International Immunology, Vol. 13, No. 12, 1479-1487,
December 2001
© 2001 Japanese Society for Immunology
NF-
B activation plays an important role in the IL-4-induced protection from apoptosis
Department of Immunology, Holland Laboratory, American Red Cross, 15601 Crabbs Branch Way, Rockville, MD 20855, USA
1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Correspondence to: A. D. Keegan
IL-4 alone protects cells from apoptosis by insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-dependent and -independent mechanisms. However, in vivocells are typically exposed to a number of signals at the same time. To determine the contribution of co-stimulatory signals to the regulation of apoptosis by IL-4, we first analyzed whether tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-
, which has been shown to inhibit the activation of IRS-1 by insulin, could modify IL-4 signaling and protection from apoptosis. We found that TNF- cooperates with IL-4 in protecting 32D cells from factor withdrawal-induced apoptosis. This effect was independent of the expression of IRS-1, indicating that this cooperation is via an alternative anti-apoptotic pathway. Moreover, TNF- had no effect on the activation of IRS-1 induced by IL-4. IL-4 enhanced TNF--induced activation of the transcription factor NF-
B. Interestingly, pharmacologic inhibition of NF-B activation or protein synthesis resulted in the induction of cell death that could not be inhibited by IL-4, suggesting that IL-4 cooperates with NF-B to signal protection from apoptosis. Supporting this hypothesis, IL-4 also increased NF-B activation induced by anti-CD3 antibodies in primary T cells and protected them from apoptosis induced by receptor engagement. However, IL-4 was not able to inhibit apoptosis induced by anti-CD3 in T lymphocytes isolated from transgenic mice expressing a dominant-negative form of IB that prevents NF-B activation. Thus, in addition to the previously identified IRS-1 pathway, IL-4-induced protection from apoptosis may also be mediated through cooperation with the NF-B family of transcription factors.
Keywords: apoptosis, cytokines, T cells, transcription factors
Transmitting editor: D.T. Fearon
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