Amino acid residues on the I-Ak alpha-chain required for the binding and stability of two antigenic peptides.

  • Nelson C
  • Viner N
  • Young S
  • et al.
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Abstract

The class II molecules of the MHC bind processed Ag fragments (peptides) for presentation to T cells, but the role of individual MHC residues in binding these peptides has not been entirely defined. A panel of 27 mutant I-Ak transfectants was analyzed for the capacity to bind 2 unrelated peptides. The main peptides examined were hen egg lysozyme residues 48-62 and heat shock protein (hsp70) to residues 28-41. Alanine substitutions of sites in the alpha-helical region of the I-Ak alpha-chain altered the ability of this class II protein to bind both peptides. Of the 27 substitutions tested, nine caused a decrease in peptide binding while only three caused an increase in peptide binding. The stabilities of these altered I-Ak-peptide complexes were also examined on SDS-Page. Complexes with lowered stabilities were observed after only four substitutions, and in all four cases this loss of stability was accompanied by a loss in hen egg lysozyme or hsp70 peptide-binding ability. Further, three of these residues lie in the short extended strand at the N terminus of the alpha-helix of the alpha 1 domain, suggesting that this region of I-Ak molecule may be critical for the formation of stable peptide-MHC complexes.

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Nelson, C. A., Viner, N., Young, S., Petzold, S., Benoist, C., Mathis, D., & Unanue, E. R. (1996). Amino acid residues on the I-Ak alpha-chain required for the binding and stability of two antigenic peptides. The Journal of Immunology, 156(1), 176–182. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.156.1.176

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