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Mouse Ly-49A interrupts early signaling events in natural killer cell cytotoxicity and functionally associates with the SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1997

Keywords

Cytotoxicity-Immunologic: im, Killer-Cells-Natural: im, Major-Histocompatibility-Complex: im, Mice, Phosphatidylinositols: me, Phosphorylation, Protein-Binding, Protein-Tyrosine-Phosphatase: me, Rats, Signal-Transduction, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S, Tyrosine: me

First Page

673

Last Page

684

JAX Source

J Exp Med 1997 Feb 17;185(4):673-84

Abstract

The lytic activity of natural killer (NK) cells is inhibited by the expression of class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens on target cells. In murine NK cells, Ly-49A mediates inhibition of cytotoxicity in response to the class I MHC antigen H-2Dd. In this report, we studied the function of mouse Ly-49A in both the rat NK cell tumor line, RNK-16, transfected with Ly-49A cDNA, and in primary NK cells. We show that ligation of Ly-49A by H-2Dd inhibits early signaling events during target cell stimulation, including polyphosphoinositide turnover and tyrosine phosphorylation. We also show that Ly-49A directly associates with the cytoplasmic tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1, and that Ly-49A function is impaired in NK cells from SHP-1 mutant viable motheaten mice and from SHP-1-deficient motheaten mice. Finally, we demonstrate that mutational substitution of the tyrosine within the proposed SHP-1 binding motif in Ly-49A completely abrogates inhibition of NK cell cytotoxicity through this receptor. These results demonstrate that Ly-49A interrupts early activating signals in NK cells, and that SHP-1 is an important mediator of Ly-49A function.

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