The Journal of Immunology, Vol 152, Issue 6 2705-2709, Copyright © 1994 by American Association of Immunologists

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Expression of functional trk tyrosine kinase receptors after T cell activation

PB Ehrhard, P Erb, U Graumann, B Schmutz and U Otten
Department of Physiology, University of Basel, Vesalianum, Switzerland.

Increasing evidence indicates that nerve growth factor (NGF), in addition to its neurotrophic actions, exerts specific effects on cells of the immune system. This report show that the CD4-positive T cell line 9/6 expresses trk protooncogene, the signal transducing receptor unit for NGF, after TCR-mediated activation by Ag and APC. This receptor is of functional importance because interaction of NGF with Ag- stimulated 9/6 T cells induced the transcriptional activation of the c- fos gene, a hallmark of the biochemical response to NGF. Our findings that neither mitogen nor Ag stimulation induced the expression of the low affinity NGF receptor in 9/6 T cells indicate that trk alone is sufficient to mediate biologic activity of NGF in T lymphocytes.

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