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Wu HL, Wiseman RW, Hughes CM, Webb GM, Abdulhaqq SA, Bimber BN, Hammond KB, Reed JS, Gao L, Burwitz BJ, Greene JM, Ferrer F, Legasse AW, Axthelm MK, Park BS, Brackenridge S, Maness NJ, McMichael AJ, Picker LJ, O'Connor DH, Hansen SG, Sacha JB. The Role of MHC-E in T Cell Immunity Is Conserved among Humans, Rhesus Macaques, and Cynomolgus Macaques. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2018; 200:49-60. [PMID: 29150562 PMCID: PMC5736429 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1700841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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MHC-E is a highly conserved nonclassical MHC class Ib molecule that predominantly binds and presents MHC class Ia leader sequence-derived peptides for NK cell regulation. However, MHC-E also binds pathogen-derived peptide Ags for presentation to CD8+ T cells. Given this role in adaptive immunity and its highly monomorphic nature in the human population, HLA-E is an attractive target for novel vaccine and immunotherapeutic modalities. Development of HLA-E-targeted therapies will require a physiologically relevant animal model that recapitulates HLA-E-restricted T cell biology. In this study, we investigated MHC-E immunobiology in two common nonhuman primate species, Indian-origin rhesus macaques (RM) and Mauritian-origin cynomolgus macaques (MCM). Compared to humans and MCM, RM expressed a greater number of MHC-E alleles at both the population and individual level. Despite this difference, human, RM, and MCM MHC-E molecules were expressed at similar levels across immune cell subsets, equivalently upregulated by viral pathogens, and bound and presented identical peptides to CD8+ T cells. Indeed, SIV-specific, Mamu-E-restricted CD8+ T cells from RM recognized antigenic peptides presented by all MHC-E molecules tested, including cross-species recognition of human and MCM SIV-infected CD4+ T cells. Thus, MHC-E is functionally conserved among humans, RM, and MCM, and both RM and MCM represent physiologically relevant animal models of HLA-E-restricted T cell immunobiology.
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- Helen L Wu
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
- Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
- School of Public Health, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
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- Division of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA 70433
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70118; and
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
- Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53715
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006;
- Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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Nagarajan NA, de Verteuil DA, Sriranganadane D, Yahyaoui W, Thibault P, Perreault C, Shastri N. ERAAP Shapes the Peptidome Associated with Classical and Nonclassical MHC Class I Molecules. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2016; 197:1035-43. [PMID: 27371725 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Accepted: 04/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The peptide repertoire presented by classical as well as nonclassical MHC class I (MHC I) molecules is altered in the absence of the endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase associated with Ag processing (ERAAP). To characterize the extent of these changes, peptides from cells lacking ERAAP were eluted from the cell surface and analyzed by high-throughput mass spectrometry. We found that most peptides found in wild-type (WT) cells were retained in the absence of ERAAP. In contrast, a subset of "ERAAP-edited" peptides was lost in WT cells, and ERAAP-deficient cells presented a unique "unedited" repertoire. A substantial fraction of MHC-associated peptides from ERAAP-deficient cells contained N-terminal extensions and had a different molecular composition than did those from WT cells. We found that the number and immunogenicity of peptides associated with nonclassical MHC I was increased in the absence of ERAAP. Conversely, only peptides presented by classical MHC I were immunogenic in ERAAP-sufficient cells. Finally, MHC I peptides were also derived from different intracellular sources in ERAAP-deficient cells.
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- Niranjana A Nagarajan
- Division of Immunology and Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; and
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Division of Immunology and Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; and
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Pratheek BM, Nayak TK, Sahoo SS, Mohanty PK, Chattopadhyay S, Chakraborty NG, Chattopadhyay S. Mammalian non-classical major histocompatibility complex I and its receptors: Important contexts of gene, evolution, and immunity. INDIAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS 2014; 20:129-41. [PMID: 25400340 PMCID: PMC4228563 DOI: 10.4103/0971-6866.142855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The evolutionary conserved, less-polymorphic, nonclassical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules: Qa-1 and its human homologue human leukocyte antigen-E (HLA-E) along with HLA-F, G and H cross-talk with the T-cell receptors and also interact with natural killer T-cells and other lymphocytes. Moreover, these nonclassical MHC molecules are known to interact with CD94/NKG2 heterodimeric receptors to induce immune responses and immune regulations. This dual role of Qa-1/HLA-E in terms of innate and adaptive immunity makes them more interesting. This review highlights the new updates of the mammalian nonclassical MHC-I molecules in terms of their gene organization, evolutionary perspective and their role in immunity.
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- B M Pratheek
- School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Infectious Disease Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Kaplan MH, Cundiff JK, Smith JS, Aldrich CJ. Anti-STAT6 CTL activity in Stat6 (-/-) mice: A cautionary tale. JAKSTAT 2013; 2:e24554. [PMID: 24058815 PMCID: PMC3710328 DOI: 10.4161/jkst.24554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2013] [Revised: 04/03/2013] [Accepted: 04/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The generation of germline gene mutations in mice has been an invaluable tool for experimental biology. However, studying immune responses that develop in the absence of a specific protein that could alter thymic selection complicates experimental interpretations. We observed that CD8+ T cells from Stat6−/− mice displayed “autoreactivity” to STAT6-expressing cells, associated with specific STAT6 peptides binding to MHC class I molecules. These results suggest caution in interpreting experiments where STAT6-expressing cells are transferred into Stat6−/− mice, or where adoptive transfer of Stat6−/− lymphocytes is performed. Our results further highlight additional considerations when studying immune responses involving cell transfer into gene-deficient mice.
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- Mark H Kaplan
- Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology; Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis, IN USA
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Yewdell JW, Lu X. Don't mess with ERAAP! Nat Immunol 2012; 13:526-8. [PMID: 22610241 DOI: 10.1038/ni.2306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Zeng L, Sullivan LC, Vivian JP, Walpole NG, Harpur CM, Rossjohn J, Clements CS, Brooks AG. A structural basis for antigen presentation by the MHC class Ib molecule, Qa-1b. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2012; 188:302-10. [PMID: 22131332 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1102379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The primary function of the monomorphic MHC class Ib molecule Qa-1(b) is to present peptides derived from the leader sequences of other MHC class I molecules for recognition by the CD94-NKG2 receptors expressed by NK and T cells. Whereas the mode of peptide presentation by its ortholog HLA-E, and subsequent recognition by CD94-NKG2A, is known, the molecular basis of Qa-1(b) function is unclear. We have assessed the interaction between Qa-1(b) and CD94-NKG2A and shown that they interact with an affinity of 17 μM. Furthermore, we have determined the structure of Qa-1(b) bound to the leader sequence peptide, Qdm (AMAPRTLLL), to a resolution of 1.9 Å and compared it with that of HLA-E. The crystal structure provided a basis for understanding the restricted peptide repertoire of Qa-1(b). Whereas the Qa-1(b-AMAPRTLLL) complex was similar to that of HLA-E, significant sequence and structural differences were observed between the respective Ag-binding clefts. However, the conformation of the Qdm peptide bound by Qa-1(b) was very similar to that of peptide bound to HLA-E. Although a number of conserved innate receptors can recognize heterologous ligands from other species, the structural differences between Qa-1(b) and HLA-E manifested in CD94-NKG2A ligand recognition being species specific despite similarities in peptide sequence and conformation. Collectively, our data illustrate the structural homology between Qa-1(b) and HLA-E and provide a structural basis for understanding peptide repertoire selection and the specificity of the interaction of Qa-1(b) with CD94-NKG2 receptors.
