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Immunobiology Department, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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| Introduction |
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| Materials and Methods |
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The following Abs were used: anti-CD148 (A3; 17 ; anti-CD69 (Becton Dickinson, Mountain View, CA); goat anti-mouse Ig (Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, West Grove, PA); anti-CD3 (Spv-T3b; 18 ; anti-Jurkat TCRß-chain (C305; 19 ; control IgG1 (MOPC-31; PharMingen, San Diego, CA); horseradish peroxidase-conjugated antiphosphotyrosine (4G10), anti-myc (9E10; Upstate Biotechnology, Lake Placid, NY); rabbit antiphosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase (pMAPK) antiserum (Promega, Madison, WI); rabbit anti-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) antiserum (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA); and horseradish peroxidase anti-rabbit and anti-mouse IgG antiserum (Amersham, Arlington Heights, IL).
Expression constructs
The full-length CD148 gene (14) was released from pSSR
by
NotI-SalI digestion, producing a 4267-bp fragment
that was ligated into the NotI-SalI sites of
pSport1 (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY). The pSport/CD148
construct was digested with XbaI and SalI,
yielding a fragment that could be ligated into the
XbaI-SalI sites of pEF-BOS (20), producing the
pEF-BOS/CD148 construct. To generate a phosphatase-deficient construct,
pSport/CD148 was digested with StuI to release the fragment
(from nucleotide 3424 to 4176) encoding the catalytic site of the
phosphatase domain. Following digestion, pSport/CD148 was religated,
yielding pSport/CD148mutant. pSport/CD148mutant
was then digested with XbaI and SalI, and the
resulting fragment cloned into the XbaI-SalI
sites of pEF-BOS, producing pEF-BOS/CD148mutant. The
C-terminal myc-tagged pEF-BOS/ZAP-70 construct was provided
by Dr. A. Weiss (University of California, San Francisco).
Transfection, analysis, and activation of human T cells
Jurkat cells (2 x 107) were transfected by electroporation with no DNA, empty pEF-BOS, pEF-BOS/CD148, pEF-BOS/CD148mutant (40 µg), or a combination of pEF-BOS/ZAP-70 (10 µg) with CD148 or CD148mutant (20). Intrinsic PTP activity of cell lysates was demonstrated as described (21). Transfected Jurkat cells (106/ml) were cultured with immobilized anti-CD3 mAb (1 µg/ml) or PMA (1 ng/ml) plus ionomycin (500 ng/ml). In some experiments, culture plates were precoated with anti-CD148 mAb (17), and transfected Jurkat cells or normal purified human T cells (106/ml; 22 were added to the wells and activated with 1 µg/ml soluble anti-CD3 mAb.
Surface immunofluorescence
Cells were incubated with FITC- or phycoerythrin (PE)-conjugated mAb and incubated on ice for 30 min. Expression of CD3 and CD69 on transfected Jurkat cells was determined by gating on CD148+ and CD148- cells. Dead cells were excluded by the addition of propidium iodide (2 µg/ml).
Immunoblot analysis of activated Jurkat cells
Following transfection, the cells were activated with anti-Jurkat TCRß-chain mAb (C305) for 3 min at 37°C, then lysed in 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.8) containing 1% Nonidet P-40, 150 mM NaCl, and enzyme inhibitors (20). In some experiments, the cells were stained with FITC-anti-CD148 mAb and then sorted into CD148+ and CD148- cell populations before activation. ZAP-70 was immunoprecipitated from lysates using anti-myc mAb absorbed onto protein G beads. Cell lysates were subjected to SDS-PAGE and then transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes (Millipore, Bedford, MA) which were probed with Abs specific for phosphotyrosines, myc, pMAPK or total ERK. The membranes were developed using enhanced chemiluminescence (Pierce, Rockford, IL) and autoradiography.
| Results and Discussion |
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To investigate the mechanism of action of CD148, the Jurkat T cell
line, which does not express endogenous CD148 (17), was transiently
transfected with wild-type CD148 (CD148) or PTP-deficient CD148
(CD148mutant). After 15 to 24 h, comparable levels of
gene expression were observed in both transfectants (Fig. 1
A). Analysis of lysates
indicated that CD148-dependent PTP activity was detected in
CD148-transfected Jurkat cells (Fig. 1
B), whereas Jurkat
cells transfected with CD148mutant exhibited no PTP
activity, indicating that this mutant construct indeed encoded a
PTP-deficient protein (Fig. 1
B).
