Annie Xin, Frederick Masson, Yang Liao, Simon Preston, Tianxia Guan, Renee Gloury, Moshe Olshansky, Jian-Xin Lin, Peng Li, Terence P Speed, Gordon K Smyth, Matthias Ernst, Warren J Leonard, Marc Pellegrini, Susan M Kaech, Stephen L Nutt, Wei Shi, Gabrielle T Belz, Axel Kallies
T cell responses are guided by cytokines that induce transcriptional regulators, which ultimately control differentiation of effector and memory T cells. However, it is unknown how the activities of these molecular regulators are coordinated and integrated during the differentiation process. Using genetic approaches and transcriptional profiling of antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells, we reveal a common program of effector differentiation that is regulated by IL-2 and IL-12 signaling and the combined activities of the transcriptional regulators Blimp-1 and T-bet...
April 2016: Nature Immunology