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Lipid Raft-Associated GTPase Signaling Controls Morphology and CD8⁺ T Cell Stimulatory Capacity of Human Dendritic Cells¹

Silvia Jaksits^*,, Wolfgang Bauer^*,, Ernst Kriehuber^*,, Maximilian Zeyda^*,, Thomas M. Stulnig^*,, Georg Stingl^*,, Edda Fiebiger^*, and Dieter Maurer^2,*,

^* Center of Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, and Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115

Their eponymous morphology and unique ability to activate naive T cells are hallmark features of dendritic cells (DCs). Specific properties of the actin cytoskeleton may define both characteristics. In search for regulators that coordinate DC phenotype and function, we observed strongly increased expression of the actin-remodeling GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1 during DC development from human stem cells. Cdc42 and Rac1 are constitutively active in immature DCs, and their activity is further up-regulated by maturational stimuli such as LPS or CD40L. Activation of Rac1 is associated with its rapid recruitment into lipid rafts. Cdc42 is not recruited into rafts, but readily activated by raft-associated moieties. The functional interplay of rafts, GTPases, and cortical actin is further shown by GTPase activation and actin remodeling after pharmacological disruption of lipid rafts and by the loss of the actin-based DC morphology by transfection of dominant-negative Cdc42 and Rac1. Both Cdc42 and Rac1 also control the transport of essential immunostimulatory molecules to the DC surface. Transfection with dominant-negative GTPases led to reduced surface expression of MHC class I and CD86. Consecutively, DCs display a reduced stimulatory capacity for CD8⁺ T cells, whereas MHC class II-dependent stimulation of CD4⁺ T cells remains unperturbed. We conclude that Cdc42 and Rac1 signaling controls DC morphology and conditions DCs for efficient CD8⁺ T cell stimulation.

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