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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 190, 期 3, 页码 1103-1112出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1202055
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- Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia [SAF2010-14912]
- Redes Tematicas de Investigacion Cooperativa Sanitaria [RD06/0020/1002]
- Fundacion Cientifica de la Asociacion Espanola Contra el Cancer
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB620]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung
- Wissen-schaft
- Forschung und Technologie [01 EO 0803]
- Fundacion Ramon Areces
- European Union
The adaptor protein Nck is inducibly recruited through its SH3.1 domain to a proline-rich sequence (PRS) in CD3 epsilon after TCR engagement. However, experiments with a knockin mutant bearing an 8-aa replacement of the PRS have indicated that Nck binding to the TCR is constitutive, and that it promotes the degradation of the TCR in preselection double-positive (DP) CD4(+) CD8(+) thymocytes. To clarify these discrepancies, we have generated a new knockin mouse line (KI-PRS) bearing a conservative mutation in the PRS resulting from the replacement of the two central prolines. Thymocytes of KI-PRS mice are partly arrested at each step at which pre-TCR or TCR signaling is required. The mutation prevents the trigger-dependent inducible recruitment of endogenous Nck to the TCR but does not impair TCR degradation. However, KI-PRS preselection DP thymocytes show impaired tyrosine phosphorylation of CD3 zeta, as well as impaired recruitment of ZAP70 to the TCR and impaired ZAP70 activation. Our results indicate that Nck is recruited to the TCR in an inducible manner in DP thymocytes, and that this recruitment is required for the activation of early TCR-dependent events. Differences in the extent of PRS mutation could explain the phenotypic differences in both knockin mice. The Journal of Immunology, 2013, 190: 1103-1112.
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