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Title: Aluminum fluoride induces phosphatidylinositol turnover, elevation of cytoplasmic free calcium, and phosphorylation of the T cell antigen receptor in murine T cells

Journal Article · · J. Immunol.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5301519

Antigen activation of murine T lymphocytes leads to phosphorylation of three subunits of the murine T cell antigen receptor. Two kinases are activated in this process: protein kinase C which leads to phosphorylation of the ..gamma.. and, to a lesser extent, the epsilon subunits on serine residues and a tyrosine kinase which phosphorylates the p21 subunit. The authors sought to determine whether treatment of these cells with NaF could simulate any of these antigen-induced events. Indeed NaF treatment resulted in breakdown of polyphosphoinositides and production of phosphoinositols. This treatment also resulted in a rise in cytosolic free Ca/sup 2 +/. EGTA failed to block this rise suggesting that NaF liberated intracellular stores of Ca/sup 2 +/. Finally NaF treatment resulted in phosphorylation of the ..gamma.. and epsilon chains of the T cell receptor indistinguishable from the effects of phorbol esters. The NaF effect was potentiated by addition of AlCl/sub 3/ consistent with the view that the active moiety is AlF/sub 4//sup -/. The AlF/sub 4//sup -/-induced phosphorylations were abolished in cells in which protein kinase C was depleted by prior treatment with phorbol myristate acetate. All of these observations are compatible with the interpretation that the AlF/sub 4//sup -/ phosphorylation is mediated by protein kinase C. Antigen and anti-receptor antibody-induced receptor serine phosphorylation and phophatidylinositol turnover are blocked by raising intracellular levels of cyclic adenosin monophosphate. In contrast, AlF/sub 4//sup -/-induced effects were in sensitive to cyclic adenosine monmonophosphate

Research Organization:
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
OSTI ID:
5301519
Journal Information:
J. Immunol.; (United States), Vol. 139:10
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English