The Journal of Immunology, 2002, 169: 3475-3479.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Immunologists
Cutting Edge: CTLA-4 (CD152) Differentially Regulates Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases (Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase and c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase) in CD4+ T Cells from Receptor/Ligand-Deficient Mice1
Helga Schneider*,
,¶,
Didier A. Mandelbrot
,
Rebecca J. Greenwald
,
Fai Ng||,
Robert Lechler||,
Arlene H. Sharpe
,
and
Christopher E. Rudd2,*,
,¶
* Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Departments of
Medicine and
Pathology, Harvard Medical School, and
Immunology Research Division, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA 02115; and Departments of
¶ Hematology and
|| Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Abstract
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Although CTLA-4 (CD152) has potent inhibitory effects on T cell
function, the signaling events affected by this coreceptor remain to be
fully defined. Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) extracellular
signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) act as
crucial regulators of multiple aspects of cell function. Ab ligation
studies have reported an inhibitory effect of CTLA-4 on TCR-induced ERK
and JNK activation. In this study, we have re-examined the specificity
of CTLA-4 inhibition of MAPKs by using natural ligand with ex
vivo-purified CD4+ T cells deficient in CD80 and CD86
(double knockout), or CTLA-4, CD80, and CD86 (triple knockout).
Under these conditions, CTLA-4 ligation was found to up-regulate and
sustain JNK activation, while inhibiting ERK activity. At the same
time, JNK activation could not account for CTLA-4 induction of TGF-
production. Our findings demonstrate that CTLA-4 cosignaling is more
complex than previously appreciated, with an ability to differentially
regulate members of the MAPK family in T cells.
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Introduction
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Coreceptors
CD28 and CTLA-4 (CD152) have opposing positive and negative
effects on T cells, respectively (1, 2, 3). Both coreceptors
bind to ligands B7-1 (CD80) and B7-2 (CD86), although the binding
avidity of CTLA-4 is 20- to 50-fold higher, and may preferentially bind
to CD80 (4). Abs to CTLA-4 can block T cell activation
(5, 6), while CTLA-4 deficient mice show spontaneous
lymphoproliferation (7, 8). By setting the threshold of
TCR signaling, CTLA-4 has been implicated in autoimmunity,
anti-tumor responses, and in the polarization of cells into Th1
cells (9, 10). CTLA-4 can also induce TGF-
production,
an event that may account for aspects of CTLA-4 negative regulation
(11, 12, 13).
A major question concerns the nature of cosignals responsible for
CTLA-4 function. In this regard, CTLA-4 binds to lipid kinase
phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
(PI3-K)3
(14), phosphatases PP2A and SHP-2
(15, 16, 17), and has been reported to inhibit
serine/threonine kinases extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)
and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) (18). Further, we have
recently reported that CTLA-4 potently blocks surface expression of
lipid microdomains (rafts, glycosphingolipid-enriched membranes)
in T cells, thus limiting the availability of key proteins such as
linker for activation of T cells required for TCR signaling
(19, 20). To assess the influence of CTLA-4 on ERK/JNK
pathways, purified CD4+ T cells from mice that
are deficient in CD80 and CD86 (double knockout (DKO)), or CTLA-4,
CD80, and CD86 (triple knockout (TKO)) were examined. Our findings
demonstrate for the first time that CTLA-4 can differentially regulate
the activation of members of the mitogen-activated protein kinase
(MAPK) family.
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Materials and Methods
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Cells, reagents, and Abs
Mouse strains lacking CD80 and CD86 (DKO) or CD80/86 and CTLA-4
(TKO) have been described previously (21).
CD4+ T cells from DKO and TKO mice were purified
and cultured together with APCs from wild-type, CD86KO (CD80-expressing
APCs), or CD80KO (CD86-expressing APCs) mice (21, 22).
Anti-ERK1/2 and GST-c-jun were purchased from Upstate
Biotechnology (Lake Placid, NY), anti-JNK-1,
anti-trinitrophenol from BD PharMingen (San Diego, CA) and
myelin basic protein (MBP) from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO).
