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Das V, Nal B, Dujeancourt A, Thoulouze MI, Galli T, Roux P, Dautry-Varsat A, Alcover A. Activation-induced polarized recycling targets T cell antigen receptors to the immunological synapse; involvement of SNARE complexes. Immunity 2004; 20:577-88. [PMID: 15142526 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(04)00106-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2003] [Revised: 03/05/2004] [Accepted: 03/10/2004] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The mechanism by which T cell antigen receptors (TCR) accumulate at the immunological synapse has not been fully elucidated. Since TCRs are continuously internalized and recycled back to the cell surface, we investigated the role of polarized recycling in TCR targeting to the immunological synapse. We show here that the recycling endosomal compartment of T cells encountering activatory antigen-presenting cells (APCs) polarizes towards the T cell-APC contact site. Moreover, TCRs in transit through recycling endosomes are targeted to the immunological synapse. Inhibition of T cell polarity, constitutive TCR endocytosis, or recycling reduces TCR accumulation at the immunological synapse. Conversely, increasing the amount of TCRs in recycling endosomes before synapse formation enhanced their accumulation. Finally, we show that exocytic t-SNAREs from T cells cluster at the APC contact site and that tetanus toxin inhibits TCR accumulation at the immunological synapse, indicating that vesicle fusion mediated by SNARE complexes is involved in TCR targeting to the immunological synapse.
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- Vincent Das
- Unité de Biologie des Interactions Cellulaires, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée-2582, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
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O'Keefe JP, Blaine K, Alegre ML, Gajewski TF. Formation of a central supramolecular activation cluster is not required for activation of naive CD8+ T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:9351-6. [PMID: 15192143 PMCID: PMC438980 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0305965101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Although both naive and effector T lymphocytes interact with antigen-expressing cells, the functional outcome of these interactions is distinct. Naive CD8(+) T cells are activated to proliferate and differentiate into effector cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL), whereas CTL interact with specific targets, such as tumor cells, to induce apoptotic death. We recently observed that several molecules linked to actin cytoskeleton dynamics were up-regulated in effector vs. naive CD8(+) T cells, leading us to investigate whether T cell differentiation is accompanied by changes in actin-dependent processes. We observed that both naive and effector CD8(+) T cells underwent T cell receptor capping and formed stable conjugates with antigen-specific antigen-presenting cells. However, the characteristics of the immunological synapse were distinct. Whereas accumulation of signaling molecules at the T cell/antigen-presenting cell contact site was detectable in both naive and effector CD8(+) T cells, only effector cells developed a central supramolecular activation cluster as defined by punctate focusing of PKC theta, phospho-PKC theta, and phospho-ZAP70. Extended kinetics, CD28 costimulation, and high-affinity antigenic peptide did not promote PKC theta focusing in naive cells. Nonetheless, naive CD8(+) T cells polarized the microtubule organizing center, produced IL-2, proliferated, and differentiated into effector cells. Our results suggest that the formation of a central supramolecular activation cluster is not required for activation of naive CD8(+) T cells and support the notion that one role of an organized immune synapse is directed delivery of effector function.
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- James P O'Keefe
- Committee on Cancer Biology and Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Perforin defects have been identified in humans with familial hematophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. The pathology of these patients has dramatically illustrated an under-appreciated role for perforin in the regulation of T-cell responses in vivo, and experimental studies are shedding light on the mechanisms involved. The detailed molecular mechanisms of perforin's mandatory role in the cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated granule exocytosis death pathway and of granzyme entry into target cells remain unclear. In model systems measuring apoptosis by granzyme B and sublytic perforin, pore formation is undetectable during granzyme entry. Selfprotection of cytotoxic lymphocytes after degranulation can be explained by surface expression of the granule protease cathepsin B, as shown by suicidal degranulation in the presence of specific inhibitors.
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- Marta Catalfamo
- Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 4B36, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892-1360, USA
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Feldmann J, Le Deist F, Fischer A, de Saint Basile G. [Munc13-4 is essential for cytolytic granule fusion]. Med Sci (Paris) 2004; 20:144-6. [PMID: 14997430 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2004202144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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den Boer AT, van Mierlo GJD, Fransen MF, Melief CJM, Offringa R, Toes REM. The Tumoricidal Activity of Memory CD8+T Cells Is Hampered by Persistent Systemic Antigen, but Full Functional Capacity Is Regained in an Antigen-Free Environment. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:6074-9. [PMID: 15128791 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.10.6074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Naive T cells can be tolerized in the periphery by diverse mechanisms. However, the extent to which memory T cells are susceptible to tolerance induction is less well defined. Vaccination of mice with a minimal CTL epitope derived from human adenovirus type 5 E1A in IFA s.c. readily tolerizes naive as well as recently activated CD8(+) T cells due to the overwhelming systemic and persistent presence of the peptide. We have now studied the effect of this peptide on established memory cells, which were induced at least 50 days before by virus vaccination. Memory cells did not undergo peripheral deletion and kept their ability to produce IFN-gamma as well as their cytolytic activity in response to Ag directly ex vivo. However, memory CTL responses in virus vaccinated mice injected with peptide ceased to control tumor outgrowth. Interestingly, functional capacities were regained when T cells were transferred to an Ag-free environment in vivo as determined by their ability to reject an otherwise lethal tumor challenge. Together, these findings indicate that memory CTL responses can be functionally incapacitated, but are not, in contrast to naive or recently activated T cells, irreversibly tolerized by persistent systemic Ag, as memory T cells quickly regain effector function upon disappearance of the Ag.