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- Li Zeng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Persson CM, Assarsson E, Vahlne G, Brodin P, Chambers BJ. Critical role of Qa1b in the protection of mature dendritic cells from NK cell-mediated killing. Scand J Immunol 2007; 67:30-6. [PMID: 18028286 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2007.02034.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Molecular interactions in natural killer (NK) cell-mediated killing of dendritic cells (DC) have under recent years come under scrutiny. Upon stimulation with IFN-gamma or lipopolysaccharide, DC become relatively resistant to NK cell-mediated lysis. In the present study, we investigated the role of Qa1(b) on DC and its receptor NKG2A on NK cells in the protection of mature DC from NK cells. We demonstrate that while both NKG2A+ and NKG2A- NK cells can efficiently lyse unstimulated DC, NKG2A+ NK cells but not NKG2A- NK cells are largely impaired in their ability to lyse mature DC. Similarly, mature DC from mice expressing H-2D(b), whose leader peptide sequence binds and stabilizes Qa1(b), were resistant to NK cell-mediated killing, suggesting that stable Qa1(b) expression contributes to the protection of mature DC. This finding was further validated by the demonstration that addition of the Qdm leader peptide could protect TAP1-/- DC from NK cell-mediated lysis both in vitro and in vivo. The present data suggest that stable expression of Qa1 on the surface of mature DC contributes to the protection of DC from NK cell-mediated lysis.
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- C M Persson
- Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Reed-Loisel LM, Sullivan BA, Laur O, Jensen PE. An MHC Class Ib-Restricted TCR That Cross-Reacts with an MHC Class Ia Molecule. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:7746-52. [PMID: 15944277 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.12.7746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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TCR transgenic 6C5 T cells recognize an insulin B chain epitope presented by the nonclassical class I MHC molecule, Qa-1(b). Positive selection of these T cells was shown previously to require Qa-1(b). Despite dedicated specificity for Qa-1(b), evidence presented in the current study indicates that 6C5 T cells can cross-recognize a classical class I molecule. Clonal deletion was observed unexpectedly in 6C5.H-2(bxq) mice, which do not express I-E MHC class II molecules and thus should not be subject to superantigen-mediated negative selection. 6C5 T cells were observed to respond in vivo and in vitro to spleen cells from allogeneic H-2(q) mice, and specificity was mapped to D(q). Evidence was obtained for direct recognition of D(q), rather than indirect presentation of a D(q)-derived peptide presented by Qa-1(b). Polyclonal CD8(+) T cells from class Ia-deficient K(b)D(b-/-) mice reacted in vitro to allogeneic spleen cells with an apparent frequency comparable to conventional class Ia-restricted T cells. Our results provide a clear example of a Qa-1-specific TCR that can cross-react with a class Ia molecule and evidence supporting the idea that this may be a common property of T cells selected by class Ib molecules.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Lineage/genetics
- Cell Lineage/immunology
- Clonal Deletion
- Crosses, Genetic
- H-2 Antigens/genetics
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- H-2 Antigens/metabolism
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Superantigens/genetics
- Superantigens/immunology
- Superantigens/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
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- Lisa M Reed-Loisel
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Jiang H, Wu Y, Liang B, Zheng Z, Tang G, Kanellopoulos J, Soloski M, Winchester R, Goldstein I, Chess L. An affinity/avidity model of peripheral T cell regulation. J Clin Invest 2005; 115:302-12. [PMID: 15668735 PMCID: PMC544609 DOI: 10.1172/jci23879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2004] [Accepted: 12/01/2004] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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We show in these studies that Qa-1-dependent CD8+ T cells are involved in the establishment and maintenance of peripheral self tolerance as well as facilitating affinity maturation of CD4+ T cells responding to foreign antigen. We provide experimental evidence that the strategy used by the Qa-1-dependent CD8+ T cells to accomplish both these tasks in vivo is to selectively downregulate T cell clones that respond to both self and foreign antigens with intermediate, not high or low, affinity/avidity. Thus, the immune system evolved to regulate peripheral immunity using a unified mechanism that efficiently and effectively permits the system to safeguard peripheral self tolerance yet promote the capacity to deal with foreign invaders.
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- Hong Jiang
- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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Li L, Sullivan BA, Aldrich CJ, Soloski MJ, Forman J, Grandea AG, Jensen PE, Van Kaer L. Differential Requirement for Tapasin in the Presentation of Leader- and Insulin-Derived Peptide Antigens to Qa-1b-Restricted CTLs. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 173:3707-15. [PMID: 15356116 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.6.3707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The loading of MHC class I molecules with peptides involves a variety of accessory proteins, including TAP-associated glycoprotein (tapasin), which tethers empty MHC class I molecules to the TAP peptide transporter. We have evaluated the role of tapasin for the assembly of peptides with the class Ib molecule Qa-1b. In normal cells, Qa-1b is predominantly bound by a peptide, the Qa-1 determinant modifier (Qdm), derived from the signal sequence of class Ia molecules. Our results show that tapasin links Qa-1b to the TAP peptide transporter, and that tapasin facilitates the delivery of Qa-1b molecules to the cell surface. Tapasin was also required for the presentation of endogenous Qdm peptides to Qdm-specific, Qa-1b-restricted CTLs. In sharp contrast, tapasin expression was dispensable for the presentation of an insulin peptide to insulin-specific, Qa-1b-restricted CTL isolated from TCR transgenic mice. However, tapasin deficiency significantly impaired the positive selection of these insulin-specific, Qa-1b-restricted transgenic CD8+ T cells. These findings reveal that tapasin plays a differential role in the loading of Qdm and insulin peptides onto Qa-1b molecules, and that tapasin is dispensable for retention of empty Qa-1b molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum, and are consistent with the proposed peptide-editing function of tapasin.
