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The early proximal αβ TCR signalosome specifies thymic selection outcome through a quantitative protein interaction network

Neier, Steven C., Ferrer, Alejandro, Wilton, Katelynn M., Smith, Stephen E. P., Kelcher, April M. H., Pavelko, Kevin D., Canfield, Jenna M., Davis, Tessa R., Stiles, Robert J., Chen, Zhenjun, McCluskey, James, Burrows, Scott R., Rossjohn, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2020-7522, Hebrink, Deanne M., Carmona, Eva M., Limper, Andrew H., Kappes, Dietmar J., Wettstein, Peter J., Johnson, Aaron J., Pease, Larry R., Daniels, Mark A., Neuhauser, Claudia, Gil, Diana and Schrum, Adam G. 2019. The early proximal αβ TCR signalosome specifies thymic selection outcome through a quantitative protein interaction network. Science Immunology 4 (32) , eaal2201. 10.1126/sciimmunol.aal2201

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Abstract

During αβ T cell development, T cell antigen receptor (TCR) engagement transduces biochemical signals through a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network that dictates dichotomous cell fate decisions. It remains unclear how signal specificity is communicated, instructing either positive selection to advance cell differentiation or death by negative selection. Early signal discrimination might occur by PPI signatures differing qualitatively (customized, unique PPI combinations for each signal), quantitatively (graded amounts of a single PPI series), or kinetically (speed of PPI pathway progression). Using a novel PPI network analysis, we found that early TCR-proximal signals distinguishing positive from negative selection appeared to be primarily quantitative in nature. Furthermore, the signal intensity of this PPI network was used to find an antigen dose that caused a classic negative selection ligand to induce positive selection of conventional αβ T cells, suggesting that the quantity of TCR triggering was sufficient to program selection outcome. Because previous work had suggested that positive selection might involve a qualitatively unique signal through CD3δ, we reexamined the block in positive selection observed in CD3δ0 mice. We found that CD3δ0 thymocytes were inhibited but capable of signaling positive selection, generating low numbers of MHC-dependent αβ T cells that expressed diverse TCR repertoires and participated in immune responses against infection. We conclude that the major role for CD3δ in positive selection is to quantitatively boost the signal for maximal generation of αβ T cells. Together, these data indicate that a quantitative network signaling mechanism through the early proximal TCR signalosome determines thymic selection outcome.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
ISSN: 2470-9468
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 16 April 2019
Date of Acceptance: 17 January 2019
Last Modified: 13 Nov 2023 14:56
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/120360

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