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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
    Description: The nonclassical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecule HLA-E inhibits natural killer (NK) cell-mediated lysis by interacting with CD94/NKG2A receptors. Surface expression of HLA-E depends on binding of conserved peptides derived from MHC class I molecules. The same peptide is present in the leader sequence of the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) glycoprotein UL40 (gpUL40). It is shown that, independently of the transporter associated with antigen processing, gpUL40 can up-regulate expression of HLA-E, which protects targets from NK cell lysis. While classical MHC class I molecules are down-regulated, HLA-E is up-regulated by HCMV. Induction of HLA-E surface expression by gpUL40 may represent an escape route for HCMV.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tomasec, P -- Braud, V M -- Rickards, C -- Powell, M B -- McSharry, B P -- Gadola, S -- Cerundolo, V -- Borysiewicz, L K -- McMichael, A J -- Wilkinson, G W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Feb 11;287(5455):1031.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10669413" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acid Substitution ; *Antigens, CD ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/immunology ; Cells, Cultured ; Conserved Sequence ; Cytomegalovirus/genetics/immunology/*metabolism ; Cytotoxicity, Immunologic ; Down-Regulation ; HLA Antigens/immunology/*metabolism ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology/*metabolism ; Humans ; Killer Cells, Natural/*immunology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Open Reading Frames ; Protein Sorting Signals/chemistry/*metabolism ; Receptors, Immunologic/metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Transfection ; Up-Regulation ; Viral Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 1992-08-14
    Description: The peptide binding cleft of the class I human histocompatibility antigen, HLA-A2, contains conserved amino acid residues clustered in the two ends of the cleft in pockets A and F as well as polymorphic residues. The function of two conserved tyrosines in the A pocket was investigated by mutating them to phenylalanines and of a conserved tyrosine and threonine in the F pocket by mutating them to phenylalanine and valine, respectively. Presentation of influenza virus peptides and of intact virus to cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTLs) was then examined. The magnitude of the reduction seen by the mutation of the two tyrosines in the A pocket suggests that hydrogen bonds involving them have a critical function in the binding of the NH2-terminal NH3+ of the peptide nonamer and possibly of all bound peptide nonamers. In contrast, the mutations in the F pocket had no effect on CTL recognition.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Latron, F -- Pazmany, L -- Morrison, J -- Moots, R -- Saper, M A -- McMichael, A -- Strominger, J L -- AI 20182/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- CA 47554/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Aug 14;257(5072):964-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1380181" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; Cloning, Molecular ; Epitopes/immunology/metabolism ; HLA-A2 Antigen/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Influenza A virus ; Kinetics ; Models, Molecular ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Oligopeptides/immunology/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology ; Transfection ; Viral Proteins/metabolism
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 1995-11-24
    Description: Immune evasion by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is unexplained but may involve the mutation of viral antigens. When cytotoxic T lymphocytes engaged CD4-positive cells that were acutely infected with HIV bearing natural variant epitopes in reverse transcriptase, substantial inhibition of specific antiviral lysis was observed. Mutant viruses capable of these transactive effects could facilitate the persistence of a broad range of HIV variants in the face of an active and specific immune response.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meier, U C -- Klenerman, P -- Griffin, P -- James, W -- Koppe, B -- Larder, B -- McMichael, A -- Phillips, R -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Nov 24;270(5240):1360-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7481824" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigenic Variation ; Base Sequence ; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology/virology ; Cell Line ; *Cytotoxicity, Immunologic ; Epitopes/genetics ; HIV Antigens/genetics/*immunology ; HIV Reverse Transcriptase ; HIV-1/enzymology/genetics/*immunology ; HLA-B8 Antigen/immunology ; Humans ; *Immune Tolerance ; Molecular Sequence Data ; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/genetics/*immunology ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 1996-10-04
    Description: Identification and characterization of antigen-specific T lymphocytes during the course of an immune response is tedious and indirect. To address this problem, the peptide-major histocompatability complex (MHC) ligand for a given population of T cells was multimerized to make soluble peptide-MHC tetramers. Tetramers of human lymphocyte antigen A2 that were complexed with two different human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-derived peptides or with a peptide derived from influenza A matrix protein bound to peptide-specific cytotoxic T cells in vitro and to T cells from the blood of HIV-infected individuals. In general, tetramer binding correlated well with cytotoxicity assays. This approach should be useful in the analysis of T cells specific for infectious agents, tumors, and autoantigens.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Altman, J D -- Moss, P A -- Goulder, P J -- Barouch, D H -- McHeyzer-Williams, M G -- Bell, J I -- McMichael, A J -- Davis, M M -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Oct 4;274(5284):94-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5428, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8810254" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, Viral/*immunology ; Base Sequence ; CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Cell Line ; Coloring Agents ; Epitopes/immunology ; Flow Cytometry ; Gene Products, gag/immunology ; HIV Seropositivity/*immunology ; HLA-A2 Antigen/*immunology ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Fragments/*immunology ; Phenotype ; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology ; Viral Matrix Proteins/immunology
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