A deep mutational scan of the MHC class I-specific chaperone TAPBPR for sites important for peptide editing
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ABSTRACT: TAP-binding protein-related (TAPBPR) is an endoplasmic reticulum-resident chaperone that facilitates class I MHC (MHC-I) processing and peptide loading. TAPBPR has (1) chaperone function to stabilize misfolded or partially folded nascent MHC-I substrates, and (2) editing function, in which it catalyzes the exchange of low affinity for high affinity antigenic peptides in the MHC-I peptide-binding groove. TAPBPR-TM is a chimera of the TAPBPR ectodomain and a canonical TM domain, which escapes the endoplasmic reticulum to reach the cell surface. We reasoned that at the cell surface, TAPBPR-TM is more likely to interact with folded MHC-I and thus surface interactions will be more representative of editing function. When tapasin, a homolog of TAPBPR and the main MHC-I-specific chaperone, is knocked out, surface trafficking of HLA-A2 (a human MHC-I allele) is severely diminished, but surface HLA-A2 levels are rescued by over-expression of TAPBPR-TM. Using this assay as the foundation for a fluorescence-based selection, we deep mutationally scanned 104 positions on TAPBPR-TM to identify sites critical for engaging folded MHC-I.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE218828 | GEO | 2023/03/09
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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