The Journal of Immunology, Vol 146, Issue 11 3689-3696, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists

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T cell receptor activation induces rapid phosphorylation of prosolin, which mediates down-regulation of DNA synthesis in proliferating peripheral lymphocytes

HL Cooper, R Fuldner, E McDuffie and R Braverman
Cell and Molecular Physiology Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Prosolin is a major cytosolic phosphoprotein expressed prominently in rapidly proliferating human peripheral lymphocytes but produced at very low levels in resting (G0) PBL. It undergoes rapid phosphorylation upon treatment of growing cells with tumor-producing phorbol esters (TPA) and this phosphorylation event is correlated with a rapid down- regulation of DNA synthesis. In the present report we have studied various agents that, like TPA, act as partial or complete mitogens for G0 PBL and have determined their effect on phosphorylation of prosolin and on DNA synthesis in rapidly proliferating (IL-2-dependent) human PBL. Agents that activate the TCR (OKT3 and PHA), as well as agents that by-pass the receptor but activate biochemical pathways associated with TCR activation (TPA and Ca2(+)-ionophore), all produced rapid phosphorylation of prosolin and prompt down-regulation of DNA synthesis. Four phosphorylated forms of prosolin were produced, indicating activation of a complex phosphorylation pathway. Down- regulation of DNA synthesis did not lead to cell death or to permanent arrest, but was reversed after 24 to 48 h, and was not associated with any reduction in overall protein synthesis. Agents that bind to determinants closely connected to the TCR but without activating it (OKT4 and OKT8) had no effect on either prosolin phosphorylation or DNA synthesis. The results indicate that prosolin is an early target of the protein kinase activities induced by activation of the TCR in proliferating PBL, and suggest that its phosphorylation mediates the TCR signal, transmitting it into a biochemical pathway leading specifically to down-regulation of DNA synthesis. In G0 PBL, in which the negligible expression of prosolin precludes significant production of phosphorylated species, this inhibitory pathway is effectively blocked.

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