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* Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160; and
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612
The HLA-G message is alternatively spliced into multiple transcripts, two of which encode soluble isoforms. To initiate studies on the specific functions of the soluble isoforms, we produced soluble rHLA-G1 (rsG1) and rsG2 in human embryonic kidney 293 cells and characterized the proteins. Both isoforms were glycosylated and formed disulfide-bonded oligomers. Recombinant sG1 associated with 
2-microglobulin, whereas rsG2 did not. Mouse mAb generated to rsG1 (1-2C3), which identified exclusively sG1, and mAb generated to rsG2 (26-2H11), which identified both soluble and membrane G2 (m/sG2), were used for immunohistochemical isoform mapping studies on placental tissue sections. Soluble G1 protein was abundant in many subpopulations of trophoblast cells, whereas m/sG2 protein was present exclusively in extravillous cytotrophoblast cells. Although both isolated placental villous cytotrophoblast cells and chorion membrane extravillous cytotrophoblast cells contained mRNAs encoding sG1 and sG2, protein expression was as predicted from the immunostains with m/sG2 present only in the invasive trophoblast subpopulation. Analysis of function by Northern and Western blotting demonstrated that both rsG1 and rsG2 inhibit CD8
expression on PBMC without changing CD3
expression or causing apoptotic cell death. Collectively, the studies indicate that: 1) both sG1 and m/sG2 are produced in placentas; 2) transcription and translation are linked for sG1, but not G2; 3) expression of G2 is exclusively associated with the invasive phenotype; and 4) the two isoforms of sG may promote semiallogeneic pregnancy by reducing expression of CD8, a molecule required for functional activation of CTL.
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