The impact of duration versus extent of TCR occupancy on T cell activation: a revision of the kinetic proofreading model.
Immunity
; 15(1): 59-70, 2001 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
The widely accepted kinetic proofreading theory proposes that rapid TCR dissociation from a peptide/MHC ligand allows for stimulation of early but not late T cell activation events, explaining why low-affinity TCR ligands are poor agonists. We identified a low-affinity TCR ligand which stimulated late T cell responses but, contrary to predictions from kinetic proofreading, inefficiently induced early activation events. Furthermore, responses induced by this ligand were kinetically delayed compared to its high-affinity counterpart. Using peptide/MHC tetramers, we showed that activation characteristics could be dissociated from TCR occupancy by the peptide/MHC ligands. Our data argue that T cell responses are triggered by a cumulative signal which is reached at different time points for different TCR ligands.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Ativação Linfocitária
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Receptores de Antígenos de Linfócitos T
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Linfócitos T
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2001
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Article