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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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Protein tyrosine kinase p59fyn is associated with the TCR-CD3 complex and is suggested to play a role in T cell activation. To determine the molecular mechanism of p59fyn-mediated signal transduction in T cell activation, we established murine T cell hybridoma lines that expressed an elevated amount of wild-type or mutant fyns. Clones that expressed high levels of normal p59fyn and active p59fyn, encoded by wild-type and f-14 mutant fyn respectively, showed enhanced IL-2 production upon stimulation by anti-CD3 antibodies or natural antigen. On the other hand, clones that expressed kinase negative p59fyn and p59fyn with an SH2 (Src-homology 2) deletion encoded by t-1 mutant fyn showed little induction of IL-2 production upon stimulation. These data suggest that p59fyn is important in T cell signaling and that the SH2 sequence plays a critical role in the reaction. Induction of tyrosine phosphorylation of multiple proteins upon antigenic stimulation was augmented similarly in the cells that respectively expressed wild-type and f-14 mutant fyns at elevated levels. The proteins that became highly tyrosine-phosphorylated included phospholipase C (PLC-gamma 1), p95vav, ZAP-70, the MAP kinase, CD3 zeta and unidentified proteins of 120, 100 and 80 kDa. Tyrosine phosphorylation of the 120, 95 and 68 kDa proteins associated with PLC-gamma 1 was also observed in these cells upon stimulation. In contrast, only the 100 kDa protein and the MAP kinase were increasingly tyrosine phosphorylated in the antigen-stimulated cells expressing t-1 fyn. These data suggest that PLC-gamma 1, PLC-gamma 1 associated molecules, p95vav, the 80 kDa protein, ZAP-70 and the CD3 zeta chain may be substrates of p59fyn or of other tyrosine kinases regulated by p59fyn and be important in T cell signaling.
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PMID:Characterization of p59fyn-mediated signal transduction on T cell activation. 798 Nov 51

Derivatives of chiro-inositol have been recently shown to mediate many important biological processes. This work addresses the question of whether phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) could be involved in the generation of these chiro-inositol derivatives. Two diastereomers of the analog of phosphatidylinositol containing 1D- and 1L-chiro-inositol have been synthesized. 1D-2-O-(1,2-O-Dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho)-chiro-inositol (1D-chiro-PI) was synthesized in 12 steps starting from 1D-2,3,4,5-O-tetrakis(methoxymethylene)-myo-inositol by the inversion of the hydroxyl group at the 1-position of inositol followed by several protection/deprotection and phosphorylation steps. IL-2-O-(1,2-O-Dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho)-chiro-inositol (1L-chiro-PI) was synthesized in eight steps starting from 1L-chiro-inositol using regioselective silylation of the hydroxyl group at the 2-position of chiro-inositol in a key synthetic stage. Both diastereomers were subjected to cleavage by PI-PLC from Bacillus thuringiensis. The reaction of 1L-chiro-PI produced chiro-inositol 1,2-cyclic phosphate, however, at the rate of 10(-3) of that attained with the natural substrate, phosphatidylinositol. On the other hand, 1D-chiro-PI was found to be resistant to PI-PLC. These results suggest that the natural chiro-inositol derivatives should have the 1L-configuration if they are produced by PI-PLC, which is in contrast to the 1D-configuration reported by others. We therefore have isolated chiro-inositol from the total bovine liver lipid and determined its absolute configuration. The obtained chiro-inositol was found to be exclusively of the 1L-configuration, with the enantiomeric purity exceeding 99%.
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PMID:Are D- and L-chiro-phosphoinositides substrates of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C? 803 71

