Basu Samik, Golovina Tatiana, Mikheeva Tatiana, June Carl H, Riley James L
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
J Immunol. 2008 May 1;180(9):5794-8. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.9.5794.
Addition of rapamycin to cultures of expanding natural CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ T regulatory cells (Tregs) helps maintain their suppressive activity, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. Pim 2 is a serine/threonine kinase that can confer rapamycin resistance. Unexpectedly, pim 2 was found to be constitutively expressed in freshly isolated, resting Tregs, but not in CD4+CD25- T effector cells. Introduction of Foxp3, but not Foxp3Delta2, into effector T cells induced pim 2 expression and conferred preferential expansion in the presence of rapamycin, indicating that Foxp3 can regulate pim 2 expression. Finally, we determined there is a positive correlation between Treg expansion and Foxp3 expression in the presence of rapamycin. Together, these results indicate that Tregs are programmed to be resistant to rapamycin, providing further rationale for why this immunosuppressive drug should be used in conjunction with expanded Tregs.
将雷帕霉素添加到正在扩增的天然CD4+CD25+Foxp3+调节性T细胞(Tregs)培养物中有助于维持其抑制活性,但其潜在机制尚不清楚。Pim 2是一种丝氨酸/苏氨酸激酶,可赋予雷帕霉素抗性。出乎意料的是,发现Pim 2在新鲜分离的静息Tregs中组成性表达,但在CD4+CD25-T效应细胞中不表达。将Foxp3而非Foxp3Delta2引入效应T细胞可诱导Pim 2表达,并在存在雷帕霉素的情况下赋予优先扩增能力,表明Foxp3可调节Pim 2表达。最后,我们确定在存在雷帕霉素的情况下,Treg扩增与Foxp3表达之间存在正相关。总之,这些结果表明Tregs被编程为对雷帕霉素具有抗性,这为为何这种免疫抑制药物应与扩增的Tregs联合使用提供了进一步的理论依据。