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IMMUNITY
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 523-534Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2006.03.015
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Intracellular proteins are degraded in the antigen processing pathway to generate peptide-loaded MHC I complexes (pMHC I) for immune surveillance. The characteristics of the final pMHC I are clear but those of their precursors and their potential binding partners remain poorly defined. By using a unique method to biochemically detect preprocessed ovalbumin-derived antigenic peptides, we find that cells generate large, C-terminally extended proteolytic intermediates that are associated with the alpha isotype of hsp90 chaperone. Knockdown of hsp90 alpha expression by siRNA resulted in the loss of these intermediates and decreased presentation of the final pMHC I on the cell surface. Generation of pMHC I was also inhibited by knockdown of the cochaperone CHIP that interacts with heat shock proteins, ubiquitinates their clients, and delivers them to the proteasome. Thus, hsp90 alpha can serve as a chaperone for precursors of pMHC I at an early stage in the antigen processing pathway.
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