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- LiQi Li
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Jensen PE, Sullivan BA, Reed-Loisel LM, Weber DA. Qa-1, a nonclassical class I histocompatibility molecule with roles in innate and adaptive immunity. Immunol Res 2004; 29:81-92. [PMID: 15181272 DOI: 10.1385/ir:29:1-3:081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Qa-1, a nonclassical class I histocompatibility molecule expressed in mice, predominantly assembles with a single nonameric peptide, Qdm, derived from the signal sequence of certain class Ia molecules. The Qa-1/Qdm complex is the primary ligand for CD94/NKG2A inhibitory receptors expressed on a major fraction of natural killer (NK) cells. Cells become susceptible to killing by NK cells under conditions where surface expression of the Qa-1/Qdm inhibitory ligand is reduced. The CD94/NKG2 "missing-self" recognition system serves as mechanism for removing cells that have abnormalities in the intracellular machinery required for assembly and expression of class I-peptides complexes, as a consequence of viral infection, for example. Despite its highly focused peptide-binding specificity, Qa-1 also has a capacity to act as an antigen-presentation molecule for CD8+ T cells. It appears that a small subpopulation of these T cells undergoes positive selection by interaction with Qa-1 in the thymus, and they maintain their specificity for Qa-1 after maturation. The role of these unusual T cells in adaptive immune responses remains to be defined.
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- Peter E Jensen
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Jiang H, Curran S, Ruiz-Vazquez E, Liang B, Winchester R, Chess L. Regulatory CD8+ T cells fine-tune the myelin basic protein-reactive T cell receptor V beta repertoire during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:8378-83. [PMID: 12824465 PMCID: PMC166237 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1432871100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A significant number of self-reactive T cell clones escape thymic negative selection and are released into the periphery, where some are potentially pathogenic. The clonal expansion of self-reactive T cells is known to be limited during initial antigen encounter by apoptotic or anergic mechanisms, regulatory CD4+ T cells, and cytokines. Here we report that superimposed on these mechanisms, during the evolution of autoimmunity in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), CD8+ T cells are induced, which fine-tune the peripheral self-reactive T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire. We assayed the myelin basic protein-reactive TCR repertoire in naive, EAE-recovered mice as well as EAE-recovered mice depleted of CD8+ T cells by TCRV beta surface expression, complementarity-determining region 3 length distribution, and complementarity-determining region 3 sequencing analysis. In EAE-recovered mice, certain myelin basic protein-reactive CD4+V beta 8.2+ clones are significantly decreased and this decrease is not observed if CD8+ T cells were depleted from these mice. The clones that persist in CD8+ T cell-intact mice are highly diverse in contrast to the clones expanded in CD8+ T cell-depleted mice, which are dominated by the significant outgrowth of a few clones. Importantly, the T cell clones that expand in the absence of CD8+ T cell control are enriched in potentially pathogenic self-reactive T cell clones capable of inducing EAE in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Autoimmunity
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/transplantation
- Clone Cells/immunology
- Clone Cells/transplantation
- Complementarity Determining Regions/chemistry
- Complementarity Determining Regions/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Genes, T-Cell Receptor beta
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Myelin Basic Protein/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Spleen/immunology
- Spleen/pathology
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- H Jiang
- College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Miller JD, Peters M, Oran AE, Beresford GW, Harrington L, Boss JM, Altman JD. CD94/NKG2 expression does not inhibit cytotoxic function of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus-specific CD8+ T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:693-701. [PMID: 12097371 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.2.693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Murine Ag-specific CD8(+) T cells express various NK markers and NK inhibitory receptors that have been proposed to modulate immune responses. Following acute infection of C57BL/6 and BALB/cJ mice with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), we observed that Ag-specific CD8(+) T cells expressed CD94/NKG2. Only slight expression of Ly49A and Ly49C receptors was observed on NP396-specific T cells, while all NP396-specific T cells expressed the NKT cell marker U5A2-13 Ag. Expression of CD94/NKG2 was maintained for at least 1 year following LCMV infection, as was the NKT cell marker. By means of cell sorting and quantitative PCR, we found that NP118-specific CD8(+) T cells primarily express transcripts for inhibitory NKG2 receptor isoforms. CD94/NKG2 expression was also observed on Ag-specific CD8(+) T cells following infection with polyoma virus, influenza virus, and Listeria monocytogenes, suggesting that it may be a common characteristic of Ag-specific CD8(+) T cells following infection with viral or bacterial pathogens. Expression of CD94/NKG2 on memory-specific CD8(+) T cells did not change following secondary challenge with LCMV clone 13 and did not inhibit viral clearance. Furthermore, we found no evidence that CD94/NKG2 inhibits either the lytic function of LCMV-specific T cells or their capacity to produce effector cytokines upon peptide stimulation. Finally, down-regulation of CD94/NKG2 was found to occur only during chronic LCMV infection. Altogether, this study suggests that CD94/NKG2 expression is not necessarily correlated with inhibition of T cell function.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigens, CD/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD/physiology
- Antigens, Ly
- Cell Line
- Clone Cells
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Down-Regulation/immunology
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Lectins, C-Type
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/biosynthesis
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily A
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily D
- Protein Isoforms/biosynthesis
- Protein Isoforms/metabolism
- Protein Isoforms/physiology
- Receptors, Immunologic/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Immunologic/metabolism
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, NK Cell Lectin-Like
- Receptors, Natural Killer Cell
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- Spleen/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/virology
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Affiliation(s)
- Joseph D Miller
- Emory Vaccine Research Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
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Sullivan BA, Kraj P, Weber DA, Ignatowicz L, Jensen PE. Positive selection of a Qa-1-restricted T cell receptor with specificity for insulin. Immunity 2002; 17:95-105. [PMID: 12150895 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(02)00343-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The phenotype and development of T cells from transgenic mice expressing a T cell receptor with specificity for insulin presented by the MHC class Ib molecule Qa-1(b) was investigated. Peripheral T cells from the transgenic mice express CD8 and, after activation, kill Qa-1(b)-positive lymphoid target cells in the presence of soluble insulin. Thymic selection requires expression of Qa-1(b) but not the dominant Qa-1-associated peptide, Qdm. In contrast to conventional T cells, selection is at least as efficient when the selecting ligand is expressed only on hematopoietic lineage cells as compared to expression on epithelial cells in the thymus. Our findings suggest that there is a dedicated population of Qa-1-restricted T cells that are selected by interaction with Qa-1 and that the cellular requirements for selection may differ from conventional T cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Barbara A Sullivan
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Li J, Goldstein I, Glickman-Nir E, Jiang H, Chess L. Induction of TCR Vbeta-specific CD8+ CTLs by TCR Vbeta-derived peptides bound to HLA-E. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 167:3800-8. [PMID: 11564797 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.7.3800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Previous studies have identified murine and human regulatory CD8+ T cells specific for TCR-Vbeta families expressed on autologous activated CD4+ T cells. In the mouse, these regulatory CD8+ T cells were shown to be restricted by the MHC class Ib molecule, Qa-1. In the present study, we asked whether HLA-E, the human functional equivalent of Qa-1, binds Vbeta peptides and whether the HLA-E/Vbeta-peptide complex induces and restricts human CD8+ CTLs. We first created stable HLA-E gene transfectants of the C1R cell line (C1R-E). Two putative HLA-E binding nonapeptides identified in human TCR Vbeta1 and Vbeta2 chains (SLELGDSAL and LLLGPGSGL, respectively) were shown to bind to HLA-E. CD8+ T cells could be primed in vitro by C1R-E cells loaded with the Vbeta1 (C1R-E/V1) or Vbeta2 (C1R-E/V2) peptide to preferentially kill C1R-E cells loaded with the respective inducing Vbeta peptide, compared with targets loaded with the other peptides. Priming CD8+ T cells with untreated C1R-E cells did not induce Vbeta-specific CTLs. Of perhaps more physiological relevance was the finding that the CD8+ CTLs primed by C1R-E/V1 also preferentially killed activated autologous TCR Vbeta1+. Similar results were observed in reciprocal experiments using C1R-E/V2 for priming. Furthermore, anti-CD8 and anti-MHC class I mAbs inhibited this Vbeta-specific killing of C1R-E and CD4+ T cell targets. Taken together, the data provide evidence that certain TCR-Vbeta peptides can be presented by HLA-E to further induce Vbeta-specific CD8+ CTLs.
