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HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 64, Issue 8, Pages 802-810Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-8859(03)00093-4
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soluble nonclassical HLA; CD1d; beta 2-microglobulin; metalloproteinase
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL 59835] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 45889, AI 45761] Funding Source: Medline
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Soluble human leukocyte antigens (HLA-A, -B, and -C) proteins can be generated by a membrane-bound metalloproteinase (MPase). The MPase-mediated pathway produces soluble nonconformed HLA proteins susceptible to further degradation, and also HLA proteins with high affinity peptides stable at physiologic temperatures. Accessibility of classical HLA to the MPase cleavage inversely correlates with stability of heavy chain (HC) interactions with beta2-microglobulin (beta(2)m). Whether a MPase is involved in release of soluble nonclassical HLA or CD1 proteins is unknown. We have investigated this question with transfectants expressing full-length FILA proteins. Native surface HLA-E and -G complexes, similar to HLA-A2, were unstable at low PH and dissociated giving rise to beta(2)m-free HC. Furthermore, HLA-E and -G proteins, similar to HLA-A2, were readily released from cell surface into supernatants as soluble 37-kilodalton beta(2)m-free HC. However, the stability of surface CD1d complexes was not affected by pH changes and no soluble CD1d was detected. Because beta(2)m-free CD1d HC were expressed on cells, the lack of cleaved soluble products cannot be explained by high stability of native complexes. Instead, absence of a CD1d-specific MPase in these cells or its impaired interactions with substrate HC may be responsible. (C) American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, 2003. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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