Kueh, Hao Yuan and Yui, Mary A. and Ng, Kenneth K. H. and Pease, Shirley S. and Zhang, Jingli A. and Damle, Sagar S. and Freedman, George and Siu, Sharmayne and Bernstein, Irwin D. and Elowitz, Michael B. and Rothenberg, Ellen V. (2016) Asynchronous combinatorial action of four regulatory factors activates Bcl11b for T cell commitment. Nature Immunology, 17 (8). pp. 956-965. ISSN 1529-2908. PMCID PMC4955789. doi:10.1038/ni.3514. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160613-162442836
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Abstract
During T cell development, multipotent progenitors relinquish competence for other fates and commit to the T cell lineage by turning on Bcl11b, which encodes a transcription factor. To clarify lineage commitment mechanisms, we followed developing T cells at the single-cell level using Bcl11b knock-in fluorescent reporter mice. Notch signaling and Notch-activated transcription factors collaborate to activate Bcl11b expression irrespectively of Notch-dependent proliferation. These inputs work via three distinct, asynchronous mechanisms: an early locus 'poising' function dependent on TCF-1 and GATA-3, a stochastic-permissivity function dependent on Notch signaling, and a separate amplitude-control function dependent on Runx1, a factor already present in multipotent progenitors. Despite their necessity for Bcl11b expression, these inputs act in a stage-specific manner, providing a multitiered mechanism for developmental gene regulation.
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Additional Information: | © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Received 26 January 2016; Accepted 14 June 2016; Published online 04 July 2016. We thank M. Lerica Gutierrez Quiloan for assistance with mouse genotyping and maintenance; N. Verduzco and I. Soto for animal husbandry; J. Longmate for help with statistical analysis of alternate-lineage-potential experiments; R.A. Diamond, K. Beadle, J. Grimm, D. Perez and J. Verceles for cell sorting; N. Feng for initial flow cytometric analysis; J. Hahn for advice on BAC recombineering; S. Qin for assistance with qPCR experiments; X.Wang for performing pilot studies with microwell arrays; and J. Ungerbäck for assistance with visualizing genome track data. We also thank A. Bhandoola, L. Xu and W. Pear (University of Pennsylvania); J. Telfer (University of Massachusetts) and N. Masuyama (University of Tokyo) for constructs. This work was funded by a CRI/Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship and a US National Institutes of Health (NIH) K99/R00 Award (K99HL119638A) to H.Y.K.; a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Bridges to Stem-Cell Research award to K.K.H.N. (TB1-01176); NIH grants to E.V.R. (R01 AI083514, R01 AI095943, RC2 CA148278, R33 HL089123, R01 CA90233 and R01 HL119102) and M.A.Y. (R01 AI064590); NIH/HHS grant U01HL100395 (I.D.B.); the Albert Billings Ruddock Professorship to E.V.R.; and the Al Sherman Foundation and the Louis A. Garfinkle Memorial Laboratory Fund to E.V.R.’s lab. Author Contributions: H.Y.K. designed research, performed experiments, analyzed data and wrote the paper. M.A.Y. designed research, performed experiments, analyzed data and wrote the paper. K.K.H.N., and S.S.P. performed experiments. S.S.D., G.F. and I.D.B. provided reagents. J.A.Z. performed experiments and analyzed data. S.S. analyzed data. M.B.E. designed research. E.V.R. designed research, analyzed data and wrote the paper. Code availability: Image analysis code is available upon request to H.Y.K. The authors declare no competing financial interests. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Asynchronous combinatorial action of four regulatory factors activates Bcl11b for T cell commitment Hao Yuan Kueh, Mary A Yui, Kenneth K H Ng, Shirley S Pease, Jingli A Zhang, Sagar S Damle, George Freedman, Sharmayne Siu, Irwin D Bernstein, Michael B Elowitz & Ellen V Rothenberg Nature Immunology 17, 956–965 (2016) doi:10.1038/ni.3514 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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