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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Unexpected role of clathrin adaptor AP-1 in MHC-dependent positive selection of T cells.

Diana A Alvarez Arias, Nami McCarty, Linrong Lu, Roberto A Maldonado, Mari L Shinohara, Harvey Cantor

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Restricted MHC-II trafficking inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Development of αβ and γδ T Cells in the Thymus and Methods of Analysis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. Deficiency of AP1 ComplexInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Diana A Alvarez AriasDepartment of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Nami McCarty
Linrong Lu
Roberto A Maldonado
Mari L Shinohara
Harvey Cantor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · USHarvard University · US

Funding

IMMUNOLOGIC MECHANISMS THAT PREVENT AUTOIMMUNITYR01AI037562 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI CANTOR, HARVEY · 1996 to 2021
$9.4M
Postdoctoral Training Program in AIDS-related ResearchT32AI007386 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI CANTOR, HARVEY, ENGELMAN, ALAN N. · 1990 to 2023
$5.3M
Postdoctoral Training Program in Cancer ImmunologyT32CA070083 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI CANTOR, HARVEY · 1997 to 2012
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA070083NIAID NIH HHS AI 37562NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI037562NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007386PHS HHS 48125
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trafficking of transmembrane receptors to a specific intracellular compartment is conducted by adaptor molecules that bind to target motifs within the cytoplasmic domains of cargo proteins. We generated mice containing a lymphoid-specific deficiency of AP-1 using RNAi knockdown technology. Inhibition of AP-1 expression in thymocytes blocks progression from double-positive immature thymocytes, resulting in complete absence of CD4(+) single-positive thymocytes and severe reduction of CD3(+)CD8(+) single-positive thymocytes. Analysis of the contribution of AP-1 deficiency on the interaction between mature CD4(+) T cells and antigen-presenting cells revealed that AP-1 is essential to efficient immune synapse formation and associated T cell activation, suggesting a possible mechanism of AP-1 function in thymocyte development.

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Adaptor Protein Complex 1AnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsB-LymphocytesCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesFemaleFlow CytometryGene ExpressionHistocompatibility AntigensImmunoblottingImmunological SynapsesLymphocyte ActivationMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutAdaptor Protein Complex 1Histocompatibility AntigensOvalbuminProtein SubunitsReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

Identifiers

PMID20133794
PMCPMC2823916
OpenAlexW2126085830

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