Impaired fetal T cell development and perinatal lethality in mice lacking the cAMP response element binding protein
AUTOR(ES)
Rudolph, Dorothea
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
CREB, the cAMP response element binding protein, is a key transcriptional regulator of a large number of genes containing a CRE consensus sequence in their upstream regulatory regions. Mice with a hypomorphic allele of CREB that leads to a loss of the CREBα and Δ isoforms and to an overexpression of the CREBβ isoform are viable. Herein we report the generation of CREB null mice, which have all functional isoforms (CREBα, β, and Δ) inactivated. In contrast to the CREBαΔ mice, CREB null mice are smaller than their littermates and die immediately after birth from respiratory distress. In brain, a strong reduction in the corpus callosum and the anterior commissures is observed. Furthermore, CREB null mice have an impaired fetal T cell development of the αβ lineage, which is not affected in CREBαΔ mice on embryonic day 18.5. Overall thymic cellularity in CREB null mice is severely reduced affecting all developmental stages of the αβ T cell lineage. In contrast γδ T cell differentiation is normal in CREB mutant mice.
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