Impaired plasma membrane targeting of Grb2-murine son of sevenless (mSOS) complex and differential activation of the Fyn-T cell receptor (TCR)-zeta-Cbl pathway mediate T cell hyporesponsiveness in autoimmune nonobese diabetic mice.
Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse thymocytes are hyporesponsive to T cell antigen receptor (TCR)-mediated stimulation of proliferation, and this T cell hyporesponsiveness may be causal to the onset of autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. We previously showed that TCR-induced NOD T cell hyporesponsiveness is associated with a block in Ras activation and defective signaling along the PKC/Ras/MAPK pathway. Here, we report that several sequential changes in TCR-proximal signaling events may mediate this block in Ras activation. We demonstrate that NOD T cell hyporesponsiveness is associated with the (a) enhanced TCR-beta-associated Fyn kinase activity and the differential activation of the Fyn-TCR-zeta-Cbl pathway, which may account for the impaired recruitment of ZAP70 to membrane-bound TCR-zeta; (b) relative inability of the murine son of sevenless (mSOS) Ras GDP releasing factor activity to translocate from the cytoplasm to the plasma membrane; and (c) exclusion of mSOS and PLC-gamma1 from the TCR-zeta-associated Grb2/pp36-38/ZAP70 signaling complex. Our data suggest that altered tyrosine phosphorylation and targeting of the Grb2/pp36-38/ZAP70 complex to the plasma membrane and cytoskeleton and the deficient association of mSOS with this Grb2-containing complex may block the downstream activation of Ras and Ras-mediated amplification of TCR/CD3-mediated signals in hyporesponsive NOD T cells. These findings implicate mSOS as an important mediator of downregulation of Ras signaling in hyporesponsive NOD T cells.
Salojin
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Autoimmunity/Diabetes Group, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada N6G 2V4.
Zhang
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Cameron
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M
Gill
B
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Arreaza
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G
Ochi
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Delovitch
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D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D000818:Animals; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D051380:GRB2 Adaptor Protein; D020662:Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D016688:Mice, Inbred NOD; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D050721:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-cbl; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000378:metabolism; D017634:Self Tolerance; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; D020663:ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; D018631:ras Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D051380:GRB2 Adaptor Protein; C495949:Grb2 protein, mouse; D020662:Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell; C054979:antigen T cell receptor, zeta chain; D020663:ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; D014443:Tyrosine; D050721:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-cbl; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; C494960:Fyn protein, mouse; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn; D018631:ras Proteins; C493849:Cbl protein, mouse