| Abstract: |
THE Fc receptor on B lymphocytes, FcγRIIB (β1 isoform), helps to modulate B-cell activation triggered by the surface immunoglobulin complex 1,2. Crosslinking of membrane immunoglobulin by antigen or anti-Ig F(ab′;)2 antibody induces a transient increase in cytosolic free Ca2+, a rise in inositol-3-phosphate, activation of protein kinase C, and enhanced protein tyrosine phosphorylation3-5. Crosslinking FcγRIIB with the surface immunoglobulin complex confers a dominant signal that prevents or aborts lymphocyte activation triggered through the ARH-1 motifs of the signal transduction subunits Ig-α and Ig-β. Here we show that FcγRIIB modulates membrane immunoglobulin-induced Ca2+ mobilization by inhibiting Ca2+ influx, without changing the pattern of tyrosine phosphorylation. A 13-amino-acid motif in the cytoplasmic domain of FcγRIIB is both necessary and sufficient for this effect. Tyrosine at residue 309 in this motif is phosphorylated upon co-crosslinking with surface immunoglobulin; mutation of this residue aborts the inhibitory effect of FcγRIIB. This inhibition is directly coupled to signalling mediated through Ig-α and Ig-β as evidenced by chimaeric IgM/α and IgM/β molecules. The 13-residue motif in FcyRIIB controls lymphocyte activation by inhibiting a Ca2+ sig-nalling pathway triggered through ARH-1 motifs as a result of recruitment of novel SH2-containing proteins that interact with this FcγRIIB cytoplasmic motif. © 1994 Nature Publishing Group. |
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signal transduction; human cell; animals; mice; calcium; tumor cells, cultured; transfection; tyrosine; phosphorylation; b lymphocyte; b-lymphocytes; lymphocyte activation; amino acid sequence; molecular sequence data; lymphoma; cytoplasm; receptors, igg; antigens, cd; point mutation; receptors, antigen, b-cell; cross linking; calcium mobilization; lymphocyte receptor; immunoglobulin fc fragment; human; priority journal; article
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