The hypothesis that cytoplasmic proteases play a functional role in programmed cell death was tested by examining the effect of protease inhibitors on the T cell receptor-mediated death of the 2B4 murine T cell hybridoma and activated T cells. The cysteine protease inhibitors trans-epoxysuccininyl-L-leucylamido-(4-guanidino) butane (E-64) and leupeptin, the calpain selective inhibitor acetyl-leucyl-leucyl-normethional, and the serine protease inhibitors diisopropyl fluorophosphate and phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, all showed dose-dependent blocking of the 2B4 death response triggered by the T cell receptor complex and by anti-Thy-1. These protease inhibitors enhanced rather than inhibited IL-2 secretion triggered by T cell receptor cross-linking, showing that they did not act by preventing signal transduction. Growth inhibition induced by cross-linking the 2B4 T cell receptor, measured by inhibition of thymidine incorporation, was not generally blocked by these protease inhibitors. All five of these protease inhibitors enhanced rather than blocked 2B4 cell death triggered by dexamethasone, an agent previously shown to have a death pathway antagonistic with that of the TCR. 2B4 cytolysis by the cytotoxic agents staphylococcal alpha-toxin and dodecyl imidazole, and that caused by hypotonic conditions, was not significantly affected by the five protease inhibitors tested. The selected protease inhibitors blocked both the apoptotic nuclear morphology changes and DNA fragmentation induced by T cell receptor cross-linking, and enhanced both these properties induced by dexamethasone in 2B4 cells. The T cell receptor-induced death of activated murine lymph node T cells and human peripheral blood CD4+ T cells was blocked by both cysteine and serine protease inhibitors, showing that the protease-dependent death pathway also operates in these systems.
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PMID:Protease inhibitors selectively block T cell receptor-triggered programmed cell death in a murine T cell hybridoma and activated peripheral T cells. 822 16

Although cholera toxin B subunit is a potent mucosal immunogen in vivo, its predominant effect in vitro is inhibition of T cell and B cell activation. We reported earlier that this inhibition was not mediated through activation of adenylate cyclase and increases in intracellular cAMP. There is increasing evidence that T cell activation is initiated through the phosphatidyl inositol second messenger system in which phosphatidyl inositol bisphosphate is hydrolyzed by phospholipase C, producing inositol trisphosphate (IP3) and diacylglycerol. IP3 increases cytosolic calcium and diacylglycerol binds, translocates, and activates protein kinase C (PKC). These signals lead to a complex series of events eventuating in activation of a number of genes important in cell proliferation. In this study, we asked whether the mechanism of T cell inhibition by B subunit of cholera toxin (CT-B) was due to interference with the phosphatidyl inositol second messenger system. We found that substitution of ionomycin and PMA for IP3 and diacylglycerol, respectively, in culture induced T cell proliferation but only if both were present simultaneously. Such proliferation was inhibited by CT-B even if added hours after the start of culture. An assay for cytosolic PKC activity demonstrated that PMA translocation of PKC from cytosol to membrane was not inhibited by CT-B, indicating that CT-B does not inhibit activation of PKC. There was no inhibition of Con A-stimulated T cell phosphoinositol turnover. Moreover, Con A added to Fura-2 AM-loaded cells caused a rapid rise in cytosolic calcium, which CT-B preincubation did not alter. These results indicate that CT-B did not inhibit IP3 generation or action. We next looked at expression of genes involved in T cell proliferation. CT-B inhibited the production of IL-2 by mitogen-activated T cells; Northern analysis showed that this inhibition was associated with decreased levels of IL-2 mRNA. Expression of IL-2R and of transferrin receptors was only modestly reduced. Despite the presence of IL-2R on the T cells exposed to CT-B, the addition of exogenous IL-2 to the cultures did not reverse the CT-B-induced T cell inhibition. We conclude that the T cell inhibition by CT-B is not mediated by interference with the activation of the phosphatidylinositol second messenger system but occurs at a later stage of T cell activation.
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PMID:Inhibition of murine T cell activation by cholera toxin B subunit is not mediated through the phosphatidylinositol second messenger system. 846 69

The alternative CD2-mediated pathway of T cell activation, which is independent of MHC/peptide recognition by the TCR/CD3 complex, is dependent upon two signals being received by the CD2 molecule. The natural ligand for CD2 is CD58, but controversy exists over alternative or additional ligands that could deliver the second signal in vivo. We have used rat retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE), which lack temperature-insensitive ligands for CD2 adhesion, to study Ag-independent T cell activation. Rat RPE cells expressed high levels of CD59 and low levels of another potential CD2 ligand, CD48, both in vitro and in the in vivo model of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis. When increasing numbers of syngeneic T cells were added to microwell cultures of rat RPE cells, the T cells, even in the absence of any exogenous stimulant in the cultures, underwent spontaneous proliferation. This effect required metabolically active RPE cells, and was IL-2 driven and enhanced in the presence of indomethacin. Proliferation was modulated by phosphatidylinositol-phospholipase C treatment of the RPE, and blocked by mAbs to CD59. Ab cross-linking of CD48 but not CD59 on the RPE was found to induce messenger RNA expression for IL-1 beta, which together with constitutively expressed IL-6 are required costimulatory factors for T cell activation through CD2. This is the first demonstration in a fully syngeneic system that bi-directional signaling involving CD59 and CD48 molecules expressed by physiologically normal, nonhematopoietic, cells can trigger T lymphocyte activation and proliferation through autocrine IL-2 production in the absence of Ag.
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PMID:CD59 and CD48 expressed by rat retinal pigment epithelial cells are major ligands for the CD2-mediated alternative pathway of T cell activation. 862 4

