The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 4 1675-1683, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Transferrin receptor induces tyrosine phosphorylation in T cells and is physically associated with the TCR zeta-chain

A Salmeron, A Borroto, M Fresno, MJ Crumpton, SC Ley and B Alarcon
Severo Ochoa Center for Molecular Biology, CSIC-UAM, Autonomous University of Madrid, Cantoblanco, Spain.

In addition to being an iron transporter, the transferrin receptor (TfR) has been shown to play a role in T cell activation. Stimulation of the TfR with specific Abs results in T cell proliferation, IL-2 secretion, and protein kinase C activation. In this paper we have analyzed early events caused by activation of the TfR. We have found several protein substrates to be tyrosine phosphorylated upon TfR stimulation in the human Jurkat T cell line. Interestingly, the TfR induced tyrosine phosphorylation in cell lines expressing TCR but not in TCR-negative mutants. Restoration of the TCR surface expression in these mutants reestablished the ability of the TfR to induce tyrosine phosphorylation. This result suggests that activation through the TfR is functionally dependent upon the expression of the TCR. Moreover, the functional relationship of the TfR with the TCR complex is also supported by data showing that TfR stimulation resulted in the tyrosine phosphorylation of the TCR zeta-chain; conversely, stimulation of the TCR complex resulted in an increased tyrosine phosphorylation of the TfR. More importantly, the TfR is shown to associate physically with the TCR zeta-chain as well as with the zeta-binding ZAP70 tyrosine kinase. The TfR/zeta complex is expressed on the cell surface independent of the expression of the other subunits of the TCR complex. We suggest that the TfR/zeta complex is responsible for transducing the TfR-induced signals, and that it could serve to amplify signals delivered by Ag binding to the TCR.

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