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MESH Headings
- Adenovirus E1A Proteins/administration & dosage
- Adenovirus E1A Proteins/immunology
- Adenovirus E1A Proteins/metabolism
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation/immunology
- Cell Division/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/administration & dosage
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/metabolism
- Immune Tolerance/immunology
- Immunologic Memory
- Injections, Subcutaneous
- Interphase/immunology
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/transplantation
- Tumor Virus Infections/immunology
- Tumor Virus Infections/pathology
- Tumor Virus Infections/therapy
- Vaccines, Subunit/administration & dosage
- Vaccines, Subunit/immunology
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- Annemieke Th den Boer
- Department of Immunohematology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Carrasco YR, Fleire SJ, Cameron T, Dustin ML, Batista FD. LFA-1/ICAM-1 Interaction Lowers the Threshold of B Cell Activation by Facilitating B Cell Adhesion and Synapse Formation. Immunity 2004; 20:589-99. [PMID: 15142527 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(04)00105-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2003] [Revised: 02/13/2004] [Accepted: 03/17/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The integrin LFA-1 and its ligand ICAM-1 mediate B cell adhesion, but their role in membrane-bound antigen recognition is still unknown. Here, using planar lipid bilayers and cells expressing ICAM-1 fused to green fluorescence protein, we found that the engagement of B cell receptor (BCR) promotes B cell adhesion by an LFA-1-mediated mechanism. LFA-1 is recruited to form a mature B cell synapse segregating into a ring around the BCR. This distribution is maintained over a wide range of BCR/antigen affinities (10(6) M(-1) to 10(11) M(-1)). Furthermore, the LFA-1 binding to ICAM-1 reduces the level of antigen required to form the synapse and trigger a B cell. Thus, LFA-1/ICAM-1 interaction lowers the threshold for B cell activation by promoting B cell adhesion and synapse formation.
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- Yolanda R Carrasco
- Lymphocyte Interaction Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom
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Vicente-Manzanares M, Sánchez-Madrid F. Role of the cytoskeleton during leukocyte responses. Nat Rev Immunol 2004; 4:110-22. [PMID: 15040584 DOI: 10.1038/nri1268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The cytoskeleton is a cellular network of structural, adaptor and signalling molecules that regulates most cellular functions that are related to the immune response, including migration, extravasation, antien recognition, activation and phagocytosis by different subsets of leukocytes. Recently, a large number of regulatory elements and structural constituents of the leukocyte cytoskeleton have been identified. In this review, we discuss the composition and regulation of the different cytoskeletal elements and their role in immune responses.
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- Miguel Vicente-Manzanares
- Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, c/Diego de León 62, 28006-Madrid, Spain
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Immunological synapses are formed between several different pairs of effector and target cells in the immune system and are thought to be important for sustaining signalling events in the effector cell. Although the interaction between CD8(+) lymphocytes and the targets that they kill is short lived, nevertheless, a distinctive immunological synapse forms. Here we suggest that the CD8(+) cell synapse may not simply be involved in signalling, but may have several important roles in CD8(+) effector function, including targeted delivery, and down-regulation of the cytolytic response.
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- Jane C Stinchcombe
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK
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Purbhoo MA, Irvine DJ, Huppa JB, Davis MM. T cell killing does not require the formation of a stable mature immunological synapse. Nat Immunol 2004; 5:524-30. [PMID: 15048111 DOI: 10.1038/ni1058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 433] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2003] [Accepted: 01/28/2004] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A notable feature of T lymphocyte recognition on other cell surfaces is the formation of a stable mature immunological synapse. Here we use a single-molecule labeling method to directly measure the number of ligands a cytotoxic T cell engages and track the consequences of that interaction by three-dimensional video microscopy. Like helper T cells, cytotoxic T cells were able to detect even a single foreign antigen but required about ten complexes of peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) to achieve full calcium increase and to form a mature synapse. Thus, cytotoxic T cells and helper T cells are more uniform in their antigen sensitivities than previously thought. Furthermore, only three pMHC complexes were required for killing, showing that stable synapse formation and complete signaling are not required for cytotoxicity.
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- Marco A Purbhoo
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Kurschus FC, Kleinschmidt M, Fellows E, Dornmair K, Rudolph R, Lilie H, Jenne DE. Killing of target cells by redirected granzyme B in the absence of perforin. FEBS Lett 2004; 562:87-92. [PMID: 15044006 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(04)00187-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2003] [Revised: 02/03/2004] [Accepted: 02/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Granzyme B (GzmB) is a potent apoptosis-inducing serine protease of cytotoxic lymphocytes. Following receptor-mediated endocytosis, GzmB is supposed to enter the cytosol through perforin-mediated membrane disruption. We investigated whether retargeting of GzmB to Lewis Y positive surface receptors could lead to perforin-independent target cell death. We coupled recombinant GzmB to the Lewis Y-binding antibody dsFv-B3. Targeting of GzmB to Lewis Y positive cells triggered cell death with similar efficacy as dsFv-B3 targeted Pseudomonas exotoxin fragment 38 (PE38). Since GzmB was only weakly inhibited by plasma proteins, GzmB-based immunoconjugates should be useful as a new class of immunotoxins with low immunogenicity utilizing programmed cell death for therapeutic purposes.
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- Florian C Kurschus
- Department of Neuroimmunology, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18A, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
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Somersalo K, Anikeeva N, Sims TN, Thomas VK, Strong RK, Spies T, Lebedeva T, Sykulev Y, Dustin ML. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes form an antigen-independent ring junction. J Clin Invest 2004. [PMID: 14702108 DOI: 10.1172/jci200419337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Immunological synapses are organized cell-cell junctions between T lymphocytes and APCs composed of an adhesion ring, the peripheral supramolecular activation cluster (pSMAC), and a central T cell receptor cluster, the central supramolecular activation cluster (cSMAC). In CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes, the immunological synapse is thought to facilitate specific killing by confining cytotoxic agents to the synaptic cleft. We have investigated the interaction of human CTLs and helper T cells with supported planar bilayers containing ICAM-1. This artificial substrate provides identical ligands to CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, allowing a quantitative comparison. We found that cytotoxic T lymphocytes form a ring junction similar to a pSMAC in response to high surface densities of ICAM-1 in the planar bilayer. MICA, a ligand for NKG2D, facilitated the ring junction formation at lower surface densities of ICAM-1. ICAM-1 and MICA are upregulated in tissues by inflammation- and stress-associated signaling, respectively. Activated CD8(+) T cells formed fivefold more ring junctions than did activated CD4(+) T cells. The ring junction contained lymphocyte function associated antigen-1 and talin, but did not trigger polarization and granule translocation to the interface. This result has specific implications for the mechanism of effective CTL hunting for antigen in tissues. Abnormalities in this process may alter CTL reactivity.
