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posted on 2023-04-20, 14:25 authored by Diego von Werdt, Bilgi Gungor, Juliana Barreto de Albuquerque, Thomas Gruber, Daniel Zysset, Cheong K. C. Kwong Chung, Antonia Corrêa-Ferreira, Regina Berchtold, Nicolas Page, Mirjam Schenk, John H. Kehrl, Doron Merkler, Beat A. Imhof, Jens V. Stein, Jun Abe, Gleb Turchinovich, Daniela Finke, Adrian C. Hayday, Nadia Corazza, Christoph Mueller

Members of the Regulator of G-protein signaling (Rgs) family regulate the extent and timing of G protein signaling by increasing the GTPase activity of Gα protein subunits. The Rgs family member Rgs1 is one of the most up-regulated genes in tissue-resident memory (TRM) T cells when compared to their circulating T cell counterparts. Functionally, Rgs1 preferentially deactivates Gαq, and Gαi protein subunits and can therefore also attenuate chemokine receptor-mediated immune cell trafficking. The impact of Rgs1 expression on tissue-resident T cell generation, their maintenance, and the immunosurveillance of barrier tissues, however, is only incompletely understood. Here we report that Rgs1 expression is readily induced in naïve OT-I T cells in vivo following intestinal infection with Listeria monocytogenes-OVA. In bone marrow chimeras, Rgs1-/- and Rgs1+/+ T cells were generally present in comparable frequencies in distinct T cell subsets of the intestinal mucosa, mesenteric lymph nodes, and spleen. After intestinal infection with Listeria monocytogenes-OVA, however, OT-I Rgs1+/+ T cells outnumbered the co-transferred OT-I Rgs1-/- T cells in the small intestinal mucosa already early after infection. The underrepresentation of the OT-I Rgs1-/- T cells persisted to become even more pronounced during the memory phase (d30 post-infection). Remarkably, upon intestinal reinfection, mice with intestinal OT-I Rgs1+/+ TRM cells were able to prevent the systemic dissemination of the pathogen more efficiently than those with OT-I Rgs1-/- TRM cells. While the underlying mechanisms are not fully elucidated yet, these data thus identify Rgs1 as a critical regulator for the generation and maintenance of tissue-resident CD8+ T cells as a prerequisite for efficient local immunosurveillance in barrier tissues in case of reinfections with potential pathogens.

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