PDK1 Is Required for Maintenance of CD4 Foxp3 Regulatory T Cell Function

Overview

Journal J Immunol

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2021 Apr 1

PMID 33789982

Citations 6

Authors

Hyunju Oh

Jingyao Zhao

Yenkel Grinberg-Bleyer

Thomas S Postler

Pingzhang Wang

Sung-Gyoo Park

Raul Rabadan

Matthew S Hayden

Sankar Ghosh

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Abstract

Regulatory T (Treg) cells have an essential role in maintaining immune homeostasis, in part by suppressing effector T cell functions. Phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1 (PDK1) is a pleiotropic kinase that acts as a key effector downstream of PI3K in many cell types. In T cells, PDK1 has been shown to be critical for activation of NF-κB and AKT signaling upon TCR ligation and is therefore essential for effector T cell activation, proliferation, and cytokine production. Using Treg cell-specific conditional deletion, we now demonstrate that PDK1 is also essential for Treg cell suppressive activity in vivo. Ablation of specifically in Treg cells led to systemic, lethal, -like inflammation in mice. Genome-wide analysis confirmed that PDK1 is essential for the regulation of key Treg cell signature gene expression and, further, suggested that PDK1 acts primarily to control Treg cell gene expression through regulation of the canonical NF-κB pathway. Consistent with these results, the like phenotype of mice lacking PDK1 in Treg cells was rescued by enforced activation of NF-κB downstream of PDK1. Therefore, PDK1-mediated activation of the NF-κB signaling pathway is essential for regulation of Treg cell signature gene expression and suppressor function.

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