PMID: 9531277Apr 8, 1998Paper

Maturation of Qa-1b class I molecules requires beta 2-microglobulin but is TAP independent

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
P J RobinsonH Djaballah

Abstract

Two conformationally distinct and stable forms of Qa-1b, one strongly associated with beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2m) and the other associated with a novel molecule, gp44, were observed during immunochemical studies on the expression of Qa-1b molecules in mouse spleen cells. Both forms are efficiently processed and expressed at the cell surface. However, a large proportion of Qa-1b was found to be disulfide linked to gp44 without any detectable beta 2m. In TAP1-deficient mice, both forms undergo carbohydrate processing and are expressed on the cell surface, suggesting that they may traffic using a pathway not requiring a TAP association step. Consistent with this, size exclusion chromatography of newly synthesized class I molecules shows that high molecular mass complexes containing H-2Kk do not contain Qa-1b. Although Qa-1b can be stably expressed without beta 2m, there was no maturation of either form in cells from beta 2m-deficient mice where heavy chains were rapidly degraded. These results suggest that Qa-1b, like most other class I molecules, requires beta 2m for an initial folding step. However, beta 2m is not essential for subsequent processing of Qa-1b molecules.

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