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Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611; and
Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Walther Oncology Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202
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1,6-glucosaminyltransferase I
(C2GlcNAcT-I), and low levels of the Th1 transcription factor T-bet. In
contrast, Stat4-/- Th1 cells exhibited only a partial
defect in expression of IL-12-inducible E-selectin ligands and
expressed equivalently high levels of
1,3-fucosyltransferase VII
(FucT-VII) as wild-type Th1 cells. FucT-VII expression was induced by T
cell activation, and was enhanced by IL-12 independently of Stat4,
whereas C2GlcNAcT-I up-regulation was mediated exclusively by IL-12,
acting through Stat4. These data show that FucT-VII and C2GlcNAcT-I are
controlled through distinct pathways and imply the existence of at
least one other IL-12-inducible glycosyltransferase required for
E-selectin and possibly P-selectin ligand formation in Th1
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1,3-fucosyltransferase VII
(FucT-VII),3
an FucT-VII well established to play an essential role in selectin
ligand formation in all leukocytes, but particularly in T lymphocytes
(2, 4). In contrast, IL-4, the canonical Th2-polarizing
cytokine, inhibited FucT-VII expression, thereby providing a possible
molecular basis for the difference in selectin binding capacity of
short-term polarized Th1 and Th2 cells (2). An important
role for TCR-initiated pathways was also revealed in that study. These
results showed that cytokines can influence selectin ligand expression
through control of FucT-VII expression, but did not identify signal
transduction or transcriptional pathways by which IL-12 or IL-4
controls FucT-VII expression. In addition, these studies did not
elucidate how expression of other relevant glycosyltransferases was
controlled, or how pathways initiating at the TCR interact with those
emanating from cytokine receptors. In this report, we used mice with a
targeted disruption of Stat4 to examine the role of Stat4 in induction
of selectin ligands and in the induction of FucT-VII and core 2
1,6-glucosaminyltransferase I (C2GlcNAcT-I), an O-linked branching
enzyme also critically involved in selectin ligand biosynthesis
(5, 6), in Th1 cells. | Materials and Methods |
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Production and characterization of Stat4-/- mice have been described previously (7). Stat4-/- mice used in the present study were backcrossed 10 generations to BALB/c. Wild-type (WT) BALB/C mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) and were bred and maintained in the Center for Comparative Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School. All protocols were approved by the local Animal Care and Use Committee.
T cell activation
Splenic CD4 cells were isolated by magnetic bead columns
according to the manufacturers instructions (Miltenyi Biotec, Auburn,
CA). CD4 cells were activated for
40 h on plates precoated with 1
µg/ml each of anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 in the presence (Th1) or
absence (Th0) of 10 ng/ml IL-12 (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN) and 10
µg/ml anti-IL-4. Cells were then transferred to fresh medium
without Ab and cultured with 20 ng/ml IL-2 in the continued presence
(Th1) or absence (Th0) of IL-12 plus anti-IL-4. Fresh cytokines and
anti-IL-4 were added every 2 days, and the cell concentration was
maintained at
106 cells/ml for the duration of
culture. Analysis of leukocyte rolling was performed on day 8, and RNA
for RT-PCR analysis was obtained on day 6.
RT-PCR
Semiquantitative RT-PCR and Southern blotting to determine the relative levels of mRNA for FucT-VII, C2GlcNAcT-I, and dihydrofolate reductase (a housekeeping gene used as an internal control) were conducted as previously described (2, 3).
Flow cytometry
FACS analysis with 1B11 (BD PharMingen, San Diego, CA) was performed as described elsewhere (6). For experiments using selectin chimeras, cells were incubated in empirically determined saturating concentrations of E-RIgM or P-RIgM (4), washed, and Cy5-conjugated goat anti-human IgM was used as a second step. Data were collected and analyzed using a FACSort or FACSCalibur flow cytometer and CellQuest software (BD Biosciences, Mountain View, CA).
