The Journal of Immunology, Vol 156, Issue 10 3660-3667, Copyright © 1996 by American Association of Immunologists

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Sustained T cell receptor-mediated Ca2+ responses rely on dynamic engagement of receptors

BB Hashemi, JP Slattery, D Holowka and B Baird
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

We have investigated the functional advantage of surface-attached ligands for TCR-mediated cell activation with flow cytometric measurements of cytoplasmic Ca2+ changes in T cells after aggregation of TCR by soluble and bead-attached mAb. Conjugation of HPB-ALL human leukemia cells with cell-sized beads coated with anti-TCR mAb causes a stronger, more sustained Ca2+ response than that produced by the soluble form of the same mAb. Addition of a large excess of the soluble mAb subsequent to stimulation with the beads causes a marked reduction in the response of the bead-conjugated cells, but only limited disruption of the conjugates. Free (nonconjugated) cells, sampled simultaneously in this mixture, respond to the soluble mAb with a transient Ca2+ increase that declines with the same kinetics as the bead-conjugated cells after addition of the soluble mAb. Fab fragments of the anti-TCR mAb cause a similar reduction in the response of the bead-conjugated cells, and they do not stimulate free cells. Following the Fab-mediated decline in cytoplasmic Ca2+ of conjugated cells to near-baseline concentrations, the addition of a second, noncompetitive, anti-TCR mab causes a Ca2+ response that is substantially reduced in magnitude compared with that for the free cells. The results indicate that soluble and surface-attached ligands cause TCR-specific desensitization of the Ca2+ response. Surface-attached ligands are more effective than soluble ligands in sustaining signaling in T cells at least in part because they facilitate steady association and/or reassociation of TCR into the bound state in the surface contact area.

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