Rani, A., Greenlaw, R., Runglall, M., Jurcevic, S. and John, S. 2014. FRA2 is a STAT5 target gene regulated by IL-2 in human CD4 T cells. PLoS ONE. 9 (2), p. e90370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090370
| Title | FRA2 is a STAT5 target gene regulated by IL-2 in human CD4 T cells |
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| Authors | Rani, A., Greenlaw, R., Runglall, M., Jurcevic, S. and John, S. |
| Abstract | Signal transducers and activators of transcription 5(STAT5) are cytokine induced signaling proteins, which regulate key immunological processes, such as tolerance induction, maintenance of homeostasis, and CD4 T-effector cell differentiation. In this study, transcriptional targets of STAT5 in CD4 T cells were studied by Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP). Genomic mapping of the sites cloned and identified in this study revealed the striking observation that the majority of STAT5-binding sites mapped to intergenic (>50 kb upstream) or intronic, rather than promoter proximal regions. Of the 105 STAT5 responsive binding sites identified, 94% contained the canonical (IFN-γ activation site) GAS motifs. A number of putative target genes identified here are associated with tumor biology. Here, we identified Fos-related antigen 2 (FRA2) as a transcriptional target of IL-2 regulated STAT5. FRA2 is a basic -leucine zipper (bZIP) motif 'Fos' family transcription factor that is part of the AP-1 transcription factor complex and is also known to play a critical role in the progression of human tumours and more recently as a determinant of T cell plasticity. The binding site mapped to an internal intron within the FRA2 gene. The epigenetic architecture of FRA2, characterizes a transcriptionally active promoter as indicated by enrichment for histone methylation marks H3K4me1, H3K4me2, H3K4me3, and transcription/elongation associated marks H2BK5me1 and H4K20me1. FRA2 is regulated by IL-2 in activated CD4 T cells. Consistently, STAT5 bound to GAS sequence in the internal intron of FRA2 and reporter gene assays confirmed IL-2 induced STAT5 binding and transcriptional activation. Furthermore, addition of JAK3 inhibitor (R333) or Daclizumab inhibited the induction in TCR stimulated cells. Taken together, our data suggest that FRA2 is a novel STAT5 target gene, regulated by IL-2 in activated CD4 T cells. |
| Keywords | Sequence motif analysis, gene targeting, T helper cells, gene regulation, introns, T cells, DNA transcription, T cell receptors |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Journal citation | 9 (2), p. e90370 |
| Year | 2014 |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090370 |
| Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090370 |