Genetic and immunochemical evidence for CD4-dependent association of p56lck with the alpha beta T-cell receptor (TCR): regulation of TCR-induced activation.

AUTOR(ES)

Díez-Orejas, R

RESUMO

Recent observations suggest that the tyrosine kinase p56lck is involved in the transduction of transmembrane signals through the antigen specific T cell receptor (TCR) in CD4+ T cells. By means of in vitro kinase assays, we have found that p56lck coprecipitated with the TCR from lysates of a murine CD4+ T cell line in the absence of TCR-mediated stimuli. Analysis of CD4- mutants and CD4-transfected cells shows that p56lck-TCR association occurred only when CD4 was present. The functional importance of CD4:p56lck-TCR association was demonstrated by low activating potential of rare clonotypic antibodies which did not coprecipitate CD4:p56lck, as well as by total or partial loss of anti-TCR or antigen induced stimulation in CD4- cells, which could be recovered by CD4 transfection. Complementation assays using different anti-TCR antibodies suggest that cross linking of TCR-p56lck:CD4 plus structural changes in the complex are needed for efficient transduction of activating signals through the TCR in these cells.

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