Determining the Impact of SREBP on Adaptive Immunity

描述(由申请人提供)：T淋巴细胞的任务是确保宿主防御一系列不同的病原体。他们还必须保持对自身抗原的耐受性，以避免自身免疫和过敏性疾病。为了完成这些不同的任务，免疫系统依赖于T细胞增殖、分化和谱系承诺的复杂系统。因此，了解本质上调节个体T细胞命运和功能的基本机制仍然是免疫生物学中的重要问题。越来越多的证据表明，代谢是淋巴细胞功能和获得性免疫的重要内在调节因素。淋巴细胞代谢状态的改变可以改变T效应/辅助细胞功能、记忆T细胞生成和自身耐受性。早期对人类淋巴细胞的研究表明，有丝分裂信号导致从头开始的胆固醇和脂肪酸生物合成迅速增加。脂质生物合成程序先于DNA合成，对于高效的淋巴细胞生长似乎是必不可少的。重要的是，抑制造脂程序会降低激活的淋巴细胞的DNA合成和增殖能力。到目前为止，这些引人注目的观察结果背后的分子机制仍然不清楚。在这一应用中，我们检验了类固醇反应元件结合蛋白(SREBP1和2)这一假设，即类固醇反应元件结合蛋白(SREBP1和2)是脂类生物合成和动态平衡的关键转录调节因子，在将抗原受体信号与脂类代谢、细胞周期进展和T细胞命运/功能联系起来方面发挥关键作用。我们的目标是：1)确定调节SREBP活性和抗原受体下游新生脂肪生成的信号通路；2)检验SREBP信号调节活化T细胞细胞周期进程的假说；3)检验SREBP调节CD8 T细胞反应和免疫的假说。拟议的研究考察了淋巴细胞生物学中一个非常鲜为人知的、潜在的重要方面。我们期望这些研究将增加我们对新陈代谢和适应性免疫之间的串扰的理解。这些研究将为更好地理解造血细胞和免疫细胞快速分裂过程中脂代谢、增殖和分化之间的关系奠定基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): T lymphocytes are tasked with ensuring host defense against a diverse array of pathogens. They must also maintain tolerance to self-antigens to avoid autoimmunity and allergic disease. To achieve these disparate tasks, the immune system relies on a complex system of T cell proliferation, differentiation and lineage commitment. As such, understanding the fundamental mechanisms that intrinsically regulate the fate and function of an individual T cell remain important questions in immunobiology. Accumulating evidence indicates that metabolism is an important intrinsic regulator of lymphocyte function and adaptive immunity. Perturbations in the metabolic state of lymphocytes can alter T effector/helper cell function, memory T cell generation and self-tolerance. Early studies on human lymphocytes demonstrated that mitogenic signaling results in a rapid increase in de novo cholesterol and fatty acid biosynthesis. The lipid biosynthetic program precedes DNA synthesis and appears to be essential for efficient lymphocyte growth. Importantly, inhibition of the lipogenic program decreases DNA synthesis and proliferative capacity of activated lymphocytes. The molecular mechanisms underlying these striking observations have remained undefined to date. In this application, we test the hypothesis that the Sterol Response Element Binding Proteins (SREBP1 and 2), key transcriptional regulators of lipid biosynthesis and homeostasis, play a critical role in linking antigen receptor signaling with lipid metabolism, cell cycle progression and T cell fate/function. Our aims are: 1) To define the signaling pathways regulating SREBP activity and de novo lipogenesis downstream of the antigen receptor; 2) To test the hypothesis that SREBP signaling regulates cell cycle progression in activated T cells; and 3) To test the hypothesis that SREBP regulates CD8 T cell responses and immunity. The proposed studies examine a very poorly understood and potentially important aspect of lymphocyte biology. It is our expectation that these studies will increase our understanding of the crosstalk between metabolism and adaptive immunity. These studies will provide a foundation for better understanding the relationship between lipid metabolism, proliferation and differentiation in rapidly dividing hematopoietic and immune cells.