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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY
卷 33, 期 11, 页码 563-572出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxab059
关键词
IL-2; immune checkpoint; immunosuppression; NFAT; tumor microenvironment
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资金
- Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe
Studies show that IL-2 inhibits the expression of PD-1, thereby enhancing the activity of CD8(+) T cells.
Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is a co-inhibitory receptor that dampens immune responses upon interaction with PD-L1 and PD-L2. Although PD-1 expression on T cells is known to be activation-dependent, how cytokines modify its regulation is not fully resolved. Using polyclonal T-cell activation to study cytokine-dependent PD-1 regulation, we found that IL-2 inhibited transcriptional up-regulation of PD-1 despite the promotion of T-cell activation. The IL-2-mediated reduction in PD-1 expression augmented CD8(+) T-cell activities against PD-L1-expressing target cells. To study the mechanism of PD-1 reduction, we focused on STAT5 activation in the IL-2 signaling pathway. Bioinformatic analysis suggested a novel conserved PD-1 promoter domain where NFAT and STAT5 can potentially compete with each other for binding. NFAT1 interaction with this domain revealed substantial potency in PD-1 transcription compared to STAT5A, and STAT5A overexpression could quench NFAT1-dependent PD-1 up-regulation in a sequence-specific manner. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis of activated T cells showed that IL-2 treatment significantly diminished the binding of NFAT1 and NFAT2 in the hypothesized competition site, while STAT5 binding to the same region was increased. These results raise the possibility that the competition of transcriptional factors might be involved in the fine-tuning of PD-1 expression by cytokines such as IL-2.
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