| Literature DB >> 16177826 |
Magali Savignac1, Belen Pintado, Alfonso Gutierrez-Adan, Malgorzata Palczewska, Britt Mellström, Jose R Naranjo.
Abstract
Downstream Regulatory Element Antagonist Modulator (DREAM) is a Ca2+-dependent transcriptional repressor expressed in the brain, thyroid gland and thymus. Here, we analyzed the function of DREAM and the related protein KChIP-2 in the immune system using transgenic (tg) mice expressing a cross-dominant active mutant (EFmDREAM) for DREAM and KChIPs Ca2+-dependent transcriptional derepression. EFmDREAM tg mice showed reduced T-cell proliferation. Tg T cells exhibited decreased interleukin (IL)-2, -4 and interferon (IFN)gamma production after polyclonal activation and following antigen-specific response. Chromatin immunoprecipitation and transfection assays showed that DREAM binds to and represses transcription from these cytokine promoters. Importantly, specific transient knockdown of DREAM or KChIP-2 induced basal expression of IL-2 and IFNgamma in wild-type splenocytes. These data propose DREAM and KChIP-2 as Ca2+-dependent repressors of the immune response.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16177826 PMCID: PMC1276700 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600810
Source DB: PubMed Journal: EMBO J ISSN: 0261-4189 Impact factor: 11.598