A subset of HLA-DP molecules serve as ligands for the natural cytotoxicity receptor NKp44

Niehrs, Annika, Garcia-Beltran, Wilfredo F., Norman, Paul J., Watson, Gabrielle M., Hölzemer, Angelique, Chapel, Anaïs, Richert, Laura, Pommerening-Röser, Andreas, Körner, Christian, Ozawa, Mikki, Martrus, Glòria, Rossjohn, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2020-7522, Lee, Jar-How, Berry, Richard, Carrington, Mary and Altfeld, Marcus 2019. A subset of HLA-DP molecules serve as ligands for the natural cytotoxicity receptor NKp44. Nature Immunology 20 (9) , pp. 1129-1137. 10.1038/s41590-019-0448-4

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Abstract

Natural killer (NK) cells can recognize virus-infected and stressed cells1 using activating and inhibitory receptors, many of which interact with HLA class I. Although early studies also suggested a functional impact of HLA class II on NK cell activity2,3, the NK cell receptors that specifically recognize HLA class II molecules have never been identified. We investigated whether two major families of NK cell receptors, killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and natural cytotoxicity receptors (NCRs), contained receptors that bound to HLA class II, and identified a direct interaction between the NK cell receptor NKp44 and a subset of HLA-DP molecules, including HLA-DP401, one of the most frequent class II allotypes in white populations4. Using NKp44ζ+ reporter cells and primary human NKp44+ NK cells, we demonstrated that interactions between NKp44 and HLA-DP401 trigger functional NK cell responses. This interaction between a subset of HLA-DP molecules and NKp44 implicates HLA class II as a component of the innate immune response, much like HLA class I. It also provides a potential mechanism for the described associations between HLA-DP subtypes and several disease outcomes, including hepatitis B virus infection5,6,7, graft-versus-host disease8 and inflammatory bowel disease9,10.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	1529-2908
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	4 October 2019
Date of Acceptance:	6 July 2019
Last Modified:	23 Nov 2024 00:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125877

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