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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 164, Issue 12, Pages 6091-6095Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.12.6091
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The widely expressed transmembrane molecule CD46 is the complement regulatory receptor for C3b as well as the receptor for several pathogens. Beside its binding functions, CD46 is also able to transduce signals. We showed that CD46 aggregation on human T cells induces p120(CBL) and linker for activation of T cells (LAT) phosphorylation, These two proteins are adaptor proteins known to regulate TCR signaling. p120(CBL) is a complex adaptor protein involved in negatively regulating signaling events, whereas LAT is a transmembrane adaptor protein found in glycolipid enriched microdomains essential for T cell activation. Therefore, we investigated if a CD46/TCR costimulation would affect T cell activation. Indeed, CD46/CD)3 costimulation strongly promotes T cell proliferation. Therefore, we propose that CD46 acts as a potent costimulatory molecule for human T cells.
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