Valés-Gómez M, Reyburn H T, Erskine R A, Strominger J
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Nov 24;95(24):14326-31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.24.14326.
Natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity is regulated in large part by the expression of NK cell receptors able to bind class I major histocompatibility complex glycoproteins. The receptors associated with recognition of HLA-C allospecificities are the two-domain Ig-like molecules, p50 and p58 proteins, with highly homologous extracellular domains but differing in that they have either an activating or inhibitory function, respectively, depending on the transmembrane domain and cytoplasmic tails that they possess. We have compared the binding to HLA-Cw7 of an inhibitory p58 molecule, NKAT2, the highly homologous activating p50 molecule, clone 49, and a second activating p50 molecule, clone 39, which has homologies to both NKAT1 and NKAT2. NKAT2 binds to HLA-Cw7 with very rapid association and dissociation rates. However, the p50 receptors bind only very weakly, if at all, to HLA-C. The molecular basis of this difference is analyzed, and the functional significance of these observations is discussed.
自然杀伤(NK)细胞的细胞毒性在很大程度上受能够结合I类主要组织相容性复合体糖蛋白的NK细胞受体表达的调节。与HLA - C同种异体特异性识别相关的受体是两结构域免疫球蛋白样分子,即p50和p58蛋白,它们具有高度同源的细胞外结构域,但不同之处在于,根据它们所具有的跨膜结构域和细胞质尾巴,它们分别具有激活或抑制功能。我们比较了抑制性p58分子NKAT2、高度同源的激活性p50分子克隆49以及与NKAT1和NKAT2均具有同源性的第二个激活性p50分子克隆39与HLA - Cw7的结合情况。NKAT2与HLA - Cw7结合的缔合和解离速率非常快。然而,p50受体与HLA - C的结合非常弱,甚至根本不结合。分析了这种差异的分子基础,并讨论了这些观察结果的功能意义。