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Heme Exporter FLVCR Is Required for T Cell Development and Peripheral Survival Mary Philip, Scott A. Funkhouser, Edison Y. Chiu, Susan R. Phelps, Jeffrey J. Delrow, James Cox, Pamela J. Fink and This information is current as Janis L. Abkowitz of September 28, 2021. J Immunol 2015; 194:1677-1685; Prepublished online 12 January 2015; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1402172 http://www.jimmunol.org/content/194/4/1677 Downloaded from Supplementary http://www.jimmunol.org/content/suppl/2015/01/09/jimmunol.140217 Material 2.DCSupplemental http://www.jimmunol.org/ References This article cites 44 articles, 11 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/194/4/1677.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision by guest on September 28, 2021 • No Triage! 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Abkowitz* All aerobic cells and organisms must synthesize heme from the amino acid glycine and the tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediate succinyl CoA for incorporation into hemoproteins, such as the cytochromes needed for oxidative phosphorylation. Most studies on heme regulation have been done in erythroid cells or hepatocytes; however, much less is known about heme metabolism in other cell types. The feline leukemia virus subgroup C receptor (FLVCR) is a 12-transmembrane domain surface protein that exports heme from cells, and it was shown to be required for erythroid development. In this article, we show that deletion of Flvcr in murine hematopoietic precursors caused a complete block in ab T cell development at the CD4+CD8+ double-positive stage, although other lymphoid lineages were not affected. Moreover, FLVCR was required for the proliferation and survival of peripheral CD4+ Downloaded from and CD8+ T cells. These studies identify a novel and unexpected role for FLVCR, a major facilitator superfamily metabolite transporter, in T cell development and suggest that heme metabolism is particularly important in the T lineage. The Journal of Immunology, 2015, 194: 1677–1685. he role of heme as a prosthetic group in proteins involved regulated carefully (8). The feline leukemia virus subgroup C in oxygen transport, electron transfer, and catalysis has receptor (FLVCR), a 12-transmembrane domain protein in the http://www.jimmunol.org/ T been long appreciated. Heme is critical for mitochondrial major facilitator superfamily (MFS) (9), was shown by our group oxidative phosphorylation, and heme deficiency impairs assembly to export heme (10). The gene encoding FLVCR is referred to as of the electron chain subunits (1). Heme also has important reg- FLVCR1 in humans and Mfsd7b in mice; to avoid confusion and ulatory functions. It regulates erythroid lineage differentiation by maintain consistency with the existing literature, we refer to the binding transcriptional (2) and translational regulators of globin gene and protein as Flvcr and FLVCR in this article. Conditional synthesis (3). On the organismal level, heme synthesis and the deletion of Flvcr in neonatal or adult mice caused severe anemia circadian clock are reciprocally regulated (4), and heme plays (11), similar to the erythroid failure seen in cats viremic with a role in integrating the internal circadian clock with metabolic feline leukemia virus subgroup C (FeLV-C), in which cell surface states, such as the fasting and fed states (5, 6). expression of FLVCR is inhibited by viral interference (12, 13). by guest on September 28, 2021 Although the enzymatic steps of heme synthesis and degrada- Older studies noted that cats viremic with FeLV-C had thymic tion have been well characterized (Supplemental Fig. 1), less is aplasia and lymphopenia (14), although it was not known whether known about intra- and intercellular heme trafficking (7). Free heme lymphopenia was due to cell-intrinsic loss of FLVCR or secondary causes lipid peroxidation and oxidative damage and must be to chronic viremia and/or anemia. To answer this question, we developed and studied several models in which FLVCR function could be knocked out in lymphoid cells or more specifically in † *Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; Clinical Re- T cells during development. search Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109; ‡Genomics Shared Resource, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109; xUniversity of Utah Metabolomics Core Facility, Salt Lake City, UT 84132; { Materials and Methods and Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109 Mice 1Current address: Genetics Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. flox/flox Received for publication August 28, 2014. Accepted for publication December 11, Flvcr ;Mx-cre mice and controls were described previously (11) and 2014. were backcrossed to C57BL/6 mice (The Jackson Laboratory) for 10 generations. C57BL/6, CD45.1 (Pep3b), and Rag12/2 mice (15) were This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants K08 CA158069 (to obtained from The Jackson Laboratory. Homozygous Lck-cre and CD4-cre M.P.), R01 HL031823 (to J.L.A.), and R01 AI64318 (to P.J.F.) and by an American mice (16) were obtained from Taconic and crossed to Flvcrflox/flox mice to Society of Hematology Basic Science Fellow Award (to M.P.). The National Institutes of flox/flox flox/flox Health provided additional funding as follows: M.P. was supported by T32 CA009515, generate Flvcr ;Lck-cre and Flvcr ;CD4-cre mice. OT-I (17) and flox/flox flox/flox J.J.D. was supported by P30 CA015704-39, and J.C. was supported by P30 DK072437. OT-II (18) mice were crossed to Flvcr ;Mx-cre mice. OT-I;Flvcr mice were bred to Lck-cre mice to obtain OT-I;Flvcr flox/flox;Lck-cre. All mice The microarray data presented in this article have been submitted to the Gene Expression Omnibus database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gds) under accession were bred and maintained in a specific pathogen–free barrier facility at the number GSE50202. University of Washington. Animal studies were performed according to protocols approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Janis Abkowitz, Division of the University of Washington. Hematology, University of Washington, HSC K136C Box 357710, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195-7710. E-mail address: [email protected] Noncompetitive and competitive transplants The online version of this article contains supplemental material. Flvcr+/+, Flvcr+/2,andFlvcr2/2 mice were generated by treating 6–12-wk- Abbreviations used in this article: BM, bone marrow mononuclear cell; DN, double old Flvcr+/+;Mx-cre, Flvcr+/flox;Mx-cre,orFlvcrflox/flox;Mx-cre mice with negative; DP, double positive; EGFP, enhanced GFP; FeLV-C, feline leukemia virus subgroup C; FLVCR, feline leukemia virus subgroup C receptor; ISP, immature SP; polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (polyI:C; 0.15 mg i.p., three doses every MFS, major facilitator subfamily; polyI:C, polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid; qRT-PCR, other day; Amersham). Eight or nine days later, bone marrow mononuclear quantitative RT-PCR; SP, single positive; S1P, sphingosine-1-phosphate; WT, wild-type. cells (BMs) from the femurs and/or tibias of polyI:C-treated mice were harvested, and 2.5 3 106 BMs were injected i.v. into sublethally irradiated 2 2 Copyright Ó 2015 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/15/$25.00 (6.5 Gy) Rag1 / mice. For competitive transplants, Flvcr+/+;Mx-cre, www.jimmunol.org/cgi/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.1402172 1678 FLVCR REQUIRED FOR T CELL DEVELOPMENT Flvcr+/flox;Mx-cre, Flvcrflox/flox;Mx-cre, and CD45.1 mice were treated Adoptive cell transfer with the same polyI:C protocol as described above. Eight or nine days flox/flox +/+ later, BMs from the femurs and/or tibias of polyI:C-treated mice were Thymocytes from Flvcr ;CD4-cre or Flvcr ;CD4-cre mice were harvested, and 5 3 106 BMs from Flvcr+/+;Mx-cre or control mice were mixed 2:1 with CD45.1 thymocytes and incubated with 10 mM CFSE mixed with 5 3 106 CD45.1 BMs and injected i.v. into lethally irradiated (Invitrogen) in serum-free HBSS for 15 min at 37˚C. The reaction was (11 Gy) Rag12/2 mice or C57BL/6 3 Pep3b F1 (CD45.1/CD45.2) mice. quenched with pure FCS, and the cells were washed twice with serum-free medium; 1.5 3 107 CFSE-labeled mixed thymocytes were injected i.v. 2 2 Blood cell analysis into sublethally irradiated Rag1 / mice (6.5 Gy). A sample of the CFSE- labeled mix also was analyzed by flow cytometry for CD4 and CD8 Mice were bled retro-orbitally into EDTA anti-coagulated microtainer staining so the starting CD45.2:CD45.1 ratio of CD4 single-positive (SP) tubes (Becton Dickinson). Complete blood counts were performed on cells and CD8SP cells could be determined. Recipient mice were sacrificed a Hemavet HV950FS analyzer (Drew Scientific) programmed for mouse at the specified time points, and splenocytes were counted and analyzed by blood.