Agace, William Winston

Frising, Ulrika

Pool, Lieneke

Rivollier, Aymeric Marie Christian

Wendland, Kerstin

Epidemiological studies of vitamin A-deficient populations have illustrated the importance of the vitamin A metabolite retinoic acid (RA) in mucosal immune responses. However, RA seems to be a double-edge sword in CD4+ T cell biology. While it sustains the development of foxp3+ regulatory T cells, it was also very recently reported to be essential for the stability of the Th1 lineage and to prevent transition to a Th17 program.Here we explored the role of RA signalling in CD4+ T cells during the development of intestinal inflammation in the T cell transfer colitis model. We found that RA signalling-deficient CD4+ T cells are less potent at inducing intestinal inflammation compared to their RA signalling-competent counterparts and exhibit a differentiation skewing towards more IFNγ- IL-17+, IL-17+IFNγ+ and foxp3+ cells, while their capacity to differentiate into IL-17-IFNγ+ Th1 cells is compromised. In vitro studies confirm the inefficacy of RA signalling-deficient T cells to generate bona fide Th1 cells and demonstrate their aberrant increased RORγt expression while their differentiation into Th17 remains unaffected. Surprisingly, RA signalling-deficient CD45RBlo regulatory T cells (Tregs) are however as efficient as their RA signalling-competent counterparts to inhibit colitis development.Together our results indicate that RA, through its receptor RARα, negatively regulates the early expansion of CD4+ T cells during colitis and is necessary for the generation of colitogenic Th1/Th17 cells, while it is dispensable for the protective function of Treg cells. We are currently deciphering the mechanisms of these effects of RA on CD4+ T cells.<br/

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