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SUBMITTER: Abe F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2802452 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abe Fumiyoshi F Van Prooyen Nancy N Ladasky John J JJ Edidin Michael M
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20090401 8
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein Bap31 associates with nascent class I MHC molecules. It appears to mediate the export of class I MHC molecules from the ER and may also be involved in their quality control. In this study, we use Förster resonance energy transfer and quantitative fluorescence imaging to show that in human, HeLa cells, Bap31 clusters with MHC class I (HLA-A2) molecules in the ER, and traffics via export vesicles to the ER/Golgi intermediate compartment. Förster resonance ene ...[more]