Project description:Loss of BCL11B in human peripheral blood CD8+ T cells led to acquisition of an innate-like phenotype and the ability to efficiently lyse tumor cells either spontaneously via the NKp30/B7H6 axis or mediated by a GD2 antibody. The phenotype of BCL11B knock-out cells was investigated by characterization of surface marker profile, transcriptome, and proteome compared to control cells.
Project description:To describe the protein profile in hippocampus, colon and ileum tissue’ changing after the old faeces transplants, we adopted a quantitative label free proteomics approach.
Project description:The transcription factor (TF) networks that regulate the differentiation of resident versus circulating memory CD8+ T cells are incompletely understood. Here we show that the TF Bcl11b restricts gut resident memory (Trm) cell differentiation, while promoting splenic T central memory (Tcm) and effector memory (Tem) cell differentiation. The reduction of Bcl11b-deficient splenic Tcm and Tem cells was not due to major alterations in their programs, but rather due to the increased homing of their precursors to the small intestine. However, Bcl11b-deficient resident memory precursor cells upregulated residency program, including the TFs Ahr and Prdm1 (encoding Blimp1), and downregulated Tcf7, which restricts the residency program and promotes tissue egress. Bcl11b directly bound at Ahr and Prdm1, as well as at Tcf7 genes. Abrogating Ahr and Prdm1, or restoration of Tcf7 expression in Bcl11b-deficient cells led to partial correction of the excessive resident memory cell differentiation. Functionally, Bcl11b-deficient memory CD8+ T cells had an impaired recall response, but anti-tumor immunity was increased in adoptive cell therapy. Bcl11b also repressed the residency program in human CD8+ T cells and human Bcl11b low tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes showed increased residency gene expression. Thus, Bcl11b plays a critical role in balancing the circulating and tissue residency programs and reveals a potential novel target for cancer immunotherapies.
Project description:The transcription factor (TF) networks that regulate the differentiation of resident versus circulating memory CD8+ T cells are incompletely understood. Here we show that the TF Bcl11b restricts gut resident memory (Trm) cell differentiation, while promoting splenic T central memory (Tcm) and effector memory (Tem) cell differentiation. The reduction of Bcl11b-deficient splenic Tcm and Tem cells was not due to major alterations in their programs, but rather due to the increased homing of their precursors to the small intestine. However, Bcl11b-deficient resident memory precursor cells upregulated residency program, including the TFs Ahr and Prdm1 (encoding Blimp1), and downregulated Tcf7, which restricts the residency program and promotes tissue egress. Bcl11b directly bound at Ahr and Prdm1, as well as at Tcf7 genes. Abrogating Ahr and Prdm1, or restoration of Tcf7 expression in Bcl11b-deficient cells led to partial correction of the excessive resident memory cell differentiation. Functionally, Bcl11b-deficient memory CD8+ T cells had an impaired recall response, but anti-tumor immunity was increased in adoptive cell therapy. Bcl11b also repressed the residency program in human CD8+ T cells and human Bcl11b low tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes showed increased residency gene expression. Thus, Bcl11b plays a critical role in balancing the circulating and tissue residency programs and reveals a potential novel target for cancer immunotherapies.
Project description:The transcription factor (TF) networks that regulate the differentiation of resident versus circulating memory CD8+ T cells are incompletely understood. Here we show that the TF Bcl11b restricts gut resident memory (Trm) cell differentiation, while promoting splenic T central memory (Tcm) and effector memory (Tem) cell differentiation. The reduction of Bcl11b-deficient splenic Tcm and Tem cells was not due to major alterations in their programs, but rather due to the increased homing of their precursors to the small intestine. However, Bcl11b-deficient resident memory precursor cells upregulated residency program, including the TFs Ahr and Prdm1 (encoding Blimp1), and downregulated Tcf7, which restricts the residency program and promotes tissue egress. Bcl11b directly bound at Ahr and Prdm1, as well as at Tcf7 genes. Abrogating Ahr and Prdm1, or restoration of Tcf7 expression in Bcl11b-deficient cells led to partial correction of the excessive resident memory cell differentiation. Functionally, Bcl11b-deficient memory CD8+ T cells had an impaired recall response, but anti-tumor immunity was increased in adoptive cell therapy. Bcl11b also repressed the residency program in human CD8+ T cells and human Bcl11b low tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes showed increased residency gene expression. Thus, Bcl11b plays a critical role in balancing the circulating and tissue residency programs and reveals a potential novel target for cancer immunotherapies.
Project description:expression profile in Bcl11b-deficient Treg cells versus wild type Treg cells Treg cells sorted from Bcl11bF/F/Cd4Cre/Foxp3-GFP+ mice and wild type Foxp3-GFP+ mice Treg cells sorted from Bcl11bF/F/Foxp3Cre mice and wild type mice RNA extracted from sorted Bcl11b-deficient Foxp3-GFP Treg cells form Bcl11bF/F/Cd4Cre/Foxp3-GFP+ mice and wild type Foxp3-GFP Treg cells; expression profile by microarray analysis RNA extracted from sorted Bcl11b-deficient Treg cells form Bcl11bF/F/Foxp3Cre mice and wild type Treg cells; expression profile by microarray analysis
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.