T cells are an immune cell lineage that play a central role in protection against pathogen infection. Antigen, in the form of pathogen-derived peptides, stimulates the T-cell receptor (TCR), leading to activation of the transcription factor, nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB). The subsequent NF-κB-dependent gene expression program drives expansion and effector differentiation of antigen-specifi c T cells, leading to the adaptive anti-pathogen immune response. The cell surface TCR transmits activating signals to cytosolic NF-κB by a complex signaling cascade, in which the adapter protein Bcl10 plays a key role. We have previously demonstrated that TCR engagement leads to the formation of cytosolic Bcl10 clusters, called POLKADOTS, that provide a platform for the assembly of the terminal signaling complex that ultimately mediates NF-κB activation. In this chapter, we describe the methods utilized to visualize the formation of TCR-induced POLKADOTS and to study the temporal association between POLKADOTS formation and nuclear translocation of the NF-κB subunit, RelA/p65.
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Paul, S., & Schaefer, B. C. (2015). Visualizing TCR-induced POLKADOTS formation and Nf-κB activation in the D10 T-cell clone and mouse primary effector T cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1280, 219–238. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2422-6_12
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