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Originally published in Science Express on 25 September 2003 Science 14 November 2003: Vol. 302. no. 5648, pp. 1218 - 1222
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086507
The Immunological Synapse Balances T Cell Receptor Signaling and Degradation
Kyeong-Hee Lee,1,2*Aaron R. Dinner,3*Chun Tu,1Gabriele Campi,5Subhadip Raychaudhuri,4Rajat Varma,5Tasha N. Sims,5W. Richard Burack,1Hui Wu,1Julia Wang,1Osami Kanagawa,1Mary Markiewicz,1Paul M. Allen,1Michael L. Dustin,5Arup K. Chakraborty,3,4,6Andrey S. Shaw1
The immunological synapse is a specialized cell-cell junctionbetween T cell and antigen-presenting cell surfaces. It is characterizedby a central cluster of antigen receptors, a ring of integrinfamily adhesion molecules, and temporal stability over hours.The role of this specific organization in signaling for T cellactivation has been controversial. We use in vitro and in silicoexperiments to determine that the immunological synapse actsas a type of adaptive controller that both boosts T cell receptortriggering and attenuates strong signals.
1 Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Box 8118, 660 South Euclid, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA. 2 Department of Immunology, Genentech, 530 Forbes Boulevard, One DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA. 3 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. 4 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. 5 Program in Molecular Pathogenesis, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Department of Pathology, New York University, New York, NY 10016, USA. 6 Physical Biosciences and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
* These authors contributed equally to this work.
Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
To whom correspondence should be addressed: E-mail: shaw{at}pathbox.wustl.edu (A.S.S.), arup{at}uclink.berkeley.edu (A.K.C.), and dustin{at}saturn.med.nyu.edu (M.L.D.)
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