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Project description:Natural Killer cells are innate lymphocytes, participate in immune surveillance and elimination of stressed or transformed cells and critically shape the inflammatory cytokine environment to interact with cells of the innate and adaptive immune system, including macrophages, dendritic and Tcells. By performing a focused compound library screening, further validated by knockdown approaches, we here identify Jumonji-type histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27) demethylases as key regulators of cytokine production in various human NK cell subsets. The prototypic H3K27 demethylase inhibitor GSK-J4 increases global levels of the repressive H3K27me3 mark around transcription start sites including NK cell effector cytokines, and thereby reduces IFN-γ, TNFα, GM-CSF and IL-10 levels in IL-15 stimulated NK cells whilst sparing the cytotoxic killing capacity against cancer cells. The anti-inflammatory effect of GSK-J4 in highly inflammatory NK cell subsets, isolated from peripheral blood or tissue from rheumatoid arthritis patients, coupled with an inhibitory effect on formation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts, suggests a wider role and utility of histone demethylase inhibition in immunity and inflammation.
2018-02-28 | GSE89484 | GEO
Project description:Natural Killer cells are innate lymphocytes, participate in immune surveillance and elimination of stressed or transformed cells and critically shape the inflammatory cytokine environment to interact with cells of the innate and adaptive immune system, including macrophages, dendritic and Tcells. By performing a focused compound library screening, further validated by knockdown approaches, we here identify Jumonji-type histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27) demethylases as key regulators of cytokine production in various human NK cell subsets. The prototypic H3K27 demethylase inhibitor GSK-J4 increases global levels of the repressive H3K27me3 mark around transcription start sites including NK cell effector cytokines, and thereby reduces IFN-γ, TNF, GM-CSF and IL-10 levels in IL-15 stimulated NK cells whilst sparing the cytotoxic killing capacity against cancer cells. The anti-inflammatory effect of GSK-J4 in highly inflammatory NK cell subsets, isolated from peripheral blood or tissue from rheumatoid arthritis patients, coupled with an inhibitory effect on formation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts, suggests a wider role and utility of histone demethylase inhibition in immunity and inflammation.
2018-02-28 | GSE89668 | GEO
Project description:Selective modulation of inflammatory Natural Killer (NK) cell phenotypes following histone H3K27 demethylase inhibition
| PRJNA352867 | ENA
Project description:Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes, important in immune surveillance and elimination of stressed, transformed, or virus-infected cells. They critically shape the inflammatory cytokine environment to orchestrate interactions of cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Some studies have reported that NK cell activation and cytokine secretion are controlled epigenetically but have yielded only limited insight into the mechanisms. Using chemical screening with small-molecule inhibitors of chromatin methylation and acetylation, further validated by knockdown approaches, we here identified Jumonji-type histone H3K27 demethylases as key regulators of cytokine production in human NK cell subsets. The prototypic JMJD3/UTX (Jumonji domain-containing protein 3) H3K27 demethylase inhibitor GSK-J4 increased global levels of the repressive H3K27me3 mark around transcription start sites of effector cytokine genes. Moreover, GSK-J4 reduced IFN-?, TNF?, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and interleukin-10 levels in cytokine-stimulated NK cells while sparing their cytotoxic killing activity against cancer cells. The anti-inflammatory effect of GSK-J4 in NK cell subsets, isolated from peripheral blood or tissue from individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), coupled with an inhibitory effect on formation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts, suggested that histone demethylase inhibition has broad utility for modulating immune and inflammatory responses. Overall, our results indicate that H3K27me3 is a dynamic and important epigenetic modification during NK cell activation and that JMJD3/UTX-driven H3K27 demethylation is critical for NK cell function.
| S-EPMC5818173 | biostudies-literature
Project description:The rVSV-ZEBOV Ebolavirus vaccine confers protection within days after immunization, suggesting the contribution of innate immune responses. We report modulation of rVSV-ZEBOV vaccinee blood CD56+ NK cell numbers, NKG2D or NKp30 surface receptor expression, Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptor (KIR)+ cell percentages and NK-cell-related genes on day 1 post immunization. Inverse correlations existed between the concentration of several plasma cytokines and inhibitory KIR+ CD56dim or cytokine-responsive CD56bright NK cells. Thus, NK cells may contribute to the early protective efficacy of rVSV-ZEBOV in humans.
