期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2020
卷号：117
期号：39
页码：24392-24402
DOI：10.1073/pnas.2007224117
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Enhancing long-term persistence while simultaneously potentiating the effector response of CD8 T cells has been a long-standing goal in immunology to produce better vaccines and adoptive cell therapy products. NR4A3 is a transcription factor of the orphan nuclear receptor family. While it is rapidly and transiently expressed following T cell activation, its role in the early stages of T cell response is unknown. We show that NR4A3-deficient murine CD8 T cells differentiate preferentially into memory precursor and central memory cells, but also produce more cytokines. This is explained by an early influence of NR4A3 deficiency on the memory transcriptional program and on accessibility of chromatin regions with motifs for bZIP transcription factors, which impacts the transcription of Fos/Jun target genes. Our results reveal a unique and early role for NR4A3 in programming CD8 T cell differentiation and function. Manipulating NR4A3 activity may represent a promising strategy to improve vaccination and T cell therapy.
关键词：early CD8 T cell response ; nuclear receptors ; T cell memory ; NR4A3 ; T cell function
