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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Walther Oncology Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202
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HLA-DM is preferentially localized within mature endosomal/prelysosomal compartments. However, low levels of DM are found in early endosomal compartments of B cells and on the surface of dendritic cells (3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). The functional role of DM in these compartments remains unclear. Editing of select peptide:class II complexes at the cell surface was linked to DM expression (10). Yet, DM-independent Ag presentation can occur in early endosomes (11, 12). Although HLA-DM is known to display maximal editing activity at pH 5.5, it retains function at neutral to slightly acidic pH values found in the early endocytic compartments (13). HLA-DO may also play a role in regulating DM function in these locations, because DO limits peptide editing by DM at neutral, but not acidic, pH (4, 5). Here, evidence is provided that HLA-DM can act as an editor in early endosomes and influence the presentation of peptides via recycling class II molecules. Thus, the presentation of a human serum albumin (HSA)3 derived-peptide (residues 6476K) dependent on recycling class II proteins, was reduced in DM+ B cell lines as compared with their DM- counterparts. Decreases in functional peptide presentation correlated with HLA-DM levels in the B cells. Remarkably, treatment of DM+ cells with an inhibitor of early to late endosomal transport, led to an accumulation of HLA-DM in early endosomes and a concomitant decrease in HSA peptide presentation. Thus, indicating DM is functional as it transits from early to late endosomal compartments. Peptide editing was influenced by the ratio of HLA-DO to HLA-DM in APC. These findings strongly suggest that recycling class II complexes can undergo peptide editing by HLA-DM within early endocytic compartments and that HLA-DO can modulate this ligand exchange.
| Materials and Methods |
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HSA peptide 6476K (VKLVNEVTEFAKTK) and influenza hemagglutinin (HA-flu) peptide 307319 (PKYVKQNTLKLAT) were synthesized using Fmoc technology as described (14, 15).
Cell lines
Class II null APC T2 and 6.1.6 were transduced with retroviruses to express HLA-DR4w4 (DRA1*0101; DRB1*0401). Expression of HLA-DM was restored in these cells to yield T2-DR4/DM and 6.1.6-DR4/DM (16). In contrast with their DM-negative counterparts, these lines are proficient in exogenous Ag presentation and have reduced levels of unstable class II-associated invariant chain peptide (CLIP) complexes (16). Variants of the B-lymphoblastoid cell, Sweig, 7C3, and 6H5.DM (A. Rudensky, University of Washington, Seattle, WA), were retrovirally transduced to express HLA-DR4. 7C3 cells express low DM levels relative to 6H5.DM, stably transfected to achieve high intracellular DM (17). DM expression in 6H5.DM correlates with reduced numbers of cellular class II-CLIP complexes (17). DR4-transduced cells expressing equivalent levels of surface DR4 were isolated using the HLA-DR4-specific Ab 3.5.9-13F10 and FACS. The cell lines including T cell hybridomas, 17.9 specific for DR4w4 and HSA (residues 6476) and 50.84.17 specific for DR4w4 and HA-flu (residues 307319) were cultivated and maintained as described (15, 16)
Ag presentation assays
Ag presentation assays were performed as described using a range of peptide concentrations (14, 15). To assess T cell activation, serially diluted cell culture supernatants were assayed for IL-2 based on HT-2 cell proliferation. For inhibitor assays, APC were pulsed with bafilomycin A1 (0.01 µM; Sigma, St. Louis, MO) 1 h before peptide addition (0.0540 µM) and further incubated for 18 h plus drug before aldehyde fixation (0.5%) and the addition of appropriate T cells. Studies were repeated on an average of three to five times, with results from a representative experiment shown as the average of triplicate samples ± SEM. T cell proliferation in response to APC without peptide was always <1000 cpm.
Fluorescence-activated cell sorting
Cells were treated with/without 0.01 µM bafilomycin A1 for 18 h before incubation with Abs to HLA-DM (MAP1.1-DM; a gift of Dr. L. Denzin, Sloan Kettering, New York, NY), HLA-DR (L243), or isotype controls at 4°C for 30 min. Washed cells were stained with rabbit anti-mouse dichlorotriazinyl amino fluorescein (Accurate Chemical and Scientific, Westbury, NY), resuspended in 1% paraformaldehyde, and analyzed on a FACScan (BD Biosciences, Mountain View, CA). Each study was repeated at least three times.
Subcellular fractionation and immunoblotting
T2-DR4/DM cells treated with or without 0.01 µM bafilomycin
A1, were then fractionated on a 15% Percoll
gradient as described (14). The fractions were separated
by SDS-PAGE (10%) and analyzed by Western blotting for DR (DA6.147),
DM (DM-K8, gift of Dr. A. Vogt, Basel, Switzerland), and the early
endosome adaptor protein AP-2 (F. Brodsky, University of California,
San Francisco, CA). Localization of AP-2 in fractions 1214 confirmed
the separation of early endosomes from late endosomes and lysosomes in
fractions 13 containing the marker enzyme,
-galactosidase
(14). For Sweig-derived cells, pelleted membranes were
analyzed by immunoblotting with anti-DM (DM K8) or anti-DO
(gift of Dr. E. Mellins, Stanford University, Stanford, CA) as
described (18). These experiments were repeated three
times, and the overall variance in the distribution of DM and DR among
these studies was <8%.
