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J. Exp. Med.,
Volume 187, Number 6, March 16, 1998 835-846
By
mura,
From the * Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology, Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1152; Expression of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) on the surface of thymocytes and mature T
cells is dependent on the assembly of receptor subunits into TCRs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and their successful traversal of the secretory pathway to the plasma membrane.
TCR subunits that fail to exit the ER for the Golgi complex are degraded by nonlysosomal
processes that have been referred to as "ER degradation". The molecular basis for the loss of
the TCR CD3-
The Kitasato Institute, Tokyo,
Japan; and the § Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5430
and TCR-
subunits from the ER was investigated in lymphocytes. For
CD3-
, we describe a process leading to its degradation that includes trimming of mannose
residues from asparagine-linked (N-linked) oligosaccharides, generation of ubiquitinated membrane-bound intermediates, and proteasome-dependent removal from the ER membrane. When either mannosidase activity or the catalytic activity of proteasomes was inhibited, loss of
CD3-
was markedly curtailed and CD3-
remained membrane bound in a complex with
CD3-
. TCR-
was also found to be degraded in a proteasome-dependent manner with ubiquitinated intermediates. However, no evidence of a role for mannosidases was found for TCR-
,
and significant retrograde movement through the ER membrane took place even when proteasome function was inhibited. These findings provide new insights into mechanisms employed to regulate levels of TCRs, and underscore that cells use multiple mechanisms to target
proteins from the ER to the cytosol for degradation.
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