MHC class I-restricted antigen processing--lessons from natural ligands.
MHC class I-restricted antigen processing--lessons from natural ligands.
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MHC I 类限制性抗原加工——来自天然配体的教训。
DOI:
10.1159/000319185
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发表时间:
1993
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通讯作者:
K. Falk
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作者:
H. Rammensee;O. Rötzschke;K. Falk
MHC molecules are peptide receptors. Their function is to sample the cell's interior for peptides and to transport the peptides to the outer aspect of the cell, where they can be surveyed by T cells. The two classes of MHC molecules differ in both the source of peptides as well as in the mode of interaction with peptide. Class I molecules can pick up peptides from any protein that is synthesized in a cell, including proteins encoded by mitochon-drial genes. Proteins from the exterior of cells must also be able to deliver peptides to class I molecules, although evidence for this is rather indirect [1-3] or observed in artificial settings only [4, 5]. Class II molecules mainly present peptides endogenous to cells as well, in spite of opposite statements in numerous textbooks and papers. In addition, however, class II molecules are readily loaded with peptides derived from phagocytosed or otherwise internalized proteins. The differences in sources of peptide-donating proteins for the two MHC classes are intelligible by considering the different compartment for peptide loading: Class I molecules acquire their peptides somewhere between ER and early Golgi, whereas class II molecules find their peptides in the endosomal/lysosomal compartment, that is, a place connected with phagocytosed material.The immune system has at least two easily understandable advantages by using the system of peptide presentation by MHC molecules and recognition by T cells. Class I molecules enable the T cell compartment to'see'inside the cells, that is, to see peptide samples from inside the cell on the cell surface, so that a cell presenting foreign material, like virus-derived peptides, may be recognized and attacked by T cells. For class II molecules, the same argument applies, how-