The following position is available at the Department Experimental Immunology of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig: PhD candidate: Control
of immunological synapse formation in regulatory T cells.
Engagement of CD28 outside
of the immunological synapse results in up - regulation of IL - 2 mRNA stability but not IL - 2 transcription.
Antigen - specific blocking
of immunological synapse formation using bifunctional peptide, Utilization of I - domain of LFA - 1 to Target Drug and Marker Molecules to Leukocytes.
We are using now a genetic yeast two - hybrid screen with this biosensor to identify new proteins that are important for the structure and function
of the Immunological Synapse.
Not exact matches
We applied this to systems spanning four orders
of magnitude in space and time, including the diffusion
of single transcription factor molecules in stem cell spheroids, the dynamic instability
of mitotic microtubules, the
immunological synapse, neutrophil motility in a 3D matrix, and embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster.
Abraham Kupfer describes the three - dimensional structure
of supramolecular activation clusters (SMACs), the interface between an antigen presenting cell and a lymphocyte (including key molecules the T cell receptor and the major histocompatibility complex), [i] later coined the
immunological synapse and further elucidated by Arash Grakoui, Michael Dustin, Paul Allen, and Andrey Shaw.
These studies led to the discovery
of the
Immunological -
Synapse.
ERM - dependent movement
of CD43 defines a novel protein complex distal to the
immunological synapse.
A motif in the V3 domain
of the kinase PKC -[theta] determines its localization in the
immunological synapse and functions in T cells via association with CD28.
Antiparallel segregation
of notch components in the
immunological synapse directs reciprocal signaling in allogeneic Th: DC conjugates.
A proline - rich motif in the C terminus
of Akt contributes to its localization in the
immunological synapse.
Peptide - specific intercellular transfer
of MHC class II to CD4 + T cells directly from the
immunological synapse upon cellular dissociation.
Dynamic recruitment
of PAK1 to the
immunological synapse is mediated by PIX independently
of SLP - 76 and Vav1.