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- J Li
- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 W 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Kraft JR, Vance RE, Pohl J, Martin AM, Raulet DH, Jensen PE. Analysis of Qa-1(b) peptide binding specificity and the capacity of CD94/NKG2A to discriminate between Qa-1-peptide complexes. J Exp Med 2000; 192:613-24. [PMID: 10974028 PMCID: PMC2193274 DOI: 10.1084/jem.192.5.613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The major histocompatibility complex class Ib protein, Qa-1(b), serves as a ligand for murine CD94/NKG2A natural killer (NK) cell inhibitory receptors. The Qa-1(b) peptide-binding site is predominantly occupied by a single nonameric peptide, Qa-1 determinant modifier (Qdm), derived from the leader sequence of H-2D and L molecules. Five anchor residues were identified in this study by measuring the peptide-binding affinities of substituted Qdm peptides in experiments with purified recombinant Qa-1(b). A candidate peptide-binding motif was determined by sequence analysis of peptides eluted from Qa-1 that had been folded in the presence of random peptide libraries or pools of Qdm derivatives randomized at specific anchor positions. The results indicate that Qa-1(b) can bind a diverse repertoire of peptides but that Qdm has an optimal primary structure for binding Qa-1(b). Flow cytometry experiments with Qa-1(b) tetramers and NK target cell lysis assays demonstrated that CD94/NKG2A discriminates between Qa-1(b) complexes containing peptides with substitutions at nonanchor positions P4, P5, or P8. Our findings suggest that it may be difficult for viruses to generate decoy peptides that mimic Qdm and raise the possibility that competitive replacement of Qdm with other peptides may provide a novel mechanism for activation of NK cells.
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- Jennifer R. Kraft
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Microchemical Facility, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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- Microchemical Facility, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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Jiang H, Chess L. The specific regulation of immune responses by CD8+ T cells restricted by the MHC class Ib molecule, Qa-1. Annu Rev Immunol 2000; 18:185-216. [PMID: 10837057 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.18.1.185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Over the last three decades considerable evidence has accumulated that CD8(+) T cells regulate peripheral immune responses, in part, by specifically controlling the outgrowth of antigen-triggered CD4(+) T cells. This regulatory function of CD8(+) T cells has been shown, in vivo, to control the emergence of autoreactive CD4(+) T cells as well as CD4(+) T cells reactive to conventional antigens, including alloantigens. In this review, we summarize the evidence that this immune suppression mediated by CD8(+) T cells is dependent, in part, on specific cognate interactions between MHC class I-restricted regulatory CD8(+) cells and antigen-activated CD4(+) T cells. Moreover, we review the evidence that regulatory CD8(+) T cells recognize antigen-activated CD4(+) T cells in a TCR specific manner restricted by the MHC class Ib molecule, Qa-1. The Qa-1 molecule may be uniquely qualified to serve this MHC restrictive function because, unlike conventional MHC molecules, it is preferentially and transiently expressed on activated and not resting CD4(+) T cells. This may assure that only recently antigen-activated CD4(+) T cells expressing Qa-1/TCR peptide complexes will induce regulatory CD8(+) T cells and subsequently become susceptible to regulation. Because Qa-1 also binds to self Qdm peptides that trigger NK (CD94/ NKG2) receptors on CD8(+) T cells, the machinery for homeostatic regulation of regulatory CD8(+) T cells can be envisioned. Finally, we propose a model by which these TCR specific, Qa-1-restricted regulatory CD8(+) T cells selectively downregulate antigen-activated T cells expressing TCRs of certain affinities. Ultimately these regulatory CD8(+) T cells control the peripheral TCR repertoire during the course of immune responses to both self and foreign antigens.
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Affiliation(s)
- H Jiang
- Department of Medicine and Pathology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Dabhi VM, Hovik R, Van Kaer L, Fischer Lindahl K. The Alloreactive T Cell Response Against the Class Ib Molecule H2-M3 Is Specific for High Affinity Peptides. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.10.5171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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MHC class Ib molecule H2-M3 presents N-formylated peptides to CD8+ CTLs. Endogenous formylated peptides can come from the N-terminus of each of the 13 proteins encoded by the mitochondrial genome. In peptide competition assays, two of these peptides bind with high affinity, six bind with intermediate affinity, three bind with low affinity, and two do not bind measurably. Alloreactive CTLs from M3-specific, mixed lymphocyte cultures responded strongly against the two peptides with high affinity for M3, occasionally to peptides with intermediate affinity, and not at all to the rest. Long term lines and CTL clones reacted with only the high affinity peptides, demonstrating that alloreactive CTLs depend on specific peptides and that peptide affinity for class I correlates with alloantigenicity.
