Destructive cleavage of antigenic peptides either by the immunoproteasome or by the standard proteasome results in differential antigen presentation - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 2006 Jan 15;176(2):1053-61.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.2.1053.

Stéphane Claverol, Fanny Piette, Wenbin Ma, Vincent Stroobant, Benoît Guillaume, Jean-Edouard Gairin, Sandra Morel, Odile Burlet-Schiltz, Bernard Monsarrat, Thierry Boon, Benoît J Van den Eynde

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Comparative Study

Destructive cleavage of antigenic peptides either by the immunoproteasome or by the standard proteasome results in differential antigen presentation

Jacques Chapiro et al. J Immunol. 2006.

Abstract

The immunoproteasome (IP) is usually viewed as favoring the production of antigenic peptides presented by MHC class I molecules, mainly because of its higher cleavage activity after hydrophobic residues, referred to as the chymotrypsin-like activity. However, some peptides have been found to be better produced by the standard proteasome. The mechanism of this differential processing has not been described. By studying the processing of three tumor antigenic peptides of clinical interest, we demonstrate that their differential processing mainly results from differences in the efficiency of internal cleavages by the two proteasome types. Peptide gp100(209-217) (ITDQVPSFV) and peptide tyrosinase369-377 (YMDGTMSQV) are destroyed by the IP, which cleaves after an internal hydrophobic residue. Conversely, peptide MAGE-C2(336-344) (ALKDVEERV) is destroyed by the standard proteasome by internal cleavage after an acidic residue, in line with its higher postacidic activity. These results indicate that the IP may destroy some antigenic peptides due to its higher chymotrypsin-like activity, rather than favor their production. They also suggest that the sets of peptides produced by the two proteasome types differ more than expected. Considering that mature dendritic cells mainly contain IPs, our results have implications for the design of immunotherapy strategies.

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