Transcriptional reprogramming of mature CD4⁺ helper T cells generates distinct MHC class II-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes

Daniel Mucida; Mohammad Mushtaq Husain; Sawako Muroi; Femke van Wijk; Ryo Shinnakasu; Yoshinori Naoe; Bernardo Sgarbi Reis; Yujun Huang; Florence Lambolez; Michael Docherty; Antoine Attinger; Jr-Wen Shui; Gisen Kim; Christopher J Lena; Shinya Sakaguchi; Chizuko Miyamoto; Peng Wang; Koji Atarashi; Yunji Park; Toshinori Nakayama; Kenya Honda; Wilfried Ellmeier; Mitchell Kronenberg; Ichiro Taniuchi; Hilde Cheroutre

doi:10.1038/ni.2523

Transcriptional reprogramming of mature CD4⁺ helper T cells generates distinct MHC class II-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes

Daniel Mucida, Mohammad Mushtaq Husain, Sawako Muroi, Femke van Wijk, Ryo Shinnakasu, Yoshinori Naoe, Bernardo Sgarbi Reis, Yujun Huang, Florence Lambolez, Michael Docherty, Antoine Attinger, Jr-Wen Shui, Gisen Kim, Christopher J Lena, Shinya Sakaguchi, Chizuko Miyamoto, Peng Wang, Koji Atarashi, Yunji Park, Toshinori NakayamaKenya Honda, Wilfried Ellmeier, Mitchell Kronenberg, Ichiro Taniuchi, Hilde Cheroutre

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Abstract

TCRαβ thymocytes differentiate into either CD8αβ(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes or CD4(+) helper T cells. This functional dichotomy is controlled by key transcription factors, including the helper T cell master regulator ThPOK, which suppresses the cytolytic program in major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-restricted CD4(+) thymocytes. ThPOK continues to repress genes of the CD8 lineage in mature CD4(+) T cells, even as they differentiate into effector helper T cell subsets. Here we found that the helper T cell fate was not fixed and that mature, antigen-stimulated CD4(+) T cells terminated expression of the gene encoding ThPOK and reactivated genes of the CD8 lineage. This unexpected plasticity resulted in the post-thymic termination of the helper T cell program and the functional differentiation of distinct MHC class II-restricted CD4(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	281-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nature immunology
Volume	14
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2523
Publication status	Published - 2013

Keywords

Animals
Cell Differentiation
Cell Lineage
Citrobacter rodentium
Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
Homeodomain Proteins
Interleukin-7
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Mice, Knockout
T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic
T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer
Thymocytes
Transcription Factors

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Mucida, D., Husain, M. M., Muroi, S., van Wijk, F., Shinnakasu, R., Naoe, Y., Reis, B. S., Huang, Y., Lambolez, F., Docherty, M., Attinger, A., Shui, J.-W., Kim, G., Lena, C. J., Sakaguchi, S., Miyamoto, C., Wang, P., Atarashi, K., Park, Y., ... Cheroutre, H. (2013). Transcriptional reprogramming of mature CD4⁺ helper T cells generates distinct MHC class II-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Nature immunology, 14(3), 281-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2523

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Transcriptional reprogramming of mature CD4⁺ helper T cells generates distinct MHC class II-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes

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