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The Journal of Immunology, 1998, 160: 4386-4397.
Copyright © 1998 by The American Association of Immunologists

Promiscuous Binding of Synthetic Copolymer 1 to Purified HLA-DR Molecules1

Masha Fridkis-Hareli and Jack L. Strominger2

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a random synthetic amino acid copolymer of L-alanine, L-glutamic acid, L-lysine, and L-tyrosine, effective both in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and in the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. Cop 1 binds promiscuously and very efficiently to living APCs of various HLA haplotypes. In the present study, a substantial part of the whole mixture of random polypeptides that compose Cop 1 was shown to bind to purified human HLA-DR1, DR2, and DR4 with high affinity in a temperature- and time (and, in the case of DR4, pH)-dependent manner, and was competitively inhibited by DR-restricted peptides, but not by peptide derivatives that bind with low affinity. Bacterial superantigens inhibited Cop 1 binding only at very high concentrations. The formation of the Cop 1-DR1 complex was also shown by SDS-PAGE. These findings represent the first direct evidence for interactions of Cop 1 with purified DR molecules, and suggest that its effectiveness in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis may be directly related to its binding in the groove of HLA-DR proteins.




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