Coreceptor signal strength regulates positive selection but does not determine CD4/CD8 lineage choice in a physiologic in vivo model

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Erman, Batu and Alag, Amala S. and Dahle, Oyvind and Laethem, François van and Sarafova, Sophia D. and Guinter, Terry I. and Sharrow, Susan O. and Grinberg, Alexander and Love, Paul E. and Singer, Alfred (2006) Coreceptor signal strength regulates positive selection but does not determine CD4/CD8 lineage choice in a physiologic in vivo model. Journal of Immunology, 177 (10). pp. 6613-6625. ISSN 0022-1767

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Abstract

TCR signals drive thymocyte development, but it remains controversial what impact, if any, the intensity of those signals have on T cell differentiation in the thymus. In this study, we assess the impact of CD8 coreceptor signal strength on positive selection and CD4/CD8 lineage choice using novel gene knockin mice in which the endogenous CD8 gene has been re-engineered to encode the stronger signaling cytoplasmic tail of CD4, with the re-engineered CD8 gene referred to as CD8.4. We found that stronger signaling CD8.4 coreceptors specifically improved the efficiency of CD8-dependent positive selection and quantitatively increased the number of MHC class I (MHC-I)-specific thymocytes signaled to differentiate into CD8+ T cells, even for thymocytes expressing a single, transgenic TCR. Importantly, however, stronger signaling CD8.4 coreceptors did not alter the CD8 lineage choice of any MHC-I-specific thymocytes, even MHC-I-specific thymocytes expressing the high-affinity F5 transgenic TCR. This study documents in a physiologic in vivo model that coreceptor signal strength alters TCR-signaling thresholds for positive selection and so is a major determinant of the CD4:CD8 ratio, but it does not influence CD4/CD8 lineage choice.
Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science > QR Microbiology
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Batu Erman
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2006 02:00
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2019 11:27
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/90

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