title: TCR stimulation drives cleavage and shedding of the ITIM receptor CD31.
abstract: CD31 is a transmembrane molecule endowed with T cell regulatory functions owing to the presence of 2 immunotyrosine-based inhibitory motifs. For reasons not understood, CD31 is lost by a portion of circulating T lymphocytes, which appear prone to uncontrolled activation. In this study, we show that extracellular T cell CD31 comprising Ig-like domains 1 to 5 is cleaved and shed from the surface of human T cells upon activation via their TCR. The shed CD31 can be specifically detected as a soluble, truncated protein in human plasma. CD31 shedding results in the loss of its inhibitory function because the necessary cis-homo-oligomerization of the molecule, triggered by the trans-homophilic engagement of the distal Ig-like domain 1, cannot be established by CD31(shed) cells. However, we show that a juxta-membrane extracellular sequence, comprising part of the domain 6, remains expressed at the surface of CD31(shed) T cells. We also show that the immunosuppressive CD31 peptide aa 551-574 is highly homophilic and possibly acts by homo-oligomerizing with the truncated CD31 remaining after its cleavage and shedding. This peptide is able to sustain phosphorylation of the CD31 ITIM(686) and of SHP2 and to inhibit TCR-induced T cell activation. Finally, systemic administration of the peptide in BALB/c mice efficiently suppresses Ag-induced T cell-mediated immune responses in vivo. We conclude that the loss of T cell regulation caused by CD31 shedding driven by TCR stimulation can be rescued by molecular tools able to engage the truncated juxta-membrane extracellular molecule that remains exposed at the surface of CD31(shed) cells.
authors.affiliation: Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale, U698, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fornasa
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Groyer
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clement
authors.forename: Jordan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dimitrov
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Compain
authors.forename: Anh-Thu
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Gaston
authors.forename: Aditi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Varthaman
authors.forename: Jamila
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Khallou-Laschet
authors.forename: Debra K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Stéphanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Graff-Dubois
authors.forename: Antonino
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nicoletti
authors.forename: Giuseppina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Caligiuri
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005110:Extracellular Space / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007136:Immunoglobulins / Q000378:metabolism; D019169:Jurkat Cells; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D019408:Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007136:Immunoglobulins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D019408:Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
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