RGD Reference Report - Macrophage-derived nitric oxide regulates T cell activation via reversible disruption of the Jak3/STAT5 signaling pathway. - Rat Genome Database

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Macrophage-derived nitric oxide regulates T cell activation via reversible disruption of the Jak3/STAT5 signaling pathway.

Authors: Bingisser, RM  Tilbrook, PA  Holt, PG  Kees, UR 
Citation: Bingisser RM, etal., J Immunol. 1998 Jun 15;160(12):5729-34.
RGD ID: 8554088
Pubmed: PMID:9637481   (View Abstract at PubMed)

Nitric oxide (NO) has been invoked as an important pathogenic factor in a wide range of immunologically mediated diseases. The present study demonstrates that macrophage-derived NO may conversely function to fine tune T cell-mediated inflammation via reversible dephosphorylation of intracellular signaling molecules, which are involved in the control of T cell proliferation. Thus, T cells activated in the presence of alveolar macrophages are unable to proliferate despite expression of IL-2R and secretion of IL-2. This process is reproduced by the NO generator S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine and is inhibitable by the NO synthase inhibitor N(G)-methyl-L-arginine. Analysis of T cell lysates by immunoprecipitation with specific Abs and subsequent immunoblotting indicated marked reduction of tyrosine phosphorylation of Jak3 and STAT5 mediated by NO. Further studies indicated that NO-mediated T cell suppression was reversible by the guanylate cyclase inhibitors methylene blue and LY-83583 and was reproduced by a cell-permeable analogue of cyclic GMP, implicating guanylate cyclase activation as a key step in the inhibition of T cell activation by NO.

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Biological Process
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
positive regulation of T cell proliferation involved_inIDA 8554088PMID:9637481BHF-UCL 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Jak3  (Janus kinase 3)


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