Eric Perkey, Dave Maurice De Sousa, Léolène Carrington, Jooho Chung, Alexander Dils, David Granadier, Ute Koch, Freddy Radtke, Burkhard Ludewig, Bruce R Blazar, Christian W Siebel, Todd V Brennan, Jeffrey Nolz, Nathalie Labrecque, Ivan Maillard
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2020 Mar 15Notch signaling is emerging as a critical regulator of T cell activation and function. However, there is no reliable cell surface indicator of Notch signaling across activated T cell subsets. In this study, we show that Notch signals induce upregulated expression of the Gcnt1 glycosyltransferase gene in T cells mediating graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in mice. To determine if Gcnt1-mediated O-glycosylation could be used as a Notch signaling reporter, we quantified the core-2 O-glycoform of CD43 in multiple T cell subsets during graft-versus-host disease. Pharmacological blockade of Delta-like Notch ligands abrogated core-2 O-glycosylation in a dose-dependent manner after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, both in donor-derived CD4+ and CD8+ effector T cells and in Foxp3+ regulatory T cells. CD43 core-2 O-glycosylation depended on cell-intrinsic canonical Notch signals and identified CD4+ and CD8+ T cells with high cytokine-producing ability. Gcnt1-deficient T cells still drove lethal alloreactivity, showing that core-2 O-glycosylation predicted, but did not cause, Notch-dependent T cell pathogenicity. Using core-2 O-glycosylation as a marker of Notch signaling, we identified Ccl19-Cre+ fibroblastic stromal cells as critical sources of Delta-like ligands in graft-versus-host responses irrespective of conditioning intensity. Core-2 O-glycosylation also reported Notch signaling in CD8+ T cell responses to dendritic cell immunization, Listeria infection, and viral infection. Thus, we uncovered a role for Notch in controlling core-2 O-glycosylation and identified a cell surface marker to quantify Notch signals in multiple immunological contexts. Our findings will help refine our understanding of the regulation, cellular source, and timing of Notch signals in T cell immunity. Copyright © 2020 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.
Eric Perkey, Dave Maurice De Sousa, Léolène Carrington, Jooho Chung, Alexander Dils, David Granadier, Ute Koch, Freddy Radtke, Burkhard Ludewig, Bruce R Blazar, Christian W Siebel, Todd V Brennan, Jeffrey Nolz, Nathalie Labrecque, Ivan Maillard. GCNT1-Mediated O-Glycosylation of the Sialomucin CD43 Is a Sensitive Indicator of Notch Signaling in Activated T Cells. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2020 Mar 15;204(6):1674-1688
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