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J Autoimmun ; 138: 103053, 2023 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37236124

RESUMO

Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 α (HNF4α), a transcription factor (TF) essential for embryonic development, has been recently shown to regulate the expression of inflammatory genes. To characterize HNF4a function in immunity, we measured the effect of HNF4α antagonists on immune cell responses in vitro and in vivo. HNF4α blockade reduced immune activation in vitro and disease severity in the experimental model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Network biology studies of human immune transcriptomes unraveled HNF4α together with SP1 and c-myc as master TF regulating differential expression at all MS stages. TF expression was boosted by immune cell activation, regulated by environmental MS risk factors and higher in MS immune cells compared to controls. Administration of compounds targeting TF expression or function demonstrated non-synergic, interdependent transcriptional control of CNS autoimmunity in vitro and in vivo. Collectively, we identified a coregulatory transcriptional network sustaining neuroinflammation and representing an attractive therapeutic target for MS and other inflammatory disorders.


Assuntos
Autoimunidade , Fator 4 Nuclear de Hepatócito , Esclerose Múltipla , Humanos , Autoimunidade/genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Fator 4 Nuclear de Hepatócito/genética , Fator 4 Nuclear de Hepatócito/metabolismo , Esclerose Múltipla/genética , Esclerose Múltipla/imunologia , Transcriptoma , Genes myc
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eNeuro ; 9(3)2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35487703

RESUMO

Adaptation plays an important role in sensory systems as it dynamically modifies sensitivity to allow the detection of stimulus changes. The vomeronasal system controls many social behaviors in most mammals by detecting pheromones released by conspecifics. Stimuli activate a transduction cascade in vomeronasal neurons that leads to spiking activity. Whether and how these neurons adapt to stimuli is still debated and largely unknown. Here, we measured short-term adaptation performing current-clamp whole-cell recordings by using diluted urine as a stimulus, as it contains many pheromones. We measured spike frequency adaptation in response to repeated identical stimuli of 2-10 s duration that was dependent on the time interval between stimuli. Responses to paired current steps, bypassing the signal transduction cascade, also showed spike frequency adaptation. We found that voltage-gated Na+ channels in VSNs undergo slow inactivation processes. Furthermore, recovery from slow inactivation of voltage-gated Na+ channels occurs in several seconds, a time scale similar to that measured during paired-pulse adaptation protocols, suggesting that it partially contributes to short-term spike frequency adaptation. We conclude that vomeronasal neurons do exhibit a time-dependent short-term spike frequency adaptation to repeated natural stimuli and that slow inactivation of Na+ channels contributes to this form of adaptation. These findings not only increase our knowledge about adaptation in the vomeronasal system, but also raise the question of whether slow inactivation of Na+ channels may play a role in other sensory systems.


Assuntos
Canais de Sódio , Órgão Vomeronasal , Potenciais de Ação/fisiologia , Animais , Mamíferos/metabolismo , Técnicas de Patch-Clamp , Feromônios , Células Receptoras Sensoriais/metabolismo , Sódio/metabolismo , Canais de Sódio/fisiologia , Órgão Vomeronasal/fisiologia
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eNeuro ; 8(5)2021.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34433575

RESUMO

The mouse vomeronasal system controls several social behaviors. Pheromones and other social cues are detected by sensory neurons in the vomeronasal organ (VNO). Stimuli activate a transduction cascade that leads to membrane potential depolarization, increase in cytosolic Ca2+ level, and increased firing. The Ca2+-activated chloride channels TMEM16A and TMEM16B are co-expressed within microvilli of vomeronasal neurons, but their physiological role remains elusive. Here, we investigate the contribution of each of these channels to vomeronasal neuron firing activity by comparing wild-type (WT) and knock-out (KO) mice. Performing loose-patch recordings from neurons in acute VNO slices, we show that spontaneous activity is modified by Tmem16a KO, indicating that TMEM16A, but not TMEM16B, is active under basal conditions. Upon exposure to diluted urine, a rich source of mouse pheromones, we observe significant changes in activity. Vomeronasal sensory neurons (VSNs) from Tmem16a cKO and Tmem16b KO mice show shorter interspike intervals (ISIs) compared with WT mice, indicating that both TMEM16A and TMEM16B modulate the firing pattern of pheromone-evoked activity in VSNs.


Assuntos
Feromônios , Órgão Vomeronasal , Potenciais de Ação , Animais , Camundongos , Camundongos Knockout , Células Receptoras Sensoriais
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Front Immunol ; 10: 1922, 2019.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31474991

RESUMO

Recent evidence suggests that the primary progressive form of multiple sclerosis (PP-MS) may present with specific immunological alterations. In this study we focused our attention on CD161, an NK and T cell marker upregulated in relapsing-remitting MS, and investigated its transcript and protein levels in blood cells from PP-MS and healthy individuals. We demonstrated transcriptional downregulation of CD161 in PP-MS and described concomitant mRNA reduction for RORgt, CCR6, CXCR6, KLRK1/NKG2D and many other markers typical of mucosa associated invariant T (MAIT) cells. Targeted multiparametric flow cytometry on fresh blood cells from an independent cohort of case-control subjects confirmed the selective loss of circulating CD8 CD161high T cells, which consist mainly of MAIT cells, and not of CD8 CD161int T cells in PP-MS. These data demonstrate alterations in a specific circulating immune cell subset in MS patients with progressive onset.


Assuntos
Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos/imunologia , Células T Invariantes Associadas à Mucosa/imunologia , Esclerose Múltipla Crônica Progressiva/imunologia , Subfamília B de Receptores Semelhantes a Lectina de Células NK/imunologia , Adulto , Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos/metabolismo , Estudos de Coortes , Feminino , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Células T Invariantes Associadas à Mucosa/metabolismo , Esclerose Múltipla Crônica Progressiva/sangue , Esclerose Múltipla Crônica Progressiva/genética , Subfamília B de Receptores Semelhantes a Lectina de Células NK/genética , Subfamília B de Receptores Semelhantes a Lectina de Células NK/metabolismo , Subfamília K de Receptores Semelhantes a Lectina de Células NK/genética , Subfamília K de Receptores Semelhantes a Lectina de Células NK/imunologia , Subfamília K de Receptores Semelhantes a Lectina de Células NK/metabolismo , Membro 3 do Grupo F da Subfamília 1 de Receptores Nucleares/genética , Membro 3 do Grupo F da Subfamília 1 de Receptores Nucleares/imunologia , Membro 3 do Grupo F da Subfamília 1 de Receptores Nucleares/metabolismo , Receptores CCR6/genética , Receptores CCR6/imunologia , Receptores CCR6/metabolismo , Receptores CXCR6/genética , Receptores CXCR6/imunologia , Receptores CXCR6/metabolismo
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