Engagement of the IgE receptor (Fc⑀RI) on mast cells leads to the release of preformed and newly formed mediators as well as of cytokines. The signaling pathways responsible for these responses involve tyrosine phosphorylation of multiple proteins. We previously reported the phosphorylation on tyrosine of phospholipid scramblase 1 (PLSCR1) after Fc⑀RI aggregation. Here, PLSCR1 expression was knocked down in the RBL-2H3 mast cell line using short hairpin RNA. Knocking down PLSCR1 expression resulted in significantly impaired degranulation responses after Fc⑀RI aggregation and release of vascular endothelial growth factor, whereas release of MCP-1 was minimally affected. The release of neither leukotriene C4 nor prostaglandin D2 was altered by knocking down of PLSCR1. Analysis of Fc⑀RI-dependent signaling pathways revealed that whereas tyrosine phosphorylation of ERK and Akt was unaffected, tyrosine phosphorylation of LAT was significantly reduced in PLSCR1 knocked down cells. Tyrosine phosphorylation of phospholipase C␥1 and consequently the mobilization of calcium were also significantly reduced in these cells. In nonactivated mast cells, PLSCR1 was found in part in lipid rafts where it was further recruited after cell activation and was constitutively associated with Lyn and Syk but not with LAT or Fyn. Altogether, these data identify PLSCR1 as a novel amplifier of Fc⑀RI signaling that acts selectively on the Lyn-initiated LAT/phospholipase C␥1/calcium axis, resulting in potentiation of a selected set of mast cell responses.Mast cells actively participate in the defense against bacterial and parasitic infections (1, 2) and are key players in the allergic reaction. They express receptors that bind IgE with a high affinity (Fc⑀RI) and that are aggregated by the cognate allergen when they are occupied by allergen-specific IgE (3). This results in a number of cellular responses, such as immediate release of granule contents (e.g. histamine and -hexosaminidase), synthesis of the lipid mediators of inflammation leukotrienes (LT) 6 and prostaglandins (PG), and delayed production and release of cytokines and chemokines (4).The pathways leading from Fc⑀RI aggregation to cellular responses have been extensively studied and depend on tyrosine phosphorylations (5, 6). The two main pathways involve tyrosine kinases belonging to the Src family, Lyn and Fyn (4). Lyn is constitutively associated with Fc⑀RI  chain (7). Upon aggregation of the receptor it phosphorylates both the  and the ␥ chains of Fc⑀RI on tyrosine residues within the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif that is found in their intracellular domains (8). This results in the recruitment of additional Lyn molecules and of the tyrosine kinase Syk to the phosphorylated receptors and in the activation of Syk (9 -11). Lyn and Syk then phosphorylate a number of substrates including the scaffold proteins LAT (12) and LAT2 (13-15). Activation of PLC␥1 and PLC␥2 recruited to phosphorylated LAT leads to the release in the cytosol of inositol 1,4,5-trisphospha...