The real LAT steps forward.
Antigen receptors initiate T-cell activation and determine the specificity of the immune response by activating membrane-localized protein tyrosine kinases. Signalling pathways initiated by these kinases control expression of the genes that mediate T-cell effector function. A major challenge in immunology is to work out the route taken by membrane-generated signals as they transit to the nucleus. Substrates for the ZAP70/Syk tyrosine kinases are important, but 'missing', links in this process. There has finally been some progress in characterizing one of these important linkers: LAT, an integral membrane protein that acts as an adaptor to couple antigen receptors to intracellular signalling cascades.
Cancer Research Fund, London, UK. cantrell@icrf.icnet.uk
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D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000276:immunology*; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000378:metabolism; D051746:ZAP-70 Protein-Tyrosine Kinase
D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D002352:Carrier Proteins; C110810:LAT protein, human; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D051746:ZAP-70 Protein-Tyrosine Kinase; C497261:ZAP70 protein, human