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- Kristina Somersalo
- Program in Molecular Pathogenesis, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Panyi G, Vámosi G, Bacsó Z, Bagdány M, Bodnár A, Varga Z, Gáspár R, Mátyus L, Damjanovich S. Kv1.3 potassium channels are localized in the immunological synapse formed between cytotoxic and target cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:1285-90. [PMID: 14745040 PMCID: PMC337045 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307421100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Membrane proteins of cytotoxic T cells specifically reorganize to form an immunological synapse (IS) on interaction with their specific target. In this paper, we investigated the redistribution of Kv1.3 channels, which are the dominant voltage-gated potassium channels, in the plasma membrane of allogen-activated human cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) on interacting with their specific target cells. Kv1.3 channels bearing a FLAG epitope were expressed in the CTLs and the cell-surface distribution of fluorescently labeled ion channels was determined from confocal laser-scanning microscopy images. FLAG epitope-tagged Kv1.3 channels showed a patchy distribution in CTLs not engaged with target cells, whereas the channels were accumulated in the IS formed between CTLs and specific target lymphocytes. Localization of Kv1.3 channels in the IS might open an unrevealed possibility in the regulation of ion channel activity by signaling molecules accumulated in the IS.
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- G Panyi
- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, Medical and Health Science Center, Research Centre for Molecular Medicine and Cell Biophysics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Feldmann J, Callebaut I, Raposo G, Certain S, Bacq D, Dumont C, Lambert N, Ouachée-Chardin M, Chedeville G, Tamary H, Minard-Colin V, Vilmer E, Blanche S, Le Deist F, Fischer A, de Saint Basile G. Munc13-4 is essential for cytolytic granules fusion and is mutated in a form of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL3). Cell 2004; 115:461-73. [PMID: 14622600 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00855-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 630] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Secretion of cytolytic granules content at the immunological synapse is a highly regulated process essential for lymphocyte cytotoxicity. This process requires the rapid transfer of perforin containing lytic granules to the target cell interface, followed by their docking and fusion with the plasma membrane. Defective cytotoxicity characterizes a genetically heterogeneous condition named familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL), which can be associated with perforin deficiency. The locus of a perforin (+) FHL subtype (FHL3), observed in 10 patients, was mapped to 17q25. This region contains hMunc13-4, a member of the Munc13 family of proteins involved in vesicle priming function. HMunc13-4 mutations were shown to cause FHL3. HMunc13-4 deficiency results in defective cytolytic granule exocytosis, despite polarization of the secretory granules and docking with the plasma membrane. Expressed tagged hMunc13-4 localizes with cytotoxic granules at the immunological synapse. HMunc13-4 is therefore essential for the priming step of cytolytic granules secretion preceding vesicle membrane fusion.
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- Jérôme Feldmann
- INSERM U429, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, 75743 Paris, France
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Somersalo K, Anikeeva N, Sims TN, Thomas VK, Strong RK, Spies T, Lebedeva T, Sykulev Y, Dustin ML. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes form an antigen-independent ring junction. J Clin Invest 2004; 113:49-57. [PMID: 14702108 PMCID: PMC300769 DOI: 10.1172/jci19337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2003] [Accepted: 10/28/2003] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Immunological synapses are organized cell-cell junctions between T lymphocytes and APCs composed of an adhesion ring, the peripheral supramolecular activation cluster (pSMAC), and a central T cell receptor cluster, the central supramolecular activation cluster (cSMAC). In CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes, the immunological synapse is thought to facilitate specific killing by confining cytotoxic agents to the synaptic cleft. We have investigated the interaction of human CTLs and helper T cells with supported planar bilayers containing ICAM-1. This artificial substrate provides identical ligands to CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, allowing a quantitative comparison. We found that cytotoxic T lymphocytes form a ring junction similar to a pSMAC in response to high surface densities of ICAM-1 in the planar bilayer. MICA, a ligand for NKG2D, facilitated the ring junction formation at lower surface densities of ICAM-1. ICAM-1 and MICA are upregulated in tissues by inflammation- and stress-associated signaling, respectively. Activated CD8(+) T cells formed fivefold more ring junctions than did activated CD4(+) T cells. The ring junction contained lymphocyte function associated antigen-1 and talin, but did not trigger polarization and granule translocation to the interface. This result has specific implications for the mechanism of effective CTL hunting for antigen in tissues. Abnormalities in this process may alter CTL reactivity.
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MESH Headings
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/cytology
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Cell Adhesion/immunology
- Clone Cells
- Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/chemistry
- Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/immunology
- Humans
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Peptide Fragments/chemistry
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/analysis
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/physiology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology
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- Kristina Somersalo
- Program in Molecular Pathogenesis, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
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- Pierre A Henkart
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1360, USA
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Shirakawa R, Higashi T, Tabuchi A, Yoshioka A, Nishioka H, Fukuda M, Kita T, Horiuchi H. Munc13-4 is a GTP-Rab27-binding protein regulating dense core granule secretion in platelets. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:10730-7. [PMID: 14699162 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m309426200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Platelets store self-agonists such as ADP and serotonin in dense core granules. Although exocytosis of these granules is crucial for hemostasis and thrombosis, the underlying mechanism is not fully understood. Here, we show that incubation of permeabilized platelets with unprenylated active mutant Rab27A-Q78L, wild type Rab27A, and Rab27B inhibited the secretion, whereas inactive mutant Rab27A-T23N and other GTPases had no effects. Furthermore, we affinity-purified a GTP-Rab27A-binding protein in platelets and identified it as Munc13-4, a homologue of Munc13-1 known as a priming factor for neurotransmitter release. Recombinant Munc13-4 directly bound to GTP-Rab27A and -Rab27B in vitro, but not other GTPases, and enhanced secretion in an in vitro assay. The inhibition of secretion by unprenylated Rab27A was rescued by the addition of Munc13-4, suggesting that Munc13-4 mediates the function of GTP-Rab27. Thus, Rab27 regulates the dense core granule secretion in platelets by employing its binding protein, Munc13-4.
