Calreticulin-dependent recycling in the early secretory pathway mediates optimal peptide loading of MHC class I molecules

Howe, Christopher, Garstka, Malgorzata, Al-Balushi, Mohammed, Ghanem, Esther, Antoniou, Antony N., Fritzsche, Susanne, Jankevicius, Gytis, Kontouli, Nasia, Schneeweiss, Clemens, Williams, Anthony, Springer, Sebastian and Elliott, Tim (2009) Calreticulin-dependent recycling in the early secretory pathway mediates optimal peptide loading of MHC class I molecules. The EMBO Journal, 28 (23), 3730-3744. (doi:10.1038/emboj.2009.296).

Abstract

Calreticulin is a lectin chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In calreticulin-deficient cells, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules travel to the cell surface in association with a sub-optimal peptide load. Here, we show that calreticulin exits the ER to accumulate in the ER–Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC) and the cis-Golgi, together with sub-optimally loaded class I molecules. Calreticulin that lacks its C-terminal KDEL retrieval sequence assembles with the peptide-loading complex but neither retrieves sub-optimally loaded class I molecules from the cis-Golgi to the ER, nor supports optimal peptide loading. Our study, to the best of our knowledge, demonstrates for the first time a functional role of intracellular transport in the optimal loading of MHC class I molecules with antigenic peptide.

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Author: Tim Elliott

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