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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1998//365 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 142, Number 2, , 1998 365-376


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Dislocation of Type I Membrane Proteins from the ER to the Cytosol Is Sensitive to Changes in Redox Potential



Domenico Tortorella*, Craig M. Story*, Johannes B. Huppa*, Emmanuel J.H.J. Wiertz{ddagger}, Thomas R. Jones§, and Hidde L. Ploegh*

* Harvard Medical School, Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; {ddagger} National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands; and § Department of Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases Section, Wyeth-Ayerst Research, Pearl River, New York 10965

The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) gene products US2 and US11 dislocate major histocompatibility class I heavy chains from the ER and target them for proteasomal degradation in the cytosol. The dislocation reaction is inhibited by agents that affect intracellular redox potential and/or free thiol status, such as diamide and N-ethylmaleimide. Subcellular fractionation experiments indicate that this inhibition occurs at the stage of discharge from the ER into the cytosol. The T cell receptor {alpha} (TCR {alpha}) chain is also degraded by a similar set of reactions, yet in a manner independent of virally encoded gene products. Diamide and N-ethylmaleimide likewise inhibit the dislocation of the full-length TCR {alpha} chain from the ER, as well as a truncated, mutant version of TCR {alpha} chain that lacks cysteine residues. Cytosolic destruction of glycosylated, ER-resident type I membrane proteins, therefore, requires maintenance of a proper redox potential for the initial step of removal of the substrate from the ER environment.

Key Words: diamide • class I heavy chain • degradation • human cytomegalovirus • TCR {alpha} chain



Abbreviations used in this paper: CPY, carboxypeptidase Y; diamide, diazenedicarboxylic acid bis(N,N-dimethylamide); HCMV, human cytomegalovirus; IAA, iodoacetic acid; IAM, iodoacetamide; IEF, isoelectric focusing; MHC, major histocompatibility complex; NEM, N-ethylmaleimide; PDI, protein disulfide isomerase; TCR, T cell receptor; ZL3H, carboxylbenzyl-leucyl-leucyl-leucinal; ZL3VS, carboxylbenzyl-leucyl-leucyl-leucyl vinylsulfone.

Domenico Tortorella is supported by a fellowship from The Irvington Institute for Immunological Research (New York). Craig M. Story is supported by a Cancer Research Institute Fellowship (New York). Johannes B. Huppa was supported by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (Stuttgart, Germany). This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health and Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Address all correspondence to Hidde L. Ploegh, Harvard Medical School, Department of Pathology, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02139. Tel.: (617) 432-4776. Fax: (617) 432-4775. E-mail: ploegh{at}hms.harvard.edu



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