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Lymphocyte development requires S-nitrosoglutathione reductase.


ABSTRACT: NO is critical to immunity, but its role in the development of the immune system is unknown. In this study, we show that S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR), a protein key to the control of protein S-nitrosylation, is important for the development of lymphocytes. Genetic deletion of GSNOR in mice results in significant decrease in both T and B lymphocytes in the periphery. In thymus, GSNOR deficiency causes excessive protein S-nitrosylation, increases apoptosis, and reduces the number of CD4 single-positive thymocytes. Lymphopenia and increase in S-nitrosylation and apoptosis in GSNOR-deficient mice are largely abolished by genetic deletion of inducible NO synthase. Furthermore, the protection of lymphocyte development by GSNOR is apparently intrinsic to hematopoietic cells. Thus, GSNOR, likely through regulation of S-nitrosylation and apoptosis, physiologically plays a protective role in the development of the immune system.

SUBMITTER: Yang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3070165 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lymphocyte development requires S-nitrosoglutathione reductase.

Yang Zhiyong Z   Wang Zhi-En ZE   Doulias Paschalis-Thomas PT   Wei Wei W   Ischiropoulos Harry H   Locksley Richard M RM   Liu Limin L  

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20101027 11


NO is critical to immunity, but its role in the development of the immune system is unknown. In this study, we show that S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR), a protein key to the control of protein S-nitrosylation, is important for the development of lymphocytes. Genetic deletion of GSNOR in mice results in significant decrease in both T and B lymphocytes in the periphery. In thymus, GSNOR deficiency causes excessive protein S-nitrosylation, increases apoptosis, and reduces the number of CD4  ...[more]

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