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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Antigen perception in T cells by long-term Erk and NFAT signaling dynamics.

Matthew J Wither, William L White, Sriram Pendyala, Paul J Leanza, Douglas M Fowler, Hao Yuan Kueh

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Direct observation correlates NFκB cRel in B cells with activating and terminating their proliferative program.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  13. Antigen perception in T cells by long-term Erk and NFAT signaling dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew J WitherUniversity of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, WA 98195.ORCID 0000-0002-7561-4686
William L WhiteUniversity of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, WA 98195.ORCID 0009-0004-0041-2125
Sriram PendyalaUniversity of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195.ORCID 0000-0003-3395-3417
Paul J LeanzaUniversity of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, WA 98195.
Douglas M FowlerUniversity of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195.
Hao Yuan KuehUniversity of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, WA 98195.ORCID 0000-0001-6272-6673
University of Washington · US

Funding

Technology to understand genetic variant effects in contextRM1HG010461 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Douglas M Fowler, Bruce Colston Trapnell · 2019 to 2026
$18.9M
Input encoding in T-cell receptor signalingR21EB027327 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KUEH, HAO YUAN · 2019 to 2021
$622k
NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG010461NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB027327
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune system threat detection hinges on T cells' ability to perceive varying peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) antigens. As the Erk and NFAT pathways link T cell receptor engagement to gene regulation, their signaling dynamics may convey information about pMHC inputs. To test this idea, we developed a dual reporter mouse strain and a quantitative imaging assay that, together, enable simultaneous monitoring of Erk and NFAT dynamics in live T cells over day-long timescales as they respond to varying pMHC inputs. Both pathways initially activate uniformly across various pMHC inputs but diverge only over longer (9+ h) timescales, enabling independent encoding of pMHC affinity and dose. These late signaling dynamics are decoded via multiple temporal and combinatorial mechanisms to generate pMHC-specific transcriptional responses. Our findings underscore the importance of long timescale signaling dynamics in antigen perception and establish a framework for understanding T cell responses under diverse contexts.

Indexed as

Lymphocyte ActivationT-LymphocytesAnimalsAntigensHistocompatibility AntigensMajor Histocompatibility ComplexMicePeptidesPerceptionProtein BindingReceptors, Antigen, T-CellAntigensHistocompatibility AntigensPeptidesReceptors, Antigen, T-Cellgene regulationlive-cell imagingsignal encodingsignaling dynamicsT cell receptor signaling

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PMID38113261
PMCPMC10756264
OpenAlexW4389934911

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