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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 278, 期 16, 页码 14337-14345出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M212882200
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Tapasin plays an important role in the quality control of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I assembly, but its precise function in this process remains controversial. Whether tapasin participates in the assembly of HILA-G has not been studied. HIA-G, an MHC class Ib molecule that binds a more restricted set of peptides than class la molecules, is a particularly interesting molecule, because during assembly, it recycles between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the cis-Golgi until it is loaded with a high affinity peptide. We have taken advantage of this unusual trafficking property of HILA-G and its requirement for high affinity peptides to demonstrate that a critical function of tapasin is to transform class I molecules into a high affinity, peptide-receptive form. In the absence of tapasin, HIA-G molecules cannot bind high affinity peptides, and an abundant supply of peptides cannot overcome the tapasin requirement for high affinity peptide loading. The addition of tapasin renders HILA-G molecules capable of loading high affinity peptides and of transporting to the surface, suggesting that tapasin is a prerequisite for the binding of high-affinity ligands. Interestingly, the tapasin-dependent HILA-G molecules are not empty in the absence of tapasin but are in fact associated with suboptimal peptides and continue to recycle between the ER and the cis-Golgi. Together with the finding that empty HIA-G heterodimers are strictly retained in the ER and degraded, our data suggest that MHC class I molecules bind any available peptides to avoid ER-mediated degradation and that the peptides are in turn replaced by higher affinity peptides with the aid of tapasin.
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