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Yuriko Hayashi,
Shinya Kusakari, Miho Sato-Hashimoto,
Eriko Urano,
Masahiro Shigeno,
Tsuneo Sekijima,
Takenori Kotani,
Yoji Murata,
Hirokazu Murakami,
Takashi Matozaki,
Hiroshi Ohnishi
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ABSTRACT: Forced swim (FS) stress induces diverse biochemical responses in the brain of rodents. Here, we examined the effect of hypothermia induced by FS in cold water on the phosphorylation of FS-sensitive signaling molecules in the mouse brain. As we have shown previously, FS in cold water induced a significant increase in the level of tyrosine phosphorylation of SIRPα, a neuronal membrane protein, in mouse hippocampus, while such effect of FS was markedly reduced in mice subjected to FS in warm water. FS in cold water also induced phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK) as well as of cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB), or dephosphorylation of α isoform of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (αCaMKII) in the hippocampus. These effects of FS on the phosphorylation of these molecules were also lost in mice subjected to FS in warm water. Genetic ablation of SIRPα did not change the phosphorylation states of these molecules in the brain. Forced cooling of anesthetized mice, which induced a marked increase in the phosphorylation of SIRPα, induced dephosphorylation of αCaMKII in the brain, while the same treatment did not affect the phosphorylation level of MEK and CREB. Hibernation also induced an increase and a decrease of the phosphorylation of SIRPα and αCaMKII, respectively, in the brain of chipmunk. These results suggest that hypothermia is a major element that determines the levels of phosphorylation of αCaMKII and SIRPα during the FS in cold water, while it is not for the phosphorylation levels of MEK and CREB.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 10/2012; · 2.48 Impact Factor
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Tetsuya Kaneko,
Yasuyuki Saito,
Takenori Kotani,
Hideki Okazawa,
Hiroko Iwamura, Miho Sato-Hashimoto,
Yoshitake Kanazawa,
Satoshi Takahashi,
Keiju Hiromura,
Shinya Kusakari,
Yoriaki Kaneko,
Yoji Murata,
Hiroshi Ohnishi,
Yoshihisa Nojima,
Kenji Takagishi,
Takashi Matozaki
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ABSTRACT: Dendritic cells (DCs) promote immune responses to foreign Ags and immune tolerance to self-Ags. Deregulation of DCs is implicated in autoimmunity, but the molecules that regulate DCs to protect against autoimmunity have remained unknown. In this study, we show that mice lacking the protein tyrosine phosphatase Shp1 specifically in DCs develop splenomegaly associated with more CD11c(+) DCs. Splenic DCs from the mutant mice showed upregulation of CD86 and CCR7 expression and of LPS-induced production of proinflammatory cytokines. The mice manifested more splenic Th1 cells, consistent with the increased ability of their DCs to induce production of IFN-γ by Ag-specific T cells in vitro. The number of splenic CD5(+)CD19(+) B-1a cells and the serum concentrations of Igs M and G2a were also increased in the mutant mice. Moreover, aged mutant mice developed glomerulonephritis and interstitial pneumonitis together with increased serum concentrations of autoantibodies. Shp1 is thus a key regulator of DC functions that protects against autoimmunity.
The Journal of Immunology 04/2012; 188(11):5397-407. · 5.79 Impact Factor
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Toshi Maruyama,
Shinya Kusakari, Miho Sato-Hashimoto,
Yuriko Hayashi,
Takenori Kotani,
Yoji Murata,
Hideki Okazawa,
Per-Arne Oldenborg,
Shoji Kishi,
Takashi Matozaki,
Hiroshi Ohnishi
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ABSTRACT: Signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα) is a neuronal membrane protein that undergoes tyrosine phosphorylation in the brain of mice in response to forced swim (FS) stress in cold water, and this response is implicated in regulation of depression-like behavior in the FS test. We now show that subjection of mice to the FS in warm (37 °C) water does not induce the tyrosine phosphorylation of SIRPα in the brain. The rectal temperature (T(rec) ) of mice was reduced to 27° to 30 °C by performance of the FS for 10 min in cold water, whereas it was not affected by the same treatment in warm water. The level of tyrosine phosphorylation of SIRPα in the brain was increased by administration of ethanol or picrotoxin, starvation, or cooling after anesthesia, all of which also induced hypothermia. Furthermore, the tyrosine phosphorylation of SIRPα in cultured hippocampal neurons was induced by lowering the temperature of the culture medium. CD47, a ligand of SIRPα, as well as Src family kinases or SH2 domain-containing protein phosphatase 2 (Shp2), might be important for the basal and the hypothermia-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of SIRPα. Hypothermia is therefore likely an important determinant of both the behavioral immobility and tyrosine phosphorylation of SIRPα observed in the FS test.
