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. 1996 Jun 25;93(13):6567–6571. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.13.6567

Expression of a candidate cadherin in T lymphocytes.

K L Cepek 1, D L Rimm 1, M B Brenner 1
PMCID: PMC39065  PMID: 8692857

Abstract

Cadherins are homotypic adhesion molecules that classically mediate interactions between cells of the same type in solid tissues. In addition, E-cadherin is able to support homotypic adhesion of epidermal Langerhans cells to keratinocytes (Tang, A., Amagai, M., Granger, L. G., Stanley, J. R. & Udey, M. C. (1993) Nature (London) 361, 82-85) and heterotypic adhesion of mucosal epithelial cells to E-cadherin-negative intestinal intraepithelial T lymphocytes. Thus, we hypothesized that cadherins may play a wider role in cell-to-cell adhesion events involving T lymphocytes. We searched for a cadherin or cadherins in T lymphocytes with a pan-cadherin antiserum and antisera against alpha- or beta-catenin, molecules known to associate with the cytoplasmic domain of cadherins. The anti-beta-catenin antisera coimmunoprecipitated a radiolabeled species in T-lymphocyte lines that had a molecular mass of 129 kDa and was specifically immunoblotted with the pan-cadherin antiserum. Also, the pan-cadherin antiserum directly immunoprecipitated a 129-kDa radiolabeled species from an 125I surface-labeled Jurkat human T-cell leukemic cell line. After V8 protease digestion, the peptide map of this pan-cadherin-immunoprecipitated, 129-kDa species exactly matched that of the 129-kDa species coimmunoprecipitated with the beta-catenin antiserum. These results demonstrate that T lymphocytes express a catenin-associated protein that appears to be a member of the cadherin superfamily and may contribute to T cell-mediated immune surveillance.

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