title: Release from endoplasmic reticulum matrix proteins controls cell surface transport of MHC class I molecules.
abstract: The anterograde transport of secretory proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the plasma membrane is a multi-step process. Secretory proteins differ greatly in their transport rates to the cell surface, but the contribution of each individual step to this difference is poorly understood. Transport rates may be determined by protein folding, chaperone association in the ER, access to ER exit sites (ERES) and retrieval from the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment or the cis-Golgi to the ER. We have used a combination of folding and trafficking assays to identify the differential step in the cell surface transport of two natural allotypes of the murine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I peptide receptor, H-2D(b) and H-2K(b) . We find that a novel pre-ER exit process that acts on the folded lumenal part of MHC class I molecules and that drastically limits their access to ERES accounts for the transport difference of the two allotypes. Our observations support a model in which the cell surface transport of MHC class I molecules and other type I transmembrane proteins is governed by the affinity of all their folding and maturation states to the proteins of the ER matrix.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fritzsche
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Esam T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Abualrous
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Britta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Borchert
authors.affiliation: Department of Translational Immunology, German Cancer Research Center/NCT, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Momburg
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Springer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037282:Calreticulin / Q000378:metabolism; D002460:Cell Line; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism*; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / Q000378:metabolism*; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D011485:Protein Binding; D017510:Protein Folding; D021381:Protein Transport; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic / Q000378:metabolism*; D055571:Secretory Pathway
chemical_list: D037282:Calreticulin; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic; C107762:tapasin
keywords: ER export; MHC class I; anterograde protein transport; endoplasmic reticulum (ER); protein folding; secretory pathway