调节性T细胞衍生的脑啡肽控制伤害感受。
Regulatory T cell-derived enkephalin gates nociception.
作者信息
Midavaine Élora, Moraes Beatriz C, Benitez Jorge, Rodriguez Sian R, Braz Joao M, Kochhar Nathan P, Eckalbar Walter L, Domingos Ana I, Pintar John E, Basbaum Allan I, Kashem Sakeen W
机构信息
Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
出版信息
bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 12:2024.05.11.593442. doi: 10.1101/2024.05.11.593442.
T cells have emerged as sex-dependent orchestrators of pain chronification but the sexually dimorphic mechanisms by which T cells control pain sensitivity is not resolved. Here, we demonstrate an influence of regulatory T cells (Tregs) on pain processing that is distinct from their canonical functions of immune regulation and tissue repair. Specifically, meningeal Tregs (mTregs) express the endogenous opioid, enkephalin, and mTreg-derived enkephalin exerts an antinociceptive action through a presynaptic opioid receptor signaling mechanism that is dispensable for immunosuppression. We demonstrate that mTregs are both necessary and sufficient to suppress mechanical pain sensitivity in female, but not male, mice, with this modulation reliant on sex hormones. These results uncover a fundamental sex-specific, and immunologically-derived endogenous opioid circuit for nociceptive regulation with critical implications for pain biology.
T细胞已成为疼痛慢性化的性别依赖性调节因子,但T细胞控制疼痛敏感性的性别差异机制尚未明确。在此,我们证明了调节性T细胞(Tregs)对疼痛处理的影响,这与其免疫调节和组织修复的经典功能不同。具体而言,脑膜Tregs(mTregs)表达内源性阿片肽脑啡肽,mTreg衍生的脑啡肽通过一种对免疫抑制可有可无的突触前阿片受体信号机制发挥抗伤害感受作用。我们证明,mTregs对于抑制雌性而非雄性小鼠的机械性疼痛敏感性既是必要的也是充分的,这种调节依赖于性激素。这些结果揭示了一种基本的性别特异性、源自免疫的内源性阿片肽回路用于伤害性感受调节,对疼痛生物学具有重要意义。