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Blood, 15 March 2006, Vol. 107, No. 6, pp. 2415-2422. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on November 22, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-08-3300. This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supplemental Figures All Versions of this Article: 2005-08-3300v1 107/6/2415    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Swat, W. Articles by Diacovo, T. G. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Swat, W. Articles by Diacovo, T. G. Related Collections Immunobiology Apoptosis Signal Transduction Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Table of Contents  |  Next Article  IMMUNOBIOLOGY Essential role of PI3K and PI3K in thymocyte survival Wojciech Swat, Vivianne Montgrain, Teresa A. Doggett, Jason Douangpanya, Kamal Puri, William Vermi, and Thomas G. Diacovo From the Department of Pathology and Immunology and the Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; ICOS Corp, Bothell, WA; the Department of Pathology, University of Bresica, Italy; and the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, Columbia University, New York, NY. Class 1 phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks), consisting of PI3K, , , and , are a family of intracellular signaling molecules that play important roles in cell-mediated immune responses. In thymocytes, however, their role is less clear, although PI3K is postulated to partially contribute to pre-TCR-dependent differentiation. We now report that PI3K, in conjunction with PI3K, is required for thymocyte survival and ultimately for T-cell production. Surprisingly, genetic deletion of the p110 and p110 catalytic subunits resulted in a dramatic reduction in thymus size, cellularity, and lack of corticomedullary differentiation. Total thymocyte counts in these animals were 27-fold lower than in wild-type (WT) controls because of a diminished number of CD4+CD8+ double-positive (DP) cells and were associated with T-cell depletion in blood and in secondary lymphoid organs. Moreover, this alteration in the DP population was intrinsic to thymocytes, because the reconstitution of p110-/- animals with WT fetal liver cells restored the proportions of all thymocyte populations to those in WT controls. The observed defects were related to massive apoptosis in the DP population; TCRB expression, pre-TCR selection, and generation of DP cells appeared relatively unperturbed. 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