Huang Peng, Zhou Yuxiang, Liu Zan, Zhang Pihong
Department of Burns and Reconstructive Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Mediators Inflamm. 2016;2016:1701059. doi: 10.1155/2016/1701059. Epub 2016 Oct 19.
Decreased Th1/Th2 ratio is one of the major characteristics of immunosuppression in sepsis. Both membrane adhesive protein Annexin-A1 (ANXA1) and transcription factor GATA-3 have been reported to play important roles in T cell differentiation. However, the relationship between ANXA1 and GATA-3 in Th1/Th2 shift is unknown. Our study investigated the interaction effects of ANXA1 and GATA-3 to influence T cell differentiation in CD4 T cells. We found that GATA-3 and ANXA1 were coexpressed on Th0/Th1/Th2 cytoplasm and nuclear. Overexpressed ANXA1 significantly increased the expression of IFN and reduced IL-4 expression in T cells, while ANXA1-silenced T cells exhibited decreased production of IFN and increased production of IL-4. Knockdown of ANXA1 promoted higher expression level of GATA-3 and low level of T-box transcription factor (T-bet/Tbx21). Further study demonstrated that ANXA1 regulated GATA-3 expression through the formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) downstream signaling pathways ERK and PKB/Akt. These results suggested that ANXA1 modulates GATA-3/T-bet expression induced Th0/Th1 differentiation. Moreover, we found that GATA-3 inhibited ANXA1 expression by binding to its promoter for the first time. It is proposed that the interactions between ANXA1 and GATA-3 may provide clues to understand the immunosuppression and have potential as new therapeutic targets in immunotherapy after sepsis.
Th1/Th2 比值降低是脓毒症免疫抑制的主要特征之一。膜黏附蛋白膜联蛋白 A1(ANXA1)和转录因子 GATA-3 均被报道在 T 细胞分化中发挥重要作用。然而,ANXA1 与 GATA-3 在 Th1/Th2 偏移中的关系尚不清楚。我们的研究调查了 ANXA1 和 GATA-3 对 CD4 T 细胞中 T 细胞分化的相互作用影响。我们发现 GATA-3 和 ANXA1 在 Th0/Th1/Th2 的细胞质和细胞核中共同表达。过表达的 ANXA1 显著增加 T 细胞中 IFN 的表达并降低 IL-4 的表达,而沉默 ANXA1 的 T 细胞则表现出 IFN 产生减少和 IL-4 产生增加。敲低 ANXA1 促进了 GATA-3 的高表达水平和 T 盒转录因子(T-bet/Tbx21)的低水平表达。进一步研究表明,ANXA1 通过甲酰肽受体样 1(FPRL-1)下游信号通路 ERK 和 PKB/Akt调节 GATA-3 的表达。这些结果表明,ANXA1 调节 GATA-3/T-bet 的表达诱导 Th0/Th1 分化。此外,我们首次发现 GATA-3 通过与其启动子结合抑制 ANXA1 的表达。有人提出,ANXA1 与 GATA-3 之间的相互作用可能为理解免疫抑制提供线索,并有可能作为脓毒症后免疫治疗的新治疗靶点。