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An essential role for the transcription factor HEB in thymocyte survival, Tcra rearrangement and the development of natural killer T cells.


ABSTRACT: E proteins are basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors that regulate many key aspects of lymphocyte development. Thymocytes express multiple E proteins that are thought to provide cooperative and compensatory functions crucial for T cell differentiation. Contrary to that, we report here that the E protein HEB was uniquely required at the CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive (DP) stage of T cell development. Thymocytes lacking HEB showed impaired survival, failed to make rearrangements of variable-alpha (V(alpha)) segments to distal joining-alpha (J(alpha)) segments in the gene encoding the T cell antigen receptor alpha-chain (Tcra) and had a profound, intrinsic block in the development of invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT cells) at their earliest progenitor stage. Thus, our results show that HEB is a specific and essential factor in T cell development and in the generation of the iNKT cell lineage, defining a unique role for HEB in the regulation of lymphocyte maturation.

SUBMITTER: D'Cruz LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2993240 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An essential role for the transcription factor HEB in thymocyte survival, Tcra rearrangement and the development of natural killer T cells.

D'Cruz Louise M LM   Knell Jamie J   Fujimoto Jessica K JK   Goldrath Ananda W AW  

Nature immunology 20100214 3


E proteins are basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors that regulate many key aspects of lymphocyte development. Thymocytes express multiple E proteins that are thought to provide cooperative and compensatory functions crucial for T cell differentiation. Contrary to that, we report here that the E protein HEB was uniquely required at the CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive (DP) stage of T cell development. Thymocytes lacking HEB showed impaired survival, failed to make rearrangements of variable-a  ...[more]

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