| Results and Discussion |
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HLA-DM- cells are defective in Ag
presentation, whereas this deficiency is corrected in
DM+ cells (19). Both types of cells
have been shown to present exogenous peptides efficiently to T cells
(19, 20, 21). Yet, presentation of an exogenously supplied HSA
peptide (residues 6476K), was significantly enhanced in the
DM- cell line (T2-DR4) compared with the same
cell expressing HLA-DM (Fig. 1
A). Similar results were observed for this peptide with the
BLS cell line 6.1.6-DR4 and its DM+ counterpart
(Fig. 1
B). Reduced presentation of the HSA peptide in
DM+ cells may be due to the decreased
availability of MHC class II molecules in the DM-transfected cell line,
as a result of DM editing of unstable peptides such as CLIP. We
therefore investigated the presentation of a high affinity peptide,
HA-flu (residues 307319), which binds surface DR4 molecules
(15, 22). As seen in Fig. 1
C, only a slight
reduction in HA-flu peptide presentation was observed in cells
expressing abundant HLA-DM compared with DM null cells. Similar results
were observed with the HA-flu peptide and 6.1.6-derived cell lines
(data not shown). Studies using aldehyde-fixed APC ± DM revealed
little difference in peptide binding to surface DR, in agreement with
flow cytometric analysis confirming similar DR expression on these
cells (data not shown). Thus, the availability of empty or accessible
class II molecules alone could not explain the observed differential
presentation of the HSA peptide in cells ± DM.
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HLA-DM can edit exogenous peptides in early endosomes and the ratio of DM:DO is important in modulating this function
In contrast with other synthetic peptides, the HSA epitope
examined in this study is dependent on transit through early endosomal
compartments before functional class II-restricted presentation
(15). To address the site of DM editing of the HSA
peptide, inhibitors of endocytic transport were tested. Bafilomycin
A1 is an inhibitor of vacuolar
H+ ATPases that interferes with early to late
endosomal transport but can also affect internalization and endocytic
recycling in some cell types (25, 26). HSA peptide
presentation was unaffected by bafilomycin A1
treatment of DM- APC (Fig. 2
A), indicating that delivery of the HSA peptide to early
endosomal compartments as well as recycling of the class II molecules
was not disrupted by this treatment. However, treatment with
bafilomycin A1 led to decreased presentation of
the peptide in cells transfected with HLA-DM (6.1.6-DR4/DM and
T2-DR4/DM; Fig. 2
A), with no reduction in surface DR4. A
lack of change in surface class II expression with bafilomycin has been
previously reported (28). Similar results were observed
with nocodazole, another inhibitor of early to late endocytic
transport. Chloroquine neutralizes the acidic pH within endosomes and
lysosomes without disrupting transport between these compartments, yet
this drug did not alter HSA peptide presentation (data not shown).
Thus, editing of the HSA peptide was localized to early endocytic
compartments, because the editing was enhanced rather than ablated by
treating cells with inhibitors of early to late endosomal
transport.
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Although DM is found predominantly in late endosomes/prelysosomes in B
cells, low levels of DM have been observed in early endocytic
compartments as well as the cell surface of APC (10, 27).
Bafilomycin A1 treatment of APC resulted in
enhanced editing of the HSA peptide (Fig. 2
A), suggesting DM
accumulation in early endosomes after treatment with this drug. These
results support a pathway of DM transit from the cell surface through
early endosomes en route to mature endosomes such as MIIC. This was
addressed further by subcellular fractionation. Bafilomycin
A1 treatment of T2-DR4/DM cells led to an
increase in DM levels in the lighter compartments (66.2 ± 7.6%
DM) as compared with the untreated controls (47.8 ± 2.5; Fig. 2
B). Disruption of early to late endosomal transport also
led to an accumulation of class II molecules in the early endosomes
(60 ± 7.8% HLA-DR4 in treated cells vs 50.1 ± 6.7% in
untreated controls) similar to that reported by Villadangos et al.
(28) for mouse splenocytes. Liu et al. (29)
have suggested that DM may routinely transit to the cell surface with
peptide-loaded class II MHC molecules and that rapid endocytosis of DM
may represent a critical recapture step. The tyrosine motif found in
the cytoplasmic tail of DM may act as a signal for this rapid
internalization and sorting to endocytic compartments
(30). Attempts to detect DM editing of the HSA peptide at
the cell surface were negative even using direct peptide:class II
binding techniques (our unpublished observation). Yet, to
determine whether bafilomycin A1 triggers a
redistribution of HLA-DM to the cell surface, we analyzed DM expression
in cells with and without exposure to this drug. Surface Ab staining of
untreated T2-DR4/DM cells revealed low levels of HLA-DM in agreement
with published studies (10). A similar pattern of surface
DM expression was also observed for 6.1.6-DR4/DM (Fig. 2
C).
Treatment of these cells with bafilomycin A1 did
not lead to an increase in surface DM (Fig. 2
C) in agreement
with published studies demonstrating the specificity of this drug for
disruption of early to late endocytic transit and supporting a rapid
reinternalization of DM into early endosomes. Thus, the enhanced
editing of the HSA peptide observed in bafilomycin
A1-treated APC was due to the accumulation of DM
within early endosomes.
In conclusion, three important findings emerge from this study: 1) our data establish that select exogenous peptides are susceptible to HLA-DM editing; 2) although the overall levels of DM in early endosomal compartments are low, editing of peptide:class II complexes in these organelles does occur, suggesting that HLA-DM can regulate the stability and half-life of surface class II peptide complexes via the recycling pathway; 3) the editing function of HLA-DM in the early or recycling endosomes is influenced by the DM:DO ratio.
| Acknowledgments |
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2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Janice S. Blum, Medical Science Building, Room 255, 635 Barnhill Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5120. E-mail address: jblum{at}iupui.edu ![]()
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: HSA, human serum albumin; HA-flu, influenza hemagglutinin; CLIP, class II-associated invariant chain peptide. ![]()
Received for publication July 14, 2000. Accepted for publication May 23, 2001.
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