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Functional rearrangement at the TCRbeta locus leads to surface expression on developing pre-T cells of a pre-TCR complex composed of the TCRbeta-chain paired with the invariant pre-TCRalpha (pTalpha) chain and associated with CD3 components. Pre-TCR signaling triggers the expansion and further differentiation of pre-T cells into TCRalphabeta mature T cells, a process known as beta selection. Besides the conventional pTalpha transcript (termed pTalpha(a)), a second, alternative spliced, isoform of the pTalpha gene (pTalpha(b)) has been described, whose developmental relevance remains unknown. In this study, phenotypic, biochemical, and functional evidence is provided that only pTalpha(a) is capable of inducing surface expression of a CD3-associated pre-TCR complex, which seems spontaneously recruited into lipid rafts, while pTalpha(b) pairs with and retains TCRbeta intracellularly. In addition, by using real-time quantitative RT-PCR approaches, we show that expression of pTalpha(a) and pTalpha(b) mRNA spliced products is differentially regulated along human intrathymic development, so that pTalpha(b) transcriptional onset is developmentally delayed, but beta selection results in simultaneous shutdown of both isoforms, with a relative increase of pTalpha(b) transcripts in beta-selected vs nonselected pre-T cells in vivo. Relative increase of pTalpha(b) is also shown to occur upon pre-T cell activation in vitro. Taken together, our data illustrate that transcriptional regulation of pTalpha limits developmental expression of human pre-TCR to intrathymic stages surrounding beta selection, and are compatible with a role for pTalpha(b) in forming an intracellular TCRbeta-pTalpha(b) complex that may be responsible for limiting surface expression of a pTalpha(a)-containing pre-TCR and/or may be competent to signal from a subcellular compartment.

Differential Developmental Regulation and Functional Effects on Pre-TCR Surface Expression of Human pTαa and pTαb Spliced Isoforms