Cited by 529T-cell and B-cell ImmunologyCancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersSignaling Pathways in Disease

Selective effects of PD-1 on Akt and Ras pathways regulate molecular components of the cell cycle and inhibit T cell proliferation

Open access
Patsoukis, Nikolaos, Brown, Julia, Petkova, Victoria, Liu, Fang, Li, Lequn, Boussiotis, Vassiliki A.·2012·Science Signaling

Abstract

The receptor programmed death 1 (PD-1) inhibits T cell proliferation and plays a critical role in suppressing self-reactive T cells, and it also compromises antiviral and antitumor responses. To determine how PD-1 signaling inhibits T cell proliferation, we used human CD4(+) T cells to examine the effects of PD-1 signaling on the molecular control of the cell cycle. The ubiquitin ligase SCF(Skp2) degrades p27(kip1), an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks), and PD-1 blocked cell cycle progression through the G(1) phase by suppressing transcription of SKP2, which encodes a component of this ubiquitin ligase. Thus, in T cells stimulated through PD-1, Cdks were not activated, and two critical Cdk substrates were not phosphorylated. Activation of PD-1 inhibited phosphorylation of the retinoblastoma gene product, which suppressed expression of E2F target genes. PD-1 also inhibited phosphorylation of the transcription factor Smad3, which increased its activity. These events induced additional inhibitory checkpoints in the cell cycle by increasing the abundance of the G(1) phase inhibitor p15(INK4) and repressing the Cdk-activating phosphatase Cdc25A. PD-1 suppressed SKP2 transcription by inhibiting phosphoinositide 3-kinase-Akt and Ras-mitogen-activated and extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase (MEK)-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling. Exposure of cells to the proliferation-promoting cytokine interleukin-2 restored activation of MEK-ERK signaling, but not Akt signaling, and only partially restored SKP2 expression. Thus, PD-1 blocks cell cycle progression and proliferation of T lymphocytes by affecting multiple regulators of the cell cycle.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1126/scisignal.2002796

Cites

74 of 74 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Engagement of PD-1 causes tyrosine phosphorylation and an intracellular signaling cascade that mediates dephosphorylation of TCR proximal signaling components.

    “In these cells, engagement of PD-1 causes tyrosine residues to become phosphorylated, starting an intracellular signaling cascade that mediates the dephosphorylation of TCR proximal signaling components (9, 42–44).”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Patsoukis, N., Brown, J., Petkova, V., Liu, F., Li, L., & Boussiotis, V. A.
Affiliations
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
Corresponding author
  • Patsoukis, Nikolaos
  • Brown, Julia
  • Boussiotis, Vassiliki A.
Venue
Science Signaling
Published
2012-06-26
Volume
5
Issue
230
Pages
ra46-ra46
ISSN
  • 1937-9145 (ISSN-L)
  • 1945-0877
OpenAlex
W2144256523
Cited by
529
References
74
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 40 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 6
FWCI
7.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science Signaling (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL107997-01, R21HL107997)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R56AI043552)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Signaling Pathways in Disease
Keywords
PD-1, T cell proliferation, cell cycle regulation, G1 phase, p27, Skp2, cyclin-dependent kinases, retinoblastoma protein, E2F target genes, Smad3, CDC25A, Akt signaling, MEK/ERK signaling, interleukin-2, CD4+ T cells, immune checkpoint
MeSH terms
Humans, Interleukin-2, Phosphorylation, Transcription, Genetic, CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Retinoblastoma Protein, G1 Phase, ras Proteins, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16, cdc25 Phosphatases, MAP Kinase Signaling System, S-Phase Kinase-Associated Proteins, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, Smad3 Protein, Cell Cycle Checkpoints, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review