Lin Joseph, Hou Kirk K, Piwnica-Worms Helen, Shaw Andrey S
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA.
J Immunol. 2009 Jul 15;183(2):1215-21. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.0803887. Epub 2009 Jun 24.
Engagement of a T cell to an APC induces the formation of an immunological synapse as well as reorientation of the microtubule-organizing center (MTOC) toward the APC. How signals emanating from the TCR induce MTOC polarization is not known. One group of proteins known to play a critical role in asymmetric cell division and cell polarization is the partitioning defective (Par) family of proteins. In this study we found that Par1b, a member of the Par family of proteins, was inducibly phosphorylated following TCR stimulation. This phosphorylation resulted in 14-3-3 protein binding and caused the relocalization of Par1b from the membrane into the cytoplasm. Because a dominant-negative form of Par1b blocked TCR-induced MTOC polarization, our data suggest that Par1b functions in the establishment of T cell polarity following engagement to an APC.
T细胞与抗原呈递细胞(APC)的结合会诱导免疫突触的形成以及微管组织中心(MTOC)向APC的重新定向。TCR发出的信号如何诱导MTOC极化尚不清楚。已知在不对称细胞分裂和细胞极化中起关键作用的一组蛋白质是Par(partitioning defective)家族蛋白质。在本研究中,我们发现Par家族蛋白质成员Par1b在TCR刺激后可被诱导磷酸化。这种磷酸化导致14-3-3蛋白结合,并使Par1b从细胞膜重新定位到细胞质中。由于Par1b的显性负性形式阻断了TCR诱导的MTOC极化,我们的数据表明Par1b在T细胞与APC结合后的极性建立中发挥作用。