| Abstract: |
We investigated mechanistic differences in antigen presentation between murine MHC class I variants H-2Kb and H-2Kbm8 H-2Kbm8 differs from H- 2Kb by four residues at the floor of the peptide-binding site, affecting its B pocket which interacts with the second (P2) residue of the peptide. The rest of the molecule, including the T cell receptor (TCR)-contacting residues, is identical to H-2Kb. Due to this variation, CTLs that recognize the ovalbumin257-264 and HSV gB(498-505 peptides on H-2kb cannot recognize them on H-2Kbm8. This could be due to impaired peptide binding or an altered peptide:Kbm8 conformation. Peptide binding studies ruled out the first explanation. Molecular modeling indicated that the most obvious consequence of amino acid variation between peptide/H-2Kb and peptide/H-2Kbm8 complexes would be a loss of the conserved hydrogen bond network in the B pocket of the latter. This could cause conformational variation of bound peptides. Intermolecular second-site reversion was used to test this hypothesis: P2-substituted OVA and HSV peptides, engineered to restore the hydrogen bond network of the B pocket, were the only ones which restored CTL recognition. These results provide a molecular understanding of peptide/MHC conformational variation. |
| Keywords: |
nonhuman; protein conformation; animal cell; mouse; animals; mice; protein binding; structure-activity relationship; mice, inbred c57bl; t lymphocyte receptor; antigen presentation; amino acid sequence; molecular sequence data; receptors, antigen, t-cell; antigen recognition; t-lymphocytes, cytotoxic; peptides; simplexvirus; hydrogen bond; models, molecular; binding sites; conformational transition; major histocompatibility complex; antigen-presenting cells; molecular model; major histocompatibility antigen; antigens, viral; ovalbumin; h-2 antigens; t lymphocyte receptor gene; priority journal; article
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