6lhg

Publication Abstract from PubMed

The CD8alphaalpha homodimer is crucial to both thymic T cell selection and the antigen recognition of cytotoxic T cells. The CD8-pMHC-I interaction can enhance CTL immunity via stabilizing the TCR-pMHC-I interaction and optimizing the cross-reactivity and Ag sensitivity of CD8(+) T cells at various stages of development. To date, only human and mouse CD8-pMHC-I complexes have been determined. Here, we resolved the pBF2*1501 complex and the cCD8alphaalpha/pBF2*1501 and cCD8alphaalpha/pBF2*0401 complexes in nonmammals for the first time. Remarkably, cCD8alphaalpha/pBF2*1501 and the cCD8alphaalpha/pBF2*0401 complex both exhibited two binding modes, including an "antibody-like" mode similar to that of the known mammal CD8/pMHC-I complexes and a "face-to-face" mode that has been observed only in chickens to date. Compared to the "antibody-like" mode, the "face-to-face" binding mode changes the binding orientation of the cCD8alphaalpha homodimer to pMHC-I, which might facilitate abundant gammadeltaT cells to bind diverse peptides presented by limited BF2 alleles in chicken. Moreover, the forces involving in the interaction of cCD8alphaalpha/pBF2*1501 and the cCD8alphaalpha/pBF2*0401 are different in this two binding model, which might change the strength of the CD8-pMHC-I interaction, amplifying T cell cross-reactivity in chickens. The coreceptor CD8alphaalpha of TCR has evolved two peptide-MHC-I binding patterns in chickens, which might enhance the T cell response to major or emerging pathogens, including chicken-derived pathogens that are relevant to human health, such as high-pathogenicity influenza viruses.

The Combination of CD8alphaalpha and Peptide-MHC-I in a Face-to-Face Mode Promotes Chicken gammadeltaT Cells Response.,Liu Y, Chen R, Liang R, Sun B, Wu Y, Zhang L, Kaufman J, Xia C Front Immunol. 2020 Nov 23;11:605085. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.605085. eCollection , 2020. PMID:33329601^[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.