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A self-reinforcing regulatory network triggered by limiting IL-7 activates pre-BCR signaling and differentiation.


ABSTRACT: The molecular crosstalk between the interleukin 7 receptor (IL-7R) and the precursor to the B cell antigen receptor (pre-BCR) in B lymphopoiesis has not been elucidated. Here we demonstrate that in pre-B cells, the IL-7R but not the pre-BCR was coupled to phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase (PI(3)K) and the kinase Akt; signaling by this pathway inhibited expression of recombination-activating gene 1 (Rag1) and Rag2. Attenuation of IL-7 signaling resulted in upregulation of the transcription factors Foxo1 and Pax5, which coactivated many pre-B cell genes, including Rag1, Rag2 and Blnk. Induction of Blnk (which encodes the signaling adaptor BLNK) enabled pre-BCR signaling via the signaling molecule Syk and promoted immunoglobulin light-chain rearrangement. BLNK expression also antagonized Akt activation, thereby augmenting the accumulation of Foxo1 and Pax5. This self-reinforcing molecular circuit seemed to sense limiting concentrations of IL-7 and functioned to constrain the proliferation of pre-B cells and trigger their differentiation.

SUBMITTER: Ochiai K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4028049 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A self-reinforcing regulatory network triggered by limiting IL-7 activates pre-BCR signaling and differentiation.

Ochiai Kyoko K   Maienschein-Cline Mark M   Mandal Malay M   Triggs Joseph R JR   Bertolino Eric E   Sciammas Roger R   Dinner Aaron R AR   Clark Marcus R MR   Singh Harinder H  

Nature immunology 20120122 3


The molecular crosstalk between the interleukin 7 receptor (IL-7R) and the precursor to the B cell antigen receptor (pre-BCR) in B lymphopoiesis has not been elucidated. Here we demonstrate that in pre-B cells, the IL-7R but not the pre-BCR was coupled to phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase (PI(3)K) and the kinase Akt; signaling by this pathway inhibited expression of recombination-activating gene 1 (Rag1) and Rag2. Attenuation of IL-7 signaling resulted in upregulation of the transcription factors  ...[more]

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