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IMMUNITY
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 141-154Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(02)00516-2
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The Wiskoft-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) couples actin cytoskeletal rearrangement to T cell activation, but the mechanisms involved are unknown. Here, we show that antigen-induced formation of T cell:APC conjugates and synapses is abrogated in WASp-deficient T cells and that CD2 engagement evokes interactions between the proline-rich region required for WASp translocation to the synapse and the PSTPIP1 adaptor SH3 domain and between the PSTPIp1 coiled-coil domain and both CD2 and another CD2-binding adaptor, CD2AP. The induced colocalization of these proteins at the synapse is disrupted by expression of coiled-coil domain-deleted PSTPIP1. These data, together with the impairment in CD2-induced actin polymerization observed in WASp-deficient cells, suggest that PSTPIP1 acts downstream of CD2/CD2AP to link CD2 engagement to the WASp-evoked actin polymerization required for synapse formation and T cell activation.
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