Force-Regulated In Situ TCR-Peptide-Bound MHC Class II Kinetics Determine Functions of CD4+ T Cells.
Force-Regulated In Situ TCR-Peptide-Bound MHC Class II Kinetics Determine Functions of CD4+ T Cells.
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DOI:
10.4049/jimmunol.1501407
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发表时间:
2015-10-15
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Zhu C
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Hong J;Persaud SP;Horvath S;Allen PM;Evavold BD;Zhu C
We have recently shown that two-dimensional (2D) and force-regulated kinetics of TCR–pMHC-I interactions predict responses of CD8+ T cells. To test whether these findings are applicable to CD4+ T cells, we analyzed the in situ 3.L2 TCR–pMHC-II interactions for a well-characterized panel of altered peptide ligands on the T-cell surface using the adhesion frequency assay with a micropipette and the thermal fluctuation and force-clamp assays with a biomembrane force probe. We found that the 2D effective TCR–pMHC-II affinity and off-rate correlate with, but better predict the T-cell response than, the corresponding measurements with the surface plasmon resonance in three dimensions (3D). The 2D affinity of the CD4 for MHCII was very low, approaching the detection limit, making it 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than the affinity of CD8 for MHC-I. In addition, the signal-dependent cooperation between TCR and co-receptor for pMHC binding previously observed for CD8 was not observed for CD4. Interestingly, force elicited TCR–pMHC-II catch-slip bonds for agonists but slip-only bonds for antagonists, thereby amplifying the power of discrimination between APLs. These results show that the force-regulated 2D binding kinetics of the 3.L2 TCR for pMHC-II determine functions of CD4+ T cells.