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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 196, Issue 1, Pages 448-458Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500958
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- Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. Programme of the Thailand Research Fund
- Naresuan University Grant [R2558B105]
- Thailand Research Fund [RSA5880009]
- German Research Foundation [EXC294]
- European Union
- Innovationfonds Forschung grant
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Ligand binding to the TCR causes a conformational change at the CD3 subunits to expose the CD3 epsilon cytoplasmic proline-rich sequence (PRS). It was suggested that the PRS is important for TCR signaling and T cell activation. It has been shown that the purified, recombinant SH3.1 domain of the adaptor molecule noncatalytic region of tyrosine kinase (Nck) can bind to the exposed PRS of CD3 epsilon, but the molecular mechanism of how full-length Nck binds to the TCR in cells has not been investigated so far. Using the in situ proximity ligation assay and copurifications, we show that the binding of Nck to the TCR requires partial phosphorylation of CD3 epsilon, as it is based on two cooperating interactions. First, the SH3.1(Nck) domain has to bind to the non-phosphorylated and exposed PRS, that is, the first ITAM tyrosine has to be in the unphosphorylated state. Second, the SH2(Nck) domain has to bind to the second ITAM tyrosine in the phosphorylated state. Likewise, mutations of the SH3.1 and SH2 domains in Nckl resulted in the loss of Nckl binding to the TCR. Furthermore, expression of an SH3.1-mutated Nck impaired TCR signaling and T cell activation. Our data suggest that the exact pattern of CD3 epsilon phosphorylation is critical for TCR functioning.
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