Brefeldin a implicates egress from endoplasmic reticulum in class i restricted antigen presentation
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ABSTRACT MOST antigens must be processed intracellularly before they can be presented, in association with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules at the cell surface, for
recognition by the antigen-specific receptor of T cells1–3. This processing appears to involve cleavage of protein antigens to Smaller peptides4–7. Only certain fragments of any protein can
serve as T-cell epitopes and this is, at least in part, determined by the requirement that peptides be able to bind the MHC molecules8–10. Class I restricted antigens are derived from
proteins, such as viral antigens, that are synthesized within the presenting cell11–13.Many of these antigens are cytosolic proteins and recent evidence suggests that it is in the cytosol
that these proteins are processed to produce either the antigenic peptides or processed intermediates13–16. How and where these processed cytosolic antigens cross the membrane of the
vacuolar system and bind to the extracellular domain of the class I molecule is not known but one obvious site for this process is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), because this organelle is
specialized to translocate proteins across the membrane from the cytosol into the secretory system. Based on this model, we reasoned that if we could pharmacologically block the movement of
proteins out of the ER, endogenous antigen presentation would cease. An agent which causes such an effect is available17,18 —the fungal antibiotic Brefeldin A (BFA). Consistent with the
above hypothesis, we report that BFA completely abolishes the ability of a cell to present endogenously synthesized antigens to class I restricted cytotoxic T cells. Access through your
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