In this study, we determined the functional and biochemical differences in naive and primed CD4 T cells that expressed a TCR specific for the pigeon cytochrome c (pcc) peptide presented by I-Ek MHC class II molecules. Naive CD4 T cells expressing the transgenic TCR were isolated from the peripheral lymphoid organs of transgenic mice and stimulated with pcc peptide and IL-2 for 10 to 14 days. After this culture period, the Ag-primed cells were quiescent, as judged by the lack of expression of the early activation marker CD69, low expression of CD25 (IL-2R), and failure to incorporate thymidine. The primed cells required 10-fold less peptide than naive cells to achieve the same degree of proliferation and for the induction of CD69. Primed cells also mobilized calcium more efficiently with regard to Ag dose and magnitude of the response. The biochemical signal-transduction events in naive and primed T cells were compared by stimulating them with different concentrations of pcc peptide presented by adherent Ek-transfected fibroblasts. It was found that tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in primed cells required 10-fold less Ag and occurred more rapidly and intensively. Interestingly, peptide stimulation induced tyrosine phosphorylation of phospholipase C (PLC)-gamma 1 exclusively in primed cells. RasGAP was also more efficiently tyrosine phosphorylated in primed cells. By contrast, Shc was tyrosine phosphorylated to the same extent in naive and primed cells. PI3Kp85 was not tyrosine-phosphorylated in naive and primed cells either before or after peptide stimulation. We propose that the higher sensitivity of the primed cells to Ag stimulation is most likely dependent, at last in part, on the more efficient activation of PLC-gamma 1, MAPK, and calcium-dependent pathways.
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PMID:Differential activation of phospholipase C-gamma 1 and mitogen-activated protein kinase in naive and antigen-primed CD4 T cells by the peptide/MHC ligand. 869 Aug 91

The CXC chemokine stromal derived factor-1alpha (SDF-1alpha) induces both the chemotaxis and calcium mobilization in IL-2-activated NK (IANK) cells. The ability of SDF-1alpha to induce IANK cell chemotaxis is inhibited upon incorporating antibodies to the alpha subunit of Go and Gq but not Gi, Gs, or Gz, whereas (Ca++)i mobilization is inhibited with anti-Go, [corrected] anti-Gq and anti-Gs, but not with any other anti-G proteins examined. Further analysis showed that antibody to phospholipase C (PLC)beta but not PLCgamma inhibited SDF-1alpha-induced (Ca++)i mobilization, suggesting that this signal is mediated by G protein coupled receptor and not by tyrosine kinase receptors. Our results are the first to show that SDF-1alpha is chemoattractant for NK cells, and that this effect is coupled to G proteins.
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PMID:Role of the heterotrimeric G proteins in stromal-derived factor-1alpha-induced natural killer cell chemotaxis and calcium mobilization. 924 Apr 23

Functional analysis of the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM) derived from the membrane-proximal ITAM of CD3zeta demonstrates that mutations at either the tyrosine or leucine residues in the N-terminal YxxL segment of the ITAM abolish all signal transduction functions of this ITAM. In contrast, mutations at the tyrosine or leucine residues in the C-terminal YxxL segment abrogate signals for interleukin (IL)-2 production but do not prevent tyrosine phosphorylation of the N-terminal tyrosine of the ITAM, lck association with the ITAM, activation of phospholipase C-gamma1 or calcium mobilization. Cross-linking of chimeric receptors containing a C-terminal YxxL leucine mutation induces tyrosine phosphorylation of ZAP70 but without stable binding to the phosphorylated ITAM. These results indicate that the two YxxL segments in an ITAM are functionally distinct and that both are essential for ZAP70 binding and IL-2 production. Furthermore, tyrosine phosphorylation of ZAP70 per se is not sufficient to trigger the downstream events leading to IL-2 production. Substitution of an alanine for the bulky side chain at the Y+1 position of the N-terminal YxxL segment reduces the receptor cross-linking requirement necessary to achieve cellular activation and the absolute dependence on lck in this process. Our results reveal that both the number of ITAM as well as the specific amino acid residues within a single ITAM determine the extent of chimeric receptor cross-linking required to trigger tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent signaling events.
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PMID:Functional analysis of immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM)-mediated signal transduction: the two YxxL segments within a single CD3zeta-ITAM are functionally distinct. 929 38

