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Cascio P. PA28γ, the ring that makes tumors invisible to the immune system? Biochimie 2024:S0300-9084(24)00078-6. [PMID: 38631454 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2024.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2024] [Revised: 03/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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PA28γ is a proteasomal interactor whose main and most known function is to stimulate the hydrolytic activity of the 20 S proteasome independently of ubiquitin and ATP. Unlike its two paralogues, PA28α and PA28β, PA28γ is largely present in the nuclear compartment and plays pivotal functions in important pathways such as cellular division, apoptosis, neoplastic transformation, chromatin structure and organization, fertility, lipid metabolism, and DNA repair mechanisms. Although it is known that a substantial fraction of PA28γ is found in the cell in a free form (i.e. not associated with 20 S), almost all of the studies so far have focused on its ability to modulate proteasomal enzymatic activities. In this respect, the ability of PA28γ to strongly stimulate degradation of proteins, especially if intrinsically disordered and therefore devoid of three-dimensional tightly folded structure, appears to be the main molecular mechanism underlying its multiple biological effects. Initial studies, conducted more than 20 years ago, came to the conclusion that among the many biological functions of PA28γ, the immunological ones were rather limited and circumscribed. In this review, we focus on recent evidence showing that PA28γ fulfills significant functions in cell-mediated acquired immunity, with a particular role in attenuating MHC class I antigen presentation, especially in relation to neoplastic transformation and autoimmune diseases.
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- Paolo Cascio
- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy.
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Pisoni GB, Molinari M. Five Questions (with their Answers) on ER-Associated Degradation. Traffic 2016; 17:341-50. [PMID: 27004930 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2015] [Revised: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Production of a functional proteome is a major burden for our cells. Native proteins operate inside and outside the cells to eventually warrant life and adaptation to metabolic and environmental changes, there is no doubt that production and inappropriate handling of misfolded proteins may cause severe disease states. This review focuses on protein destruction, which is, paradoxically, a crucial event for cell and organism survival. It regulates the physiological turnover of proteins and the clearance of faulty biosynthetic products. It mainly relies on the intervention of two catabolic machineries, the ubiquitin proteasome system and the (auto)lysosomal system. Here, we have selected five questions dealing with how, why and when proteins produced in the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum are eventually selected for destruction.
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- Giorgia Brambilla Pisoni
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH-6500, Bellinzona, Switzerland.,Università della Svizzera italiana, CH-6900, Lugano, Switzerland.,ETH Zurich, D-BIOL, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH-6500, Bellinzona, Switzerland.,Università della Svizzera italiana, CH-6900, Lugano, Switzerland.,School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Jan Bergmann T, Brambilla Pisoni G, Molinari M. Quality control mechanisms of protein biogenesis: proteostasis dies hard. AIMS BIOPHYSICS 2016. [DOI: 10.3934/biophy.2016.4.456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Cenci S, Oliva L, Cerruti F, Milan E, Bianchi G, Raule M, Mezghrani A, Pasqualetto E, Sitia R, Cascio P. Pivotal Advance: Protein synthesis modulates responsiveness of differentiating and malignant plasma cells to proteasome inhibitors. J Leukoc Biol 2012; 92:921-31. [DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1011497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Grauling-Halama S, Schenk S, Bubert A, Geginat G. Linkage of bacterial protein synthesis and presentation of MHC class I-restricted Listeria monocytogenes-derived antigenic peptides. PLoS One 2012; 7:e33335. [PMID: 22428021 PMCID: PMC3299774 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2012] [Accepted: 02/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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The processing and MHC class I-restricted presentation of antigenic peptides derived from the p60 protein of the facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is tightly linked to bacterial protein synthesis. We used non-linear regression analysis to fit a mathematical model of bacterial antigen processing to a published experimental data set showing the accumulation and decay of p60-derived antigenic peptides in L. monocytogenes-infected cells. Two alternative models equally describe the experimental data. The simulation accounting for a stable and a hypothetical rapidly degraded form of antigen predicts that the antigenic peptides p60 217–225 and p60 449–457 are derived from a putative instable form of p60 with an average intracellular half-life of approximately 3 minutes accounting for approximately 31% of all p60 molecules synthesized. The alternative model predicts that both antigenic peptides are processed from p60 degraded intracellularly with a half-life of 109 min and that antigen processing only occurs as long as bacterial protein synthesis is not inhibited. In order to decide between both models the intracellular accumulation of p60 in infected cells was studied experimentally and compared with model predictions. Inhibition of p60 degradation by the proteasome inhibitor epoxomicin revealed that during the first 3 h post infection approximately 30% of synthesized p60 molecules were degraded. This value is significantly lower than the approximately 50% degradation of p60 that would be expected in the presence of the predicted putative short-lived state of p60 and also fits precisely with the predictions of the alternative model, indicating that the tight connection of bacterial protein biosynthesis and antigen processing and presentation of L. monocyctogenes-derived antigenic peptides is not caused by the presence of a highly instable antigenic substrate.
