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ShcA regulates late stages of T cell development and peripheral CD4+ T cell numbers.


ABSTRACT: T cell development in the thymus is a highly regulated process that critically depends upon productive signaling via the preTCR at the ?-selection stage, as well as via the TCR for selection from the CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive stage to the CD4 or CD8 single-positive stage. ShcA is an adapter protein expressed in thymocytes, and it is required for productive signaling through the preTCR, with impaired signaling via ShcA leading to a developmental block at the ?-selection checkpoint. However, the role of ShcA in subsequent stages of T cell development has not been addressed. In this study, we generated transgenic mice (CD4-Cre/ShcFFF mice) that specifically express a phosphorylation-defective dominant-negative ShcA mutant (ShcFFF) in late T cell development. Thymocytes in CD4-Cre/ShcFFF mice progressed normally through the ?-selection checkpoint, but displayed a significant reduction in the numbers of single-positive CD4(+) and CD8(+) thymocytes. Furthermore, CD4-Cre/ShcFFF mice, when bred with transgenic TCR mouse strains, had impaired signaling through the transgenic TCRs. Consistent with defective progression to the single-positive stage, CD4-Cre/ShcFFF mice also had significant peripheral lymphopenia. Moreover, these CD4-Cre/ShcFFF mice develop attenuated disease in CD4(+) T cell-dependent experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Collectively, these data identify an important role for the adapter protein ShcA in later stages of thymic T cell development and in peripheral T cell-dependent events.

SUBMITTER: Buckley MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4381912 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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ShcA regulates late stages of T cell development and peripheral CD4+ T cell numbers.

Buckley Monica W MW   Trampont Paul C PC   Arandjelovic Sanja S   Fond Aaron M AM   Juncadella Ignacio J IJ   Ravichandran Kodi S KS  

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20150116 4


T cell development in the thymus is a highly regulated process that critically depends upon productive signaling via the preTCR at the β-selection stage, as well as via the TCR for selection from the CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive stage to the CD4 or CD8 single-positive stage. ShcA is an adapter protein expressed in thymocytes, and it is required for productive signaling through the preTCR, with impaired signaling via ShcA leading to a developmental block at the β-selection checkpoint. However, th  ...[more]

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