The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 9 4240-4246, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Analysis of murine soluble Fc epsilon RII sites of cleavage and requirements for dual-affinity interaction with IgE

WC Bartlett, AE Kelly, CM Johnson and DH Conrad
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298, USA.

The low-affinity receptor for IgE (Fc epsilon RII/CD23) is a type II integral membrane protein with an extracellular C-terminal sequence homologous to C-type animal lectins. Between this region and the membrane is a repetitive sequence predicted to form an alpha-helical coiled-coil and is termed the stalk region. The Fc epsilon RII is proteolytically cleaved when at the cell surface in this stalk region. Both the 38 Kd and 28 Kd major released fragments were isolated from culture media and N-terminal sequencing demonstrated that the cleavage sites were in the third and fourth repeat domains, respectively. The identified sites show no apparent similarity with the cleavage sites previously identified in human Fc epsilon RII. Recent studies have demonstrated that the intact Fc epsilon RII interacts with IgE with a dual-affinity, resulting from a multivalent interaction with the IgE Fc region; mutant Fc epsilon RII that have a disruption of the alpha- helical coiled-coil have a single low-affinity interaction consistent with a monomeric interaction with IgE. The soluble Fc epsilon RII were shown to interact with IgE with an affinity similar to these mutant Fc epsilon RII. Preparation of a chimeric Fc epsilon RII in which the transmembrane and cytoplasmic regions were replaced with sequences from Ly-49 revealed that these regions played no role in the multimeric association of the Fc epsilon RII necessary for dual-affinity interaction with IgE. In addition, a full-sized soluble Fc epsilon RII construct was expressed, and this molecule demonstrated increased capacity to interact with IgE.

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