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- Silke Grauling-Halama
- Institut für medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Fakultät für Medizin Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institut für medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Fakultät für Medizin Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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Khadra A, Santamaria P, Edelstein-Keshet L. The pathogenicity of self-antigen decreases at high levels of autoantigenicity: a computational approach. Int Immunol 2010; 22:571-82. [PMID: 20497954 PMCID: PMC2892361 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxq041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2009] [Accepted: 04/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Recent experimental evidence suggests that antigenic stability facilitates antigen shuttling from target tissue to dendritic cells (DCs), enabling cross-priming of naive T cells. On the other hand, antigenic stability affects the efficiency of peptide-MHC (p-MHC) complex formation, altering a target cell's susceptibility to killing by the resulting CTLs. Using a mathematical model, we show how antigenic stability and p-MHC production efficiency interplay in autoantigenicity and pathogenic potential of target cell proteins in autoimmune disease. We consider protein allocated to both rapidly degraded versus stable functional pools [fractions f, 1 - f], contributing, with relative efficiency eta, to p-MHC presentation on a target cell, as well as to cross-presentation on a DC; we analyze the combined effect of these parameters. Our results suggest that autoantigenicity and pathogenicity (ability to elicit T cell activation versus target cell lysis) are not equivalent and that pathogenicity peaks at low to moderate levels of autoantigenicity.
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- Anmar Khadra
- Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 12A, Room 4007, 12 South Drive MSC 5621, Bethesda, MD 20892-5621, USA.
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Rudd BD, Venturi V, Smithey MJ, Way SS, Davenport MP, Nikolich-Zugich J. Diversity of the CD8+ T cell repertoire elicited against an immunodominant epitope does not depend on the context of infection. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2010; 184:2958-2965. [PMID: 20164421 PMCID: PMC4161216 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The diversity of the pathogen-specific T cell repertoire is believed to be important in allowing recognition of different pathogen epitopes and their variants and thereby reducing the opportunities for mutation-driven pathogen escape. However, the extent to which the TCR repertoire can be manipulated by different vaccine strategies so as to obtain broad diversity and optimal protection is incompletely understood. We have investigated the influence of the infectious/inflammatory context on the TCR diversity of the CD8(+) T cell response specific for the immunodominant epitope in C57BL/6 mice, derived from glycoprotein B of HSV-1. To that effect, we compared TCR V segment utilization, CDR3 length, and sequence diversity of the response to natural HSV-1 infection with those elicited by either Listeria monocytogenes or vaccinia virus expressing the immunodominant epitope in C57BL/6 mice. We demonstrate that although the type of infection in which the epitope was encountered can influence the magnitude of the CD8(+) T cell responses, TCR beta-chain repertoires did not significantly differ among the three infections. These results suggest that widely different live vaccine vectors may have little impact upon the diversity of the induced CTL response, which has important implications for the design of live CTL vaccine strategies against acute and chronic infections.
