TCR down-regulation controls virus-specific CD8+ T cell responses

Charlotte Menné Bonefeld, Mariëlle Haks, Bodil Nielsen, Marina Von Essen, Lasse Boding, Ann Kathrine Hansen, Jeppe Madura Larsen, Niels Ødum, Paul Krimpenfort, Ada Kruisbeek, Jan Pravsgaard Christensen, Allan Randrup Thomsen, Carsten Geisler*

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde
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Abstract

The CD3γ di-leucine-based motif plays a central role in TCR down-regulation. However, little is understood about the role of the CD3γ di-leucine-based motif in physiological T cell responses. In this study, we show that the expansion in numbers of virus-specific CD8+ T cells is impaired in mice with a mutated CD3γ di-leucine-based motif. The CD3γ mutation did not impair early TCR signaling, nor did it compromise recruitment or proliferation of virus-specific T cells, but it increased the apoptosis rate of the activated T cells by increasing down-regulation of the antiapoptotic molecule Bcl-2. This resulted in a 2-fold reduction in the clonal expansion of virus-specific CD8+ T cells during the acute phase of vesicular stomatitis virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infections. These results identify an important role of CD3γ-mediated TCR down-regulation in virus-specific CD8+ T cell responses.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Immunology
Vol/bind181
Udgave nummer11
Sider (fra-til)7786-7799
Antal sider14
ISSN0022-1767
StatusUdgivet - 1 dec. 2009

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