1. Regulatory T Cell–Derived TRAIL Is Not Required for Peripheral Tolerance
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Stephanie Grebinoski, Erin A. Brunazzi, Rebekah E. Dadey, Qianxia Zhang, Dario A. A. Vignali, Amanda R. Burton, and Creg J. Workman
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Male ,Programmed cell death ,Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental ,Regulatory T cell ,Immunology ,Apoptosis ,Nod ,Lymphocyte Activation ,T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory ,Article ,Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein ,TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand ,Mice ,Immune system ,Mice, Inbred NOD ,Neoplasms ,Conditional gene knockout ,medicine ,Animals ,Immunology and Allergy ,Mice, Knockout ,Mice, Inbred BALB C ,biology ,Peripheral Tolerance ,Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis ,Peripheral tolerance ,General Medicine ,Flow Cytometry ,medicine.disease ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Disease Models, Animal ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,biology.protein ,Cancer research ,Female ,Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein - Abstract
TRAIL (Tnfsf10/TRAIL/CD253/Apo2L) is an important immune molecule that mediates apoptosis. TRAIL can play key roles in regulating cell death in the tumor and autoimmune microenvironments. However, dissecting TRAIL function remains difficult because of the lack of optimal models. We have now generated a conditional knockout (Tnfsf10L/L) for cell type–specific analysis of TRAIL function on C57BL/6, BALB/c, and NOD backgrounds. Previous studies have suggested a role for TRAIL in regulatory T cell (Treg)–mediated suppression. We generated mice with a Treg-restricted Tnfsf10 deletion and surprisingly found no impact on tumor growth in C57BL/6 and BALB/c tumor models. Furthermore, we found no difference in the suppressive capacity of Tnfsf10-deficient Tregs and no change in function or proliferation of T cells in tumors. We also assessed the role of TRAIL on Tregs in two autoimmune mouse models: the NOD mouse model of autoimmune diabetes and the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) C57BL/6 model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. We found that deletion of Tnfsf10 on Tregs had no effect on disease progression in either model. We conclude that Tregs do not appear to be dependent on TRAIL exclusively as a mechanism of suppression in both the tumor and autoimmune microenvironments, although it remains possible that TRAIL may contribute in combination with other mechanisms and/or in different disease settings. Our Tnfsf10 conditional knockout mouse should prove to be a useful tool for the dissection of TRAIL function on different cell populations in multiple mouse models of human disease.
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- 2021