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* Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa," Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain; and
Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
T cell receptor engagement by an APC induces the formation of a highly organized complex of surface receptors and intracellular signaling molecules, known as the immunological synapse, at the site of cell-cell contact. The transferrin receptor (TfR, CD71) is normally present in the plasma membrane and recycling endosomes. In this study, we show that, although the TfR is typically absent from lipid rafts at steady state, stimulation with a mitogenic mixture of anti-CD3 Abs of human Jurkat T cells leads to a rapid compartmentalization of the TfR into lipid rafts accompanying that of CD3
and activated Lck. This change occurs very rapidly and is accompanied by an increase in the surface expression of the TfR, probably by translocation from an internal endosomal pool. TfR recruitment to lipid rafts was also observed in primary T cells treated with mitogenic anti-CD3 Abs and in Jurkat T cell-APC conjugates. The use of beads coated with Abs indicates that the surface and endosomal TfR pools redistribute to the contact site region in response to engagement of CD28 and CD3. In T cell-APC conjugates, the T cell TfR endosomal pool relocates beneath the contact site, whereas surface TfR localizes to the peripheral ring of the immunological synapse. In the presence of specific anti-TfR Abs, the total number of T cell-APC contacts and the percentage of conjugates with CD3 and Lck translocated to the contact site were reduced. Our results therefore suggest the involvement of the TfR in the formation of the immunological synapse.
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