Abstract

The ability to proliferate is a common feature of most T-cell populations. However, proliferation follows different cell-cycle dynamics and is coupled to different functional outcomes according to T-cell subsets. Whether the mitotic machineries supporting these qualitatively distinct proliferative responses are identical remains unknown. Here, we show that disruption of the microtubule-associated protein LIS1 in mouse models leads to proliferative defects associated with a blockade of T-cell development after b-selection and of peripheral CD4+ T cell expansion after antigen priming. In contrast, cell divisions in CD8+ T cells occurred independently of LIS1 following T-cell antigen receptor stimulation, although LIS1 was required for proliferation elicited by pharmacological activation. In thymocytes and CD4+ T cells, LIS1-deficiency did not affect signaling events leading to activation but led to an interruption of proliferation after the initial round of division and to p53-induced cell death. Proliferative defects resulted from a mitotic failure, characterized by the presence of extra-centrosomes and the formation of multipolar spindles, causing abnormal chromosomes congression during metaphase and separation during telophase. LIS1 was required to stabilize dynein/dynactin complexes, which promote chromosome attachment to mitotic spindles and ensure centrosome integrity. Together, these results suggest that proliferative responses are supported by distinct mitotic machineries across T-cell subsets.

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  1. Jérémy Argenty

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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  2. Nelly Rouquié

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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  3. Cyrielle Bories

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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  4. Suzanne Mélique

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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  5. Valérie Duplan-Eche

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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  6. Abdelhadi Saoudi

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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  7. Nicolas Fazilleau

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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  8. Renaud Lesourne

    Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Inserm, Toulouse, France
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Funding

The French ministry of higher education and reserach (PhD fellowship)

  • Jérémy Argenty
  • Suzanne Mélique

Association pour la recherche sur la Sclérose en Plaques

  • Renaud Lesourne

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-20-CE15-0002)

  • Renaud Lesourne

Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer

  • Renaud Lesourne

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Sarah Russell, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All the experiments were conducted at the INSERM animal facility (US-006; accreditation number A-31 55508 delivered by the French Ministry of Agriculture to perform experiments on live mice). All experimental protocols were approved by a Ministry-approved ethics committee (CEEA-122) and follow the French and European regulations on care and protection of the Laboratory Animals (EC Directive 2010/63).

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  1. Received: May 13, 2022
  2. Preprint posted: May 25, 2022 (view preprint)
  3. Accepted: December 11, 2022
  4. Accepted Manuscript published: December 15, 2022 (version 1)
  5. Version of Record published: December 28, 2022 (version 2)

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© 2022, Argenty et al.

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  1. Jérémy Argenty
  2. Nelly Rouquié
  3. Cyrielle Bories
  4. Suzanne Mélique
  5. Valérie Duplan-Eche
  6. Abdelhadi Saoudi
  7. Nicolas Fazilleau
  8. Renaud Lesourne
(2022)
A selective LIS1 requirement for mitotic spindle assembly discriminates distinct T-cell division mechanisms within the T-cell lineage
eLife 11:e80277.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80277

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