The proliferative capacity of T cells infiltrating human tumors is known to be impaired, possibly through their interaction with tumor. Here we demonstrate that soluble products derived from renal cell carcinoma (RCC-S) explants but not normal kidney can inhibit an IL-2-dependent signaling pathway that is critical to T cell proliferation. A major target of the immunosuppression was the IL-2R-associated protein tyrosine kinase, Janus kinase 3 (Jak3). RCC-S suppressed basal expression of Jak3 and its increase following stimulation with anti-CD3/IL-2. Jak3 was most sensitive to suppression by RCC-S; however, reduction in expression of p56(lck), p59(fyn), and ZAP-70 was observed in some experiments. Expression of other signaling elements linked to the IL-2R (Jak1) and the TCR (TCR-zeta, CD3-epsilon, and phospholipase C-gamma) were minimally affected. In naive T cells, RCC-S also partially blocked induction of IL-2R alpha-, beta- and gamma-chain expression when stimulating via the TCR/CD3 complex with anti-CD3 Ab. To determine whether RCC-S suppressed IL-2-dependent signaling, primed T cells were employed since RCC-S had no effect on IL-2R expression but did down-regulate Jak3 expression and, to a lesser degree, p56(lck) and p59(fyn). Reduction in Jak3 correlated with impaired IL-2-dependent proliferation and signal transduction. This included loss of Jak1 kinase tyrosine phosphorylation and no induction of the proto-oncogene, c-Myc. These findings suggest that soluble products from tumors may suppress T cell proliferation through a mechanism that involves down-regulation of Jak3 expression and inhibition of IL-2-dependent signaling pathways.
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PMID:Tumor-induced suppression of T lymphocyte proliferation coincides with inhibition of Jak3 expression and IL-2 receptor signaling: role of soluble products from human renal cell carcinomas. 930 Jul 31

Ligation of the V7 (CD101) molecule on T cells with anti-V7 mAb blocks TCR/CD3-induced proliferation by inhibiting IL-2 transcription. To explore the basis for this observation, we analyzed the effects of V7 ligation on CD3/TCR-induced changes in intracellular free Ca2+ and Ca2+-dependent nuclear factor of activated T cells (NF-AT) translocation to the nucleus, which is required for IL-2 transcription. T cells exposed to anti-V7 mAb fluxed Ca2+ transiently, but did not flux Ca2+ in response to subsequent treatment with anti-CD3; however, they recovered the capacity to flux Ca2+ after treatment with pervanadate, indicating that tyrosine dephosphorylation of a critical V7-related substrate is required in the desensitization process. One such substrate, phospholipase C (PLC)-gamma1, becomes tyrosine phosphorylated on CD3/TCR activation and mediates inositol triphosphate-dependent Ca2+ flux. Co-cross-linking of T cells with anti-CD3 and anti-V7 resulted in selective inhibition of PLC-gamma1 tyrosine phosphorylation, which may explain V7-mediated blockade of anti-CD3-induced Ca2+ flux. Moreover, anti-CD3-induced binding of transcription factors to a consensus NF-AT-binding oligonucleotide, which is dependent on Ca2+, was blocked completely by treatment of the cells with anti-V7, whereas binding to a consensus-activating protein-1 oligonucleotide was unaffected. Western blot analysis of cytoplasmic and nuclear extracts confirmed that anti-V7 prevented nuclear translocation of NF-ATc induced by anti-CD3. We conclude that V7 ligation interferes with T cell activation and IL-2 secretion through a Ca2+ and tyrosine kinase-dependent pathway that inhibits PLC-gamma1 phosphorylation and prevents NF-AT translocation to the nucleus.
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PMID:V7 (CD101) ligation inhibits TCR/CD3-induced IL-2 production by blocking Ca2+ flux and nuclear factor of activated T cell nuclear translocation. 964 26


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