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- *Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, and
- †Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235; and
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- ‡Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232
- †Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235; and
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- *Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, and
- †Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235; and
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Tompkins SM, Kraft JR, Dao CT, Soloski MJ, Jensen PE. Transporters associated with antigen processing (TAP)-independent presentation of soluble insulin to alpha/beta T cells by the class Ib gene product, Qa-1(b). J Exp Med 1998; 188:961-71. [PMID: 9730897 PMCID: PMC2213382 DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.5.961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/1998] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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T cell hybridomas isolated from nonresponder H-2(b) mice immunized with pork insulin were stimulated by insulin in the presence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-unmatched antigen presenting cells. The restriction element used by these CD4(-) T cells was mapped to an oligomorphic MHC class Ib protein encoded in the T region and identified as Qa-1(b) using transfectants. The antigenic determinant was localized to the insulin B chain, and experiments with truncated peptides suggested that it is unexpectedly long, comprising most or all of the 30 amino acid B chain. The antigen processing pathway used to present insulin to the Qa-1(b)- restricted T cells does not require transporters associated with antigen processing (TAP), and it is inhibited by chloroquine. A wide variety of cell lines from different tissues efficiently present soluble insulin to Qa-1(b)-restricted T cells, and insulin presentation is not enhanced by phagocytic stimuli. Our results demonstrate that Qa-1(b) can function to present exogenous protein to T cells in a manner similar to MHC class II molecules. Therefore, this class Ib protein may have access to a novel antigen processing pathway that is not available to class Ia molecules.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/immunology
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/metabolism
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/physiology
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation
- COS Cells
- Cattle
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Hybridomas
- Insulin/immunology
- Insulin/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred A
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Solubility
- Spleen
- Swine
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Affiliation(s)
- S M Tompkins
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Chun T, Aldrich CJ, Baldeón ME, Kawczynski LV, Soloski MJ, Gaskins HR. Constitutive and regulated expression of the class IB molecule Qa-1 in pancreatic beta cells. Immunology 1998; 94:64-71. [PMID: 9708188 PMCID: PMC1364332 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00475.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Enhanced major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I expression is a prominent early feature of pancreatic beta-cell pathology in autoimmune diabetes. The number and nature of class I MHC loci expressed by beta cells are generally undefined and potentially critical to the onset and progression of insulitis. Mounting evidence indicates that the non-classical MHC class IB molecule Qa-1, encoded by H2-T23, is capable of presenting antigens to alpha beta and gamma delta T cells and that lymphocytes restricted to Qa-1 may contribute immunoregulatory functions. We compared the expression of Qa-1 and MHC class IA in a beta-cell line (beta TC6-F7) before and after treatment with the insulitic cytokine interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Similar to MHC class IA, Qa-1 was expressed constitutively at a low level in beta TC6-F7 cells, with both T23b mRNA and cell surface Qa-1b being up-regulated following 24-hr treatment with mouse IFN-gamma. Based on binding characteristics established for the predominant Qa-1-binding peptide, Qa-1 determinant modifier (Qdm), we also examined the possibility that Qa-1 binding peptides may be encoded in the preproinsulin leader sequence. One nonarmeric peptide (Ins II: ALWMRFLPL) derived from the preproinsulin II leader sequence was recognized by a Qa-1b-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) clone. Specific binding of Ins II to Qa-1b was confirmed by a CTL peptide-blocking assay. Demonstration of IFN-gamma-regulated Qa-1 expression in beta cells and identification of a Qa-1-binding peptide in the preproinsulin leader sequence invoke further consideration of possible roles of Qa-1 in the progression of islet inflammation.
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- T Chun
- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801, USA
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Cotterill LA, Stauss HJ, Millrain MM, Pappin DJ, Rahman D, Canas B, Chandler P, Stackpoole A, Simpson E, Robinson PJ, Dyson PJ. Qa-1 interaction and T cell recognition of the Qa-1 determinant modifier peptide. Eur J Immunol 1997; 27:2123-32. [PMID: 9341749 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830270902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The peptide-binding properties of the nonclassical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1b molecule Qa-1 were investigated using a transfected hybrid molecule composed of the alpha 1 and alpha 2 domains of Qa-1b and the alpha 3 domain of H-2Db. This allowed the use of a monoclonal antibody directed against H-2Db whilst retaining the peptide-binding groove of Qa-1b. By comparison with classical MHC class I molecules, intracellular maturation of the chimeric molecule was inefficient with weak intracellular association with beta 2-microglobulin. However, at the cell surface the hybrid molecules were stably associated with beta 2-microglobulin and were recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) clones specific for the Qa-1b-presented peptide Qdm (AMAPRTLLL). A whole-cell binding assay was used to determine which residues of Qdm were important for binding to Qa-1b and CTL clones served to identify residues important for T cell recognition. Substitutions at position 1 and 5 did not reduce the efficiency of binding and had little effect on CTL recognition. In contrast, substitutions at position 9 resulted in loss of MHC class I binding. Mass spectrometric analysis of peptides eluted from immunopurified Qa-1b/Db molecules indicated that Qdm was the dominant peptide. The closely related peptide, AMVPRTLLL, which is derived from the signal sequence of H-2Dk, was also present, although it was considerably less abundant. The mass profile suggested the presence of additional peptides the majority of which consisted of eight to ten amino acid residues. Finally, the finding that a peptide derived from Klebsiella pneumoniae can bind raises the possibility that this non-classical MHC class I molecule may play a role in the presentation of peptides of microorganisms.
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- L A Cotterill
- MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, GB
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ExpressedPeromyscus maniculatus (Pema) MHC class I genes: evolutionary implications and the identification of a gene encoding a Qa1-like antigen. Immunogenetics 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02602583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Stevens C, Flaherty L. Evidence foe antigen presentation by the class Ib molecule, Qa-1. RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY 1996; 147:286-90. [PMID: 8876056 PMCID: PMC7135683 DOI: 10.1016/0923-2494(96)89641-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- C Stevens
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, USA
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Soloski MJ, DeCloux A, Aldrich CJ, Forman J. Structural and functional characteristics of the class IB molecule, Qa-1. Immunol Rev 1995; 147:67-89. [PMID: 8847081 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1995.tb00088.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- M J Soloski
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore MD 21205, USA
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Wolf PR, Cook RG. The class I-b molecule Qa-1 forms heterodimers with H-2Ld and a novel 50-kD glycoprotein encoded centromeric to I-E beta. J Exp Med 1995; 181:657-68. [PMID: 7836920 PMCID: PMC2191872 DOI: 10.1084/jem.181.2.657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Recent biochemical characterization of the T23-encoded Qa-1 molecule revealed an additional higher molecular mass species of 50 kD coprecipitated with the 48-kD Qa-1 molecule in H-2b and H-2d mouse strains. We now demonstrate that the 50-kD protein coprecipitated with Qa-1 is the class I-a antigen Ld in all H-2Ld-positive mouse strains examined. Furthers analyses of a panel of recombinants revealed that the 50-kD protein coprecipitated with Qa-1 in H-2b haplotype mouse strains is encoded or controlled by a gene centromeric to major histocompatibility complex class II I-E beta. We have designated this gene and corresponding protein product as Qsm, Qa-1 structure modifier. Both Ld and Qsm can interact with Qa-1 to form cell surface-expressed heterodimers in vivo. These Qa-1 heterodimers are not expressed in H-2k haplotype cells. The Qa-1/Ld and Qa-1/Qsm heterodimers are associated by noncovalent interactions and occur only between fully processed proteins. In addition, we show that the Qsm-encoded protein can form heterodimers with Ld as well, and that the Ld molecules participating in these interactions with Qa-1 and Qsm may be devoid of beta 2-microglobulin and/or peptide. These data represent the first demonstration that class I molecules can be expressed as heterodimers (Qa-1/Ld) on the cell surface, and map a gene (Qsm) that may potentially encode a novel class I molecule, or another protein, that associates with both Qa-1 and Ld. These interactions may enable increased levels of Qa-1 to reach the cell surface and may subsequently influence T cell recognition of Qa-1 and/or Ld molecules.
