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Murine Transporter Associated With Antigen Presentation (Tap) Preferences Influence Class I-Restricted T Cell Responses., A J Yellen-Shaw, C E Laughlin, R M Metrione, Laurence C. Eisenlohr
Murine Transporter Associated With Antigen Presentation (Tap) Preferences Influence Class I-Restricted T Cell Responses., A J Yellen-Shaw, C E Laughlin, R M Metrione, Laurence C. Eisenlohr
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers
The transporter associated with antigen presentation (TAP) complex shuttles cytosolic peptides into the exocytic compartment for association with nascent major histocompatibility complex class I molecules. Biochemical studies of murine and human TAP have established that substrate length and COOH-terminal residue identity are strong determinants of transport efficiency. However, the existence of these specificities in the intact cell and their influences on T cell responses have not been demonstrated. We have devised a method for studying TAP- mediated transport in intact cells, using T cell activation as a readout. The approach makes use of a panel of recombinant vaccinia viruses expressing …
A Novel Polymorphism Of Fcgammariiia (Cd16) Alters Receptor Function And Predisposes To Autoimmune Disease, Jianming Wu, Jeffrey C. Edberg, Patricia B. Redecha, Vipin Bansal, Paul M. Guyre, Kimberly Coleman, Jane E. Salmon, Robert P. Kimberly
A Novel Polymorphism Of Fcgammariiia (Cd16) Alters Receptor Function And Predisposes To Autoimmune Disease, Jianming Wu, Jeffrey C. Edberg, Patricia B. Redecha, Vipin Bansal, Paul M. Guyre, Kimberly Coleman, Jane E. Salmon, Robert P. Kimberly
Dartmouth Scholarship
A novel polymorphism in the extracellular domain 2 (EC2) of FcgammaRIIIA affects ligand binding by natural killer (NK) cells and monocytes from genotyped homozygous normal donors independently of receptor expression. The nonconservative T to G substitution at nucleotide 559 predicts a change of phenylalanine (F) to valine (V) at amino acid position 176. Compared with F/F homozygotes, FcgammaRIIIa expressed on NK cells and monocytes in V/V homozygotes bound more IgG1 and IgG3 despite identical levels of receptor expression. In response to a standard aggregated human IgG stimulus, FcgammaRIIIa engagement on NK cells from V/V (high-binding) homozygotes led to a larger …