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Immunodominant, protective response to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii requires antigen processing in the endoplasmic reticulum.


ABSTRACT: The parasite Toxoplasma gondii replicates in a specialized intracellular vacuole and causes disease in many species. Protection from toxoplasmosis is mediated by CD8(+) T cells, but the T. gondii antigens and host genes required for eliciting protective immunity are poorly defined. Here we identified GRA6, a polymorphic protein secreted in the parasitophorous vacuole, as the source of the immunodominant and protective decapeptide HF10 presented by the H-2L(d) major histocompatibility complex class I molecule. Presentation of the HF10-H-2L(d) ligand required proteolysis by ERAAP, the endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase associated with antigen processing. Consequently, expansion of protective CD8(+) T cell populations was impaired in T. gondii-infected ERAAP-deficient mice, which were more susceptible to toxoplasmosis. Thus, endoplasmic reticulum proteolysis is critical for eliciting protective immunity to a vacuolar parasite.

SUBMITTER: Blanchard N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4976627 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Immunodominant, protective response to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii requires antigen processing in the endoplasmic reticulum.

Blanchard Nicolas N   Gonzalez Federico F   Schaeffer Marie M   Joncker Nathalie T NT   Cheng Tiffany T   Shastri Anjali J AJ   Robey Ellen A EA   Shastri Nilabh N  

Nature immunology 20080629 8


The parasite Toxoplasma gondii replicates in a specialized intracellular vacuole and causes disease in many species. Protection from toxoplasmosis is mediated by CD8(+) T cells, but the T. gondii antigens and host genes required for eliciting protective immunity are poorly defined. Here we identified GRA6, a polymorphic protein secreted in the parasitophorous vacuole, as the source of the immunodominant and protective decapeptide HF10 presented by the H-2L(d) major histocompatibility complex cla  ...[more]

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