T-cell Receptor (TCR)-Peptide Specificity Overrides Affinity-enhancing TCR-Major Histocompatibility Complex Interactions

Cole, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0028-9396, Miles, Kim Michelle, Madura, Florian, Holland, Christopher J., Schauenburg, Andrea J. A., Godkin, Andrew James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-7567, Bulek, Anna Marta, Fuller, Anna, Akpovwa, Hephzibah, Pymm, Phillip G., Liddy, N., Sami, M., Li, Y., Rizkallah, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9290-0369, Jakobsen, B. K. and Sewell, Andrew K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3194-3135 2013. T-cell Receptor (TCR)-Peptide Specificity Overrides Affinity-enhancing TCR-Major Histocompatibility Complex Interactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry 289 (2) , pp. 628-638. 10.1074/jbc.M113.522110

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Abstract

αβ T-cell receptors (TCRs) engage antigens using complementarity-determining region (CDR) loops that are either germ line-encoded (CDR1 and CDR2) or somatically rearranged (CDR3). TCR ligands compose a presentation platform (major histocompatibility complex (MHC)) and a variable antigenic component consisting of a short “foreign” peptide. The sequence of events when the TCR engages its peptide-MHC (pMHC) ligand remains unclear. Some studies suggest that the germ line elements of the TCR engage the MHC prior to peptide scanning, but this order of binding is difficult to reconcile with some TCR-pMHC structures. Here, we used TCRs that exhibited enhanced pMHC binding as a result of mutations in either CDR2 and/or CDR3 loops, that bound to the MHC or peptide, respectively, to dissect the roles of these loops in stabilizing TCR-pMHC interactions. Our data show that TCR-peptide interactions play a strongly dominant energetic role providing a binding mode that is both temporally and energetically complementary with a system requiring positive selection by self-pMHC in the thymus and rapid recognition of non-self-pMHC in the periphery.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
ISSN:	0021-9258
Funders:	Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, Royal Society
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	15 May 2024 01:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61175

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