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BLOOD
Volume 108, Issue 8, Pages 2669-2677Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-02-005900
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI 059676-01, R01 AI059676] Funding Source: Medline
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Constitutive and cell-autonomous signals emanating from the pre-T-cell receptor (pre-TCR) promote proliferation, survival and differentiation of immature thymocytes. We show here that induction of pre-TCR signaling resulted in rapid elevation of c-Myc protein levels. Cre-mediated thymocyte-specific ablation of c-Myc in CD25(+)CD44(-) thymocytes reduced proliferation and cell growth at the pre-TCR checkpoint, resulting in thymic hypocellularity and a severe reduction in CD4(+)CD8(+) thymocytes. In contrast, c-Myc deficiency did not inhibit pre-TCR-mediated differentiation or survival. Myc(-/-) double-negative (DN) 3 cells progressed to the double-positive (DID) stage and up-regulated TCR alpha beta surface expression in the absence of cell proliferation, in vivo as well as in vitro. These observations indicate that distinct signals downstream of the pre-TCR are responsible for proliferation versus differentiation, and demonstrate that c-Myc is only required for pre-TCR-induced proliferation but is dispensable for developmental progression from the DN to the DP stage.
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