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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
卷 3, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00076
关键词
quaternary change; mechanosensor; T cell signaling; force transduction; antigen recognition
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- NIH [AI19807]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI037581] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Mechanotransduction is a basis for receptor signaling in many biological systems. Recent data based upon optical tweezer experiments suggest that the TCR is an anisotropic mechanosensor, converting mechanical energy into biochemical signals upon specific peptide-MHC complex (pMHC) ligation. Tangential force applied along the pseudo-twofold symmetry axis of the TCR complex post-ligation results in the alpha beta heterodimer exerting torque on the CD3 heterodimers as a consequence of molecular movement at the T cell APC interface. Accompanying TCR quaternary change likely fosters signaling via the lipid bilayer predicated on the magnitude and direction of the TCR pMHC force. TCR glycans may modulate quaternary change, thereby altering signaling outcome as might the redox state of the CxxC motifs located proximal to the TM segments in the heterodimeric CD3 subunits. Predicted alterations in TCR TM segments and surrounding lipid will convert ectodomain ligation into the earliest intracellular signaling events.
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