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IMMUNITY
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 71-85Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(03)00355-8
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The immune evasion protein US3 of human cytomegalovirus binds to and arrests MHC class I molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). However, substantial amounts of class I molecules still escape US3-mediated ER retention, suggesting that not all class I alleles are affected equally by US3. Here, we identify tapasin inhibition as the mechanism of MHC retention by US3. US3 directly binds tapasin and inhibits tapasin-dependent peptide loading, thereby preventing the optimization of the peptide repertoire presented by class I molecules. Due to the allelic specificity of tapasin toward class I molecules, US3 affects only class I alleles that are dependent on tapasin for peptide loading and surface expression. Accordingly, tapasin-independent class I alleles selectively escape to the cell surface.
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