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SUBMITTER: Giardino Torchia ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5834678 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giardino Torchia Maria Letizia ML Dutta Debjani D Mittelstadt Paul R PR Guha June J Gaida Matthias M MM Fish Kamonwan K Barr Valarie A VA Akpan Itoro O IO Samelson Lawrence E LE Tagad Harichandra D HD Debnath Subrata S Miller Jenkins Lisa M LM Appella Ettore E Ashwell Jonathan D JD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180212 9
ZAP-70 is a tyrosine kinase that is essential for initiation of T cell antigen receptor (TCR) signaling. We have found that T cell p38 MAP kinase (MAPK), which is directly phosphorylated and activated by ZAP-70 downstream of the TCR, in turn phosphorylates Thr-293 in the interdomain B region of ZAP-70. Mutant T cells expressing ZAP-70 with an alanine substitution at this residue (ZAP-70<sup>T293A</sup>) had enhanced TCR proximal signaling and increased effector responses. Lack of ZAP-70<sup>T293 ...[more]