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- Ryutaro Shirakawa
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Davis DM, Igakura T, McCann FE, Carlin LM, Andersson K, Vanherberghen B, Sjöström A, Bangham CRM, Höglund P. The protean immune cell synapse: a supramolecular structure with many functions. Semin Immunol 2003; 15:317-24. [PMID: 15001170 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2003.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Heterogeneity in the supramolecular organization of immunological synapses arises from the involvement of different cells, distinct environmental stimuli, and varying levels of protein expression. There may also be heterogeneity in the types and amounts of cell surface proteins and lipids that transfer between lymphocytes during immune surveillance. In addition, immune cells can be involved in the assembly of a 'viral synapse', such that micrometer-scale organization of proteins at intercellular contacts occurs during transmission of a virus between T cells. Thus, while there may be unity in molecular mechanisms underlying the organization of cell surface receptors at immune cell synapses, there is diversity in their function.
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- Daniel M Davis
- Department of Biological Sciences, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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- Johannes B Huppa
- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Irvine DJ. Function-specific variations in the immunological synapses formed by cytotoxic T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:13739-40. [PMID: 14623966 PMCID: PMC283490 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2536626100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- Darrell J Irvine
- Biological Engineering Division/Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Orange JS, Harris KE, Andzelm MM, Valter MM, Geha RS, Strominger JL. The mature activating natural killer cell immunologic synapse is formed in distinct stages. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:14151-6. [PMID: 14612578 PMCID: PMC283561 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1835830100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Natural killer (NK) cells form a structure at their interface with a susceptible target cell called the activating NK cell immunologic synapse (NKIS). The mature activating NKIS contains a central and peripheral supramolecular activation cluster (SMAC), and includes polarized surface receptors, filamentous actin (F-actin) and perforin. Evaluation of the NKIS in human NK cells revealed CD2, CD11a, CD11b and F-actin in the peripheral SMAC (pSMAC) with perforin in the central SMAC. The accumulation of F-actin and surface receptors was rapid and depended on Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein-driven actin polymerization. The accumulation at and arrangement of these molecules in the pSMAC was not affected by microtubule depolymerization. The polarization of perforin, however was slower and required intact actin, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, and microtubule function. Thus the process of CD2, CD11a, CD11b, and F-actin accumulation in the pSMAC and perforin accumulation in the central SMAC of the NKIS are sequential processes with distinct cytoskeletal requirements.
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- Jordan S Orange
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, 7 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Faroudi M, Utzny C, Salio M, Cerundolo V, Guiraud M, Müller S, Valitutti S. Lytic versus stimulatory synapse in cytotoxic T lymphocyte/target cell interaction: manifestation of a dual activation threshold. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:14145-50. [PMID: 14610278 PMCID: PMC283560 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2334336100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Activation of biological functions in T lymphocytes is determined by the molecular dynamics occurring at the T cell/opposing cell interface. In the present study, a central question of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) biology was studied at the single-cell level: can two distinct activation thresholds for cytotoxicity and cytokine production be explained by intercellular molecular dynamics between CTLs and targets? In this study, we combine morphological approaches with numerical analysis, which allows us to associate specific patterns of calcium mobilization with different biological responses. We show that CTLs selectively activated to cytotoxicity lack a mature immunological synapse while exhibiting a low threshold polarized secretion of lytic granules and spike-like patterns of calcium mobilization. This finding is contrasted by fully activated CTLs, which exhibit a mature immunological synapse and smooth and sustained calcium mobilization. Our results indicate that intercellular molecular dynamics and signaling characteristics allow the definition of two activation thresholds in individual CTLs: one for polarized granule secretion (lytic synapse formation) and the other for cytokine production (stimulatory synapse formation).
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- Mustapha Faroudi
- Lymphocyte Interaction Group, Institut Claude de Préval, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U563, 31059 Toulouse, France
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The CD95 ligand is involved as a death factor in the regulation of activation-induced cell death, establishment of immune privilege and tumor cell survival. In addition, CD95L may serve as a costimulatory molecule for T-cell activation. Alterations in expression or shedding of membrane and soluble CD95L are associated with numerous diseases, and underscore the pathophysiological relevance of the CD95/CD95L system. In most cases, the causal link between altered CD95L expression and pathophysiology is unknown. Given the potency of the molecule to regulate death and survival of many different cell types, the control of CD95L production, transport, storage, shedding and inactivation is of tremendous biological and clinical interest. This review summarizes the current knowledge, hypotheses and controversies about CD95L as a multifunctional ligand and receptor. It considers the different roles of membrane and soluble forms of CD95L and the complex networks of intracellular dynamics of protein trafficking, as well as the potential bidirectional signal transduction capacity of CD95L, with a focus on molecular interactions that have been worked out over the past years.
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- O Janssen
- Institute for Immunology, Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Michaelisstrasse 5, D-24105 Kiel, Germany.
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Clark RH, Stinchcombe JC, Day A, Blott E, Booth S, Bossi G, Hamblin T, Davies EG, Griffiths GM. Adaptor protein 3–dependent microtubule-mediated movement of lytic granules to the immunological synapse. Nat Immunol 2003; 4:1111-20. [PMID: 14566336 DOI: 10.1038/ni1000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2003] [Accepted: 09/25/2003] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by platelet defects and oculocutaneous albinism. Individuals with HPS type 2 (HPS2) lack the cytosolic adaptor protein 3 (AP-3) involved in lysosomal sorting, and are also immunodeficient. Here we characterize an HPS2 mutation and demonstrate that AP-3 deficiency leads to a loss of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated cytotoxicity. Although the lysosomal protein CD63 was mislocalized to the plasma membrane, perforin and granzymes were correctly localized to the lytic granules in AP-3-deficient CTLs. However, the lytic granules of AP-3-deficient CTLs were enlarged and were unable to move along microtubules and dock within the secretory domain of the immunological synapse. These data show that AP-3 is essential for polarized secretion from CTLs.
