Immunization with gp96 from Listeria monocytogenes-infected mice is due to N-formylated listerial peptides. |
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Authors: | A M Sponaas U Zuegel S Weber R Hurwitz R Winter S Lamer P R Jungblut S H Kaufmann |
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Institution: | Department of Immunology, Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. |
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Abstract: | N-Formylated (N-f-met) peptides derived from proteins of the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes generate a protective, H2-M3-restricted CD8 T cell response in C57BL/6 mice. N-f-met peptide-specific CTL were generated in vitro when mice previously immunized with gp96 isolated from donor mice infected with L. monocytogenes were stimulated with these peptides. No significant peptide-specific CTL activity was observed in mice immunized with gp96 from uninfected animals. Masses corresponding to one N-f-met peptide were found by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry on gp96 isolated from C57BL/6 mice infected with L. monocytogenes, but not on gp96 from noninfected mice. Therefore, bacterial N-f-met peptides from intracellular bacteria can bind to gp96 in the infected host, and gp96 loaded with these peptides can generate N-f-met-peptide-specific CTL. We assume a unique role of gp96 in Ag processing through the H2-M3 pathway. |
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