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JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
卷 84, 期 2, 页码 488-498出版社
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0108043
关键词
lymphocyte proliferation; lymphocyte homeostasis; autoimmunity; death receptors
The Fas-FasL pathway plays an important role in the homeostasis of mature lymphocytes, with defects causing autoimmune lympho-proliferative syndromes (ALPS). Human T-cell blasts are not sensitive to FasL or Apo2L/TRAIL-induced apoptosis unless they get reactivated, but either of those ligands inhibits their growth in the absence of cell death induction due to a cell cycle arrest in S-G(2)/M. In the present work, we have studied the mechanism(s) by which FasL or Apo2L/TRAIL regulate T-cell blast cell cycle in healthy donors and in two types of ALPS patients. Our data indicate that in human CD8(+) T-cell blasts, Fas ligation, and especially Apo2L/TRAIL induce the p53-dependent decrease in cyclin-B1 levels. However, the induction of the negative cell cycle regulator p21(WAF1) by FasL or Apo2L/TRAIL in either CD4(+) or CD8(+) T-cell blasts seems to be the main regulatory mechanism. This mechanism is dependent on caspase activation and on H2O2 generation. The increase in p21 levels by FasL or Apo2L/TRAIL is concomitant with p53 increases only in CD8(+) T- cell blasts, with p21 levels maintained high for longer times than p53 levels. In CD4(+) T-cell blasts p21 levels are controlled through a transient and p53-independent mechanism. The present results suggest that the etiology of ALP syndromes could be related not only to defects in apoptosis induction, but also in cell cycle regulation.
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