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Molecular Immunogenetics Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Glycolipid-enriched membrane (GEM) domains, or lipid rafts, function in signaling in immune cells, but their properties during Ag presentation are less clear. To address this question, GEM domains were studied using fluorescence cell imaging of mouse CH27 B cells presenting Ag to D10 T cells. Our experiments showed that APCs were enriched with GEM domains in the immune synapse, and this occurred in an actin-dependent manner. This enrichment was specific to GEM domains, because a marker for non-GEM regions of the membrane was excluded from the immune synapse. Furthermore, fluorescence photobleaching experiments showed that protein in the immune synapse was dynamic and rapidly exchanged with that in other compartments of CH27 cells. To identify the signals for targeting GEM domains to the immune synapse in APCs, capping of the domains was measured in cells after cross-linking surface molecules. This showed that co-cross-linking CD48 with MHC class II was required for efficient capping and intracellular signaling. Capping of GEM domains by co-cross-linking CD48 and MHC class II occurred with co-capping of filamentous actin, and both domain capping and T cell-CH27 cell conjugation were inhibited by pretreating CH27 cells with latrunculin B. Furthermore, disruption of the actin cytoskeleton of the CH27 cells also inhibited formation of a mature immune synapse in those T cells that did conjugate to APCs. Thus, Ag presentation and efficient T cell stimulation occur by an actin-dependent targeting of GEM domains in the APC to the site of T cell engagement.
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