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- Richard H Clark
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RE, UK
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Since the ligand for the death factor CD95 (CD95L) was identified almost a decade ago, it has been established that this molecule (CD95L, FasL, Apo-1L, CD178, TNFSF6, APT1LG1) has multiple immunoregulatory and pathophysiologically relevant functions. CD95L does not only act as a death factor when externalized with secretory lysosomes on cytotoxic T and NK cells or when expressed on CD4(+) T cells in the course of activation-induced cell death, it is also a key molecule for the establishment of immune privilege or tumor cell survival and may serve as a costimulatory molecule during T cell activation. Moreover, alterations of expression or shedding of different forms of CD95L are associated with many diseases including various malignancies, HIV infection, autoimmune disorders (systemic lupus erythematodes, rheumatoid arthritis), acute myocardial infarction, traumatic injury and many others. In most cases, however, the physiological link between altered CD95L expression and pathophysiology is unknown. Given the potency of the molecule to regulate death and survival of many different cell types, the control of CD95L production, transport, storage, shedding and release is of tremendous biological and clinical interest. This commentary aims at briefly summarizing the current knowledge, hypotheses and controversies about CD95L as a multifunctional ligand and receptor. It touches upon the complex networks of intracellular dynamics of protein transport and trafficking and the potential bidirectional signal transduction capacity of CD95L with a focus on molecular interactions that have been worked out over the past years.
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- Andreas Linkermann
- Institute for Immunology, Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Michaelisstr. 5, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
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Raja SM, Metkar SS, Froelich CJ. Cytotoxic granule-mediated apoptosis: unraveling the complex mechanism. Curr Opin Immunol 2003; 15:528-32. [PMID: 14499261 DOI: 10.1016/s0952-7915(03)00111-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The molecular details of cytotoxic granule-mediated apoptosis have been gleaned from the study of the effects of isolated granzymes and perforin on target cells. Recent evidence indicates that the physiological apoptosis-inducing form is a multi-component macro-complex consisting of cationic granule proteins non-covalently linked to the chondroitin-sulfate proteoglycan, serglycin.
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- Srikumar M Raja
- Department of Medicine, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute, 2650 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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Lytic granules harbour many of the dangerous apoptosis-inducing molecules of the immune system, including perforin, granzymes and Fas ligand. Safe transport, storage and release of these lytic components is vital. As a secretory lysosome, the lytic granule is able to accomplish these roles, as well as conferring the lysosomal functions of cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells. Secretory lysosomes are common to many other haemopoietic cells and also melanocytes. Many of the proteins used in lysosomal secretion are found in both melanocytes and hemopoietic cells, and are dysfunctional in genetic diseases with defects in these proteins. The genetically heterogeneous Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome represents an excellent model for revealing proteins involved in secretory lysosome functioning. However, studies of this disease reveal differences between the various different types of secretory lysosomes, including lytic granules.
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- Richard Clark
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK
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During many key biological processes, exocytosis is confined to distinct regions of the plasma membrane. Spatial control of exocytosis correlates with altered membrane skeleton dynamics and assembly of local membrane microdomains. These domains act as local stages for the assembly and the regulation of molecular complexes (targeting patches) that mediate vesicle-membrane fusion. Furthermore, local activation of signaling pathways reinforces formation of these patches and might effect global repositioning of the secretory pathway toward sites of localized exocytosis.
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Huppa JB, Gleimer M, Sumen C, Davis MM. Continuous T cell receptor signaling required for synapse maintenance and full effector potential. Nat Immunol 2003; 4:749-55. [PMID: 12858171 DOI: 10.1038/ni951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 314] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2003] [Accepted: 06/03/2003] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Although signals through the T cell receptor (TCR) are essential for the initiation of T helper cell activation, it is unclear what function such signals have during the prolonged T cell-antigen-presenting cell contact. Here we simultaneously tracked TCR-CD3 complex and phosphoinositide 3-kinase activity in single T cells using three-dimensional video microscopy. Despite rapid internalization of most of the TCR-CD3, TCR-dependent signaling was still evident up to 10 h after conjugate formation. Blocking this interaction caused dissolution of the synapse and proportional reductions in interleukin 2 production and cellular proliferation. Thus TCR signaling persists for hours, has a cumulative effect and is necessary for the maintenance of the immunological synapse.
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- Johannes B Huppa
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Beckman Center B221, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Doucey MA, Legler DF, Faroudi M, Boucheron N, Baumgaertner P, Naeher D, Cebecauer M, Hudrisier D, Rüegg C, Palmer E, Valitutti S, Bron C, Luescher IF. The beta1 and beta3 integrins promote T cell receptor-mediated cytotoxic T lymphocyte activation. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:26983-91. [PMID: 12690105 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m302709200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Recognition by CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) of antigenic peptides bound to major histocompatibility class (MHC) I molecules on target cells leads to sustained calcium mobilization and CTL degranulation resulting in perforin-dependent killing. We report that beta1 and beta3 integrin-mediated adhesion to extracellular matrix proteins on target cells and/or surfaces dramatically promotes CTL degranulation. CTLs, when adhered to fibronectin but not CTL in suspension, efficiently degranulate upon exposure to soluble MHC.peptide complexes, even monomeric ones. This adhesion induces recruitment and activation of the focal adhesion kinase Pyk2, the cytoskeleton linker paxillin, and the Src kinases Lck and Fyn in the contact site. The T cell receptor, by association with Pyk2, becomes part of this adhesion-induced activation cluster, which greatly increases its signaling.
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- Marie-Agnès Doucey
- Institute for Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland.
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Vereb G, Szöllősi J, Matkó J, Nagy P, Farkas T, Vígh L, Mátyus L, Waldmann TA, Damjanovich S. Dynamic, yet structured: The cell membrane three decades after the Singer-Nicolson model. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:8053-8. [PMID: 12832616 PMCID: PMC166180 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1332550100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 355] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The fluid mosaic membrane model proved to be a very useful hypothesis in explaining many, but certainly not all, phenomena taking place in biological membranes. New experimental data show that the compartmentalization of membrane components can be as important for effective signal transduction as is the fluidity of the membrane. In this work, we pay tribute to the Singer-Nicolson model, which is near its 30th anniversary, honoring its basic features, "mosaicism" and "diffusion," which predict the interspersion of proteins and lipids and their ability to undergo dynamic rearrangement via Brownian motion. At the same time, modifications based on quantitative data are proposed, highlighting the often genetically predestined, yet flexible, multilevel structure implementing a vast complexity of cellular functions. This new "dynamically structured mosaic model" bears the following characteristics: emphasis is shifted from fluidity to mosaicism, which, in our interpretation, means nonrandom codistribution patterns of specific kinds of membrane proteins forming small-scale clusters at the molecular level and large-scale clusters (groups of clusters, islands) at the submicrometer level. The cohesive forces, which maintain these assemblies as principal elements of the membranes, originate from within a microdomain structure, where lipid-lipid, protein-protein, and protein-lipid interactions, as well as sub- and supramembrane (cytoskeletal, extracellular matrix, other cell) effectors, many of them genetically predestined, play equally important roles. The concept of fluidity in the original model now is interpreted as permissiveness of the architecture to continuous, dynamic restructuring of the molecular- and higher-level clusters according to the needs of the cell and as evoked by the environment.
