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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 173, Issue 4, Pages 2562-2570Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.4.2562
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Two closely related proteins, signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPalpha; SHPS-1/CD172) and SIRFbeta, have been described in humans. The existence of a third SIRP protein has been suggested by cDNA sequence only. We show that this third SIRP is a separate gene that is expressed as a protein with unique characteristics from both alpha and beta genes and suggest that this gene should be termed SIRPgamma. We have expressed the extracellular region of SIRPgamma as a soluble protein and have shown that, like SIRPa, it binds CD47, but with a lower affinity (K-d, similar to23 muM) compared with SIRPalpha (K-d, similar to2 muM). mAbs specific to SIRPgamma show that it was not expressed on myeloid cells, in contrast to SIRPalpha and -beta, being expressed instead on the majority of T cells and a proportion of B cells. The short cytoplasmic tail of SIRPgamma does not contain any known signaling motifs, nor does it contain a characteristic lysine, as with SIRPbeta, that is required for DAP12 interaction. DAP12 coexpression is a requirement for SIRPbeta surface expression, whereas SIRPgamma is expressed in its absence. The SIRPgamma-CD47 interaction may therefore not be capable of bidirectional signaling as with the SIRPalpha-CD47, but, instead, use unidirectional signaling via CD47 only.
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