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Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein regulates lipid raft dynamics during immunological synapse formation
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein regulates lipid raft dynamics during immunological synapse formation IMMUNITY Dupre, L., Aiuti, A., Trifari, S., Martino, S., Saracco, P., Bordignon, C., Roncarolo, M. G. 2002; 17 (2): 157-166Abstract
Immunological synapse assembly relies on the clustering of lipid rafts and is required for optimal T cell activation. We demonstrate that the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) is recruited to lipid rafts immediately after TCR and CD28 triggering and is required for the movements of lipid rafts. T cells from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) patients, lacking WASP, proliferate poorly after TCR/CD28 activation and have impaired capacities to cluster the lipid raft marker GM1 and to upregulate GM1 cell surface expression. T cell proliferation and lipid raft clustering are restored by retroviral transfer of the WASP gene. These results demonstrate that WASP plays a central role in the movements of lipid rafts and identify a potential mechanism underlying the T cell defect affecting WAS patients.
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