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Induction of proliferation of anti-CD3 mAb-activated T cells
in the presence of anti-CD148 mAb could reflect either activation
or inhibition of the PTP (17). To determine whether CD148 is a positive
or negative regulator of T cell activation, the effect of CD148 on
TCR-mediated activation was investigated. As described above, after
transfection, up to 40% of Jurkat cells expressed CD148, while the
remainder did not. This allowed for flow cytometric analysis of
TCR-mediated up-regulation of CD69 expression on activated transfected
Jurkat cells that were either CD148+ or
CD148-. The existence of CD148+ and
CD148- Jurkat cells within the one population served as an
internal control for the activation procedure. In the presence of
anti-CD3 mAb, 90.1% (n = 3) of CD148-
Jurkat cells transfected with CD148 up-regulated CD69 expression (Fig. 2
A). In contrast, CD69
expression was up-regulated on only 65.9% (n = 3) of
activated CD148+ Jurkat cells (Fig. 2
a). Not
only did fewer CD148+ cells up-regulate CD69, but the mean
fluorescence intensity (MFI) of CD69 expression was
40% less than
on CD148- Jurkat cells (365.0 vs 590.2; n
= 3). The inhibitory effect of transiently expressed CD148 was not
dose-dependent but rather threshold-dependent because activation of
only Jurkat cells that expressed the highest levels of CD148 was
affected. The inhibitory effect of CD148 was not due to a difference in
the level of TCR expressed by the transfected cells because the MFI of
CD3 expression was equivalent on CD148+ and
CD148- Jurkat cells (data not shown). Activation with PMA
and ionomycin, which bypasses TCR-dependent signaling, overcame the
inhibitory effect of CD148 as evidenced by up-regulation of CD69 on
90% of CD148- and 88.1% of CD148+ Jurkat
cells (n = 3; Fig. 2
B). This finding
demonstrated that overexpressing an exogenous protein did not grossly
affect the signaling capacity of Jurkat cells. Importantly, when Jurkat
cells were transfected with the CD148mutant cDNA
CD148mutant- and CD148mutant+ cells
up-regulated CD69 expression to a comparable extent (Fig. 2
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CD148 can inhibit TCR-mediated activation in Jurkat cells, and this
effect is specifically regulated by the PTP activity of CD148. This
demonstration that CD148 negatively regulates T cell activation is
consistent with previous observations implicating this molecule in the
negative regulation of cell growth. These include the findings that the
CD148 gene was deleted in various human carcinomas (14) and
that in vitro induction of CD148 expression caused a reduction in
growth of some cell lines (15, 23).
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If immobilized anti-CD148 mAb enhanced T cell proliferation by
neutralizing the negative effect of CD148 (17), then the inhibitory
effect of overexpressed CD148 on Jurkat cell activation should also be
abrogated by anti-CD148 mAb. When transfected Jurkat cells were
cultured with anti-CD3 mAb in the presence of immobilized
anti-CD148 mAb, up-regulation of CD69 by CD148+ cells
was restored to the level observed for CD148- cells. (Fig. 3
, a and b). To
extend these observations, peripheral blood T cells were similarly
cultured. Activation with anti-CD3 mAb plus a control IgG1
up-regulated CD69 expression on the majority of T cells (68.5 ±
5.6%; mean ± SEM, n = 5). Activation in the
presence of anti-CD148 mAb moderately increased the percentage of
CD69+ T cells (81.7 ± 4.0%; Fig. 3
c).
Strikingly, the MFI of CD69 expression on T cells activated with
anti-CD3 plus anti-CD148 mAb was 2-fold greater than T cells
activated with anti-CD3 mAb plus a control IgG1 (168.3 vs 88.7,
n = 5; Fig. 3
c). This result suggests that
cross-linking CD148 impairs its ability to negatively regulate T cell
activation, causing an exaggerated T cell response as evidenced by
increased proliferation and increased expression of activation Ags. A
similar mechanism was proposed to account for the ability of mAb
specific for the inhibitory cell surface receptors CD22 and CD5 (13, 24) to enhance proliferation of Ag receptor-activated lymphocytes (25, 26). It was proposed that the mAb increased lymphocyte proliferation by
disrupting the association of the cytoplasmic domains of CD5 and CD22
with the inhibitory PTP SHP-1 (13). In further support of our data are
recent studies suggesting that the activity of R-PTP is regulated by
dimerization. Analysis of crystal structures of R-PTP
suggested that
dimerization of the PTP domain lead to blockade of the active site and
subsequently to inhibition of PTP function (27). In addition, the
restoration of TCR-mediated signal transduction in CD45-deficient
Jurkat cells by a chimeric receptor could be abrogated following
ligand-induced dimerization of the PTP domain of CD45 (28).
