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Somatic activation of beta-catenin bypasses pre-TCR signaling and TCR selection in thymocyte development.

Mutation or ablation of T cell factor 1 and lymphocyte enhancer factor 1 indicated involvement of the Wnt pathway in thymocyte development. The central effector of the Wnt pathway is beta-catenin, which undergoes stabilization upon binding of Wnt ligands to frizzled receptors. We report here that conditional stabilization of beta-catenin in immature thymocytes resulted in the generation of single positive T cells that lacked the alpha beta TCR and developed in the absence of pre-TCR signaling and TCR selection. Although active beta-catenin induced differentiation in the absence of TCRs, its action was associated with reduced proliferation and survival when compared to developmental changes induced by the pre-TCR or the alpha beta TCR.[1]

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  1. Somatic activation of beta-catenin bypasses pre-TCR signaling and TCR selection in thymocyte development. Gounari, F., Aifantis, I., Khazaie, K., Hoeflinger, S., Harada, N., Taketo, M.M., von Boehmer, H. Nat. Immunol. (2001) [Pubmed]
 
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