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Table 2 Dominant proteins associated with T cell activities

From: Proteomic profiling of lymphocytes in autoimmunity, inflammation and cancer

Ref.

Activity

Protein

Expression

Functions

10

T cell differentiation

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)

Up-regulated

Cell resque, defense, death, ageing

  

Programmed cell death 4 (pdcd4)

Up-regulated

Cell resque, defense, death, ageing

  

p21-activated kinase 2 (Pak2)

Down-regulated

Signal transduction

  

Cdc42

Down-regulated

Signal transduction

  

Mortalin 2 (Mot-2)

Down-regulated

Protein destination

13

T cell proliferation

Peroxiredoxin 1

Up-regulated

A scavenger of reactive organic hydroperoxides

  

Proteasomes

Up-regulated

A large multisubunit proteolytic complex that involved in an ATP/ubiquitin-dependent non-lysosomal proteolytic pathway

  

Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM)

Up-regulted

Enzyme of metabolic pathways like converting glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to dehydroxyacetone phosphate in the glycolytic pathway

  

Galectin-1, Chain A

Down-regulated

An anti-inflammatory agent which triggers homeostatic signals to shut off T cell effector functions such as cell proliferation, cell death and cytokines synthesis, cell adhesion and inflammation

23

T cell supression

Haptoglobin

Up-regulated

Anti-inflammatory activities

  

Nonintegrin 67 kDa laminin receptor (LR)

Down-regulated

Lymphocyte migration

  

MRP8

Up-regulated

Marker proteins for activated or recruited phagocytes

27

T cell activation

Calreticulin (CRT)

Identified

Damage-associated molecular pattern molecules, inducing immunogenic apoptosis

  

Endoplasmic reticulum protein (ERp57)

  

Vimentin