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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 174, 期 2, 页码 953-961出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.2.953
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- NIAID NIH HHS [K02 AI052170, R01 AI049494, KO2AI152170, 1R01AI49494] Funding Source: Medline
Posttranscriptional regulation of IL-2 gene expression at the level of mRNA decay is mediated by an AU-rich element (.ARE,) found in the 3'-untranslated region. We hypothesized that the ARE-binding protein tristetraprolin (TTP) regulates T lymphocyte IL-2 mRNA decay by interacting with the IL-2 ARE and targeting the transcript for decay. rTTP protein expressed in HeLa cells bound specifically to the IL-2 ARE with high affinity in a gel shift assay. In primary human T lymphocytes, TTP mRNA and protein expression were induced by TCR and CD28 coreceptor stimulation. Using a gel shift assay, we identified a cytoplasmic RNA-binding activity that was induced by TCR and CD28 coreceptor stimulation and bound specifically to the IL-2 ARE sequence. Using anti-TTP Abs, we showed by supershift that this inducible activity contained TTP. We also showed that insertion of the IL-2 ARE sequence into the 3'-untranslated region of a P-globin reporter construct conferred TTP-dependent mRNA destabilization on the beta-globin reporter. To determine whether TTP also regulates IL-2 gene expression in vivo, we examined IL-2 expression in primary cells from wild-type and TTP knockout mice. Compared with their wild-type counterparts. TCR- and CD28-activated splenocytes and T cells from TTP knockout mice overexpressed IL-2 mRNA and protein. Also. IL-2 mRNA was more. stable in activated splenocytes from TTP knockout mice compared with wild-type mice.-Taken together, these data suggest that TTP functions to down-regulate IL-2 gene expression through ARE-mediated mRNA decay.
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