T cells discriminate between groups C1 and C2 HLA-C
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States
Abstract
Dimorphic amino acids at positions 77 and 80 delineate HLA-C allotypes into two groups, C1 and C2, which associate with disease through interactions with C1 and C2-specific natural killer cell receptors. How the C1/C2 dimorphism affects T cell recognition is unknown. Using HLA-C allotypes that differ only by the C1/C2-defining residues, we found that KRAS-G12D neoantigen-specific T cell receptors (TCR) discriminated between C1 and C2 presenting the same KRAS-G12D peptides. Structural and functional experiments, and immunopeptidomics analysis revealed that Ser77 in C1 and Asn77 in C2 influence amino acid preference near the peptide C-terminus (pW), including the pW-1 position, in which C1 favors small and C2 prefers large residues. This resulted in weaker TCR affinity for KRAS-G12D-bound C2-HLA-C despite conserved TCR contacts. Thus, the C1/C2 dimorphism on its own impacts peptide presentation and HLA-C restricted T cell responses, with implications in disease, including adoptive T cell therapy targeting KRAS-G12D-induced cancers.
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Diffraction data have been deposited in PDB under the accession code 7SU9.
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Mono-allelic datasets for: A large peptidome dataset improves HLA class I epitope prediction across most of the human populationMassIVE: Mass Spectrometry Interactive Virtual environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0322-9.
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Unveiling the Peptide Motifs of HLA-C and HLA-G from Naturally Presented Peptides and Generation of Binding Prediction Matriceshttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archive/projects/PXD009531.
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Funding
NIAID Division of Intramural Research Funding (AI000697)
- Peter D Sun
NIAID Division of Intramural Research Funding (AI000525)
- Eric O Long
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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- Chyung-Ru Wang, Northwestern University, United States
Publication history
- Preprint posted: November 13, 2021 (view preprint)
- Received: November 18, 2021
- Accepted: May 15, 2022
- Accepted Manuscript published: May 19, 2022 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: June 8, 2022 (version 2)
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T cells discriminate between groups C1 and C2 HLA-C
eLife 11:e75670.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75670
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