Alternative splicing of MALT1 controls signalling and activation of CD4+ T cells

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11292