K48-linked KLF4 ubiquitination by E3 ligase Mule controls T-cell proliferation and cell cycle progression

Zhenyue Hao; Yi Sheng; Gordon S. Duncan; Wanda Y. Li; Carmen Dominguez; Jennifer Sylvester; Yu Wen Su; Gloria H.Y. Lin; Bryan E. Snow; Dirk Brenner; Annick You-Ten; Jillian Haight; Satoshi Inoue; Andrew Wakeham; Alisha Elford; Sara Hamilton; Yi Liang; Juan C. Zúñiga-Pflücker; Housheng Hansen He; Pamela S. Ohashi; Tak W. Mak

doi:10.1038/ncomms14003

K48-linked KLF4 ubiquitination by E3 ligase Mule controls T-cell proliferation and cell cycle progression

Zhenyue Hao^*, Yi Sheng, Gordon S. Duncan, Wanda Y. Li, Carmen Dominguez, Jennifer Sylvester, Yu Wen Su, Gloria H.Y. Lin, Bryan E. Snow, Dirk Brenner, Annick You-Ten, Jillian Haight, Satoshi Inoue, Andrew Wakeham, Alisha Elford, Sara Hamilton, Yi Liang, Juan C. Zúñiga-Pflücker, Housheng Hansen He, Pamela S. OhashiTak W. Mak

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T-cell proliferation is regulated by ubiquitination but the underlying molecular mechanism remains obscure. Here we report that Lys-48-linked ubiquitination of the transcription factor KLF4 mediated by the E3 ligase Mule promotes T-cell entry into S phase. Mule is elevated in T cells upon TCR engagement, and Mule deficiency in T cells blocks proliferation because KLF4 accumulates and drives upregulation of its transcriptional targets E2F2 and the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p21 and p27. T-cell-specific Mule knockout (TMKO) mice develop exacerbated experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), show impaired generation of antigen-specific CD8 + T cells with reduced cytokine production, and fail to clear LCMV infections. Thus, Mule-mediated ubiquitination of the novel substrate KLF4 regulates T-cell proliferation, autoimmunity and antiviral immune responses in vivo.

Original language	English
Article number	14003
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14003
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2017

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Hao, Z., Sheng, Y., Duncan, G. S., Li, W. Y., Dominguez, C., Sylvester, J., Su, Y. W., Lin, G. H. Y., Snow, B. E., Brenner, D., You-Ten, A., Haight, J., Inoue, S., Wakeham, A., Elford, A., Hamilton, S., Liang, Y., Zúñiga-Pflücker, J. C., He, H. H., ... Mak, T. W. (2017). K48-linked KLF4 ubiquitination by E3 ligase Mule controls T-cell proliferation and cell cycle progression. Nature Communications, 8, Article 14003. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14003

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