Constitutively active JNK (JNKK2-JNK1 fusion protein) was a gift from
Dr. A. Lin (University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama).
Cell preparation and cultures
Cell preparations from mouse spleens/lymph nodes and PBLs were
prepared as described (21, 23). PBLs were stimulated with
anti-CD3/CD28 mAbs (5 µg/ml, each) for 12 h before
transfection with constitutively active JNK (JNKK2-JNK1 fusion protein)
and vector, respectively. PBLs were transfected (3 µg/1 x
106 cells) by electroporation using the
electroporator (BTX; Genetronics, San Diego, CA) at 260 V, 975
µF, and 480
and incubated in RPMI 1640 containing
10% FCS for 24 h. Transfected cells were stimulated with
plate-bound anti-CD3 (0.5 µg/ml), antiCD3/CD28 (1 µg/ml),
anti-CD3/CTLA-4 (5 µg/ml), and anti-CD3/CD28/CTLA-4. Ab
concentration was adjusted by adding anti-trinitrophenol as an
isotype-specific mAb. After 72 h, TGF-
secretion in
supernatants was measured by ELISA according to the manufacturers
protocol (BD PharMingen).
ERK and JNK assays
CD4+ T cells from DKO and TKO were
cocultured with APCs (ratio 1:10), stimulated with anti-CD3 (1/1000
dilution) for 0, 5, 15, 30, and 60 min at 37°C. Cells were lysed,
immunoprecipitated with ERK1/2 or JNK mAbs and subjected to an in
vitro kinase assay as described (18). Sequential
immunoprecipitations of ERK and JNK were conducted to compare kinase
activities from the same cell cultures.
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Results and Discussion
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To investigate the influence of CTLA-4 on signaling,
CD4+ T cells were purified from mice lacking CD80
and CD86 (DKO), or CTLA-4, CD80, and CD86 (TKO) and were stimulated
using CD80/CD86-positive APCs in the presence of anti-CD3 Ab. This
provides a model for assessing signaling events in freshly isolated
cells as mediated by CD80/CD86 interactions in the presence or absence
of CTLA-4. Initial tyrosine and threonine
phosphorylation studies failed to show a reproducible
difference between the two sets of T cells (data not shown). We next
assessed whether CTLA-4 could influence the status of MAPKs (ERK and
JNK) in DKO and TKO T cells. Ab-mediated cross-linking of CTLA-4 has
previously been reported to inhibit ERK and JNK (18).
ERK1/2 activity was measured in an in vitro kinase assay using
MBP as the substrate. DKO and TKO T cells were incubated with APCs for
5, 15, and 30 min (Fig. 1
A).
Under these conditions, T cells from TKO mice showed significantly
higher levels of ERK activity than cells from DKO mice (Fig. 1
A, lanes 79 vs 46), indicating
that the engagement of CTLA-4 by CD80/CD86 inhibited ERK activation.
Therefore, this inhibition was similar to that observed using Ab to
cross-link CTLA-4 (18). Although the overall level of
activity between DKO and TKO T cells differed, the time course of
activation was the same in both sets of cells. Anti-ERK immunoblotting
confirmed that the same amount of protein was added at each time point
(Fig. 1
A, lower panel). As an additional control,
proliferation of TKO T cells was consistently higher than observed in
DKO T cells (Fig. 1
B).

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FIGURE 1. A, ERK activity is higher in TKO than in DKO T cells.
Purified CD4+ T cells from DKO and TKO mice were cocultured
with wild-type (WT) APCs (ratio 1:10) and stimulated with
anti-CD3 (1:1000) for the indicated periods of time. Cells were
lysed, immunoprecipitated with anti-ERK1/2 mAbs, and subjected to
an in vitro kinase assay. Lanes 46, ERK activity in
DKO T cells; lanes 79, ERK activity in TKO T cells;
lanes 13, ERK activity in WTAPC, DKO, and TKO T cells
alone. Lower panel, Equal amounts of cell lysates were
immunoblotted for ERK1/2. B, Proliferation of DKO and
TKO T cells. Purified CD4+ T cells from DKO and TKO mice
were cocultured with WTAPCs (ratio 1:10) and stimulated with
anti-CD3 (1:1000) for days 14. Sixteen hours before harvesting,
cells were pulsed with 1 µCi [3H]thymidine.