SDS-PAGE and Western blotting
SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis of cell lysates was as described previously (8). Cell lysates were made with high-salt radioimmunoprecipitation assay lysis buffer (50 mM Tris (pH 8.0), 150 mM NaCl, 1% Triton X-100, 1% deoxycholate, 0.1% SDS, 1 mM EDTA, and a mixture of protease inhibitors) followed by ultracentrifugation. Rabbit anti-mouse T-bet antiserum (9) was kindly provided by Drs. L. Glimcher and S. Szabo (Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA).
Leukocyte rolling assays
The interaction of T cells with E-selectin and P-selectin was assayed in a parallel plate flow chamber (GlycoTech, Rockville, MD) at 1.5 dynes/cm2 on monolayers of Chinese hamster ovary cells stably transfected with either human E-selectin or human P-selectin as described (6, 10). Data analysis was performed using Celltrak software developed by Compex (Mars, PA), as previously described (6, 10). Briefly, a rolling event is defined as a rolling cell that can be tracked by morphology and trajectory between paired sequential images separated by a defined time delay, here 2 s. The total number of rolling events was collected for 50100 sequential images. Data are represented as the mean ± SD of duplicate runs and represents one of at least four separate experiments.
| Results and Discussion |
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FucT-VII is absolutely required for formation of all selectin ligands
(4), but equivalent levels of FucT-VII were observed in WT
and Stat4-/- T cells. These results show that
lack of FucT-VII cannot be responsible for the selectin ligand defects
in Stat4-/- Th1 cells. Our results also show
that enhancement of FucT-VII in response to IL-12 does not require
Stat4. Although Stat4 is well established as crucial for IL-12
signaling and Th1 development, IL-12 can also activate p38
mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways (13, 14, 15),
which may also be important for Th1 development. TGF-
1 is also a
potent inducer of FucT-VII and selectin ligands in human CD4 cells, and
the induction of FucT-VII in activated CD4 cells in response to
TGF-
1 requires p38 MAPK (16), further implicating this
pathway in control of FucT-VII expression. Whether p38 MAPK is
responsible for up-regulation of FucT-VII expression and/or selectin
ligand formation in response to T cell activation and/or IL-12 cells is
an important question for further
experimentation.
Our results suggest a new level of regulation of lymphocyte traffic
through independent control of expression of glycosyltransferases which
are differentially required for formation of E-selectin ligands vs
P-selectin ligands (Fig. 4
). Expression of FucT-VII, which is absolutely required for both E- and
P-selectin ligand formation in T cells, is induced by T cell activation
and is enhanced and/or maintained by IL-12 independent of Stat4. In
contrast, induction of C2GlcNAcT-I, which is absolutely required only
for formation of P-selectin ligands, requires Stat4. As mentioned
above, C2GlcNAcT-I-/- Th1 cells roll as well as
WT Th1 cells on E-selectin (6). In addition, IgG plasma
cells express high levels of FucT-VII and low levels of C2GlcNAcT-I,
and roll well on E-selectin but poorly on
P-selectin.4 IgG plasma cells,
C2GlcNAcT-I-/- Th1 cells (6), and
Stat4-/- Th1 cells therefore share a similar
E-selectin-binding, P-selectin-nonbinding phenotype. Other enzymes such
as members of the ST3Gal family of
23 sialyltransferases
(17) may also be independently regulated in activated CD4
cells and/or differentially required for ligands for E-selectin vs
P-selectin, allowing further fine tuning of the level of functional
selectin ligands on activated T lymphocytes. Independent control of
expression of these various enzymes, along with distinct requirements
for individual enzymes in biosynthesis of E-selectin ligands vs
P-selectin ligands, represents a novel level of regulation of
lymphocyte traffic.
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| Acknowledgments |
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2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Geoffrey S. Kansas, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611. E-mail address: gsk{at}northwestern.edu ![]()
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: FucT-VII,
1,3-fucosyltransferase VII; C2GlcNAcT-I, core 2
1,6-glucosaminyltransferase I; WT, wild type; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase. ![]()
4 G. H. Underhill and G. S. Kansas. IgG plasma cells display a unique spectrum of leukocyte adhesion and homing molecules. Submitted for publication. ![]()
Received for publication March 29, 2001. Accepted for publication May 21, 2001.
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