The vav exchange factor is an essential regulator in actin-dependent receptor translocation to the lymphocyte–antigen-presenting cell interface

AUTOR(ES)

Wülfing, Christoph

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

During the interaction of a T cell with an antigen-presenting cell (APC), several receptor ligand pairs, including the T cell receptor (TCR)/major histocompatibility complex (MHC), accumulate at the T cell/APC interface in defined geometrical patterns. This accumulation depends on a movement of the T cell cortical actin cytoskeleton toward the interface. Here we study the involvement of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor vav in this process. We crossed 129 vav−/− mice with B10/BR 5C.C7 TCR transgenic mice and used peptide-loaded APCs to stimulate T cells from the offspring. We found that the accumulation of TCR/MHC at the T cell/APC interface and the T cell actin cytoskeleton rearrangement were clearly defective in these vav+/− mice. A comparable defect in superantigen-mediated T cell activation of T cells from non-TCR transgenic 129 mice was also observed, although in this case it was more apparent in vav−/− mice. These data indicate that vav is an essential regulator of cytoskeletal rearrangements during T cell activation.

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