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Unlike ERKs, JNKs represent a subfamily of serine/threonine
kinases that are activated in response to stress-related stimuli such
as UV light, gamma radiation, and IL-1 (24). CD28 serves
as a key coreceptor in TCR-mediated activation of JNK (25, 26). Therefore, purified DKO and TKO T cells were compared for
TCR-induced JNK activation. DKO T cells showed significantly higher
levels of JNK activity (average twice) than TKO cells (Fig. 2
A, upper panel,
lanes 47 vs 811). Importantly, JNK and ERK
assays were conducted as sequential precipitations using the same cell
lysates. Similar differences were noted with the preferential
precipitation of JNK2 (data not shown). By contrast, resting T cells
(i.e., the absence of APCs and anti-CD3, or cocultured with APCs
plus anti-CD3 at time point zero) showed no activity
(lanes 2 and 3). In addition to
stimulation, CTLA-4 helped to sustain the heightened response. Although
the activity in the TKO T cells returned to background levels by 3060
min, the activity of JNK in DKO T cells was stable for 60 min (Fig. 2
A, right panel). Anti-JNK immunoblotting of cell
lysates showed the same amount of JNK protein loaded at each time point
(Fig. 2
A, lower panel). To rule out a possible
contribution of JNK activity from APCs, APCs exposed to CTLA-4 Ig
(i.e., to ligate CD80/86) were also examined. As seen in Fig. 2
B, the low activity in these cells changed only marginally
over 60 min in the presence of CTLA-4 Ig (lanes 15)
and was much lower than seen with the combination of T cells and APCs
(Fig. 2
, B vs A). Therefore, our findings
demonstrate that engagement of CTLA-4 by natural ligand potentiates and
maintains JNK activation in the context of APCs and TCR ligation.

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FIGURE 2. A, JNK activity is higher in DKO than in TKO T cells.
Cells were activated as described above for the indicated periods of
time. Cells were lysed, immunoprecipitated with anti-JNK-1 mAb, and
subjected to an in vitro kinase assay. Lanes 47, JNK
activity in DKO T cells; lanes 811, JNK activity in
TKO T cells; lanes 13, JNK activity in WTAPCs, DKO,
and TKO T cells alone. Right panel, Histogram
depiction of the levels of JNK activity as detected by densitometric
reading. Lower panel, Equal amounts of cell lysates were
immunoblotted for JNK-1. B, Low levels of JNK activity
in APCs alone. WTAPCs were stimulated with CTLA-4 Ig/R M in the
absence of T cells. JNK activity was measured after 0, 5, 15, 30, and
60 min (lanes 15). Lower panel, Equal
amounts of cell lysates were immunoblotted for JNK-1.
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CD80 and CD86 have been reported to differentially bind to CTLA-4
(4). To assess whether CD80 and CD86 might differentially
activate JNK, cells were cocultured with APCs expressing either CD86
(i.e., from CD80 KO mice) or CD80 (i.e., from CD86 KO mice). Under
these conditions, both sets of APCs were found to potentiate JNK
activity (Fig. 3
, A and
B, respectively). The main difference was in the time course
of activation. Singly-expressing APCs showed a delayed onset of peak
kinase activity (Fig. 3
, A and B, right
panel), a result likely related to the lower overall levels of
CD80 and CD86 on these cells. In this instance, JNK activity in the DKO
T cells usually peaked at 1530 min, rather than 5 min (Fig. 3
vs Fig. 2
A). However, over three experiments, no reproducible
differences were observed between the different singly-expressing APCs.
As a control, an anti-JNK immunoblot showed similar levels of JNK
expression (Fig. 3
, A and B, lower
panels). Our finding indicates that CD80 and CD86 are each capable
of activating JNK.

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FIGURE 3. A, JNK activity in DKO and TKO T cells cocultured with
CD86-expressing APCs. Cells were activated as described above for the
indicated periods of time. Cells were lysed, immunoprecipitated with
anti-JNK-1 mAb, and subjected to an in vitro kinase assay.
