Immature CD4+CD8+ Thymocytes and Mature T Cells Regulate Nur77 Distinctly in Response to TCR Stimulation
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- 15 November 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 177 (10), 6660-6666
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.177.10.6660
Abstract
The orphan steroid receptor, Nur77, is thought to be a central participant in events leading to TCR-mediated clonal deletion of immature thymocytes. Interestingly, although both immature and mature murine T cell populations rapidly up-regulate Nur77 after TCR stimulation, immature CD4+CD8+ thymocytes respond by undergoing apoptosis, whereas their mature descendants respond by dividing. To understand these developmental differences in susceptibility to the proapoptotic potential of Nur77, we compared its regulation and compartmentalization and show that mature, but not immature, T cells hyperphosphorylate Nur77 in response to TCR signals. Nur77 resides in the nucleus of immature CD4+CD8+ thymocytes throughout the course of its expression and is not found in either the organellar or cytoplasmic fractions. However, hyperphosphorylation of Nur77 in mature T cells, which is mediated by both the MAPK and PI3K/Akt pathways, shifts its localization from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. The failure of immature CD4+CD8+ thymocytes to hyperphosphorylate Nur77 in response to TCR stimulation may be due in part to decreased Akt activity at this developmental stage.Keywords
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