Journal of Neurochemistry 03/2012; 121(6):891-902. · 4.06 Impact Factor
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Miho Sato-Hashimoto,
Yasuyuki Saito,
Hiroshi Ohnishi,
Hiroko Iwamura,
Yoshitake Kanazawa,
Tetsuya Kaneko,
Shinya Kusakari,
Takenori Kotani,
Munemasa Mori,
Yoji Murata,
Hideki Okazawa,
Carl F Ware,
Per-Arne Oldenborg,
Yoshihisa Nojima,
Takashi Matozaki
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ABSTRACT: The molecular basis for formation of lymphoid follicle and its homeostasis in the secondary lymphoid organs remains unclear. Signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα), an Ig superfamily protein that is predominantly expressed in dendritic cells or macrophages, mediates cell-cell signaling by interacting with CD47, another Ig superfamily protein. In this study, we show that the size of the T cell zone as well as the number of CD4(+) T cells were markedly reduced in the spleen of mice bearing a mutant (MT) SIRPα that lacks the cytoplasmic region compared with those of wild-type mice. In addition, the expression of CCL19 and CCL21, as well as of IL-7, which are thought to be important for development or homeostasis of the T cell zone, was markedly decreased in the spleen of SIRPα MT mice. By the use of bone marrow chimera, we found that hematopoietic SIRPα is important for development of the T cell zone as well as the expression of CCL19 and CCL21 in the spleen. The expression of lymphotoxin and its receptor, lymphotoxin β receptor, as well as the in vivo response to lymphotoxin β receptor stimulation were also decreased in the spleen of SIRPα MT mice. CD47-deficient mice also manifested phenotypes similar to SIRPα MT mice. These data suggest that SIRPα as well as its ligand CD47 are thus essential for steady-state homeostasis of T cells in the spleen.
The Journal of Immunology 07/2011; 187(1):291-7. · 5.79 Impact Factor
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Yasuyuki Saito,
Hiroko Iwamura,
Tetsuya Kaneko,
Hiroshi Ohnishi,
Yoji Murata,
Hideki Okazawa,
Yoshitake Kanazawa, Miho Sato-Hashimoto,
Hisae Kobayashi,
Per-Arne Oldenborg,
Makoto Naito,
Yoriaki Kaneko,
Yoshihisa Nojima,
Takashi Matozaki
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ABSTRACT: The molecular basis for regulation of dendritic cell (DC) development and homeostasis remains unclear. Signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα), an immunoglobulin superfamily protein that is predominantly expressed in DCs, mediates cell-cell signaling by interacting with CD47, another immunoglobulin superfamily protein. We now show that the number of CD11c(high) DCs (conventional DCs, or cDCs), in particular, that of CD8-CD4+ (CD4+) cDCs, is selectively reduced in secondary lymphoid tissues of mice expressing a mutant form of SIRPα that lacks the cytoplasmic region. We also found that SIRPα is required intrinsically within cDCs or DC precursors for the homeostasis of splenic CD4+ cDCs. Differentiation of bone marrow cells from SIRPα mutant mice into DCs induced by either macrophage-granulocyte colony-stimulating factor or Flt3 ligand in vitro was not impaired. Although the accumulation of the immediate precursors of cDCs in the spleen was also not impaired, the half-life of newly generated splenic CD4+ cDCs was markedly reduced in SIRPα mutant mice. Both hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic CD47 was found to be required for the homeostasis of CD4+ cDCs and CD8-CD4- (double negative) cDCs in the spleen. SIRPα as well as its ligand, CD47, are thus important for the homeostasis of CD4+ cDCs or double negative cDCs in lymphoid tissues.
Blood 11/2010; 116(18):3517-25. · 9.90 Impact Factor
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Hiroko Iwamura,
Yasuyuki Saito, Miho Sato-Hashimoto,
Hiroshi Ohnishi,
Yoji Murata,
Hideki Okazawa,
Yoshitake Kanazawa,
Tetsuya Kaneko,
Shinya Kusakari,
Takenori Kotani,
Yoshihisa Nojima,
Takashi Matozaki
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ABSTRACT: Signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα) is an immunoglobulin superfamily protein that is predominantly expressed in dendritic cells (DCs). Its cytoplasmic region binds SHP-1 or SHP-2 protein tyrosine phosphatases, while its extracellular region interacts with CD47, another immunoglobulin superfamily protein, constituting cell-cell signaling. SIRPα was previously shown to be important for development of contact hypersensitivity, likely as a result of its positive regulation of the priming by DCs of CD4(+) T cells. However, the mechanism by which SIRPα regulates DC functions remains unknown. Here we found that the number of I-A(+) cells, which represent migratory DCs such as Langerhans cells (LCs) or dermal DCs from the skin, in the peripheral lymph nodes (LNs) was markedly decreased in mice expressing a mutant form of SIRPα that lacks the cytoplasmic region compared with that of wild-type (WT) mice. In addition, an increase of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-bearing I-A(+) cells in the draining lymph nodes (LNs) after skin-painting with FITC was markedly blunted in SIRPα mutant mice. However, migratory ability, as well as expression of CCR7, of bone marrow-derived DCs prepared from SIRPα mutant mice were not impaired. By contrast, the number of I-A(+) LCs in the epidermis of SIRPα mutant mice was markedly decreased compared with that of WT mice. In addition, the mRNA expression of transforming growth factor-β receptor II in LCs of SIRPα mutant mice was markedly decreased compared with that of WT mice. These results suggest that SIRPα is important for homeostasis of LCs in the skin, as well as of migratory DCs in the LNs, but unlikely for migration of these cells from the skin to draining LNs.
Immunology letters 10/2010; 135(1-2):100-7. · 2.91 Impact Factor
