1. Correlation of a dynamic model for immunological synapse formation with effector functions: two pathways to synapse formation
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Lee, Sung-Joo E., Hori, Yuko, Groves, Jay T., Dustin, Michael L., and Chakraborty, Arup K.
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T cell receptors , *IMMUNOLOGY , *SYNAPSES - Abstract
During antigen recognition by T cells different receptors and ligands form a pattern in the intercellular junction called the immunological synapse, which might be involved in T-cell activation. Recently, a synapse assembly model has been proposed, which enables the calculation of the propensity for synapse assembly driven by membrane-constrained protein binding interactions. We bring together model predictions of mature synapse assembly with data on the dependence of T-cell responses on T-cell receptor (TCR)–MHC–peptide (pMHC) binding kinetics. Predictions of mature synapse assembly, based on TCR–pMHC binding kinetics, correlate well with observed cytokine responses by T cells bearing the relevant TCR but not with cytotoxic T lymphocyte-mediated killing. We discuss the suggested different role for the synapse in pre- and post-nuclear activation events in T cells. The view of immunological synapse assembly given here emphasizes the importance of both the on and off rates for the TCR–pMHC interaction and in this context recent data on a positive role for analogs of self-peptides in synapse assembly is considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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