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- G. Vereb
- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
| | - T. A. Waldmann
- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology and
Cell Biophysical Research Group of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical
and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, H-4012, Debrecen, Hungary;
Department of Immunology, Loránd
Eötvös University, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary;
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research
Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary; and
Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1374
- To whom correspondence should be sent at the * address. E-mail:
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de Saint Basile G, Fischer A. Defective cytotoxic granule-mediated cell death pathway impairs T lymphocyte homeostasis. Curr Opin Rheumatol 2003; 15:436-45. [PMID: 12819472 DOI: 10.1097/00002281-200307000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Hemophagocytic syndrome is a severe and often fatal syndrome resulting from excessive activation and proliferation of T lymphocytes and macrophages. Onset of a hemophagocytic syndrome characterized the course of several human inherited immune disorders, all of them resulting from molecular defects of the perforin-dependent cytotoxic process exerted by both T and Natural Killer (NK) lymphocytes. These disorders highlight the determinant role of this lytic pathway in the control of lymphocyte expansion and homeostasis. New effectors of this secretory pathway have been thus identified.
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Byers AM, Kemball CC, Moser JM, Lukacher AE. Cutting edge: rapid in vivo CTL activity by polyoma virus-specific effector and memory CD8+ T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 171:17-21. [PMID: 12816977 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.1.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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For viruses that establish persistent infection, continuous immunosurveillance by effector-competent antiviral CD8(+) T cells is likely essential for limiting viral replication. Although it is well documented that virus-specific memory CD8(+) T cells synthesize cytokines after short term in vitro stimulation, there is limited evidence that these T cells exhibit cytotoxicity, the dominant antiviral effector function. Here, we show that antiviral CD8(+) T cells in mice acutely infected by polyoma virus, a persistent mouse pathogen, specifically eliminate viral peptide-pulsed donor spleen cells within minutes after adoptive transfer and do so via a perforin-dependent mechanism. Antiviral memory CD8(+) T cells were similarly capable of rapidly mobilizing potent Ag-specific cytotoxic activity in vivo. These findings strongly support the concept that a cytotoxic effector-memory CD8(+) T cell population operates in vivo to control this persistent viral infection.
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- Anthony M Byers
- Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Barber DL, Wherry EJ, Ahmed R. Cutting edge: rapid in vivo killing by memory CD8 T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 171:27-31. [PMID: 12816979 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.1.27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 354] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In this study, we examined the cytotoxic activity of effector and memory CD8 T cells in vivo. At the peak of the CTL response following an acute lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection, effector CD8 T cells exhibited extremely rapid killing and started to eliminate adoptively transferred target cells within 15 min by a perforin-dependent mechanism. Although resting memory CD8 T cells are poorly cytolytic by in vitro (51)Cr release assays, there was rapid elimination (within 1-4 h) of target cells after transfer into immune mice, and both CD62L(high) and CD62L(low) memory CD8 T cells were able to kill rapidly in vivo. Strikingly, when directly compared on a per cell basis, memory CD8 T cells were only slightly slower than effector cells in eliminating target cells. These data indicate that virus specific memory CD8 T cells can rapidly acquire cytotoxic function upon re-exposure to Ag and are much more efficient killers in vivo than previously appreciated.
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- Daniel L Barber
- Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Tabiasco J, Vercellone A, Meggetto F, Hudrisier D, Brousset P, Fournié JJ. Acquisition of viral receptor by NK cells through immunological synapse. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:5993-8. [PMID: 12794126 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.12.5993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Occasional EBV infection of human NK cells may lead to malignant diseases such as naso-pharyngeal NK lymphoma although NK cells do not express CD21, the primary receptor for EBV. Here we show that during early EBV infection in patients, NK cells attacked EBV-infected autologous B cells. In vitro, NK cells activated by conjugation to CD21(+) B-EBV cell targets transiently acquired a weak CD21(+) phenotype by synaptic transfer of few receptor molecules onto their own membrane. In the presence of viral particles, these ectopic receptors allowed EBV binding to the novel NK cell host. Hence, trans-synaptic acquisition of viral receptor from target cells might constitute an unsuspected mode of infection for otherwise unreachable lymphoid hosts.
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MESH Headings
- B-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- B-Lymphocyte Subsets/pathology
- B-Lymphocyte Subsets/virology
- Binding Sites/immunology
- Cell Communication/immunology
- Cell Membrane/immunology
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Cell Membrane/virology
- Cell Survival/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Coculture Techniques
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/isolation & purification
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/metabolism
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Infectious Mononucleosis/immunology
- Infectious Mononucleosis/pathology
- Infectious Mononucleosis/virology
- K562 Cells
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Killer Cells, Natural/virology
- Lymph Nodes/immunology
- Lymph Nodes/pathology
- Lymph Nodes/virology
- Receptors, Complement 3d/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Complement 3d/metabolism
- Receptors, Virus/metabolism
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- Julie Tabiasco
- Département Oncogénèse and Signalisation dans les Cellules Hématopoiétiques, Unité 563 de l'Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, BP3028 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Purpan, Toulouse, France
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Davis MM, Krogsgaard M, Huppa JB, Sumen C, Purbhoo MA, Irvine DJ, Wu LC, Ehrlich L. Dynamics of Cell Surface Molecules During T Cell Recognition. Annu Rev Biochem 2003; 72:717-42. [PMID: 14527326 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biochem.72.121801.161625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Recognition of foreign antigens by T lymphocytes is a very important component of vertebrate immunity-vital to the clearance of pathogenic organisms and particular viruses and necessary, indirectly, for the production of high affinity antibodies. T cell recognition is mediated by the systematic scanning of cell surfaces by T cells, which collectively express many antigen receptors. When the appropriate antigenic peptide bound to a molecule of the major histocompatibility complex is found-even in minute quantities-a series of elaborate cell-surface molecule and internal rearrangements take place. The sequence of events and the development of techniques required to observe these events have significantly enhanced our understanding of T cell recognition and may find application in other systems of transient cell:cell interactions as well.
