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Unique ligand-binding property of the human IgM Fc receptor.

ABSTRACT: The IgM Fc receptor (Fc?R) is the newest FcR, and coligation of Fc?R and Fas/CD95 on Jurkat cells with agonistic IgM anti-Fas mAb was shown to inhibit Fas-induced apoptosis. The ligand-binding activity of human Fc?R was further examined. Fc?R-mediated protection from apoptosis was partially blocked by addition of 10(4) molar excess of IgM or its soluble immune complexes, but it could be inhibited by addition of 10-fold excess of IgM anti-CD2 mAb. This suggests that Fc?R binds more efficiently to the Fc portion of IgM reactive with plasma-membrane proteins than to the Fc portion of IgM in solution. The former interaction occurred in cis on the same cell surface, but not in trans between neighboring cells. This cis engagement of Fc?R resulted in modulation of Ca(2+) mobilization via CD2 on Jurkat cells or BCRs on blood B cells upon cross-linkage with the corresponding IgM mAbs. Several functional changes were observed with Fc?R mutants: 1) significant increase in IgM ligand binding in the cytoplasmic tail-deletion mutant, 2) enhanced cap formation in Fc?R upon IgM binding at 4°C with a point mutation of the transmembrane His to Phe, and 3) less protective activity of Fc?R in IgM anti-Fas mAb-mediated apoptosis assays with a point mutation of the membrane-proximal Tyr to Phe. These findings show the importance of the cis engagement of Fc?R and its critical role in receptor function. Hence, Fc?R on B, T, and NK cells may modulate the function of surface proteins recognized by natural or immune IgM Abs on the shared membrane cell surface.

SUBMITTER: Honjo K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4711934 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Unique ligand-binding property of the human IgM Fc receptor.

Honjo Kazuhito K Kubagawa Yoshiki Y Kearney John F JF Kubagawa Hiromi H

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20150119 4

The IgM Fc receptor (FcμR) is the newest FcR, and coligation of FcμR and Fas/CD95 on Jurkat cells with agonistic IgM anti-Fas mAb was shown to inhibit Fas-induced apoptosis. The ligand-binding activity of human FcμR was further examined. FcμR-mediated protection from apoptosis was partially blocked by addition of 10(4) molar excess of IgM or its soluble immune complexes, but it could be inhibited by addition of 10-fold excess of IgM anti-CD2 mAb. This suggests that FcμR binds more efficiently to ...[more]

PMID: 25601920

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Project description:Both non-immune "natural" and antigen-induced "immune" IgM are important for protection against infections and for regulation of immune responses to self-antigens. The roles of its Fc receptor (FcµR) in these IgM effector functions have begun to be explored. In the present study, by taking advantage of the difference in IgM-ligand binding of FcµRs of human (constitutive binding) and mouse (transient binding), we replaced non-conserved amino acid residues of human FcµR with mouse equivalents before establishment of cell lines stably expressing mutant or wild-type (WT) receptors. The resultant eight-different mutant FcµR-bearing cells were compared with WT receptor-bearing cells for cell-surface expression and IgM-binding by flow cytometric assessments using receptor-specific mAbs and IgM paraproteins as ligands. Three sites Asn66, Lys79-Arg83, and Asn109, which are likely in the CDR2, DE loop and CDR3 of the human FcµR Ig-like domain, respectively, were responsible for constitutive IgM binding. Intriguingly, substitution of Glu41 and Met42 in the presumed CDR1 with the corresponding mouse residues Gln and Leu, either single or more prominently in combination, enhanced both the receptor expression and IgM binding. A four-aa stretch of Lys24-Gly27 in the predicted A ß-strand of human FcµR appeared to be essential for maintenance of its proper receptor conformation on plasma membranes because of reduction of both receptor expression and IgM-binding potential when these were mutated. Results from a computational structural modeling analysis were consistent with these mutational data and identified a possible mode of binding of FcµR with IgM involving the loops including Asn66, Arg83 and Asn109 of FcµR interacting principally with the Cµ4 domain including Gln510 and to a lesser extent Cµ3 domain including Glu398, of human IgM. To our knowledge, this is the first experimental report describing the identification of amino acid residues of human FcµR critical for binding to IgM Fc.

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Unique ligand-binding property of the human IgM Fc receptor.

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Unique ligand-binding property of the human IgM Fc receptor.

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