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Human effector memory CD4 T cells may transmigrate across endothelial cell (EC) monolayers either in response to inflammatory chemokines or in response to TCR recognition of Ag presented on the surface of the EC. The kinetics, morphologic manifestations, and molecular requirements of chemokine- and TCR-driven transendothelial migration (TEM) differ significantly. In this study, we report that, whereas the microtubule organizing center (MTOC) and cytosolic granules follow the nucleus across the endothelium in a uropod during chemokine-driven TEM, MTOC reorientation to the contact region between the T cell and the EC, accompanied by dynein-driven transport of granzyme-containing granules to and exocytosis at the contact region, are early events in TCR-driven, but not chemokine-driven TEM. Inhibitors of either granule function or granzyme proteolytic activity can arrest TCR-driven TEM, implying a requirement for granule discharge in the process. In the final stages of TCR-driven TEM, the MTOC precedes, rather than follows, the nucleus across the endothelium. Thus, TCR-driven TEM of effector memory CD4 T cells appears to be a novel process that more closely resembles immune synapse formation than it does conventional chemotaxis.

Polarized Granzyme Release Is Required for Antigen-Driven Transendothelial Migration of Human Effector Memory CD4 T Cells