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IMMUNITY
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 253-264Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(01)00107-8
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Notch signaling regulates cell fate decisions in multiple lineages. We demonstrate in this report that retroviral expression of activated Notch1 in mouse thymocytes abrogates differentiation of immature CD4(+)CD8(+) thymocytes into both CD4 and CD8 mature single-positive T cells. The ability of Notch1 to inhibit T cell development was observed in vitro and in vivo with both normal and TCR transgenic thymocytes. Notch1-mediated developmental arrest was dose dependent and was associated with impaired thymocyte responses to TCR stimulation. Notch1 also inhibited TCR-mediated signaling in Jurkat T cells. These data indicate that constitutively active Notch1 abrogates CD4(+) and CD8(+) maturation by interfering with TCR signal strength and provide an explanation for the physiological regulation of Notch expression during thymocyte development.
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