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- P R Wolf
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Aldrich CJ, DeCloux A, Woods AS, Cotter RJ, Soloski MJ, Forman J. Identification of a Tap-dependent leader peptide recognized by alloreactive T cells specific for a class Ib antigen. Cell 1994; 79:649-58. [PMID: 7525079 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90550-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Recognition of the class Ib antigen Qa-1 by a portion of alloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) clones requires that the target cell express a second gene, termed Qa-1 determinant modifier (Qdm). We show that Qdm is identical to most D allele genes, excepting Dk, and that a nonamer peptide derived from D alloantigens restores CTL recognition on cells that lack the Qdm-encoded determinant. The equivalent Dk peptide has an Ala-->Val interchange at P3 and requires approximately 4 logs more peptide than the AlaP3 peptide for target cell lysis. Two of five CTL clones, not dependent on Qdm for target cell recognition, also recognize the Qdm peptide as well as the ValP3 variant. Although the Qdm peptide spans residues 3-11 from the leader, it requires the Tap transporters for its expression. Thus, the response against this class Ib molecule provides a tool for dissecting alloreactivity as well as pathways for antigen presentation.
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- C J Aldrich
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 75235-9048
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Thomsen M, Witt CS, Degli-Esposti MA, Christiansen FT. Typing of 4AOHW cells by allospecific natural killer cells. Hum Immunol 1993; 38:52-6. [PMID: 8307787 DOI: 10.1016/0198-8859(93)90519-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Alloreactivity of human NK cells was tested on a subset of the 4AOHW cell panel. A total of 37 cells were typed with NK clones reactive with the NK-1, 2, 3, and 5 allospecificities. No cell was susceptible to lysis by both by anti-NK-1 and anti-NK-2 clones in accordance with the notion of a biallelic system, where the susceptibility toward lysis is a recessive trait. HLA homozygous cells were lysed either by the anti-NK-1 or anti-NK-2 clones while HLA heterozygous cells in some cases were not lysed by either clone. Negativity for the NK-1 specificity corresponded to the presence of asparagine and lysine at positions 77 and 80, respectively, in the second exon of HLA-C (alleles Cw2, 4, 5, and 6), while negativity for the NK-2 group corresponded to the presence of serine and asparagine, respectively, at these two positions (alleles Cw1, 3, 7, and 8). Too few cells were typed with clones reactive with the NK-3 and NK-5 specificities to enable an analysis of correlation between these specificities and HLA alleles.
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Using cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses to the class I histocompatibility antigen Qa1 and to the minor histocompatibility antigen H-Y, we show that the immune system maintains a peripheral screening process that is able to tolerize a wide variety of potentially autoimmune CTL. The critical factor is the presence or absence of specific T helper cells. If T help is available, CTL precursors that recognize antigen are activated. In the absence of help, they are tolerized. Thus, T helper cells are guardians of peripheral tolerance in CTL.
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- S Guerder
- Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
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Attaya M, Jameson S, Martinez CK, Hermel E, Aldrich C, Forman J, Lindahl KF, Bevan MJ, Monaco JJ. Ham-2 corrects the class I antigen-processing defect in RMA-S cells. Nature 1992; 355:647-9. [PMID: 1538753 DOI: 10.1038/355647a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 244] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The murine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) contains two genes (Ham-1 and Ham-2) that encode members of a super-family of ATP-dependent transport proteins. These genes are believed to mediate the transport of peptide antigen from the cytoplasm into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum for binding by MHC class I molecules. Evidence for such a function has come from the rescue of class I surface expression by a cloned copy of the human homologue of Ham-1, PSF-1, in a human cell line that is defective in antigen processing. A mutant murine cell line, RMA-S, has an identical antigen-processing-defective phenotype. Here we show that expression of a cloned copy of the Ham-2 gene in RMA-S cells results in recovery of the ability to process and present class I-restricted antigens to cytotoxic T lymphocytes, and in partial recovery of class I surface expression. Processing defects for classical (H-2 K and D) and non-classical (Qa1 and HMT) class I molecules are corrected by Ham-2. These data indicate that both MHC-linked transporter genes are probably required for class I antigen processing, and that the functional transporter in this pathway may consist of a Ham-1/Ham-2 heterodimer.
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- M Attaya
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0678
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Yewdell JW, Bennink JR. Cell biology of antigen processing and presentation to major histocompatibility complex class I molecule-restricted T lymphocytes. Adv Immunol 1992; 52:1-123. [PMID: 1442305 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(08)60875-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- J W Yewdell
- Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Silver LM, Artzt K, Barlow D, Fischer-Lindahl K, Lyon MF, Klein J, Snyder L. Mouse chromosome 17. Mamm Genome 1992; 3 Spec No:S241-60. [PMID: 1498437 DOI: 10.1007/bf00648435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- L M Silver
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544-1014
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Benihoud K, Lecerf JM, Bobé P, Kiger N. Imbalance of MHC class I expression in 3LL tumour cells. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOGENETICS : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY AND IMMUNOGENETICS 1991; 18:355-65. [PMID: 1772880 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313x.1991.tb00035.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Cell lines and a clone established from the C57BL/6 (H-2b) Lewis lung (3LL) tumour were previously characterized with respect to tumour growth and metastatic spread in vivo, and to the expression of a 3LL tumour-specific antigen (3LL TA) using a monoclonal antibody raised in syngeneic mice immunized with 3LL cells. No correlation was observed between the presence of 3LL TA and the prevention of metastatic spread which suggests that the immune recognition of this tumour antigen requires the presence of a self H-2 molecule absent from these tumour cells. Indeed, radioimmunoassay (RIA) and cytofluorometric analysis using specific monoclonal antibodies have shown that the H-2Kb molecule was not expressed at the cell surface of all 3LL cell lines and clones, while the H-2Db molecule was present at normal levels. This defect, which was not the consequence of a lack of beta 2m expression, was accompanied by an absence or a marked reduction of the H-2K mRNA level (which has been reversed in the M4 cell line by in vitro gamma interferon treatment), while the H-2D class I gene was normally transcribed. Another defective transcription was also observed for a gene in the Tla region (gene 37). This low '37' phenotype was corrected by in vitro treatment of the M4 cell line with gamma interferon, which indicates that this class I gene of the Qa/Tla region has an interferon response sequence in the promoter.
