Structural highlights
Function
[HA11_MOUSE] Involved in the presentation of foreign antigens to the immune system. [HM13_MOUSE] Catalyzes intramembrane proteolysis of some signal peptides after they have been cleaved from a preprotein, resulting in the release of the fragment from the ER membrane into the cytoplasm. Required to generate lymphocyte cell surface (HLA-E) epitopes derived from MHC class I signal peptides. Involved in the intramembrane cleavage of the integral membrane protein PSEN1 (By similarity). May play a role in graft rejection. [B2MG_MOUSE] Component of the class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Involved in the presentation of peptide antigens to the immune system.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The mouse H13 minor histocompatibility (H) Ag, originally detected as a barrier to allograft transplants, is remarkable in that rejection is a consequence of an extremely subtle interchange, P4(Val/Ile), in a nonamer H2-D(b)-bound peptide. Moreover, H13 peptides lack the canonical P5(Asn) central anchor residue normally considered important for forming a peptide/MHC complex. To understand how these noncanonical peptide pMHC complexes form physiologically active TCR ligands, crystal structures of allelic H13 pD(b) complexes and a P5(Asn) anchored pD(b) analog were solved to high resolution. The structures show that the basis of TCRs to distinguish self from nonself H13 peptides is their ability to distinguish a single solvent-exposed methyl group. In addition, the structures demonstrate that there is no need for H13 peptides to derive any stabilization from interactions within the central C pocket to generate fully functional pMHC complexes. These results provide a structural explanation for a classical non-MHC-encoded H Ag, and they call into question the requirement for contact between anchor residues and the major MHC binding pockets in vaccine design.
How H13 histocompatibility peptides differing by a single methyl group and lacking conventional MHC binding anchor motifs determine self-nonself discrimination.,Ostrov DA, Roden MM, Shi W, Palmieri E, Christianson GJ, Mendoza L, Villaflor G, Tilley D, Shastri N, Grey H, Almo SC, Roopenian D, Nathenson SG J Immunol. 2002 Jan 1;168(1):283-9. PMID:11751972[1]
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References
- ↑ Ostrov DA, Roden MM, Shi W, Palmieri E, Christianson GJ, Mendoza L, Villaflor G, Tilley D, Shastri N, Grey H, Almo SC, Roopenian D, Nathenson SG. How H13 histocompatibility peptides differing by a single methyl group and lacking conventional MHC binding anchor motifs determine self-nonself discrimination. J Immunol. 2002 Jan 1;168(1):283-9. PMID:11751972
