| Literature DB >> 1402648 |
V S Parikh1, G A Bishop, K J Liu, B T Do, M R Ghosh, B S Kim, P W Tucker.
Abstract
By generating phosphorylcholine (PC)-specific, wild-type (mu), and chimeric (mu-I-A alpha) antigen receptor transfectants of mature B cells, we have shown that the COOH terminus of the mu heavy chain is essential for three major functions: immediate signal transduction (measured as changes in intracellular Ca2+), antigen presentation, and induction of immunoglobulin M secretion. A more detailed analysis of structural requirements of the COOH-terminal domains contributing to these functions was achieved by systematically replacing the spacer, cytoplasmic, and transmembranal domains of the mu-I-A alpha chimeric chain with those of mu. Using this rescue approach, we show that the carboxyl two-thirds of the transmembranal domain (proximal to the cytoplasmic domain) is required for induction of intracellular Ca2+, whereas the complete transmembranal domain is required for the function of antigen presentation but is dispensable for induction of antibody secretion.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1402648 PMCID： PMC2119374 DOI： 10.1084/jem.176.4.1025
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Med ISSN： 0022-1007 Impact factor: 14.307