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SUBMITTER: Rocha-Perugini V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4630866 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rocha-Perugini Vera V González-Granado José Maria JM Tejera Emilio E López-Martín Soraya S Yañez-Mó Maria M Sánchez-Madrid Francisco F
European journal of immunology 20140429 7
Understanding how the immune response is activated and amplified requires detailed knowledge of the stages in the formation of the immunological synapse (IS) between T lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells (APCs). We show that tetraspanins CD9 and CD151 congregate at the T-cell side of the IS. Silencing of CD9 or CD151 blunts the IL-2 secretion and expression of the activation marker CD69 by APC-conjugated T lymphocytes, but does not affect the accumulation of CD3 or actin to the IS, or the t ...[more]