Nitric oxide and KLF4 protein epigenetically modify class II transactivator to repress Major histocompatibility complex II expression during Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin infection

Ghorpade, Devram Sampat and Holla, Sahana and Sinha, Akhauri Yash and Alagesan, Senthil Kumar and Balaji, Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy (2013) Nitric oxide and KLF4 protein epigenetically modify class II transactivator to repress Major histocompatibility complex II expression during Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin infection. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 288 (28). pp. 20592-20606.

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Abstract

Pathogenic mycobacteria employ several immune evasion strategies such as inhibition of class II transactivator (CIITA) and MHC-II expression, to survive and persist in host macrophages. However, precise roles for specific signaling components executing down-regulation of CIITA/MHC-II have not been adequately addressed. Here, we demonstrate that Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-mediated TLR2 signaling-induced iNOS/NO expression is obligatory for the suppression of IFN-gamma-induced CIITA/MHC-II functions. Significantly, NOTCH/PKC/MAPK-triggered signaling cross-talk was found critical for iNOS/NO production. NO responsive recruitment of a bifunctional transcription factor, KLF4, to the promoter of CIITA during M. bovis BCG infection of macrophages was essential to orchestrate the epigenetic modifications mediated by histone methyltransferase EZH2 or miR-150 and thus calibrate CIITA/MHC-II expression. NO-dependent KLF4 regulated the processing and presentation of ovalbumin by infected macrophages to reactive T cells. Altogether, our study delineates a novel role for iNOS/NO/KLF4 in dictating the mycobacterial capacity to inhibit CIITA/MHC-II-mediated antigen presentation by infected macrophages and thereby elude immune surveillance.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Biological Chemistry
Publisher:	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Microbiology & Cell Biology
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2013 16:52
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2013 16:52
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47207

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