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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 7, Pages 780-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3764
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- US National Institutes of Health [R01AR068983, R01CA112663]
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The acquisition of a protective vertebrate immune system hinges on the efficient generation of a diverse but self-tolerant repertoire of T cells by the thymus through mechanisms that remain incompletely resolved. Here we identified the endosomal-sorting-complex-required-for-transport (ESCRT) protein CHMP5, known to be required for the formation of multivesicular bodies, as a key sensor of thresholds for signaling via the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) that was essential for T cell development. CHMP5 enabled positive selection by promoting post-selection thymocyte survival in part through stabilization of the pro-survival protein Bcl-2. Accordingly, loss of CHMP5 in thymocyte precursor cells abolished T cell development, a phenotype that was 'rescued' by genetic deletion of the pro-apoptotic protein Bim or transgenic expression of Bcl-2. Mechanistically, positive selection resulted in the stabilization of CHMP5 by inducing its interaction with the deubiquitinase USP8. Our results thus identify CHMP5 as an essential component of the post-translational machinery required for T cell development.
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