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- Brian D. Rudd
- Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724 and the BIO-5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson,AZ 85719
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- Centre for Vascular Research, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724 and the BIO-5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson,AZ 85719
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- Department of Pediatrics, Center for Infectious Disease and Microbiology Translational Research, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Centre for Vascular Research, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724 and the BIO-5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson,AZ 85719
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Mackay LK, Long HM, Brooks JM, Taylor GS, Leung CS, Chen A, Wang F, Rickinson AB. T cell detection of a B-cell tropic virus infection: newly-synthesised versus mature viral proteins as antigen sources for CD4 and CD8 epitope display. PLoS Pathog 2009; 5:e1000699. [PMID: 20019813 PMCID: PMC2788701 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2009] [Accepted: 11/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Viruses that naturally infect cells expressing both MHC I and MHC II molecules render themselves potentially visible to both CD8+ and CD4+ T cells through the de novo expression of viral antigens. Here we use one such pathogen, the B-lymphotropic Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), to examine the kinetics of these processes in the virally-infected cell, comparing newly synthesised polypeptides versus the mature protein pool as viral antigen sources for MHC I- and MHC II-restricted presentation. EBV-transformed B cell lines were established in which the expression of two cognate EBV antigens, EBNA1 and EBNA3B, could be induced and then completely suppressed by doxycycline-regulation. These cells were used as targets for CD8+ and CD4+ T cell clones to a range of EBNA1 and EBNA3B epitopes. For both antigens, when synthesis was induced, CD8 epitope display rose quickly to near maximum within 24 h, well before steady state levels of mature protein had been reached, whereas CD4 epitope presentation was delayed by 36–48 h and rose only slowly thereafter. When antigen expression was suppressed, despite the persistence of mature protein, CD8 epitope display fell rapidly at rates similar to that seen for the MHC I/epitope half-life in peptide pulse-chase experiments. By contrast, CD4 epitope display persisted for many days and, following peptide stripping, recovered well on cells in the absence of new antigen synthesis. We infer that, in virally-infected MHC I/II-positive cells, newly-synthesised polypeptides are the dominant source of antigen feeding the MHC I pathway, whereas the MHC II pathway is fed by the mature protein pool. Hence, newly-infected cells are rapidly visible only to the CD8 response; by contrast, latent infections, in which viral gene expression has been extinguished yet viral proteins persist, will remain visible to CD4+ T cells. Many viruses infect cells in which both the MHC I and MHC II pathways of antigen presentation are active, and so viral proteins expressed in those cells may be presented as MHC I-peptide complexes to CD8+ T cells and as MHC II-peptide complexes to CD4+ T cells. Here we study these processes in a model system involving Epstein-Barr virus-infected human B lymphocytes (MHC I/II-positive) where viral antigen expression can be induced or suppressed at will, and antigen presentation tracked with specific CD8+ and CD4+ T cell clones. In this system, we find that the MHC I pathway is entirely fed by newly-synthesised polypeptides, whereas the MHC II pathway depends upon antigen supplied from the mature protein pool. Hence, while only CD8+ T cells can rapidly recognise new infections, only CD4+ T cells will recognise latent infections in which viral gene expression is extinguished yet a pool of viral antigens remains.
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- Laura K. Mackay
- School of Cancer Sciences and MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, College of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Cancer Sciences and MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, College of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Cancer Sciences and MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, College of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Cancer Sciences and MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, College of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Cancer Sciences and MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, College of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- School of Cancer Sciences and MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, College of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Goldwich A, Hahn SSC, Schreiber S, Meier S, Kämpgen E, Wagner R, Lutz MB, Schubert U. Targeting HIV-1 Gag into the defective ribosomal product pathway enhances MHC class I antigen presentation and CD8+ T cell activation. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2008; 180:372-82. [PMID: 18097038 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.1.372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The main source for endogenous peptides presented by the MHC class I (MHC-I) pathway are de novo-synthesized proteins which are degraded via the ubiquitin proteasome pathway. Different MHC-I Ag pools can be distinguished: first, short-lived defective ribosomal products, which are degraded in concert with or shortly after their synthesis, and, second, functional proteins that enter the standard protein life cycle. To compare the contribution of these two Ag sources to the generation of MHC-I-presented peptides, we established murine cell lines which express as a model Ag the HIV-1 Gag polyprotein fused to ubiquitin (Ub) carrying the epitope SIINFEKL (SL). Gag was expressed either in its wild-type form (UbMGagSL) or as a variant UbRGagSL harboring an N-end rule degron signal. Although UbRGagSL displayed wild-type protein stability, its inherent defective ribosomal products rate observed after proteasome shutdown was increased concomitant with enhanced presentation of the SL epitope. In addition, UbRGagSL induces enhanced T cell stimulation of SL-specific B3Z hybridoma cells as measured in vitro and of adoptively transferred TCR-transgenic OT-1 T cells in vivo. Furthermore, an elevated frequency of SL-specific T cells was detected by IFN-gamma ELISPOT after immunization of naive C57BL/6 mice with UbRGagSL/EL4 cells. These results further underline the role of the defective ribosomal product pathway in adaptive immunity.
