A Mathematical Model for the Reciprocal Differentiation of T Helper 17 Cells and Induced Regulatory T Cells

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作者
Hong, Tian [1 ]
Xing, Jianhua [2 ]
Li, Liwu [2 ]
Tyson, John J. [2 ]
机构
[1] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Genet Bioinformat & Computat Biol Program, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[2] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
ROR-GAMMA-T; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LINEAGE-COMMITMENT; TGF-BETA; PROINFLAMMATORY IL-17(+); PROGENITOR CELLS; DECISION-MAKING; RETINOIC ACID; T(H)17; INFLAMMATION;
D O I
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002122
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The reciprocal differentiation of T helper 17 (T(H)17) cells and induced regulatory T (iT(reg)) cells plays a critical role in both the pathogenesis and resolution of diverse human inflammatory diseases. Although initial studies suggested a stable commitment to either the T(H)17 or the iT(reg) lineage, recent results reveal remarkable plasticity and heterogeneity, reflected in the capacity of differentiated effectors cells to be reprogrammed among T(H)17 and iT(reg) lineages and the intriguing phenomenon that a group of naive precursor CD4(+) T cells can be programmed into phenotypically diverse populations by the same differentiation signal, transforming growth factor beta. To reconcile these observations, we have built a mathematical model of T(H)17/iT(reg) differentiation that exhibits four different stable steady states, governed by pitchfork bifurcations with certain degrees of broken symmetry. According to the model, a group of precursor cells with some small cell-to-cell variability can differentiate into phenotypically distinct subsets of cells, which exhibit distinct levels of the master transcription-factor regulators for the two T cell lineages. A dynamical control system with these properties is flexible enough to be steered down alternative pathways by polarizing signals, such as interleukin-6 and retinoic acid and it may be used by the immune system to generate functionally distinct effector cells in desired fractions in response to a range of differentiation signals. Additionally, the model suggests a quantitative explanation for the phenotype with high expression levels of both master regulators. This phenotype corresponds to a re-stabilized co-expressing state, appearing at a late stage of differentiation, rather than a bipotent precursor state observed under some other circumstances. Our simulations reconcile most published experimental observations and predict novel differentiation states as well as transitions among different phenotypes that have not yet been observed experimentally.
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