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CD3 components at the surface of pro-T cells can mediate pre-T cell development in vivo.

Developmentally arrested pro-T cells (CD4-8-, IL-2R+, HSA++) of RAG-1-deficient mice appear to express low levels of CD3 molecules in the absence of T cell receptor (TcR) chains at their surface, while developmentally arrested pre-T cells of TcR alpha-deficient mice express low levels of a disulfide-linked TcR beta chain in association with CD3 molecules. Cross-linking of the CD3 modules on pro-T cells of RAG-1-/- mice in vivo, with either of two different CD3 epsilon-specific monoclonal antibodies, induces differentiation of these pro-T cells into pre-T cells (CD4+8+, IL-2R-, HSA+), concomitant with a rapid expansion of the thymic T cell compartment, up to 175-fold within 12 days. The same effects can be produced by introduction of a mutant TcR beta transgene lacking most of the variable domain (delta V-TcR beta) into the RAG-1-/- background. These experiments suggest that cross-linking of the CD3 modules on pro-T cells mimics the signaling function expected of the pre-TcR complex, which is found at the surface of pre-T cells prior to functional TcR alpha gene rearrangement. The variable domain of the TcR beta chain is apparently not essential for inducing these aspects of T cell development.[1]

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  1. CD3 components at the surface of pro-T cells can mediate pre-T cell development in vivo. Jacobs, H., Vandeputte, D., Tolkamp, L., de Vries, E., Borst, J., Berns, A. Eur. J. Immunol. (1994) [Pubmed]
 
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