Mol Cell Biol, March 1998, p. 1725-1735, Vol. 18, No. 3
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Divisions of Hematology1 and Clinical Immunology,2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, and Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University Hospital Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht,3 The Netherlands
Received 28 July 1997/Returned for modification 29 September 1997/Accepted 1 December 1997
CD5 acts as a coreceptor on T lymphocytes and plays an important
role in T-cell signaling and T-cell-B-cell interactions. Costimulation
of T lymphocytes with anti-CD5 antibodies results in an increase of the
intracellular Ca2+ levels, and subsequently in the
activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent (CaM) kinase type
IV. In the present study, we have characterized the initial signaling
pathway induced by anti-CD5 costimulation. The activation of
phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase through tyrosine phosphorylation of
its p85 subunit is a proximal event in the CD5-signaling pathway and
leads to the activation of the lipid kinase activity of the p110
subunit. The PI 3-kinase inhibitors wortmannin and LY294002 inhibit the CD5-induced response as assessed in interleukin-2 (IL-2) secretion experiments. The expression of an inactivated Rac1 mutant (Rac1 · N17) in T lymphocytes transfected with an IL-2 promoter-driven reporter construct also abrogates the response to CD5 costimulation, while the expression of a constitutively active Rac1 mutant (Rac1-V12) completely replaces the CD5 costimulatory signal. The Rac1-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor Vav is heavily
phosphorylated on tyrosine residues upon CD5
costimulation, which is a prerequisite for its activation. A role for
Vav in the CD5-induced signaling pathway is further supported by the
findings that the expression of a dominant negative Vav mutant (Vav-C)
completely abolishes the response to CD5 costimulation while the
expression of a constitutively active Vav mutant [Vav(
1-65)]
makes the CD5 costimulation signal superfluous. Wortmannin is unable to
block the Vav(
1-65)- or Rac1 · V12-induced signals,
indicating that both Vav and Rac1 function downstream from PI 3-kinase.
Vav and Rac1 both act upstream from the CD5-induced activation of CaM
kinase IV, since KN-62, an inhibitor of CaM kinases, and a dominant
negative CaM kinase IV mutant block the Vav(
1-65)-and Rac1 · V12-mediated signals. We propose a model for the CD5-induced signaling
pathway in which the PI 3-kinase lipid products, together with tyrosine
phosphorylation, activate Vav, resulting in the activation of Rac1 by
the Vav-mediated exchange of GDP for GTP.
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