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Tapasin facilitation of MHC-I separates closely related allomorphs, is strongly influenced by peptide length and depends on stability

Geironson Ulfsson, Linda LU ; Thuring, Camilla LU ; Harndahl, Mikkel ; Rasmussen, M. ; Buus, Søren ; Røder, Gustav and Paulsson, Kajsa LU orcid (2013) ICI 2013 p.83-83
Abstract
Only a small fraction of the peptides inside a cell are eventually presented by HLA-I on the cell surface. The presented peptides have HLA-I allomorph-specific motifs and length restrictions. Tapasin influences HLA-I antigen presentation both qualitatively and quantitatively to different degrees depending on both peptide sequence and HLA-I allomorph. The tapasin-dependence in cellular context has been shown to correspond to the facilitation of peptide- HLA-I complex formation by the first 87 amino acids of tapasin (Tpn1- 87) (i.e., tapasin-facilitation = Bmax Tpn1-87/Bmax Ctrl) in a biochemical assay. Both peptide length and tapasin-facilitation are important for HLA-I antigen presentation and we here set out to study if these two... (More)
Only a small fraction of the peptides inside a cell are eventually presented by HLA-I on the cell surface. The presented peptides have HLA-I allomorph-specific motifs and length restrictions. Tapasin influences HLA-I antigen presentation both qualitatively and quantitatively to different degrees depending on both peptide sequence and HLA-I allomorph. The tapasin-dependence in cellular context has been shown to correspond to the facilitation of peptide- HLA-I complex formation by the first 87 amino acids of tapasin (Tpn1- 87) (i.e., tapasin-facilitation = Bmax Tpn1-87/Bmax Ctrl) in a biochemical assay. Both peptide length and tapasin-facilitation are important for HLA-I antigen presentation and we here set out to study if these two parameters relate to each other. We used a luminescent oxygen channeling assay and seven different peptide libraries (X7- X13) to study 16 HLA-A and -B allomorphs and the results show a broad spectrum of tapasin-facilitation of HLA-I allomorphs and that HLA-A allomorphs were generally less restricted than -B allomorphs
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to peptides of the classical lengths of 8-10 amino acids. Since both stability and tapasin-facilitation have been suggested as discriminators of immunogenic peptides we used a scintillation proximity based assay to study the stability of peptide-HLA-I complexes formed with peptides of different lengths. The results demonstrate an inverse correlation between tapasin-facilitation and stability valid for different peptide mixes of specific lengths but also on the level of HLA-I allomorphs, suggesting that molecules of poor stability are either not in a conformation that allows tapasin to interact or have a conformation where association has no effect. (Less)
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tapasin, peptide, HLA-I, MHC-I, antigen presentation
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2013-08-22 - 2013-08-27
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  author       = {{Geironson Ulfsson, Linda and Thuring, Camilla and Harndahl, Mikkel and Rasmussen, M. and Buus, Søren and Røder, Gustav and Paulsson, Kajsa}},
  keywords     = {{tapasin; peptide; HLA-I; MHC-I; antigen presentation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{83--83}},
  title        = {{Tapasin facilitation of MHC-I separates closely related allomorphs, is strongly influenced by peptide length and depends on stability}},
  url          = {{http://www.ici2013.org/pdf/uploads/abstracts-book.pdf}},
  year         = {{2013}},
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