Lanes 57, JNK activity in DKO T cells; lanes
810, JNK activity in TKO T cells; lanes 14,
JNK activity in CD86, CD80 APCs, DKO, and TKO T cells alone.
Lower panel, Equal amounts of cell lysates were
immunoblotted for JNK-1. Right panel, Histogram
depiction of the levels of JNK activity as detected by densitometric
reading. B, JNK activity in DKO and TKO T cells
cocultured with CD80-expressing APCs. Cells were lysed,
immunoprecipitated with anti-JNK1 mAb, and subjected to an in vitro
kinase assay. Lanes 13, JNK activity in DKO T cells;
lanes 46, JNK activity in TKO T cells. Lower
panel, Equal amounts of cell lysates were immunoblotted for
JNK-1. Right panel, Histogram depiction of the levels of
JNK activity as detected by densitometric reading.
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The potentiation of JNK activity suggests that CTLA-4 might
differentially regulate transcription factors, an event that could
contribute to the negative regulation of immune function. Of particular
interest was TGF-
, a cytokine that is up-regulated by CTLA-4
(12, 13). To test whether CTLA-4 and JNK activity can
alter TGF-
production, preactivated peripheral T cells were
transfected with a constitutively active form of JNK (JNKK2-JNK1 fusion
protein) and assessed for alterations in TGF-
production. Cells were
stimulated with plate-bound combinations of anti-CD3,
anti-CD3/CD28, anti-CD3/CTLA-4, and anti-CD3/CD28/CTLA-4
mAbs. Under these conditions, anti-CD3/CTLA-4 and
anti-CD3/CD28/CTLA-4 ligation increased TGF-
production when
compared with cells stimulated with anti-CD3 and anti-CD3/CD28
(Fig. 4
). However, JNKK2-JNK1
overexpression failed to potentiate TGF-
production when compared
with vector-transfected cells. Expression of JNKK2-JNK1 fusion protein
was shown in an anti-hemagglutinin immunoblot (Fig. 4
).
Therefore, although JNK can phosphorylate and activate
transcription factors such as c-jun (24), the
pathway does not appear to account for CTLA-4 up-regulation of
TGF-
.
In summary, our findings indicate that CTLA-4 cosignaling is more
complex than previously appreciated with an ability to differentially
regulate members of the MAPK family in T cells. The advantage of our
system is the ability to use freshly purified
CD4+ T cells that differ from each other only in
the context of CTLA-4 expression. Further, with the absence of CD80/86,
it is possible to present CD80 and/or CD86 on APCs de novo in the
context of TCR-mediated stimulation. With this, DKO
CD4+ cells (i.e., expressing CTLA-4) showed an
activation of JNK concurrent with the inhibition of ERK when compared
with cells lacking CTLA-4 (i.e., TKO). The same cell lysates were used
in both ERK and JNK assays. With the caveat that T cells from TKO vs
DKO mice have inherently different mechanisms of JNK regulation, our
findings support a model where CTLA-4 engagement can differentially
regulate ERK/JNK. In this context, thymic differentiation has been
found to be comparable in CTLA-4-positive and -negative mice (27, 28).
In the context of function, inhibition of ERK alone could account for
the inhibitory effect of CTLA-4 since IL-2 transcription requires this
kinase (29). Similarly, ERK inhibition could account for
CTLA-4 involvement in anergy (30, 31) as ERK activity is
inactivated with nonresponsiveness (32, 33). However, our
finding showing CTLA-4 activation of JNK introduces a new scenario
where JNK activation could now cooperate to inhibit IL-2 production.
JNK-1-/- T cells show increases in the nuclear
NFATc (34) suggesting a negative role for this JNK
on NFAT function. Alternatively, JNK activation could contribute to
CTLA-4 regulation of Th1/Th2 differentiation. In this case, the
requirement for JNK in Th1 development matches the requirement for
CTLA-4. While JNK1-deficient T cells preferentially differentiate into
Th2 cells (34), CTLA-4 is required for Th1 differentiation
(35).
