Cell-surface expression of H-2Db requires N-linked glycans |
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Authors: | John D Fraser Hamish Allen Richard A Flavell Jack L Strominger |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Tumor Virology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., 02115 Boston, MA, USA;(2) Biogen Research Corporation, 14 Cambridge Center, 02139 Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | The question of whether beta-2 microglobulin (B2m)-independent expression of the mouse major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen H-2Db results from the atypical glycosylation pattern associated with this MHC antigen (i. e., three glycans instead of two) has been addressed. Cell-surface expression of transfected H-2Db in the B2m deficient cell line RIE was completely abolished by the drug tunicamycin (Tm). Introduction of a functional B2m gene by transfection did not re-establish cell-surface expression of Db in the presence of Tm. Tm had no effect, however, on the expression of a truncated Db molecule lacking the 1 and 2 domains which is glycosylated at amino acid position 256, suggesting that the Db molecule, unlike other class I antigens, possesses an unstable conformation in the 1 and/or 2 domains which requires the attachment of glycans before it is transported to the cell surface. Once attached, however, glycans may confer a stable 1/ 2 conformation apparently peculiar to Db which allows cell-surface expression in the absence of B2m. |
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