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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 179, Issue 9, Pages 5639-5643Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.9.5639
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 44130] Funding Source: Medline
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The cytoplasmic domain of Fas ligand is sufficient to costimulate CD8(+) T cells by driving Fas ligand recruitment into lipid rafts and association with select Src homology 3-containing proteins, activating PI3K and MAPK pathways, mediating nuclear translocation of the transcription factors NFAT and AP-1, and enhancing IFN-gamma production and Ag-specific CD8(+) T cell proliferation. We now show that Fas ligand molecules lacking amino acids 45-54 in the proline-rich region of the cytoplasmic domain fail to costimulate but serve as effective death inducers. Death induction and costimulation by Fas ligand are therefore clearly separable functions. Further, upon Fas ligand-mediated costimulation, casein kinase 1 phosphorylates Fas ligand, in which two conserved casein kinase I binding sites regulate NFAT activation and costimulation. These results help resolve how one molecule can serve as a double-edged immunomodulator by directing discrete biological consequences.
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