Peptide-induced stabilization and intracellular localization of empty HLA class I complexes. (original) (raw)
Article| July 01 1992
Department of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.
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Department of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.
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Department of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.
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Department of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.
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Department of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.
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Department of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.
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E J Baas, H M van Santen, M J Kleijmeer, H J Geuze, P J Peters, H L Ploegh
Department of Cellular Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1992) 176 (1): 147–156.
The human cell line T2 has been reported to be class I assembly deficient, and accordingly expresses reduced amounts of HLA-A2 and no HLA-B5 at the cell surface. By immunoblotting we observe the steady-state class I heavy chain levels of T2 to be near normal when compared with the identical class I alleles of the wild-type cell line T1. In pulse chase experiments, formation of heavy chain beta 2-microglobulin complexes is observed for both HLA-A2 and HLA-B5. Culture at reduced temperatures (26 or 20 degrees C) does not increase the amount of class I molecules transported, unlike what has been reported for the class I assembly-deficient mouse mutant cell line RMA-S. The HLA-B5 and the HLA-A2 complexes formed by T2 are thermolabile in cell lysates, albeit to different degrees. The thermolability of HLA-B5 can be overcome by addition of HLA-B5-presentable peptides, obtained by trifluoroacetic acid extraction from an HLA-B5-positive cell line, underlining the necessity of peptide for class I stability and indicating that T2-derived class I complexes are devoid of peptide. Cytoplast fusion of T2 cells with RMA-S cells shows the defect in class I assembly of RMA-S to be similar to that of T2. Localization of class I molecules observed by immuno-electron microscopy reveals the accumulation in the T2 cell line of both HLA-B5 and HLA-A2 in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Class I molecules are present in all the cisternae of the Golgi complex of T2, but the ratio of HLA-A and -B locus products in the Golgi area differs significantly from that at the cell surface. We conclude that the requirement for peptide in transport of class I molecules manifests itself at a stage beyond the ER, most likely the Golgi area.
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