W., Ortona, E., Pierdominici, M. T lymphocytes from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are resistant to induction of autophagy. FASEB J. 26, 4722-4732 (2012). www.fasebj.org
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