Division of Hem/Onc/BMT, Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.
Front Immunol. 2019 Mar 18;10:486. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00486. eCollection 2019.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a multi-factorial chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract prognostically linked to CD8 T-cells, but little is known about their mechanism of activation during initiation of colitis. Here, Grb2-associated binding 2/3 adaptor protein double knockout mice (Gab2/3) were generated. Gab2/3 mice, but not single knockout mice, developed spontaneous colitis. To analyze the cellular mechanism, reciprocal bone marrow (BM) transplantation demonstrated a Gab2/3 hematopoietic disease-initiating process. Adoptive transfer showed individual roles for macrophages and T-cells in promoting colitis development . In spontaneous disease, intestinal intraepithelial CD8 but much fewer CD4, T-cells from Gab2/3 mice with rectal prolapse were more proliferative. To analyze the molecular mechanism, reduced PI3-kinase/Akt/mTORC1 was observed in macrophages and T-cells, with interleukin (IL)-2 stimulated T-cells showing increased pSTAT5. These results illustrate the importance of Gab2/3 collectively in signaling responses required to control macrophage and CD8 T-cell activation and suppress chronic colitis.
炎症性肠病(IBD)是一种多因素的胃肠道慢性炎症,与 CD8 T 细胞密切相关,但对其在结肠炎起始时的激活机制知之甚少。本研究构建了 Grb2 相关结合蛋白 2/3 衔接蛋白双重敲除(Gab2/3)小鼠。Gab2/3 小鼠而非单敲除小鼠自发发生结肠炎。为分析细胞机制,进行了相互骨髓(BM)移植实验,结果表明 Gab2/3 具有造血疾病起始作用。过继转移实验显示巨噬细胞和 T 细胞在促进结肠炎发展中各自发挥作用。在自发性疾病中,直肠脱垂的 Gab2/3 小鼠肠道上皮内 CD8 T 细胞而非 CD4 T 细胞增殖更多。为分析分子机制,观察到巨噬细胞和 T 细胞中 PI3-激酶/Akt/mTORC1 减少,IL-2 刺激的 T 细胞中 pSTAT5 增加。这些结果表明 Gab2/3 在控制巨噬细胞和 CD8 T 细胞激活以及抑制慢性结肠炎所需的信号转导反应中具有重要作用。