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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 108, 期 10, 页码 2481-2491出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.03.059
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [P50GM065794, R37GM035556]
- Department of Energy [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- STMC
- Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Labs
The regulation of T-cell-mediated immune responses depends on the phosphorylation of immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs (ITAMs) on T-cell receptors. Although many details of the signaling cascades are well understood, the initial mechanism and regulation of ITAM phosphorylation remains unknown. We used molecular dynamics simulations to study the influence of different compositions of lipid bilayers on the membrane association of the CD3 epsilon cytoplasmic tails of the T-cell receptors. Our results show that binding of CD3 epsilon to membranes is modulated by both the presence of negatively charged lipids and the lipid order of the membrane. Free-energy calculations reveal that the protein-membrane interaction is favored by the presence of nearby basic residues and the ITAM tyrosines. Phosphorylation minimizes membrane association, rendering the ITAM motif more accessible to binding partners. In systems mimicking biological membranes, the CD3 epsilon chain localization is modulated by different facilitator lipids (e.g., gangliosides or phosphoinositols), revealing a plausible regulatory effect on activation through the regulation of lipid composition in cell membranes.
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