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Structural basis for ineffective T-cell responses to MHC anchor residue-improved “heteroclitic” peptides
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Madura, Florian Rizkallah, Pierre J. Holland, Christopher J. Fuller, Anna Bulek, Anna Godkin, Andrew J. Schauenburg, Andrea J. Cole, David K. Sewell, Andrew K. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Journal: European Journal of Immunology MHC anchor residue-modified “heteroclitic” peptides have been used in many cancer vaccine trials and often induce greater immune responses than the wild-type peptide. The best-studied system to date is the decamer MART-1/Melan-A26–35 peptide, EAAGIGILTV, where the natural alanine at position 2 has been modified to leucine to improve human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*0201 anchoring. The resulting ELAGIGILTV peptide has been used in many studies. We recently showed that T cells primed with the ELAGIGILTV peptide can fail to recognize the natural tumor-expressed peptide efficiently, thereby providing a potential molecular reason for why clinical trials of this peptide have been unsuccessful. Here, we solved the structure of a TCR in complex with HLA-A*0201-EAAGIGILTV peptide and compared it with its heteroclitic counterpart, HLA-A*0201-ELAGIGILTV. The data demonstrate that a suboptimal anchor residue at position 2 enables the TCR to “pull” the peptide away from the MHC binding groove, facilitating extra contacts with both the peptide and MHC surface. These data explain how a TCR can distinguish between two epitopes that differ by only a single MHC anchor residue and demonstrate how weak MHC anchoring can enable an induced-fit interaction with the TCR. Our findings constitute a novel demonstration of the extreme sensitivity of the TCR to minor alterations in peptide conformation. |
| Related Links | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357396/pdf |
| Ending Page | 591 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| Starting Page | 584 |
| e-ISSN | 15214141 |
| DOI | 10.1002/eji.201445114 |
| Journal | European Journal of Immunology |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 45 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2014-12-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: European Journal of Immunology Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Crystal Structure Peptide-major Histocompatibility Complex Surface Plasmon Resonance |
| Content Type | Text |