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The GS Protein-coupled A2a Adenosine Receptor Controls T Cell Help in the Germinal Center.


ABSTRACT: T follicular helper (TFH) cells have been shown to be critically required for the germinal center (GC) reaction where B cells undergo class switch recombination and clonal selection to generate high affinity neutralizing antibodies. However, detailed knowledge of the physiological cues within the GC microenvironment that regulate T cell help is limited. The cAMP-elevating, Gs protein-coupled A2a adenosine receptor (A2aR) is an evolutionarily conserved receptor that limits and redirects cellular immunity. However, the role of A2aR in humoral immunity and B cell differentiation is unknown. We hypothesized that the hypoxic microenvironment within the GC facilitates an extracellular adenosine-rich milieu, which serves to limit TFH frequency and function, and also promotes immunosuppressive T follicular regulatory cells (TFR). In support of this hypothesis, we found that following immunization, mice lacking A2aR (A2aRKO) exhibited a significant expansion of T follicular cells, as well as increases in TFH to TFR ratio, GC T cell frequency, GC B cell frequency, and class switching of GC B cells to IgG1. Transfer of CD4 T cells from A2aRKO or wild type donors into T cell-deficient hosts revealed that these increases were largely T cell-intrinsic. Finally, injection of A2aR agonist, CGS21680, following immunization suppressed T follicular differentiation, GC B cell frequency, and class switching of GC B cells to IgG1. Taken together, these observations point to a previously unappreciated role of GS protein-coupled A2aR in regulating humoral immunity, which may be pharmacologically targeted during vaccination or pathological states in which GC-derived autoantibodies contribute to the pathology.

SUBMITTER: Abbott RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5270467 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The GS Protein-coupled A2a Adenosine Receptor Controls T Cell Help in the Germinal Center.

Abbott Robert K RK   Silva Murillo M   Labuda Jasmine J   Thayer Molly M   Cain Derek W DW   Philbrook Phaethon P   Sethumadhavan Shalini S   Hatfield Stephen S   Ohta Akio A   Sitkovsky Michail M  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20161214 4


T follicular helper (T<sub>FH</sub>) cells have been shown to be critically required for the germinal center (GC) reaction where B cells undergo class switch recombination and clonal selection to generate high affinity neutralizing antibodies. However, detailed knowledge of the physiological cues within the GC microenvironment that regulate T cell help is limited. The cAMP-elevating, G<sub>s</sub> protein-coupled A2a adenosine receptor (A2aR) is an evolutionarily conserved receptor that limits a  ...[more]

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