Nature Communications (May 2017)

IL-17 induced NOTCH1 activation in oligodendrocyte progenitor cells enhances proliferation and inflammatory gene expression

  • Chenhui Wang,
  • Cun-Jin Zhang,
  • Bradley N. Martin,
  • Katarzyna Bulek,
  • Zizhen Kang,
  • Junjie Zhao,
  • Guanglin Bian,
  • Julie A. Carman,
  • Ji Gao,
  • Ashok Dongre,
  • Haibo Xue,
  • Stephen D. Miller,
  • Youcun Qian,
  • Dolores Hambardzumyan,
  • Tom Hamilton,
  • Richard M. Ransohoff,
  • Xiaoxia Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15508
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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NOTCH signalling stimulates oligodendrocyte progenitor cell proliferation but how this regulates demyelinating disease is unclear. Here, the authors show that an IL-17 adaptor protein, Act1, interacts with the C-terminal fragment of NOTCH1 (NICD) to activate cell proliferation and an inflammatory response.