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Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294
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| Introduction |
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(PLC-
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the PLC-
-associated proteins, pp35/36. In contrast, CD5 provides
costimulatory function in mature T cells by potentiating CD3 or CD28
stimulation (3, 4, 5, 6, 7). The mechanisms underlying the differential effects
of CD5 signaling in immature and mature T cells are presently unknown. Following TCR activation, CD5 is rapidly phosphorylated on tyrosyl residues probably by the src family tyrosine kinase, p56lck (8, 9). In contrast, CD5 ligation leads to only serine phosphorylation of its cytoplasmic domain. We recently demonstrated that the serine/threonine kinase, casein kinase 2 (CK2), constitutively associates with distal end of CD5 cytoplasmic domain in normal and transformed cells (10). CK2 is a major regulator of development, cell growth, cell division, and signal transduction pathways (11). The lethality of CK2 deletion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the conservation of CK2 through evolution suggest that it is a critical enzyme in cell regulation (12). This unexpected observation of CK2 association with CD5 suggested that CK2 might also be involved in regulating membrane proximal signaling events (11, 13).
CK2 associated with CD5 was inactive in resting cells and was
activated by ligation of CD5, consistent with previous reports of an
inducible serine kinase activity associated with CD5 (14). CK2
associated with CD5 was not activated by TCR or B cell receptor
cross-linking in T and B cell lines. The holoenzyme CK2 consists of
catalytic subunits,
and
', and a regulatory subunit, ß, in the
tetrameric configuration of
2ß2, 
'ß2, or
'2ß2 (11).
CK2 interacts with CD5 via the ß subunit as it does with p53 and the
nuclear protein Nopp140 (15, 16). In vitro kinase assays indicated that
CK2 phosphorylates CD5 at Ser459 and
Ser461, which comprise overlapping CK2
phosphorylation motifs.
The association of CD5 with inactive kinase, and the ability of CD5 to activate CK2 in a receptor-specific fashion, suggested the possibility that the differential effects of CD5 signaling in immature and mature thymocytes might reflect differential regulation of CK2 activity. Unlike CD5 regulation of cytosolic CK2, we show developmental stage-specific CD5-dependent regulation of CD5-associated CK2. These results provide the first evidence for a potential mechanism to explain the opposite effects of CD5 signaling in immature and mature thymocytes.
| Materials and Methods |
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Murine B-lymphoma, CH12, and human T-leukemia cell line, Jurkat,
were maintained as described previously (10). Murine spleens and
thymuses were obtained from 10- to 16-wk-old BALB/c mice (The Jackson
Laboratories, Bar Harbor, ME). Anti-mouse CD5 (53-7.3), anti-mouse
CD3
(145-2C11), anti-human CD19 (HIB19), and control rat IgG2a
were obtained from PharMingen (San Diego, CA). Anti-human CD5 (LT1) was
from Biodesign International (Kennebunk, ME), and anti-CD5 rabbit
serum to CD5 cytoplasmic tail peptide 456-DNSSDSDYDLHGAQRL-471 was
developed in our laboratory. Rabbit antisera to CK2
and ß were
gifts from Dr. David Litchfield (Manitoba Institute of Cell
Biology).
Immunoprecipitation and Western blot analysis
Cells were stimulated for 5 min with 20 µg/2 x
107 cells anti-CD5 mAb, anti-CD3, or isotype
control Ab and lysed in lysis buffer (2 x 107
cells/ml) (10). Lysates prepared from CH12 cells (1 x
107), splenocytes (2 x 107), or
thymocytes (1.2 x 107) were immunoprecipitated with
agarose conjugated anti-mouse CD5 or agarose-conjugated rat IgG2a,
and lysates from Jurkat cells (1 x 107) were
incubated with anti-human CD5, anti-mouse CD19 (IgG1 isotype
control), followed by precipitation with protein G agarose. Cytosolic
CK2 was immunoprecipitated with anti-CK2ß followed by protein A
agarose. The immunoprecipitates were analyzed by Western blot analysis
using rabbit antiserum to CK2
or CD5 followed by peroxidase
conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG and SuperSignal (Pierce, Rockford,
IL) chemiluminescence substrate. The splenocyte population contained
65% T cells, 45% B cells, and 3% CD5+ B cells as
determined by flow cytometry analysis of cells following
immunofluorescent staining with Abs to CD3, CD19, or CD5.
In vitro kinase assay
CK2 activity in immunoprecipitates was determined as described (10). In some experiments, heparin (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) was added to the kinase reaction at a final concentration of 10 µg/ml.
