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HLA-B15 Peptide Ligands Are Preferentially Anchored at Their C Termini¹

Kiley R. Prilliman^*, Kenneth W. Jackson, Mark Lindsey^*, Jihua Wang, David Crawford^* and William H. Hildebrand^2,*

^* Department of Microbiology and Immunology and William K. Warren Medical Research Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73190

Therapies to elicit protective CTL require the selection of pathogen- and tumor-derived peptide ligands for presentation by MHC class I molecules. Edman sequencing of class I peptide pools generates "motifs" that indicate that nonameric ligands bearing conserved position 2 (P2) and P9 anchors provide the optimal search parameters for selecting immunogenic epitopes. To determine how well a motif represents its individual constituents, we used a hollow-fiber peptide production scheme followed by the mapping of endogenously processed class I peptide ligands through reverse-phase HPLC and mass spectrometry. Systematically mapping and characterizing ligands from B*1508, B*1501, B*1503, and B*1510 demonstrate that the peptides bound by these B15 allotypes i) vary in length from 7 to 12 residues, and ii) are more conserved at their C termini than their N-proximal P2 anchors. Comparative peptide mapping of these B15 allotypes further pinpoints endogenously processed ligands that bind to the allotypes B*1508, B*1501, and B*1503, but not B*1510. Overlapping peptide ligands are successful in binding to B*1501, B*1503, and B*1508 because these B15 allotypes share identical C-terminal anchoring pockets whereas B*1510 is divergent in the C-terminal pocket. Therefore, endogenous peptide loading into the B15 allotypes requires that a conserved C terminus be anchored in the appropriate specificity pocket while N-proximal anchors are more flexible in their location and sequence. Queries for overlapping and allele-specific peptide ligands may thus be contingent on a conserved C-terminal anchor.

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