Title
A Hypermorphic Nfkbid Allele Contributes to Impaired Thymic Deletion of Autoreactive Diabetogenic CD8+ T Cells in NOD Mice.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2018
JAX Source
J Immunol 2018 Oct 1; 201(7):1907-1917.
Volume
201
Issue
7
First Page
1907
Last Page
1917
ISSN
1550-6606
PMID
30127089
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1800465
Grant
JDRF Fellowship 3PDF-2014-219-A-N & 3PDF2017-372-A-N,DRC006887, DK46266,OD020351,CA34196
Abstract
In both NOD mice and humans, the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is dependent in part on autoreactive CD8+ T cells recognizing pancreatic β cell peptides presented by often quite common MHC class I variants. Studies in NOD mice previously revealed that the common H2-Kd and/or H2-Db class I molecules expressed by this strain aberrantly lose the ability to mediate the thymic deletion of pathogenic CD8+ T cell responses through interactions with T1D susceptibility genes outside the MHC. A gene(s) mapping to proximal chromosome 7 was previously shown to be an important contributor to the failure of the common class I molecules expressed by NOD mice to mediate the normal thymic negative selection of diabetogenic CD8+ T cells. Using an inducible model of thymic negative selection and mRNA transcript analyses, we initially identified an elevated Nfkbid expression variant as a likely NOD-proximal chromosome 7 region gene contributing to impaired thymic deletion of diabetogenic CD8+ T cells. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic attenuation of Nfkbid expression in NOD mice resulted in improved negative selection of autoreactive diabetogenic AI4 and NY8.3 CD8+ T cells. These results indicated that allelic variants of Nfkbid contribute to the efficiency of intrathymic deletion of diabetogenic CD8+ T cells. However, although enhancing thymic deletion of pathogenic CD8+ T cells, ablating Nfkbid expression surprisingly accelerated T1D onset that was associated with numeric decreases in both regulatory T and B lymphocytes in NOD mice.
Recommended Citation
Presa, Maximiliano; Racine, Jeremy; Dwyer, Jennifer R; Lamont, Deanna; Ratiu, Jeremy; Sarsani, Vishal Kumar; Chen, Yi-Guang; Geurts, Aron; Schmitz, Ingo; Stearns, Timothy M; Allocco, Jennifer; Chapman, Harry; and Serreze, David V., "A Hypermorphic Nfkbid Allele Contributes to Impaired Thymic Deletion of Autoreactive Diabetogenic CD8+ T Cells in NOD Mice." (2018). Faculty Research 2018. 198.
https://mouseion.jax.org/stfb2018/198