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TY - JOUR
T1 - Putative GTPase GIMAP1 is critical for the development of mature B and T lymphocytes
AU - Saunders, Amy
AU - Webb, Louise M C
AU - Janas, Michelle L
AU - Hutchings, Amanda
AU - Pascall, John
AU - Carter, Christine
AU - Pugh, Nicholas
AU - Morgan, Geoff
AU - Turner, Martin
AU - Butcher, Geoffrey W
PY - 2010/4/22
Y1 - 2010/4/22
N2 - The guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) of the immunity-associated protein (GIMAP) family of putative GTPases has been implicated in the regulation of T-lymphocyte development and survival. A mouse conditional knockout allele was generated for the immune GTPase gene GIMAP1. Homozygous loss of this allele under the influence of the lymphoid-expressed hCD2-iCre recombinase transgene led to severe (> 85%) deficiency of mature T lymphocytes and, unexpectedly, of mature B lymphocytes. By contrast there was little effect of GIMAP1 deletion on immature lymphocytes in either B or T lineages, although in vitro studies showed a shortening of the survival time of both immature and mature CD4(+) single-positive thymocytes. These findings show a vital requirement for GIMAP1 in mature lymphocyte development/survival and draw attention to the nonredundant roles of members of the GIMAP GTPase family in these processes.
AB - The guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) of the immunity-associated protein (GIMAP) family of putative GTPases has been implicated in the regulation of T-lymphocyte development and survival. A mouse conditional knockout allele was generated for the immune GTPase gene GIMAP1. Homozygous loss of this allele under the influence of the lymphoid-expressed hCD2-iCre recombinase transgene led to severe (> 85%) deficiency of mature T lymphocytes and, unexpectedly, of mature B lymphocytes. By contrast there was little effect of GIMAP1 deletion on immature lymphocytes in either B or T lineages, although in vitro studies showed a shortening of the survival time of both immature and mature CD4(+) single-positive thymocytes. These findings show a vital requirement for GIMAP1 in mature lymphocyte development/survival and draw attention to the nonredundant roles of members of the GIMAP GTPase family in these processes.
KW - Animals
KW - B-Lymphocytes/cytology
KW - Blotting, Western
KW - Cell Differentiation/immunology
KW - Cell Separation
KW - Cell Survival
KW - Flow Cytometry
KW - GTP Phosphohydrolases/metabolism
KW - Mice
KW - Mice, Knockout
KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction
KW - Signal Transduction/immunology
KW - T-Lymphocytes/cytology
U2 - 10.1182/blood-2009-08-237586
DO - 10.1182/blood-2009-08-237586
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 20194894
VL - 115
SP - 3249
EP - 3257
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
SN - 0006-4971
IS - 16
ER -