Volume 31, Issue 1 pp. 88-98
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Impaired mobility of human t lymphocyte surface molecules during inactive systemic lupus erythematosus. relationship to a defective camp pathway

Gary M. Kammer MD

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Gary M. Kammer MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Elizabeth Mitchell BS

Elizabeth Mitchell BS

Medical Student

Division of Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.

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First published: January 1988
Citations: 14

Abstract

The T lymphocytes of patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) exhibit impaired capping of the surface molecules CD3, CD4, and CD8 and a defective cAMP-dependent pathway. Since the mobility of these molecules is regulated in part by cAMP, we sought to determine whether there is a specific defect(s) along the T cell cAMP pathway that contributes to the persistent capping disorder observed during inactive SLE. The data suggest that a defect may exist at the level of cAMP-dependent protein kinase activation or at a point distally. We propose that a disorder of cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity might account for the defect of capping observed in both the CD3, CD4 (helper/inducer) and CD3,CD8 (suppressor) subsets observed in SLE.

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