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- Mark M Davis
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5323, USA.
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Immunological synapses (ISs) are specialised signalling domains characterised by complex molecular clustering and segregation at the contact site between cells of the immune system. T lymphocytes form different ISs depending on their state of activation and on the antigen-presenting cells with which they interact. The structural features of the various ISs are better established than the functions they carry out. Recent advances point to the importance of taking into account diversity in both the structures and the functions of IS.
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- Alain Trautmann
- Départment de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut COCHIN, Institut National de la santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 22, rue Méchain 75014, Paris, France
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The formerly distinct fields of lymphocyte signal transduction and cytoskeletal remodeling have recently become linked, as proteins involved in transducing signals downstream of lymphocyte antigen receptors have also been implicated in actin cytoskeleton remodeling, microtubule dynamics and regulation of cell polarity. These discoveries have fuelled interest in understanding both the role of the actin cytoskeleton as an integral component of lymphocyte activation and the interplay between lymphoid cell-cell contact sites (immunological synapse), retractile pole structures (uropod, distal pole complex), and Rho-family GTPases (Rac, Rho, Cdc42), their upstream activators (Dbl-family guanine nucleotide exchange factors) and their downstream effectors (WASp, Arp2/3, ADAP). To understand how these complex regulatory networks are wired, a new breed of computational biologists uses mathematical language to reproduce and simulate signaling circuits 'in silico'.
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- Ana V Miletic
- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, 660 Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8118, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Torres E, Rosen MK. Contingent phosphorylation/dephosphorylation provides a mechanism of molecular memory in WASP. Mol Cell 2003; 11:1215-27. [PMID: 12769846 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00139-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Cells can retain information about previous stimuli to produce distinct future responses. The biochemical mechanisms by which this is achieved are not well understood. The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) is an effector of the Rho-family GTPase Cdc42, whose activation leads to stimulation of the actin nucleating assembly, Arp2/3 complex. We demonstrate that efficient phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of WASP at Y291 are both contingent on binding to activated Cdc42. Y291 phosphorylation increases the basal activity of WASP toward Arp2/3 complex and enables WASP activation by new stimuli, SH2 domains of Src-family kinases. The requirement for contingency in both phosphorylation and dephosphorylation enables long-term storage of information by WASP following decay of GTPase signals. This biochemical circuitry allows WASP to respond to the levels and timing of GTPase and kinase signals. It provides mechanisms to specifically achieve transient or persistent actin remodeling, as well as long-lasting potentiation of actin-based responses to kinases.
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- Eduardo Torres
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75205, USA
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Granule exocytosis is the main pathway for the immune elimination of virus-infected cells and tumour cells by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells. After target-cell recognition, release of the cytotoxic granule contents into the immunological synapse formed between the killer cell and its target induces apoptosis. The granules contain two membrane-perturbing proteins, perforin and granulysin, and a family of serine proteases known as granzymes, complexed with the proteoglycan serglycin. In this review, I discuss recent insights into the mechanisms of granule-mediated cytotoxicity, focusing on how granzymes A, B and C and granulysin activate cell death through caspase-independent pathways.
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- Judy Lieberman
- Center for Blood Research and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells kill their targets by secreting specialized granules that contain potent cytotoxic molecules. Through the study of rare immunodeficiency diseases in which this granule pathway of killing is impaired, proteins such as Rab27a have been identified as components of the secretory machinery of these killer cells. Recent evidence suggests that the destruction of activated lymphocytes through granule-mediated killing may be an important mechanism of immunological homeostasis. Although the process by which this occurs is not yet known, it is possible that events taking place at the immunological synapse may render the killer cell susceptible to fratricidal attack by other killer cells.
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MHC class I-restricted antigen presentation is an essential step in the priming of CD8 T lymphocytes during immune responses to infection. While microbial growth and clearance have been accurately measured in mammalian hosts, the duration of functional antigen presentation during infection remains undefined in vivo. Herein we characterize the activation of naive and memory T cells at different times during bacterial infection. Surprisingly, the host's ability to prime T cells is of much shorter duration than bacterial infection, inversely correlating with the development of pathogen-specific cytolytic T lymphocytes. Our studies demonstrate a feedback mechanism that limits the duration of effective in vivo antigen presentation, thereby modulating T cell responses by temporally restricting recruitment of naive T cells into the immune response.
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- Phillip Wong
- Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Tomaru U, Yamano Y, Nagai M, Maric D, Kaumaya PTP, Biddison W, Jacobson S. Detection of virus-specific T cells and CD8+ T-cell epitopes by acquisition of peptide-HLA-GFP complexes: analysis of T-cell phenotype and function in chronic viral infections. Nat Med 2003; 9:469-76. [PMID: 12652294 DOI: 10.1038/nm845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Antigen-specific CD8+ T cells acquire peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) clusters through T-cell receptor (TCR)-mediated endocytosis after specific antigen stimulation. We generated an antigen-presenting cell (APC) expressing human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*201 coupled to the enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP), which delivered GFP to an antigen-specific T cell when pulsed with antigenic peptide. We quantitatively identified human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) Tax(11-19) peptide-specific T-cell populations in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from patients with HTLV-I-associated neurologic disease and defined a new CD8+ T-cell epitope in the HTLV-I envelope region. Acquisition of peptide-HLA-GFP complexes by antigen-specific T cells could distinguish, with respect to phenotype and perforin production, T cells from the chronic viral infections cytomegalovirus and HTLV-I. This approach will be a powerful tool in understanding the role of antigen-specific T-cell responses in health and disease.
