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Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II

Antigen processing in B lymphocytes entails initial binding of antigen to the surface Ig and internalization of the antigen into acidic compartments where the antigen is degraded, releasing peptides for binding to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules. Using subcellular fractionation t...

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Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2119994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7909813
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description Antigen processing in B lymphocytes entails initial binding of antigen to the surface Ig and internalization of the antigen into acidic compartments where the antigen is degraded, releasing peptides for binding to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules. Using subcellular fractionation techniques we show that functional, processed antigen-class II complexes capable of activating antigen-specific T cells in vitro are first formed in dense vesicles cosedimenting with lysosomes which are distinct from early endosomes and the bulk of late endosomes. With time, processed antigen-class II complexes appear in vesicles sedimenting with early endosomes and finally cofractionate with plasma membrane. A separate compartment is identified which contains major histocompatibility complex class II receptive to peptide binding but which does not have access to processed antigen in the B cell. These class II molecules are in the so-called "floppy" form in contrast to the class II molecules in the very dense vesicles which are in the "compact" form. These results demonstrate a correlation between the floppy and compact forms of class II molecules and their association with processed antigen and show that floppy and compact forms of class II reside in distinct and physically separable subcellular compartments.
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spelling pubmed-21199942008-05-01 Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II J Cell Biol Articles Antigen processing in B lymphocytes entails initial binding of antigen to the surface Ig and internalization of the antigen into acidic compartments where the antigen is degraded, releasing peptides for binding to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules. Using subcellular fractionation techniques we show that functional, processed antigen-class II complexes capable of activating antigen-specific T cells in vitro are first formed in dense vesicles cosedimenting with lysosomes which are distinct from early endosomes and the bulk of late endosomes. With time, processed antigen-class II complexes appear in vesicles sedimenting with early endosomes and finally cofractionate with plasma membrane. A separate compartment is identified which contains major histocompatibility complex class II receptive to peptide binding but which does not have access to processed antigen in the B cell. These class II molecules are in the so-called "floppy" form in contrast to the class II molecules in the very dense vesicles which are in the "compact" form. These results demonstrate a correlation between the floppy and compact forms of class II molecules and their association with processed antigen and show that floppy and compact forms of class II reside in distinct and physically separable subcellular compartments. The Rockefeller University Press 1994-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2119994/ /pubmed/7909813 Text en This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II
title Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II
title_full Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II
title_fullStr Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II
title_full_unstemmed Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II
title_short Separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of MHC class II
title_sort separation of subcellular compartments containing distinct functional forms of mhc class ii
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2119994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7909813