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The Spectrin-Ankyrin Skeleton Controls Cd45 Surface Display And Interleukin-2 Production, Deepti Pradhan, Jon Morrow
The Spectrin-Ankyrin Skeleton Controls Cd45 Surface Display And Interleukin-2 Production, Deepti Pradhan, Jon Morrow
Deepti Pradhan
With T cell receptor stimulation, intracellular pools of CD45 and spectrin move to the surface. These processes are coupled. In both peripheral lymphocytes and Jurkat T cells, βI spectrin and ankyrin associate with CD45. In Jurkat T cells, βI spectrin peptides suppress surface recruitment of CD45 and CD3 and abrogate T cell activation. Other glycoproteins such as CD43 are not altered by the spectrin peptides. Spectrin's effects are mediated by ankyrin, which binds directly to the cytoplasmic domain of CD45 (Kd = 4.3 ± 3.0 nM). These data reveal a novel and unexpected contribution of the spectrin-ankyrin skeleton to …