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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 627-U96Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1734
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Searle Scholars Program
- Cancer Research Institute
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The reorientation of the T cell microtubule-organizing center (MTOC) toward the antigen-presenting cell enables the directional secretion of cytokines and lytic factors. By single-cell photoactivation of the T cell antigen receptor, we show that MTOC polarization is driven by localized accumulation of diacylglycerol (DAG). MTOC reorientation was closely preceded first by production of DAG and then by recruitment of the microtubule motor protein dynein. Blocking DAG production or disrupting the localization of DAG impaired MTOC recruitment. Localized DAG accumulation was also required for cytotoxic T cell-mediated killing. Furthermore, photoactivation of DAG itself was sufficient to induce transient polarization. Our data identify a DAG-dependent pathway that signals through dynein to control microtubule polarity in T cells.
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