| S-EPMC7156503 | biostudies-literature
Project description:The jumonji (JMJ) family of histone demethylases are Fe2+- and ?-ketoglutarate-dependent oxygenases that are essential components of regulatory transcriptional chromatin complexes. These enzymes demethylate lysine residues in histones in a methylation-state and sequence-specific context. Considerable effort has been devoted to gaining a mechanistic understanding of the roles of histone lysine demethylases in eukaryotic transcription, genome integrity and epigenetic inheritance, as well as in development, physiology and disease. However, because of the absence of any selective inhibitors, the relevance of the demethylase activity of JMJ enzymes in regulating cellular responses remains poorly understood. Here we present a structure-guided small-molecule and chemoproteomics approach to elucidating the functional role of the H3K27me3-specific demethylase subfamily (KDM6 subfamily members JMJD3 and UTX). The liganded structures of human and mouse JMJD3 provide novel insight into the specificity determinants for cofactor, substrate and inhibitor recognition by the KDM6 subfamily of demethylases. We exploited these structural features to generate the first small-molecule catalytic site inhibitor that is selective for the H3K27me3-specific JMJ subfamily. We demonstrate that this inhibitor binds in a novel manner and reduces lipopolysaccharide-induced proinflammatory cytokine production by human primary macrophages, a process that depends on both JMJD3 and UTX. Our results resolve the ambiguity associated with the catalytic function of H3K27-specific JMJs in regulating disease-relevant inflammatory responses and provide encouragement for designing small-molecule inhibitors to allow selective pharmacological intervention across the JMJ family.
| S-EPMC4691848 | biostudies-literature
Project description:The innate lymphocyte lineage natural killer (NK) is now the target of multiple clinical applications, although none has received an agreement from any regulatory agency yet. Transplant of naïve NK cells has not proven efficient enough in the vast majority of clinical trials. Hence, new protocols wish to improve their medical use by producing them from stem cells and/or modifying them by genetic engineering. These techniques have given interesting results but these improvements often hide that natural killers are mainly that: natural. We discuss here different ways to take advantage of NK physiology to improve their clinical activity without the need of additional modifications except for in vitro activation and expansion and allograft in patients. Some of these tactics include combination with monoclonal antibodies (mAb), drugs that change metabolism and engraftment of specific NK subsets with particular activity. Finally, we propose to use specific NK cell subsets found in certain patients that show increase activity against a specific disease, including the use of NK cells derived from patients.
| S-EPMC6970430 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Hematological malignancies (HM) treatment improved over the last years resulting in increased achievement of complete or partial remission, but unfortunately high relapse rates are still observed, due to remaining minimal residual disease. Therefore, sustainment of long-term remission is crucial, using either drug maintenance treatment or by boosting or prolonging an immune response. Immune system has a key role in tumor surveillance. Nonetheless, tumor-cells evade the specific T-lymphocyte mediated immune surveillance using many mechanisms but especially by the down-regulation of the expression of HLA class I antigens. In theory, these tumor-cells lacking normal expression of HLA class I molecules should be destroyed by natural killer (NK) cells, according to the missing-self hypothesis. NK cells, at the frontier of innate and adaptive immune system, have a central role in tumor-cells surveillance as demonstrated in the setting of allogenic stem cell transplantation. Nevertheless, tumors develop various mechanisms to escape from NK innate immune pressure. Abnormal NK cytolytic functions have been described in many HM. We present here various mechanisms involved in the escape of HM from NK-cell surveillance, i.e., NK-cells quantitative and qualitative abnormalities.
| S-EPMC3867693 | biostudies-literature
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2022-06-03 | GSE172439 | GEO
Project description:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) causes lifelong, persistent infections and its survival is under intense, continuous selective pressure from the immune system. A key aspect of HCMV's capacity for survival lies in immune avoidance. In this context, cells undergoing productive infection exhibit remarkable resistance to natural killer (NK) cell-mediated cytolysis in vitro. To date, six genes encoding proteins (UL16, UL18, UL40, UL83, UL141 and UL142) and one encoding a microRNA (miR-UL112) have been identified as capable of suppressing NK cell recognition. Even though HCMV infection efficiently activates expression of ligands for the NK cell activating receptor NKG2D, at least three functions (UL16, UL142 and miR-UL112) act in concert to suppress presentation of these ligands on the cell surface. Although HCMV downregulates expression of endogenous MHC-I, it encodes an MHC-I homologue (UL18) and also upregulates the expression of cellular HLA-E through the action of UL40. The disruption of normal intercellular connections exposes ligands for NK cell activating receptors on the cell surface, notably CD155. HCMV overcomes this vulnerability by encoding a function (UL141) that acts post-translationally to suppress cell surface expression of CD155. The mechanisms by which HCMV systematically evades (or, more properly, modulates) NK cell recognition constitutes an area of growing understanding that is enhancing our appreciation of the basic mechanisms of NK cell function in humans.
| S-EPMC2843162 | biostudies-literature