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- K Benihoud
- Laboratoire de Recherches Génétiques sur les Modèles Animaux, CNRS, Villejuif, France
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Wang CR, Loveland BE, Lindahl KF. H-2M3 encodes the MHC class I molecule presenting the maternally transmitted antigen of the mouse. Cell 1991; 66:335-45. [PMID: 1855254 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(91)90623-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Mta, the maternally transmitted antigen of mice, is a hydrophobic, N-formylated mitochondrial peptide, MTF, presented on the cell surface to cytotoxic T lymphocytes by a novel major histocompatibility complex class I molecule, encoded by H-2M3. We have cloned and sequenced two alleles of M3, which differ in their ability to present MTF despite greater than 99% identity in the coding regions. M3 is as divergent from classical, antigen-presenting H-2 molecules as from other class I genes of the Hmt and the Qa/Tla regions. Amino acids critical for folding of class I molecules are conserved in M3. Noncharged amino acids lining the peptide-binding groove and phenylalanine 171 may explain the unique interaction with MTF, and leucine 95 appears critical for immunological activity.
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- C R Wang
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9050
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Davies JD, Wilson DH, Wilson DB. Generation of T cells with lytic specificity for atypical antigens. III. Priming F1 animals with antigen-bearing cells also having reactivity for host alloantigens allows for potent lytic T cell responses. J Exp Med 1991; 173:841-7. [PMID: 2007855 PMCID: PMC2190802 DOI: 10.1084/jem.173.4.841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Here, we explore the conditions required for generating two different highly potent F1 antiparental killer cell populations to unusual antigens in rats. The first, L/DA anti-DA, has lytic specificity for two antigen systems: MTA, a mitochondrial antigen expressed on DA and DA Lewis (L) target cells restricted by RT1A class I molecules; and H, an antigen that maps to the class I-like RT1C region and is present only on parental target cells from donors homozygous at the major histocompatibility complex. The second killer population is generated in the reciprocal DA/L anti-DA combination and has lytic specificity only for the H antigen system. We show that the killer cells are T cells, and that generation of these F1 cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) requires an in vivo priming step in which it is essential that the inoculated parental cells bear the relevant target antigens and possess alloreactivity for F1 host antigens. The requirement for alloreactivity and antigen on the same priming cell population suggests that these potent lytic responses depend on a situation akin to a hapten-carrier effect that bypasses otherwise ineffective helper responses by the host to these unusual antigens. Restimulation of F1 lymphocytes in culture is also necessary, requiring the presence of antigen on irradiated lymphoblast stimulator cells, but alloreactivity to responder cell antigens is not necessary; normal, nonactivated lymph node cells are completely ineffective as stimulators. For effective lysis, the target cells need not possess the potential for alloreactivity to responder F1 CTL. We also demonstrate in a preliminary way additional antigen systems defined by killer populations raised with other F1 antiparental strain combinations.
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- J D Davies
- Medical Biology Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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Davies JD, Wilson DH, Butcher GW, Wilson DB. Generation of T cells with lytic specificity for atypical antigens. II. A novel antigen system in the rat dependent on homozygous expression of major histocompatibility complex genes of the class I-like RT1C region. J Exp Med 1991; 173:833-9. [PMID: 2007854 PMCID: PMC2190811 DOI: 10.1084/jem.173.4.833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Lymphocytes from parental strain DA rats can induce potent killer cell responses to atypical antigen systems in F1 Lewis (L)/DA and DA/L recipients. Here, we describe an antigen system, H, present on homozygous parental target cells, but not on F1 cells. This antigen system is unusual in several respects: it does not involve class I RT1A gene products usually used by killer cell responses in the rat, it maps to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-like RT1C region, and it requires homozygous expression of RT1Cav1 alleles. This may be another example, this time involving the RT1C region, of an MHC gene product antigenically altered by an MHC-linked trans-activating modifier gene.
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- J D Davies
- Medical Biology Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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Powis SJ, Howard JC, Butcher GW. The major histocompatibility complex class II-linked cim locus controls the kinetics of intracellular transport of a classical class I molecule. J Exp Med 1991; 173:913-21. [PMID: 2007857 PMCID: PMC2190796 DOI: 10.1084/jem.173.4.913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The dominant trans-acting major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-linked class I modifier (cim) locus, previously recognized through its ability to determine altered alloantigenicity of a rat class I molecule, RT1.A3, is shown here to influence class I intracellular transport. The MHC recombinant laboratory rat strains PVG.R1 and PVG.R8 display unusually long retention of RT1.Aa within the endoplasmic reticulum or cis-Golgi. In appropriate F1 hybrid cells heterozygous for RT1.Aa and another class I MHC allele, RT1.Ac, only the RT1.Aa protein is subject to slow transport. The cim gene product therefore shows class I allele specificity in its action, cim appears to be a polymorphic locus whose product is directly involved in the processes of class I MHC assembly and/or intracellular transport.
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- S J Powis
- Department of Immunology, Agricultural & Food Research Council, Institute of Animal Physiology & Genetics Research, Cambridge Research Station, Babraham, UK
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Artzt K, Barlow D, Dove WF, Fischer-Lindahl K, Klein J, Lyon MF, Silver LM. Mouse chromosome 17. Mamm Genome 1991; 1 Spec No:S280-300. [PMID: 1799805 DOI: 10.1007/bf00656498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- K Artzt
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, NJ 08544-1014
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Of all the biochemically defined mouse MHC class I molecules, the Qa-1 antigens are the only ones for which a gene has not been identified. Recent evidence has suggested that Qa-1 antigens are functional class I molecules and can function as restriction elements for gamma/delta T cells. We have examined the relationship between Qa-1 and the product of gene 37, a presumed novel class I antigen encoded within the TL region. Immunoprecipitation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of the molecules reactive with anti-Qa-1 and anti-37 sera show that the Qa-1 molecule of Qa-1b (Qa-1.2) mouse strains is identical to the product of gene 37 on the basis of molecular weight, pI, and strain distribution. Immunodepletion, biosynthetic labeling, and tunicamycin treatment confirm that the protein encoded by gene 37 in Qa-1b mice is Qa-1.2. In contrast, the anti-37 serum was unable to recognize the Qa-1 molecule in Qa-1a strains. Given the fact that the only allele to gene 37 thus far identified in a Qa-1a strain (A/J) has a termination codon in the alpha 3 domain, our data lead us to conclude that the Qa-1 molecule expressed in Qa-1a mice is not a true allelic product of the gene 37 encoded antigen of Qa-1b mouse strains.
