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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 188, 期 8, 页码 3920-3927出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1102587
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- U.K. Medical Research Council
- Cancer Research U.K.
- Imperial College Elsie Widdowson award
- Cancer Research UK [12011] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0700795] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0700795] Funding Source: UKRI
The homeostasis of the immune system is tightly controlled by both cell-extrinsic and -intrinsic mechanisms. These regulators, not all known to date, drive cells in and out of quiescence when and where required to allow the immune system to function. In this article, we describe a deficiency in deoxycytidine kinase (DCK), one of the major enzymes of the nucleoside salvage pathway, which affects peripheral T cell homeostatic proliferation and survival. As a result of an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced mutation in the last a helix of DCK, a functionally null protein has been generated in the mouse and affects the composition of the hematopoietic system. Both B and T lymphocyte development is impaired, leading to a state of chronic lymphopenia and to a significant increase in the number of myeloid cells and erythrocytes. In the periphery, we found that mutant lymphocytes adopt a CD44(high)CD62L(low) memory phenotype, with high levels of proliferation and apoptosis. These phenotypes are notably the result of a cell-extrinsic-driven lymphopenia-induced proliferation as wild-type cells transferred into DCK-deficient recipients adopt the same profile. In addition, DCK also regulates lymphocyte quiescence in a cell-intrinsic manner. These data establish dCK as a new regulator of hematopoietic integrity and lymphocyte quiescence and survival. The Journal of Immunology, 2012, 188: 3920-3927.
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