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. 1995 Oct 24;92(22):10257-61.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.22.10257.

Proteolysis of major histocompatibility complex class II-associated invariant chain is regulated by the alternatively spliced gene product, p41

B Fineschi  1 , L S Arneson, M F Naujokas, J Miller
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Proteolysis of major histocompatibility complex class II-associated invariant chain is regulated by the alternatively spliced gene product, p41

B Fineschi et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .

Abstract

Invariant chain (Ii) is an intracellular type II transmembrane glycoprotein that is associated with major histocompatibility complex class II molecules during biosynthesis. Ii exists in two alternatively spliced forms, p31 and p41. Both p31 and p41 facilitate folding of class II molecules, promote egress from the endoplasmic reticulum, prevent premature peptide binding, and enhance localization to proteolytic endosomal compartments that are thought to be the sites for Ii degradation, antigen processing, and class II-peptide association. In spite of the dramatic and apparently equivalent effects that p31 and p41 have on class II biosynthesis, the ability of invariant chain to enhance antigen presentation to T cells is mostly restricted to p41. Here we show that degradation of Ii leads to the generation of a 12-kDa amino-terminal fragment that in p41-positive, but not in p31-positive, cells remains associated with class II molecules for an extended time. Interestingly, we find that coexpression of the two isoforms results in a change in the pattern of p31 degradation such that endosomal processing of p31 also leads to extended association of a similar 12-kDa fragment with class II molecules. These data raise the possibility that p41 may have the ability to impart its pattern of proteolytic processing on p31 molecules expressed in the same cells. This would enable a small number of p41 molecules to modify the post-translational transport and/or processing of an entire cohort of class II-Ii complexes in a manner that could account for the unique ability of p41 to enhance antigen presentation.

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