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Project description:The identification of druggable therapeutic targets that preferentially promote autoimmunity remains a key goal in the field. Recent work shows that populations of memory/stem-like T cells drive autoimmunity, but the factors that generate and sustain these populations are incompletely understood. The lymphocyte-restricted transcriptional cofactor OCA-B/Pou2af1 is a regulator of CD4+ T cell memory. Here we show that T cell-intrinsic loss of OCA-B protects mice from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in both chronic and relapsing-remitting mouse models while preserving acute responses to infection with a neurotropic coronavirus. In adoptive transfer EAE driven by antigen re-encounter, T cell-specific OCA-B loss largely eliminates Th1- and Th17-mediated CNS infiltration, proinflammatory cytokine production and disease. Using an OCA-B-mCherry reporter mouse, we show that OCA-B expressing CD4+ T cells within the CNS of mice with EAE preferentially display a memory-like phenotype. Transferring these OCA-Bhi memory-like CD4+ T cells preferentially confers disease, identifying OCA-B as a marker of encephalitogenic autoreactive CD4+ T cells. Notably, in a relapsing-remitting EAE model, OCA-B T cell-deficient mice show specific protection at relapse, highlighting the potential to target OCA-B in MS patients to limit disease progression. During remission, OCA-B promotes the expression of Tcf7, Slamf6, and Sell in proliferating T cell populations. At relapse, OCA-B loss results in the accumulation of an immunomodulatory CD4+ T cell population expressing Ccr9 and Bach2. These results highlight OCA-B as a driver of pathogenic stem-like T cells responsible for relapse and promising MS therapeutic target.
2024-04-09 | GSE243726 | GEO
Project description:The identification of druggable therapeutic targets that preferentially promote autoimmunity remains a key goal in the field. Recent work shows that populations of memory/stem-like T cells drive autoimmunity, but the factors that generate and sustain these populations are incompletely understood. The lymphocyte-restricted transcriptional cofactor OCA-B/Pou2af1 is a regulator of CD4+ T cell memory. Here we show that T cell-intrinsic loss of OCA-B protects mice from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in both chronic and relapsing-remitting mouse models while preserving acute responses to infection with a neurotropic coronavirus. In adoptive transfer EAE driven by antigen re-encounter, T cell-specific OCA-B loss largely eliminates Th1- and Th17-mediated CNS infiltration, proinflammatory cytokine production and disease. Using an OCA-B-mCherry reporter mouse, we show that OCA-B expressing CD4+ T cells within the CNS of mice with EAE preferentially display a memory-like phenotype. Transferring these OCA-Bhi memory-like CD4+ T cells preferentially confers disease, identifying OCA-B as a marker of encephalitogenic autoreactive CD4+ T cells. Notably, in a relapsing-remitting EAE model, OCA-B T cell-deficient mice show specific protection at relapse, highlighting the potential to target OCA-B in MS patients to limit disease progression. During remission, OCA-B promotes the expression of Tcf7, Slamf6, and Sell in proliferating T cell populations. At relapse, OCA-B loss results in the accumulation of an immunomodulatory CD4+ T cell population expressing Ccr9 and Bach2. These results highlight OCA-B as a driver of pathogenic stem-like T cells responsible for relapse and promising MS therapeutic target.
