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Human CD8+ T cells do not require the polarization of lipid rafts for activation and proliferation.


ABSTRACT: Lipid rafts are important signaling platforms in T cells. Little is known about their properties in human CD8(+) T cells. We studied polarization of lipid rafts by digital immunofluorescence microscopy in primary human T cells, using beads coated with anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 mAbs (CD3/28 beads). Unlike CD4(+) T cells, CD8(+) T cells did not polarize lipid rafts when stimulated with CD3/28 beads, when the anti-CD28 antibody was substituted with B7.2Ig, or if an anti-CD8 antibody was added to the CD3/28 beads. This phenomenon was also observed in human antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells. On stimulation with CD3/28 beads, the T cell antigen receptor clustered at the cell/bead contact area in both CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. Examination of lipid rafts isolated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation revealed the constitutive expression of p(56)Lck in the raft fractions of unstimulated CD8(+) T cells, whereas p(56)Lck was recruited to the raft fraction of CD4(+) T cells only after stimulation with CD3/28 beads. Stimulation with CD3/28 beads induced marked calcium flux, recruitment of PKC-theta and F-actin to the cell/bead contact site, and similar proliferation patterns in CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. Thus, polarization of lipid rafts is not essential for early signal transduction events or proliferation of human CD8(+) lymphocytes. It is possible that the lower stringency of CD8(+) T cell activation obviates a requirement for raft polarization.

SUBMITTER: Kovacs B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC137535 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Human CD8+ T cells do not require the polarization of lipid rafts for activation and proliferation.

Kovacs Birgit B   Maus Marcela V MV   Riley James L JL   Derimanov Geo S GS   Koretzky Gary A GA   June Carl H CH   Finkel Terri H TH  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021105 23


Lipid rafts are important signaling platforms in T cells. Little is known about their properties in human CD8(+) T cells. We studied polarization of lipid rafts by digital immunofluorescence microscopy in primary human T cells, using beads coated with anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 mAbs (CD3/28 beads). Unlike CD4(+) T cells, CD8(+) T cells did not polarize lipid rafts when stimulated with CD3/28 beads, when the anti-CD28 antibody was substituted with B7.2Ig, or if an anti-CD8 antibody was added to the C  ...[more]

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