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抑制性免疫補助受容体LAG-3は細胞質領域に有する非定型モチーフを介してT細胞の活性化を抑制する
Inhibitory mechanisms of LAG-3–dependent T cell suppression
著者
前田, 武雄 徳島大学大学院医科学教育部(医学専攻)
キーワード
T細胞抗原受容体
免疫補助受容体
抑制機構
モノクローナル抗体
LAG-3
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学位論文
抄録
T cell activation is tightly regulated by both stimulatory and inhibitory co-receptors and has been a focus in the development of interventions for managing cancer or autoimmune diseases. Targeting the inhibitory co-receptors programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T lymphocyte–associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) has successfully eradicated tumors but induced immune-related adverse events in humans and mice. The beneficial and adverse effects of targeting these co-receptors highlight their importance in cancer immunity and also autoimmunity. Although the therapeutic potencies of other inhibitory co-receptors are under extensive investigation, their inhibitory mechanisms and their functional differences are not well understood. Here we analyzed the inhibitory mechanisms of lymphocyte activation gene-3 (LAG-3), another inhibitory co-receptor, by using an in vitro T cell activation system and a high-affinity anti-LAG-3 antibody that strongly interferes with the binding of LAG-3 to its ligand. We found that the expression level of LAG-3 strongly correlates with the inhibitory function of LAG-3, suggesting that LAG-3 functions as a rheostat rather than as a breaker of T cell activation. By evaluating the inhibitory capacities of various LAG-3 variants relative to their expression levels, we found that LAG-3 transduces two independent inhibitory signals through an FXXL motif in the membrane-proximal region and the C-terminal EX repeat. These motifs have not been reported previously for inhibitory co-receptors, suggesting that LAG-3 inhibits T cell activation through a nonredundant inhibitory mechanisms along with the other inhibitory co-receptors. Our findings provide a rationale for combinatorial targeting of LAG-3 and the other inhibitory co-receptors to improve cancer immunotherapy.
掲載誌名
Journal of Biological Chemistry
ISSN
1083351X
cat書誌ID
AA1202441X
出版者
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
294
15
開始ページ
6017
終了ページ
6026
発行日
2019-02-13
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内容要旨・審査要旨・論文本文の公開
本論文は,著者Takeo K. Maedaの学位論文として提出され,学位審査・授与の対象となっている。
This research was originally published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Takeo K. Maeda, Daisuke Sugiura, Il-mi Okazaki, Takumi Maruhashi, Taku Okazaki. Atypical motifs in the cytoplasmic region of the inhibitory immune co-receptor LAG-3 inhibit T cell activation. J. Biol. Chem. 2019 Vol.294(15), pp.6017-6026.
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© 2019 Maeda et al. Published under exclusive license by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
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言語
eng
著者版フラグ
博士論文全文を含む
文科省報告番号
甲第3319号
学位記番号
甲医第1421号
学位授与年月日
2019-06-27
学位名
博士(医学)
学位授与機関
徳島大学
部局
先端酵素学研究所