To our knowledge, our finding of JNK activation by CTLA-4 is the first
example of a downstream signaling event that is positively regulated by
CTLA-4. Therefore, CTLA-4 and CD28 appear to share a common target in
intracellular signaling. This is consistent with our previous
observation that both receptors bind to PI3-K (14, 36, 37). In fact, PI3-kinase is required for JNK activation
(38). The production of D-3 lipids would be expected to
recruit pleckstrin homology domain-carrying proteins to the
plasma membrane. The key remaining question is the manner in which
other signals generated by the two coreceptors differ and impinge on
JNK activation. In this context, JNK has been implicated in both
positive and negative signaling, while ERK and JNK differentially
regulate transcription factors required for gene expression (24, 39). The skewing in the balance in the activity of ERKs and JNKs
mediated by CD28 vs CTLA-4 would be expected to alter patterns of gene
activation. Although we failed to uncover a link to TGF-
production,
other transcription factors may be affected by CTLA-4 activation of
JNK. Lastly, it is noteworthy that our findings differ from those
reported by Calvo et al. (18) where Ab cross-linking of
CTLA-4 inhibited JNK. Although the basis for this difference is
unclear, it may underscore the importance of the use of natural ligand
to study CTLA-4 function. Further studies will be needed to fully
elucidate the downstream consequences of JNK activation on T cell
function.
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Footnotes
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1 This work was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust, London. C.E.R. is a Principal Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. 
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Christopher E. Rudd, Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 ONN, U.K. E-mail address: c.rudd{at}ic.ac.uk 
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: PI3-K, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; ERK, extracellular signal-regulated kinase; JNK, c-Jun N-terminal kinase; KO, knockout; DKO, double KO; TKO, triple KO; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; MBP, myelin basic protein; WTAPC, wild-type APC. 
Received for publication June 18, 2002.
Accepted for publication August 5, 2002.
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V. A. Love, N. Grabie, P. Duramad, G. Stavrakis, A. Sharpe, and A. Lichtman
CTLA-4 Ablation and Interleukin-12 Driven Differentiation Synergistically Augment Cardiac Pathogenicity of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
Circ. Res.,
August 3, 2007;
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B. Wei, S. da Rocha Dias, H. Wang, and C. E. Rudd
CTL-Associated Antigen-4 Ligation Induces Rapid T Cell Polarization That Depends on Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase, Vav-1, Cdc42, and Myosin Light Chain Kinase
J. Immunol.,
July 1, 2007;
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J. Bodor, Z. Fehervari, B. Diamond, and S. Sakaguchi
Regulatory T cell-mediated suppression: potential role of ICER
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January 1, 2007;
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H. Schneider, J. Downey, A. Smith, B. H. Zinselmeyer, C. Rush, J. M. Brewer, B. Wei, N. Hogg, P. Garside, and C. E. Rudd
Reversal of the TCR Stop Signal by CTLA-4
Science,
September 29, 2006;
313(5795):
1972 - 1975.
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P. J. S. Stork and T. J. Dillon
Multiple roles of Rap1 in hematopoietic cells: complementary versus antagonistic functions
Blood,
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H. Schneider, E. Valk, S. da Rocha Dias, B. Wei, and C. E. Rudd
CTLA-4 up-regulation of lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 adhesion and clustering as an alternate basis for coreceptor function
PNAS,
September 6, 2005;
102(36):
12861 - 12866.
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T. J. Dillon, K. D. Carey, S. A. Wetzel, D. C. Parker, and P. J. S. Stork
Regulation of the Small GTPase Rap1 and Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinases by the Costimulatory Molecule CTLA-4
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May 15, 2005;
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H. Ben-David, M. Sela, and E. Mozes
Down-regulation of myasthenogenic T cell responses by a dual altered peptide ligand via CD4+CD25+-regulated events leading to apoptosis
PNAS,
February 8, 2005;
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S. M. Wahl, J. Swisher, N. McCartney-Francis, and W. Chen
TGF-{beta}: the perpetrator of immune suppression by regulatory T cells and suicidal T cells
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