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- P R Wolf
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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David-Watine B, Israël A, Kourilsky P. The regulation and expression of MHC class I genes. IMMUNOLOGY TODAY 1990; 11:286-92. [PMID: 1698378 DOI: 10.1016/0167-5699(90)90114-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The expression of mouse MHC class I genes and their products in vivo reveals complex patterns of regulation. Different promoter elements, which are required for gene activation or modulation in response to various external stimuli, have now been characterized as well as the proteins that bind to them. As described here by Brigitte David-Watine and colleagues, the picture that has gradually emerged from these in vitro studies is of an intricate interplay of transacting factors that ultimately lead to the fine tuning of MHC class I expression in vivo.
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- B David-Watine
- Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène-U.277 INSERM, UAC 115 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Rees MA, Rosenberg AS, Munitz TI, Singer A. In vivo induction of antigen-specific transplantation tolerance to Qa1a by exposure to alloantigen in the absence of T-cell help. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:2765-9. [PMID: 2138785 PMCID: PMC53771 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.7.2765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A goal of transplantation immunology is to be able to induce antigen-specific tolerance in transplant recipients. In the present study we describe an in vivo model of antigen-specific transplantation tolerance to skin allografts using mice congenic at Qa1, a ubiquitously expressed class I-like molecule encoded to the right of H-2D. B6 mice are deficient in Qa1a-specific T-helper cells and only reject Qa1a disparate tail skin grafts when a second graft expressing additional helper determinants is also present. We report that animals initially engrafted with Qa1a disparate skin, in the absence of any source of additional help, are rendered tolerant to Qa1a disparate skin allografts despite the subsequent presence of inducer skin grafts expressing additional helper allodeterminants. The nonresponsive state is Qa1a-specific, because HY-bearing inducer grafts are rejected normally. In vitro, Qa1a-tolerant animals are specifically unable to generate anti-Qa1a T-killer cells, which provides the cellular basis for their failure in vivo to reject Qa1a skin allografts. Thus, initial exposure to Qa1a allodeterminants, in the absence of T-cell help, leads to a state of Qa1a-specific transplantation tolerance. This study suggests that antigen-specific transplantation tolerance may be induced by exposing naive T-killer cells to tissue alloantigens under conditions in which T-cell help is not generated.
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- M A Rees
- Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Cochet M, Casrouge A, Dumont AM, Transy C, Baleux F, Maloy WL, Coligan JE, Cazenave PA, Kourilsky P. A new cell surface molecule closely related to mouse class I transplantation antigens. Eur J Immunol 1989; 19:1927-31. [PMID: 2583228 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830191025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The "37" H-2 class I mouse gene, located in the Tla complex, is poorly polymorphic and is transcribed in a wide variety of cells and tissues. Using antisera directed against peptides deduced from the gene sequence, we demonstrate that the 37 gene encodes a 45.5-kDa cell surface glycoprotein. This protein, initially identified on the surface of mouse L cells transfected with an overexpressing 37 gene, is present on cells such as splenocytes of various mouse strains except those of A/J mice. Thus, mouse cells may express not only the major transplantation antigens encoded by the K and D region genes, but at least one additional poorly polymorphic class I molecule encoded by the 37 gene.
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- M Cochet
- Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène, U.277 INSERM, UAC 115 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Livingstone AM, Powis SJ, Diamond AG, Butcher GW, Howard JC. A trans-acting major histocompatibility complex-linked gene whose alleles determine gain and loss changes in the antigenic structure of a classical class I molecule. J Exp Med 1989; 170:777-95. [PMID: 2475574 PMCID: PMC2189436 DOI: 10.1084/jem.170.3.777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The RT1.A locus of the rat MHC encodes the H chain of the single classical class I molecule of this species. One of the alleles of this polymorphic locus, RT1.Aa, is present in several laboratory inbred, congenic, and MHC recombinant rat strains. Studies of the RT1.Aa class I molecule from a number of these strains as a target for CTL show that its antigenicity, both as an alloantigen and a restricting element, is subject to gain and loss alterations by the action of a gene mapping in the MHC to the right of RT1.A. This locus is apparently present in two allelic forms (one possibly a null allele) corresponding to the presence or absence of a dominant transacting modifier, and has been named class I modification, or cim. The antigenic change brought about by cim is scarcely detectable serologically but highly immunogenic for CTL. Biochemical investigations show that cim affects the post-translational modification of RT1.Aa.
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- A M Livingstone
- Department of Immunology, Agricultural and Food Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge Research Station, Babraham, United Kingdom
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Vidović D, Roglić M, McKune K, Guerder S, MacKay C, Dembić Z. Qa-1 restricted recognition of foreign antigen by a gamma delta T-cell hybridoma. Nature 1989; 340:646-50. [PMID: 2528072 DOI: 10.1038/340646a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Distinct T-lymphocyte subsets recognize antigens in conjunction with different classes of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) glycoproteins using the T-cell receptor (TCR), a disulphide-linked heterodimer associated with the CD3 complex on the cell surface. In general, class I and class II MHC products provide a context for the recognition of foreign antigens by CD8+ and CD4+ T cells, respectively. This recognition seems to be largely dependent on alpha beta TCR heterodimers, whereas the function of the second gamma delta TCR, present on a minor subpopulation of cells, is still unknown. In the mouse, the existence of six cell-surface MHC class I products (K, D, L, Qa-1, Qa-2 and Tla) has been firmly established by serological, biochemical and genetic evidence. So far, only the most polymorphic of them, K, D and L ('classical' class I) have been reported as restriction elements for T-cell recognition of foreign antigens. The function of the relatively invariant Qa and Tla molecules remains unknown. We have made a T-helper cell hybridoma clone (DGT3) that recognizes synthetic copolymer poly(Glu50Tyr50) in the context of Qa-1 cell surface product, and has a CD4-CD8- phenotype. Our studies indicate that DGT3 cells express the gamma delta TCR on the cell surface, implicating its role in Qa-1-restricted antigen recognition. This is the first evidence that T cells can recognize foreign antigen in association with self Qa product, confirming that Qa molecules not only topologically, but also functionally, belong to the MHC.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen-Antibody Reactions
- Antigens/immunology
- Blotting, Northern
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/physiology
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Interleukin-2/biosynthesis
- Mice
- Peptides/immunology
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology
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- D Vidović
- Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
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