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. 1992 May 1;89(9):3908-12.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.89.9.3908.

Evidence for peptide transport across microsomal membranes

B Koppelman  1 , D L Zimmerman, P Walter, F M Brodsky
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Evidence for peptide transport across microsomal membranes

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

Abstract

Antigenic peptides bound to class I molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are recognized by T-cell receptors during development of an antiviral immune response. T cells respond to peptides derived from cytoplasmic viral proteins as well as viral membrane proteins, indicating that a pathway exists for the transport of proteins or peptides from the cytosol into the compartment(s) where the MHC class I molecules assemble. To investigate this pathway, we have developed an in vitro assay for the transport of peptides into microsomal vesicles. This assay provides evidence for the transport of chemically synthesized peptides (13-21 amino acids) containing N-linked glycosylation acceptor sequences, which serve as glycosylation substrates. Their transport results in depletion of the pool of available dolichol high-mannose oligosaccharides in the lumen of the microsomal vesicles. We have observed transport of peptides derived from antigenic human immunodeficiency virus gag and influenza B nucleoprotein sequences, but transport of a third randomly selected peptide was not detected, suggesting specificity of the transport process. We were not able to demonstrate ATP dependence of this peptide transport process by using apyrase and an ATPase inhibitor. This result was unexpected in light of the recent identification of MHC-linked genes with homology to ATP-binding cassette transporters, which have been proposed to mediate peptide transport.

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