Interestingly, mutation of critical residues in the cytoplasmic domain
of CD45 that are believed to be involved in dimerization of CD45
abrogated the ligand-induced reduction in TCR-mediated signaling (29).
Of note, the intracellular domain of CD148 contains a consensus
sequence present in both R-PTP
and CD45 (27) that is important for
inhibition of PTP function following dimerization (29). Thus, a
generalized consequence of ligating the extracellular domain of R-PTP
may be an inhibition of PTP activity induced by dimerization of the PTP
domain (9).
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One of the key regulators of TCR-mediated activation events, such
as up-regulation of CD69 expression, is the MAPK pathway (8, 10, 30).
The MAPK ERK-1 and ERK-2 were rapidly phosphorylated in
TCR-activated sort-purified CD148- Jurkat cells (Fig. 4
A, upper
panel). In contrast, ERK-1/ERK-2 were only minimally
phosphorylated in activated CD148+ Jurkat cells
(Fig. 4
B, upper panel). This demonstrated
that over-expression of CD148 inhibited TCR-mediated MAPK activation
and therefore is likely to function upstream of MAPK. An early
biochemical event initiated by TCR ligation is activation of PTK
resulting in tyrosine phosphorylation of many cellular
substrates (11). Consistent with previous studies (31), activation of
CD148- Jurkat cells via the TCR induced
phosphorylation of major cellular proteins of
40 to
100 kDa (Fig. 4
B). Strikingly, there was minimal induction
of phosphorylated proteins in CD148+ cells
following TCR-mediated activation (Fig. 4
B). In fact, the
pattern of phosphorylated proteins in lysates of stimulated
CD148+ cells was similar to that of unstimulated cells,
suggesting that the proximal TCR signaling machinery may be inhibited
by CD148. To examine whether activation of ZAP-70, a critical PTK
implicated in initiating TCR signal transduction (8), was affected
Jurkat cells were transfected with myc-tagged ZAP-70 and
either CD148mutant or wild-type CD148. Ectopically
expressed ZAP-70 was then immunoprecipitated and assessed for its
tyrosine phosphorylation status. When cotransfected
with CD148mutant, ZAP-70 was rapidly
phosphorylated following TCR-stimulation (Fig. 4
C, upper panel). In contrast, only a low
amount of phosphorylated ZAP-70 was detected in activated
Jurkat cells expressing wild-type CD148 (Fig. 4
C,
upper panel). This finding confirms that the
inhibition observed in cells over-expressing CD148 required the PTP
domain of this molecule. Taken together, over-expression of CD148 in
Jurkat cells potently inhibits proximal TCR-mediated signaling events
including protein tyrosine phosphorylation, ZAP-70
activation, and subsequent downstream events such as MAPK activation.
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T cell activation can be down-regulated following recruitment of SHP-1 to cell surface receptors and intracellular molecules (12, 13, 31). TCR-mediated signaling can also be attenuated by MAPK phosphatases (10). Because it is an inducible molecule whose activity can be modulated by engagement of its extracellular domain suggest, CD148 may represent an important PTP involved in down-regulating T cell activation.
| Acknowledgments |
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/HPTP
construct; and Dr.
Arthur Weiss (University of California, San Francisco) for providing
pEF-BOS, pEF-BOS/ZAP-70, and C305 mAb. | Footnotes |
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2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Stuart G. Tangye, DNAX Research Institute, 901 California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304. E-mail address: ![]()
3 Current address: Novartis Research Institute, Brunner Strasse 59, A-1235 Vienna, Austria. ![]()
4 Abbreviations used in this paper: PTK, protein tyrosine kinase; PTP, protein tyrosine phosphatase; SHP-1, SH2-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase-1; R-PTP, receptor-type PTP; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; pMAPK, phosphorylated MAPK; ERK, extracellular signal-regulated kinase; PE, phycoerythrin; MFI, mean fluorescence intensity. ![]()
Received for publication June 9, 1998. Accepted for publication August 5, 1998.
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