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Regulated movement of CD4 in and out of the immunological synapse.


ABSTRACT: The mechanism underlying the transient accumulation of CD4 at the immunological synapse (IS) and its significance for T cell activation are not understood. To investigate these issues, we mutated a serine phosphorylation site (S408) in the cytoplasmic tail of murine CD4. Preventing phosphorylation of S408 did not block CD4 recruitment to the IS; rather, it blocked the ability of CD4 to leave the IS. Surprisingly, enhanced and prolonged CD4 accumulation at the supramolecular activation cluster in the contact area had no functional consequence for T cell activation, cytokine production, or proliferation. Protein kinase C theta (PKCtheta)-deficient T cells also displayed enhanced and prolonged accumulation of wild-type CD4 at the IS, indicating that theta is the critical PKC isoform involved in CD4 movement. These findings suggest a model wherein recruitment of CD4 to the IS allows its phosphorylation by PKCtheta and subsequent removal from the IS. Thus, an important role for PKCtheta in T cell activation involves its recruitment to the IS, where it phosphorylates specific substrates that help to maintain the dynamism of protein turnover at the IS.

SUBMITTER: Kao H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2857686 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Regulated movement of CD4 in and out of the immunological synapse.

Kao Henry H   Lin Joseph J   Littman Dan R DR   Shaw Andrey S AS   Allen Paul M PM  

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20081201 12


The mechanism underlying the transient accumulation of CD4 at the immunological synapse (IS) and its significance for T cell activation are not understood. To investigate these issues, we mutated a serine phosphorylation site (S408) in the cytoplasmic tail of murine CD4. Preventing phosphorylation of S408 did not block CD4 recruitment to the IS; rather, it blocked the ability of CD4 to leave the IS. Surprisingly, enhanced and prolonged CD4 accumulation at the supramolecular activation cluster in  ...[more]

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