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RIIb1 Require Distinct Phosphatases
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From the * Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852; Inhibition of natural killer (NK) cells by the killer cell inhibitory receptor (KIR) involves recruitment of the tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 by KIR and is prevented by expression of a dominant negative SHP-1 mutant. Another inhibitory receptor, the low affinity Fc receptor for immunoglobulin G (IgG) (Fc
Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology,
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
02215; and the § Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98104
RIIb1), has been shown to bind SHP-1 when cocross-linked with
the antigen receptor on B cells (BCR). However, coligation of Fc
RIIb1 with BCR and with Fc
RI on mast cells leads to recruitment of the inositol 5
phosphatase SHIP and to inhibition
of mast cells from SHP-1-deficient mice. In this study, we evaluated the ability of these two
inhibitory receptors to block target cell lysis by NK cells, and the contribution of SHP-1 and
SHIP to inhibition. Recombinant vaccinia viruses encoding chimeric receptors and dominant
negative mutants of SHP-1 and SHIP were used for expression in mouse and human NK cells. When the KIR cytoplasmic tail was replaced by that of Fc
RIIb1, recognition of HLA class I
on target cells by the extracellular domain resulted in inhibition. A dominant negative mutant
of SHP-1 reverted the inhibition mediated by the KIR cytoplasmic tail but not that mediated
by Fc
RIIb1. In contrast, a dominant negative mutant of SHIP reverted only the inhibition
mediated by the Fc
RIIb1 tail, providing functional evidence that SHIP plays a role in the
Fc
RIIb1-mediated negative signal. These data demonstrate that inhibition of NK cells by
KIR involves primarily the tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1, whereas inhibition mediated by
Fc
RIIb1 requires the inositol phosphatase SHIP.
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