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- Andreas Goldwich
- Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany
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Janda J, Geginat G. A deterministic model for the processing and presentation of bacteria-derived antigenic peptides. J Theor Biol 2007; 250:532-46. [PMID: 18061621 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2007] [Revised: 10/19/2007] [Accepted: 10/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The amount and the dynamics of antigen supply to the cellular antigen processing and presentation machinery differ largely among diverse microbial antigens and various types of antigen presenting cells. The precise influence, however, of antigen supply on the antigen presentation pattern of cells is not known. Here, we provide a basic deterministic mathematical model of antigen processing and presentation of microbial antigens. The model predicts that different types of antigen presenting cells e.g. cells presenting or cross-presenting exogenous antigens, cells infected with replicating microbes, or cells in which microbial antigen synthesis is blocked after a certain period of time have inherently different antigen presentation patterns which are defined by the kinetics of antigen supply. The reevaluation of existing experimental data [Sijts, A.J., Pamer, E.G., 1997. Enhanced intracellular dissociation of major histocompatibility complex class I-associated peptides: a mechanism for optimizing the spectrum of cell surface-presented cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes. J. Exp. Med. 185, 1403-1411] describing the processing and presentation of two antigenic peptides derived from the p60 proteins of the facultatively intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes shows that p60 proteins accumulating intracellularly during bacterial infection of cells play no measurable role as substrate for the cytosolic antigen presentation pathway.
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- Jozef Janda
- Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Fakultät für Medizin Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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Eisenlohr LC, Huang L, Golovina TN. Rethinking peptide supply to MHC class I molecules. Nat Rev Immunol 2007; 7:403-10. [PMID: 17457346 DOI: 10.1038/nri2077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The notion that peptides bound to MHC class I molecules are derived mainly from newly synthesized proteins that are defective, and are therefore targeted for immediate degradation, has gained wide acceptance. This model, still entirely hypothetical, has strong intuitive appeal and is consistent with some experimental results, but it is strained by other findings, as well as by established and emerging concepts in protein quality control. While not discounting defectiveness as a driving force for the processing of some proteins, we propose that MHC-class-I-restricted epitopes are derived mainly from nascent proteins that are accessed by the degradation machinery prior to any assessment of fitness, and we outline one way in which this could be accomplished.
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- Laurence C Eisenlohr
- Laurence C. Eisenlohr, Lan Huang and Tania N. Golovina are at the Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Philadelphia, Philadelphia 19107, USA
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Cenci S, Sitia R. Managing and exploiting stress in the antibody factory. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:3652-7. [PMID: 17475256 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.04.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2007] [Revised: 04/13/2007] [Accepted: 04/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Like us, our cells have evolved strategies to cope with, and sometimes utilize, stress. Molecular analyses of plasma cell biogenesis, lifestyle and death suggest that protein synthesis-dependent stress is utilised to integrate differentiation, function and lifespan control. Plasma cells are short-lived professional secretory cells, each of them capable of releasing several thousands antibodies per second. Their differentiation from B lymphocytes entails the spectacular enlargement of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), finalized to sustain massive Ig production. Nonetheless, symptoms of ER stress are evident, and the UPR-related transcription factor XBP-1 is essential for differentiation. Surprisingly, the development of such an efficient factory is matched by a decrease in proteasomes. The unbalanced load/capacity ratio leads to accumulation of polyubiquitinated molecules and predisposes plasma cells to apoptosis. Exuberant antibody secretion imposes considerable stress on metabolic and redox homeostasis. Collectively, these stressful conditions may link plasma cell death to antibody production, providing a molecular counter for secreted molecules, as well as an explanation for the peculiar sensitivity of myeloma cells towards proteasome inhibitors.
