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SUBMITTER: Schaefer BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC327141 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schaefer Brian C BC Kappler John W JW Kupfer Abraham A Marrack Philippa P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040114 4
The central zone of the supramolecular activation cluster (c-SMAC) is a zone of T cell receptor (TCR) enrichment that forms at a T cell/antigen-presenting cell (APC) junction in response to antigen stimulation. We demonstrate that there is a surprisingly complex relocalization process that brings PKC and Bcl10, two intermediates in TCR activation of NF-kappaB, to the cytoplasmic face of the c-SMAC. TCR activation causes enrichment of PKC at the c-SMAC, followed by Bcl10 relocalization to punctat ...[more]