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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Immunol.
Sec. T Cell Biology
Volume 15 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1374621
Lack of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase VPS34 in regulatory T cells leads to a fatal lymphoproliferative disorder without affecting their development
Provisionally accepted- 1 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- 2 Babraham Institute (BBSRC), Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 3 University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- 4 Dundee College, Dundee, United Kingdom
- 5 Royal Veterinary College (RVC), London, United Kingdom
Regulatory T (Treg) cells are essential for the maintenance of immunological tolerance, yet the molecular components required for their maintenance and effector functions remain incompletely defined. Inactivation of VPS34 in Treg cells led to an early, lethal phenotype, with massive effector T cell activation and inflammation, like mice lacking Treg cells completely. However, VPS34-deficient Treg cells developed normally, populated the peripheral lymphoid organs and effectively supressed conventional T cells in vitro.Our data suggest that VPS34 is required for the maintaining normal numbers of mature Treg. Functionally, we observed that lack of VPS34 activity impairs cargo processing upon transendocytosis, that defective autophagy may contribute to, but is not sufficient to explain this lethal phenotype, and that loss of VPS34 activity induces a state of heightened metabolic activity that may interfere with metabolic networks required for maintenance or suppressive functions of Treg cells.
Keywords: PI3K, Treg, VPS34, Autophagy, Endocytosis
Received: 22 Jan 2024; Accepted: 31 Oct 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Courreges, Davenport, Bilanges, Rebollo-Gomez, Hukelmann, Schoenfelder, Edgar, Sansom, Scudamore, Roychoudhuri, Garden, Vanhaesebroeck and Okkenhaug. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Klaus Okkenhaug, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, England, United Kingdom
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