ABSTRACT:
Martinez-Sanchez2015 - T CD4+ lymphocyte
transcriptional-signaling regulatory network
This model is described in the article:
A Minimal Regulatory Network
of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors Recovers Observed Patterns
of CD4+ T Cell Differentiation and Plasticity.
Martinez-Sanchez ME, Mendoza L,
Villarreal C, Alvarez-Buylla ER.
PLoS Comput. Biol. 2015 Jun; 11(6):
e1004324
Abstract:
CD4+ T cells orchestrate the adaptive immune response in
vertebrates. While both experimental and modeling work has been
conducted to understand the molecular genetic mechanisms
involved in CD4+ T cell responses and fate attainment, the
dynamic role of intrinsic (produced by CD4+ T lymphocytes)
versus extrinsic (produced by other cells) components remains
unclear, and the mechanistic and dynamic understanding of the
plastic responses of these cells remains incomplete. In this
work, we studied a regulatory network for the core
transcription factors involved in CD4+ T cell-fate attainment.
We first show that this core is not sufficient to recover
common CD4+ T phenotypes. We thus postulate a minimal Boolean
regulatory network model derived from a larger and more
comprehensive network that is based on experimental data. The
minimal network integrates transcriptional regulation,
signaling pathways and the micro-environment. This network
model recovers reported configurations of most of the
characterized cell types (Th0, Th1, Th2, Th17, Tfh, Th9, iTreg,
and Foxp3-independent T regulatory cells). This
transcriptional-signaling regulatory network is robust and
recovers mutant configurations that have been reported
experimentally. Additionally, this model recovers many of the
plasticity patterns documented for different T CD4+ cell types,
as summarized in a cell-fate map. We tested the effects of
various micro-environments and transient perturbations on such
transitions among CD4+ T cell types. Interestingly, most
cell-fate transitions were induced by transient activations,
with the opposite behavior associated with transient
inhibitions. Finally, we used a novel methodology was used to
establish that T-bet, TGF-? and suppressors of cytokine
signaling proteins are keys to recovering observed CD4+ T cell
plastic responses. In conclusion, the observed CD4+ T
cell-types and transition patterns emerge from the feedback
between the intrinsic or intracellular regulatory core and the
micro-environment. We discuss the broader use of this approach
for other plastic systems and possible therapeutic
interventions.
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