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The Journal of Immunology, 2000, 164: 2326-2337.
Copyright © 2000 by The American Association of Immunologists

MEK Activity Regulates Negative Selection of Immature CD4+CD8+ Thymocytes1

Ursula Bommhardt2,*, Yvonne Scheuring*, Chrisitan Bickel*, Rose Zamoyska{dagger} and Thomas Hünig*

* Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, Würzburg, Germany; and {dagger} Division of Molecular Immunology, National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

CD4+CD8+ thymocytes are either positively selected and subsequently mature to CD4 single positive (SP) or CD8 SP T cells, or they die by apoptosis due to neglect or negative selection. This clonal selection is essential for establishing a functional self-restricted T cell repertoire. Intracellular signals through the three known mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathways have been shown to selectively guide positive or negative selection. Whereas the c-Jun N-terminal kinase and p38 MAP kinase regulate negative selection of thymocytes, the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway is required for positive selection and T cell lineage commitment. In this paper, we show that the MAP/ERK kinase (MEK)-ERK pathway is also involved in negative selection. Thymocytes from newborn TCR transgenic mice were cultured with TCR/CD3{epsilon}-specific Abs or TCR-specific agonist peptides to induce negative selection. In the presence of the MEK-specific pharmacological inhibitors PD98059 or UO126, cell recovery was enhanced and deletion of DP thymocytes was drastically reduced. Furthermore, development of CD4 SP T cells was blocked, but differentiation of mature CD8 SP T cells proceeded in the presence of agonist peptides when MEK activity was blocked. Thus, our data indicate that the outcome between positively and negatively selecting signals is critically dependent on MEK activity.




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