期刊
DEVELOPMENT
卷 145, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.146910
关键词
Shh; Gli3; Fetal thymus; Positive selection; CD4; T-cell development; Thymocyte; Thymic epithelial cell (TEC); Mouse
资金
- Medical Research Council [MR/P000843/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I026324/1]
- Wellcome Trust [WT094255MF]
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity [V1270]
- National Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of Ecuador (SENESCYT)
- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- University College London [ormbrc-2012-1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I026324/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens Charity [V0518] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [1212180, MR/P000843/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/I026324/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/P000843/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) [ormbrc-2012-1] Funding Source: National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR)
Gli3 is a Hedgehog (Hh)-responsive transcription factor that can function as a transcriptional repressor or activator. We show that Gli3 activity in mouse thymic epithelial cells (TECs) promotes positive selection and differentiation from CD4(+) CD8(+) to CD4(+) CD8(-) single-positive (SP4) cells in the fetal thymus and that Gli3 represses Shh. Constitutive deletion of Gli3, and conditional deletion of Gli3 from TECs, reduced differentiation to SP4, whereas conditional deletion of Gli3 from thymocytes did not. Conditional deletion of Shh from TECs increased differentiation to SP4, and expression of Shh was upregulated in the Gli3-deficient thymus. Use of a transgenic Hh reporter showed that the Hh pathway was active in thymocytes, and increased in the Gli3-deficient fetal thymus. Neutralisation of endogenous Hh proteins in the Gli3(-/-) thymus restored SP4 differentiation, indicating that Gli3 in TECs promotes SP4 differentiation by repression of Shh. Transcriptome analysis showed that Hh-mediated transcription was increased whereas TCR-mediated transcription was decreased in Gli3(-/-) thymocytes compared with wild type.
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