Alternative splicing of MALT1 controls signalling and activation of CD4+ T cells
oleh: Isabel Meininger, Richard A. Griesbach, Desheng Hu, Torben Gehring, Thomas Seeholzer, Arianna Bertossi, Jan Kranich, Andrea Oeckinghaus, Andrea C. Eitelhuber, Ute Greczmiel, Andreas Gewies, Marc Schmidt-Supprian, Jürgen Ruland, Thomas Brocker, Vigo Heissmeyer, Florian Heyd, Daniel Krappmann
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2016-04-01 |
Deskripsi
MALT1 regulates NFκB signalling both as a scaffolding protein and as a protease. Here the authors show that during T cell activation the expression of MALT1 gene switches to an alternatively spliced variant, which increases TCR signal transduction due to enhanced TRAF6 binding.