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ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2009

KSR1 modulates the sensitivity of mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway activation in T cells without altering fundamental system outputs.

Joseph Lin, Angus Harding, Emanuele Giurisato, Andrey S Shaw

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Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joseph LinDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. jlin1@pathbox.wustl.edu
Angus Harding
Emanuele Giurisato
Andrey S Shaw
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of Queensland · AU

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are evolutionarily conserved signaling pathways that regulate cell fate decisions. They generate a wide range of signal outputs, including graded and digital responses. In T cells, MAPK activation is digital in response to T-cell-receptor stimulation; however, whether other receptors on T cells that lead to MAPK activation are graded or digital is unknown. Here we evaluate MAPK activation in T cells at the single-cell level. We show that T cells responded digitally to stimulation with superantigen-loaded antigen-presenting cells, whereas they responded in a graded manner to the chemokine SDF-1, demonstrating that the system output of the MAPK module is highly plastic and determined by components upstream of the MAPK module. These findings also confirm that different MAPK system outputs are used by T cells to control discrete biological functions. Scaffold proteins are essential for proper MAPK signaling and function as they physically assemble multiple components and regulators of MAPK cascades. We found that the scaffold protein KSR1 regulated the threshold required for MAPK activation in T cells without affecting the nature of the response. We conclude that KSR1 plays a central role in determining the sensitivity of T-cell responses and is thus well positioned as a key control point.

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Antigen-Presenting CellsB-LymphocytesCell Line, TumorChemokine CXCL12HumansMAP Kinase Signaling SystemMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesProtein KinasesSuperantigensT-LymphocytesChemokine CXCL12CXCL12 protein, humanKSR-1 protein kinaseMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesProtein KinasesSuperantigens

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PMID19188442
PMCPMC2663292
OpenAlexW2124356134

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