Nature Communications (May 2022)

The ubiquitin ligase Cul5 regulates CD4+ T cell fate choice and allergic inflammation

  • Binod Kumar,
  • Natania S. Field,
  • Dale D. Kim,
  • Asif A. Dar,
  • Yanqun Chen,
  • Aishwarya Suresh,
  • Christopher F. Pastore,
  • Li-Yin Hung,
  • Nadia Porter,
  • Keisuke Sawada,
  • Palak Shah,
  • Omar Elbulok,
  • Emily K. Moser,
  • De’Broski R. Herbert,
  • Paula M. Oliver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30437-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Cytokine signaling influences the differentiation of CD4+ T cells into varying functional subsets. Here the authors show that an E3 ubiquitin ligase Cul5 alters TH2 and TH9 development and absence of Cul5 in T cells results in higher levels of allergy-associated IL-4 and IL-9 secreting T cells.