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IMMUNITY
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 491-501Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(03)00260-7
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Protein kinase D (PKD) is an antigen receptor-activated serine kinase localized at either the plasma membrane or the cytosol of lymphocytes. To probe PKD function at these different locations, transgenesis was used to target active PKD either to the membrane or cytosol of pre-T cells. In redombinase gene null pre-T cells, membrane and cytosolic active PKD both induced differentiation reminiscent of P selection: downregulation of CD25 and upregulation of CD2 and CD5. Active PKDs also induced pre-T cell proliferation, although this response was not universal to all thymocyte subsets. There were two striking differences between the actions of the differentially localized PKDs. Membrane but not cytosolic PKD could induce expression of CD8 and CD4 in recombinase null mice; cytosolic but not membrane PKD suppressed Vbeta to DJbeta rearrangements of the TCRbeta chain locus in wild-type T cells. PKD function is thus determined by its intracellular location and cell context.
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