The Journal of Immunology, Vol 155, Issue 4 1767-1775, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Novel dipeptide aldehydes are proteasome inhibitors and block the MHC-I antigen-processing pathway

CV Harding, J France, R Song, JM Farah, S Chatterjee, M Iqbal and R Siman
Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.

Class I MHC (MHC-I) molecules present peptides derived from Ag that are processed in the cytosol. The proteasome is a multicatalytic protease complex that is present in the cytosol and has been implicated in cytosolic Ag processing. Novel dipeptide aldehydes were designed, synthesized, and demonstrated to specifically inhibit the chymotrypsin- like protease activity of isolated proteasomes, but produced relatively little inhibition of cathepsin B, a vacuolar cysteine protease. The inhibitors were membrane permeable and inhibited intracellular cleavage of a membrane-permeable fluorogenic substrate of the chymotrypsin-like proteasome activity. When a model Ag, OVA, was introduced into the cytoplasm of M12.B6 murine B cells by electroporation, the proteasome inhibitors blocked its processing for subsequent presentation by MHC-I molecules. The inhibitors had little effect on class II MHC processing of exogenous Ag. The potencies of different inhibitors for blockade of MHC-I Ag processing correlated directly with their potencies for inhibition of the chymotrypsin-like proteasome activity. In contrast, conventional inhibitors of vacuolar cysteine proteases (e.g., leupeptin and benzyloxycarbonyl-Phe-Ala-CHN2) had little effect on MHC-I processing or the chymotryspin-like activity of isolated proteasomes. These results directly demonstrate that inhibition of proteasome activity blocks MHC-I Ag processing, confirming a role for proteasomes in this pathway. Moreover, they suggest that the chymotrypsin-like activity of the proteasome may be of major importance to the cytosolic processing of at least some Ag.

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