| Results and Discussion |
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Cross-linking of CD5 leads to the specific activation of
CD5-associated CK2 (10). To determine whether CD5 ligation also
regulates cytosolic CK2 activity, CH12 cells and Jurkat cells were
stimulated with anti-CD5 or control Ab, and the CK2 activity in
anti-CK2ß immunoprecipitates was determined to the standard CK2
substrate, RRREEETEEE (17). The concentration of Ab used to
immunoprecipitate CK2 from cell lysates was limiting, and therefore the
anti-CK2ß immunoprecipitates contained only a fraction of the
total CK2. Basal CK2 activity in anti-CK2ß immunoprecipitates
from unstimulated cells was greatly enhanced following CD5 stimulation
(Fig. 1
A). This increase
represented activation since the amount of CK2 in anti-CK2ß
immunoprecipitates from both stimulated and unstimulated cells was the
same (Fig. 1
B). The absence of detectable CD5 in the
anti-CK2ß immunoprecipitates excludes the possibility that the
observed activation was due to the presence of CD5-associated CK2 (Fig. 1
C and data not shown). These results therefore show that
CD5 stimulation leads to activation of cytosolic CK2 in addition to
activation of CD5 associated CK2 (Ref. 10 and Fig. 6
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The consistent inhibition of cytosolic CK2 activity in both
thymocytes and splenocytes indicates that the differential role of CD5
signaling in immature and mature T cells cannot be explained by
CD5-dependent regulation of cytosolic CK2 activity. Therefore, we
tested the possibility that the differential role of CD5 may be
associated with CD5-associated CK2 activity. No basal CD5-associated
CK2 activity was seen in thymocytes or splenocytes treated with control
Ab (Fig. 3
). CD5 cross-linking in
thymocytes led to greatly enhanced CD5-associated CK2 activity, but in
marked contrast, splenic CD5 associated CK2 activity remained at basal
level.
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The physical and functional association of CD5 with the TCR/CD3
complex raises the possibility that CD3 ligation/coligation may modify
the of CD5-dependent activation of CK2. To test the role of CD3
ligation on CD5-associated CK2 activity we determined the
CD5-associated CK2 activity in thymocytes and splenocytes following
stimulation via CD3 and costimulation via both CD5 and CD3. Consistent
with our previous study in Jurkat cells (10), CD5 but not CD3
stimulation activated CD5-associated CK2 activity in thymocytes, and
this enhanced activity was not altered in cells stimulated
simultaneously with anti-CD3 (Fig. 4
B). The
CD5-associated CK2 activity in splenocytes was not activated by either
CD5 or CD3 stimulation nor was it activated by costimulation of CD5
andCD3. These data indicate that the activation of CK2 by CD5 is
independent of TCR/CD3 signaling.
CD5 is a target of CD5-activated CK2-dependent phosphorylation
The dissociation of the activation of CD5-associated and cytosolic
CK2 in normal T cells suggests that activated cytosolic CK2 is not
derived from the CD5-associated pool. Therefore, we propose a model in
which CD5 provides activated CK2 to the CD5-TCR/CD3 complex. Targets of
activated CD5-associated CK2 are likely to be proximal signaling
elements including CD5 itself, the members of TCR/CD3 complex, and
signaling proteins associated with CD5 and TCR/CD3. Consistent with
this hypothesis consensus sites for CK2-dependent
phosphorylation are found in CD5, p56lck,
p59fyn, vav, Zap70, p85-PI3 kinase, and PLC-
1,
but not in CD3
or
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To demonstrate that endogenous CD5 is a target for CD5-dependent CK2
activation, CH12 cells were stimulated with anti-CD5 or treated
with control Ab and immunoprecipitated with anti-CD5 or control Ab.
The immunoprecipitates were incubated with [
-32P]ATP
in an in vitro kinase assay, separated by SDS-PAGE, transferred to a
polyvinylidene difluoride membrane and the membrane, was assayed first
by autoradiography and then by anti-CD5 Western blot analysis. The
heavily phosphorylated 67-kDa protein seen in anti-CD5
immunoprecipitates from CD5-stimulated cells was confirmed to be CD5 by
anti-CD5 Western blot analysis and the amount was similar in
stimulated and unstimulated cells (Fig. 5
). The phosphorylation
of CD5 was almost completely inhibited by the addition of 5 µg of the
16-amino acid synthetic C-terminal CD5 peptide
(456-DNSSDSDYDLHGAQRL-471) that contains the CK2ß binding region
Ser458-Ser461 in the cytoplasmic domain. A
slightly smaller nonspecific phosphorylated protein was
seen in all lanes.
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Based on our data that CD5 ligation activates CD5-associated CK2 and
that CD5 is also a substrate for active CK2, we suggest that CD5
participates in at least two pathways involving serine
phosphorylation, the first being the activation of
CK2-dependent signal transduction pathways and the second being
modulation of recruitment of other molecules. Consistent with this
hypothesis, Simarro et al. (23) have recently shown that the distal
cytoplasmic domain of CD5 is essential for the activation of PLC-
and TCR/CD3-dependent and -independent diacylglycerol production and
that the phosphorylation of Ser459 and
Ser461, the sites of CK2-dependent
phosphorylation, is likely to be involved in this
pathway.
The differential CD5-dependent regulation of CK2 in thymocytes and splenocytes provides the first key to explain CD5-mediated attenuation of TCR signaling in immature T cells and costimulation in mature T cells. CD5 signaling activates both tyrosine and serine/threonine phosphorylation-dependent pathways (2, 8, 14, 20, 23, 24). The cumulative data from several studies suggest that CD5-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation pathways are primarily costimulatory to TCR/CD3 signals and promote activation of cells. We propose that the role of CD5-activated CK2 is to attenuate TCR/CD3-CD5 proximal targets that are activated by tyrosine phosphorylation. In mature T cells, an as yet unidentified modulator of CK2 activation alters the ability of CK2 to be activated and allows unopposed tyrosine phosphorylation dependent costimulation of TCR/CD3 signals. The model is testable in mice expressing altered CD5 that is deficient in its ability to regulate CK2.
| Acknowledgments |
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2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Chander Raman, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama, LHRB 463, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007. E-mail address: ![]()
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: PLC, phospholipase C; CK2, casein kinase 2. ![]()
Received for publication May 8, 1998. Accepted for publication October 1, 1998.
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