Autophosphorylation and the Dynamics of the Activation of Lck

Lisa Maria Kreusser, Alan D. Rendall

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Abstract

Lck (lymphocyte-specific protein tyrosine kinase) is an enzyme which plays a number of important roles in the function of immune cells. It belongs to the Src family of kinases which are known to undergo autophosphorylation. It turns out that this leads to a remarkable variety of dynamical behaviour which can occur during their activation. We prove that in the presence of autophosphorylation one phenomenon, bistability, already occurs in a mathematical model for a protein with a single phosphorylation site. We further show that a certain model of Lck exhibits oscillations. Finally, we discuss the relations of these results to models in the literature which involve Lck and describe specific biological processes, such as the early stages of T cell activation and the stimulation of T cell responses resulting from the suppression of PD-1 signalling which is important in immune checkpoint therapy for cancer.

Original languageEnglish
Article number64
JournalBulletin of Mathematical Biology
Volume83
Issue number6
Early online date1 May 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jun 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acknowledgements LMK acknowledges support from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmes under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 777826 (NoMADS), the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Nevile Research Fellowship).

Funding

Acknowledgements LMK acknowledges support from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmes under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 777826 (NoMADS), the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Nevile Research Fellowship).

Keywords

  • Bifurcation
  • Dynamics
  • Phosphorylation
  • Src kinase
  • T cells

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Neuroscience
  • Immunology
  • General Mathematics
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Environmental Science
  • Pharmacology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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