title: H-2M3 encodes the MHC class I molecule presenting the maternally transmitted antigen of the mouse.
abstract: Mta, the maternally transmitted antigen of mice, is a hydrophobic, N-formylated mitochondrial peptide, MTF, presented on the cell surface to cytotoxic T lymphocytes by a novel major histocompatibility complex class I molecule, encoded by H-2M3. We have cloned and sequenced two alleles of M3, which differ in their ability to present MTF despite greater than 99% identity in the coding regions. M3 is as divergent from classical, antigen-presenting H-2 molecules as from other class I genes of the Hmt and the Qa/Tla regions. Amino acids critical for folding of class I molecules are conserved in M3. Noncharged amino acids lining the peptide-binding groove and phenylalanine 171 may explain the unique interaction with MTF, and leucine 95 appears critical for immunological activity.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9050.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Loveland
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Lindahl
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003360:Cosmids; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D015723:Gene Library; D005805:Genes, MHC Class I; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D006183:H-2 Antigens; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D004247:DNA