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- Utano Tomaru
- Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Trautmann A, Revy P, Donnadieu E, Bismuth G. [Immunological synapses and neuronal synapses]. Med Sci (Paris) 2003; 19:429-36. [PMID: 12836215 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2003194429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The interface between two cells from the immune system has recently been coined "immunological synapse". The authors review recent findings concerning the structure of the synapse formed between T lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells. T cells can be part of different synapses, depending on the antigen-presenting cell (B cell hybridoma, proteo-lipid bilayer, macrophage, dendritic cell). The synapse formed with dendritic cells is discussed in more details. A comparison is made with the synapses from the nervous system. Several parallel questions are discussed: how receptors can be clustered, what is the influence of synapse functioning on the structure of the synapse. It is suggested that in both cases two modes of communication exist in parallel: direct cell-cell contacts and soluble mediators, neurotransmitters in one case, putative immunotransmitters in the other.
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- Alain Trautmann
- Département de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut Cochin, Inserm U.567, Cnrs UMR 8104, 22, rue Méchain, 75014 Paris, France.
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Lyubchenko TA, Wurth GA, Zweifach A. The actin cytoskeleton and cytotoxic T lymphocytes: evidence for multiple roles that could affect granule exocytosis-dependent target cell killing. J Physiol 2003; 547:835-47. [PMID: 12576500 PMCID: PMC2342722 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.033522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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One important mechanism cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) use to kill virus-infected, transplanted or tumour targets is exocytosis of granules that contain cytotoxic agents such as perforin and granzymes. Granule exocytosis-dependent target cell killing is a complex process, involving initial T-cell receptor (TCR)-dependent signalling that includes Ca2+ influx and activation of protein kinase C, shape changes that serve to bind the CTL to the target and, finally, exocytosis of lytic granules at the site of contact with the target cell. Although there is reason to propose that multiple steps in the lytic process could involve the actin cytoskeleton of CTLs, few studies have examined this issue, and those that have do not allow the specific step(s) involved to be determined. We have used the potent membrane-permeant actin cytoskeleton-modifying drugs jasplakinolide and latrunculin A to investigate the actin dependence of defined processes that are expected to be important for granule exocytosis-dependent killing. Our results, obtained using TALL-104 human leukaemic CTLs as a model system, are consistent with the idea that a functional actin cytoskeleton is required for TCR/CD3-dependent signalling, for activation of store-dependent Ca2+ influx and for CTL shape changes. When cells were stimulated with solid-phase anti-CD3 antibodies, treatment with either jasplakinolide or latrunculin A abolished granule exocytosis. However, when cells were stimulated in a manner that bypasses TCR/CD3-dependent signalling, granule exocytosis was not significantly altered, suggesting that the actin cytoskeleton does not function as a barrier to exocytosis.
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- Taras A Lyubchenko
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, USA
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Byers AM, Kemball CC, Andrews NP, Lukacher AE. Regulation of antiviral CD8+ T cells by inhibitory natural killer cell receptors. Microbes Infect 2003; 5:169-77. [PMID: 12650775 DOI: 10.1016/s1286-4579(02)00086-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recent evidence indicates that CD8(+) T cells express natural killer cell receptors that constrain the range and magnitude of their activities. For virus-specific CD8(+) T cells, upregulation of these receptors serves to control infection, while concurrently minimizing bystander pathology. Dysregulated expression of these receptors, however, may foster the establishment of persistent virus infection.
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- Anthony M Byers
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Woodruff Memorial Research Building, Rm. 7307, Emory University School of Medicine, 1639 Pierce Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Fuller CL, Braciale VL, Samelson LE. All roads lead to actin: the intimate relationship between TCR signaling and the cytoskeleton. Immunol Rev 2003; 191:220-36. [PMID: 12614363 DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065x.2003.00004.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Regardless of cell type, the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton is tightly linked to vital biological properties such as polarity, motility, cell-cell contact, exocytosis and proliferation. In the immune system, where rapid and efficient response to antigen-provoked stimuli is crucial, an overwhelming amount of data implicate the actin cytoskeleton and its regulators as central to immune function. Increasingly, the cytoskeleton is considered an essential amplification step in T cell receptor (TCR)-, costimulatory-, and integrin-mediated signaling. Advances in genetic manipulation and confocal imaging have led to a keener appreciation of the importance of TCR signal integration by the actin cytoskeleton. This review outlines recent advances in elucidating the regulation of T cell function through the actin cytoskeleton. We also examine intriguing parallels between the immune system and other models of cytoskeletal regulation.
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- Claudette L Fuller
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA
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A series of recent studies have suggested that endocytosis of the mannose-6-phosphate receptor (MPR)* might play a critical role in delivering the death signal to cells targeted for destruction by the immune system (for review see Barry and Bleackley, 2002). These studies have raised a number of controversial issues regarding the trafficking of proteins from the plasma membrane of the target cell to their substrates in the cytosol. In this issue, Trapani and colleagues examine the death of cells in which endocytosis of the MPR is blocked and show that the death signal is delivered effectively in the absence of MPR endocytosis (Trapani et al., 2002, this issue). How then is the death sentence delivered?
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Samstag Y, Eibert SM, Klemke M, Wabnitz GH. Actin cytoskeletal dynamics in T lymphocyte activation and migration. J Leukoc Biol 2003; 73:30-48. [PMID: 12525560 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0602272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Dynamic rearrangements of the actin cytoskeleton are crucial for the function of numerous cellular elements including T lymphocytes. They are required for migration of T lymphocytes through the body to scan for the presence of antigens, as well as for the formation and stabilization of the immunological synapse at the interface between antigen-presenting cells and T lymphocytes. Supramolecular activation clusters within the immunological synapse play an important role for the initiation of T cell responses and for the execution of T cell effector functions. In addition to the T cell receptor/CD3 induced actin nucleation via Wasp/Arp2/3-activation, signals through accessory receptors of the T cell (i.e., costimulation) regulate actin cytoskeletal dynamics. In this regard, the actin-binding proteins cofilin and L-plastin represent prominent candidates linking accessory receptor stimulation to the rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton. Cofilin enhances actin polymerization via its actin-severing activity, and as a long-lasting effect, cofilin generates novel actin monomers through F-actin depolymerization. L-plastin stabilizes actin filament structures by means of its actin-bundling activity.
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- Yvonne Samstag
- Institute for Immunology, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 305, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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