2024-04-09 | GSE243724 | GEO
Project description:The identification of druggable therapeutic targets that preferentially promote autoimmunity remains a key goal in the field. Recent work shows that populations of memory/stem-like T cells drive autoimmunity, but the factors that generate and sustain these populations are incompletely understood. The lymphocyte-restricted transcriptional cofactor OCA-B/Pou2af1 is a regulator of CD4+ T cell memory. Here we show that T cell-intrinsic loss of OCA-B protects mice from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in both chronic and relapsing-remitting mouse models while preserving acute responses to infection with a neurotropic coronavirus. In adoptive transfer EAE driven by antigen re-encounter, T cell-specific OCA-B loss largely eliminates Th1- and Th17-mediated CNS infiltration, proinflammatory cytokine production and disease. Using an OCA-B-mCherry reporter mouse, we show that OCA-B expressing CD4+ T cells within the CNS of mice with EAE preferentially display a memory-like phenotype. Transferring these OCA-Bhi memory-like CD4+ T cells preferentially confers disease, identifying OCA-B as a marker of encephalitogenic autoreactive CD4+ T cells. Notably, in a relapsing-remitting EAE model, OCA-B T cell-deficient mice show specific protection at relapse, highlighting the potential to target OCA-B in MS patients to limit disease progression. During remission, OCA-B promotes the expression of Tcf7, Slamf6, and Sell in proliferating T cell populations. At relapse, OCA-B loss results in the accumulation of an immunomodulatory CD4+ T cell population expressing Ccr9 and Bach2. These results highlight OCA-B as a driver of pathogenic stem-like T cells responsible for relapse and promising MS therapeutic target.
2024-04-09 | GSE243725 | GEO
Project description:OCA-B/Pou2af1 promotes autoimmune demyelination through control of stem-like CD4+ T cells
| PRJNA1019704 | ENA
Project description:OCA-B/Pou2af1 promotes autoimmune demyelination through control of stem-like CD4+ T cells [Bulk RNAseq]
| PRJNA1019708 | ENA
Project description:OCA-B/Pou2af1 promotes autoimmune demyelination through control of stem-like CD4+ T cells [Relapse scRNAseq]
| PRJNA1019707 | ENA
Project description:OCA-B/Pou2af1 promotes autoimmune demyelination through control of stem-like CD4+ T cells [Remission scRNAseq]
| PRJNA1019709 | ENA
Project description:The molecular mechanisms leading to the establishment of immunological memory are inadequately understood, limiting the development of effective vaccines and durable antitumor immune therapies. Here, we show that ectopic OCA-B expression is sufficient to improve antiviral memory recall responses, while having minimal effects on primary effector responses. At peak viral response, short-lived effector T cell populations are expanded but show increased Gadd45b and Socs2 expression, while memory precursor effector cells show increased expression of Bcl2, Il7r, and Tcf7 on a per-cell basis. Using an OCA-B mCherry reporter mouse line, we observe high OCA-B expression in CD4+ central memory T cells. We show that early in viral infection, endogenously elevated OCA-B expression prospectively identifies memory precursor cells with increased survival capability and memory recall potential. Cumulatively, the results demonstrate that OCA-B is both necessary and sufficient to promote CD4 T cell memory in vivo and can be used to prospectively identify memory precursor cells.
| S-EPMC10907311 | biostudies-literature
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2023-11-30 | GSE214310 | GEO
Project description:Astrocytes are important components of the innate immune response in the central nervous system (CNS), involving in the inflammatory and neurotoxic responses that occur in CNS diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Recent studies have shown that SARM1 plays a critical role in axonal degeneration and inflammation. However, the detailed role of astrocytic SARM1 in MS remains unclear. Here, we established the MS model of mice - experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and found that SARM1 was upregulated in astrocytes of the spinal cords of EAE mice. Moreover, conditional knockout of astrocytic SARM1 (SARM1GFAP-CKO mice, SARM1Aldh1L1-CKO mice) delayed EAE with later onset, alleviated the inflammatory infiltration, and inhibited the demyelination and neuronal death. Mechanically, RNA-seq revealed that the expression of glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) was upregulated in SARM1-/- astrocytes. Western blot and immunostaining further confirmed the upregulation of GDNF in spinal cord astrocytes of SARM1GFAP-CKO EAE mice. Interestingly, the downregulation of GDNF by streptozotocin (STZ, a drug used to downregulate GDNF) treatment worsened the deficits of SARM1GFAP-CKO EAE mice. These findings identify that astrocytic SARM1 promotes neuroinflammation and axonal demyelination in EAE by inhibiting the expression of GDNF, reveal the novel role of SARM1/GDNF signaling in EAE, and provide new therapeutic ideas for the treatment of MS.
| S-EPMC9440144 | biostudies-literature