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J. Exp. Med., Volume 188, Number 1, July 1, 1998 93-101

The Molecular Mechanism of B Cell Activation by toll-like Receptor Protein RP-105

By Vivien W.F. Chan,* Ingrid Mecklenbräuker,Dagger § I-hsin Su,Dagger § Gemma Texido,§ Michael Leitges,parallel Rita Carsetti,parallel Clifford A. Lowell,* Klaus Rajewsky,§ Kensuke Miyake, and Alexander TarakhovskyDagger §

From the * Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143; Dagger  Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling and § Department of Immunology, Institute for Genetics, University of Köln, Weyertal 121, D-50931 Köln, Germany; parallel  Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Stubeweg 51, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany; and  Department of Immunology, Saga Medical School, Nabeshima, Saga 849, Japan

The B cell-specific transmembrane protein RP-105 belongs to the family of Drosophila toll-like proteins which are likely to trigger innate immune responses in mice and man. Here we demonstrate that the Src-family protein tyrosine kinase Lyn, protein kinase C beta  I/II (PKCbeta I/II), and Erk2-specific mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase (MEK) are essential and probably functionally connected elements of the RP-105-mediated signaling cascade in B cells. We also find that negative regulation of RP-105-mediated activation of MAP kinases by membrane immunoglobulin may account for the phenomenon of antigen receptor-mediated arrest of RP-105-mediated B cell proliferation.

Key words: RP-105B lymphocytessignal transductionmice


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