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- Simone Cenci
- Department of Biology and Technology, DiBiT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Universitá Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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Yewdell JW. Plumbing the sources of endogenous MHC class I peptide ligands. Curr Opin Immunol 2006; 19:79-86. [PMID: 17140786 DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2006.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2006] [Accepted: 11/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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From fish to fowl to pharaohs, nearly all cells in jawed vertebrates constitutively process and present peptides derived from endogenously synthesized polypeptides. Such peptides, snug in the binding groove of cell surface MHC class I molecules, enable CD8(+) T cell mediated immunosurveillance of viruses, other intracellular pathogens, and spontaneously arising tumors. The MHC class I system also plays an important role in olfactory-based vertebrate mate selection and perhaps even in preventing direct transmission of tumors between individuals. Recent findings indicate that MHC class I bound peptides are generated at higher efficiency from rapidly degraded polypeptides (including defective ribosomal products) than from old proteins. Intimately linking translation and antigen presentation makes perfect sense for immunosurveillance of acute virus infections, in which speed is of the essence to minimize viral replication, pathogenesis and transmission. The intriguing question of how translation is linked to presentation has prompted the immunoribosome hypothesis of immunosurveillance, which posits that MHC class I peptide ligands are preferentially generated from a subset of translation products.
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- Jonathan W Yewdell
- Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892-0440, USA.
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Yewdell JW, Nicchitta CV. The DRiP hypothesis decennial: support, controversy, refinement and extension. Trends Immunol 2006; 27:368-73. [PMID: 16815756 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2006.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2006] [Revised: 05/19/2006] [Accepted: 06/14/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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In 1996, to explain the rapid presentation of viral proteins to CD8+ T cells, it was proposed that peptides presented by MHC class I molecules derive from defective ribosomal products (DRiPs), presumed to be polypeptides arising from in-frame translation that fail to achieve native structure owing to inevitable imperfections in transcription, translation, post-translational modifications or protein folding. Here, we consider findings that address the DRiP hypothesis, and extend the hypothesis by proposing that cells possess specialized machinery, possibly in the form of "immunoribosomes", to couple protein synthesis to antigen presentation.
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- Jonathan W Yewdell
- Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892-0440, USA.
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Qian SB, Reits E, Neefjes J, Deslich JM, Bennink JR, Yewdell JW. Tight Linkage between Translation and MHC Class I Peptide Ligand Generation Implies Specialized Antigen Processing for Defective Ribosomal Products. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 177:227-33. [PMID: 16785518 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.1.227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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There is mounting evidence that MHC class I peptide ligands are predominantly generated from defective ribosomal products and other classes of polypeptides degraded rapidly (t1/2 < 10 min) following their synthesis. The most direct evidence supporting this conclusion is the rapid inhibition of peptide ligand generation following cycloheximide-mediated inhibition of protein synthesis. In this study, we show that this linkage is due to depleting the pool of rapidly degraded proteins, and not to interference with other protein synthesis-dependent processes. Our findings indicate that in the model systems used in this study, MHC class I peptides are preferentially generated from rapidly degraded polypeptides relative to slowly degraded proteins. This conclusion is supported by the properties of peptide presentation from slowly degraded (t1/2 = 4 h) defective ribosomal products generated artificially by incorporation of the amino acid analog canavanine into a model viral Ag. We propose that specialized machinery exists to link protein synthesis with class I peptide ligand generation to enable the rapid detection of viral gene expression.
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- Shu-Bing Qian
- Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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