BACH2 restricts NK cell maturation and function limiting immunity to cancer metastasis
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Project description:Natural killer (NK) cells are critical to immune surveillance against infections and cancer. Their role in immune surveillance requires that NK cells are present within tissues in a quiescent state. Mechanisms by which NK cells remain quiescent in tissues are incompletely elucidated. The transcriptional repressor BACH2 plays a critical role within the adaptive immune system, but its function within innate lymphocytes has been unclear. Here, we show that BACH2 acts as an intrinsic negative regulator of NK cell maturation and function. BACH2 is expressed within developing and mature NK cells and promotes the maintenance of immature NK cells by restricting their maturation in the presence of weak stimulatory signals. Loss of BACH2 within NK cells results in accumulation of activated NK cells with unrestrained cytotoxic function within tissues, which mediate augmented immune surveillance to pulmonary cancer metastasis. These findings establish a critical function of BACH2 as a global negative regulator of innate cytotoxic function and tumor immune surveillance by NK cells.
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Project description:Bach2 has been reported to regulate multiple immune cell development and function. Here we report that Bach2 is constitutively expressed in relatively immature NK subsets. Bach2 negatively regulates NK cell development and Bach2 deficiency results in NK cell with mature effector phenotype. Thus, Bach2 functions as a negative regulator of NK cell maturation and function.
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Project description:Natural killer (NK) cells are critical to immune surveillance against infections and cancer. Their role in immune surveillance requires that NK cells are present within tissues in a quiescent state. Mechanisms by which NK cells remain quiescent in tissues are incompletely elucidated. The transcriptional repressor BACH2 plays a critical role within the adaptive immune system, but its function within innate lymphocytes has been unclear. Here, we show that BACH2 acts as an intrinsic negative regulator of NK cell maturation and function. BACH2 is expressed within developing and mature NK cells and promotes the maintenance of immature NK cells by restricting their maturation in the presence of weak stimulatory signals. Loss of BACH2 within NK cells results in accumulation of activated NK cells with unrestrained cytotoxic function within tissues, which mediate augmented immune surveillance to pulmonary cancer metastasis. These findings establish a critical function of BACH2 as a global negative regulator of innate cytotoxic function and tumor immune surveillance by NK cells.
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Project description:Transcription factor Bach2 has been reported to regulate the development and function of multiple immune cells including T cells and B cells. As a transcription repressor, Bach2 plays its role by repressing the expression of downstream targets. We are interested in whether Bach2 will affect NK cell development and what's the relationship between Bach2 and other transcription factors in regulating NK cell function. Here we try to explore the chromatin accessibility of Bach2 by ATAC-seq. We compared enriched peaks in mouse NK cell from Bach2 conditional knockout mice and control mice.
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2022-09-02 | PXD036457 | Pride
Project description:Our previous work indicated that the Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (Ezh2) is a negative regulator of NK cell early differentiation and function by trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3). Here, we deleted Ezh2 from immature NK and downstream progeny to explore its role in NK cell maturation by single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). We identified six distinct NK stages based on transcriptional signature during the maturation of NK cells. Conditional deletion of Ezh2 in NK cells resulted in the maturation trajectory of NK cell arrested in CD11b SP stage 5 which is clustered with genes related to activating function of NK cells. Mechanistically, we speculated that Ezh2 plays a critical role in NK development by activating gene expression of the AP-1 superfamily independent of PRC2 function. Our results implied a novel role for the Ezh2-AP-1-Klrg1 axis to alter NK cell maturation trajectory and NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity.
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Project description:Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) results from a dysfunction of alveolar macrophages (AMs), chiefly due to disruptions in the signaling of granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). We found that mice deficient for the B lymphoid transcription repressor BTB and CNC homology 2 (Bach2) developed PAP-like accumulation of surfactant proteins in the lungs. Bach2 was expressed in AMs, and Bach2-deficient AMs showed alterations in lipid handling in comparison with wild-type (WT) cells. Although Bach2-deficient AMs showed a normal expression of the genes involved in the GM-CSF signaling, they showed an altered expression of the genes involved in chemotaxis, lipid metabolism, and alternative M2 macrophage activation with increased expression of Ym1 and arginase-1, and the M2 regulator Irf4. Peritoneal Bach2-deficient macrophages showed increased Ym1 expression when stimulated with interleukin-4. More eosinophils were present in the lung and peritoneal cavity of Bach2-deficient mice compared with WT mice. The PAP-like lesions in Bach2-deficient mice were relieved by WT bone marrow transplantation even after their development, confirming the hematopoietic origin of the lesions. These results indicate that Bach2 is required for the functional maturation of AMs and pulmonary homeostasis, independently of the GM-CSF signaling. WT (n=8) and Bach2KO (n=3) AMs. One expreriment was performed.
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