T cell autoreactivity directed toward CD1c itself rather than toward carried self lipids

Wun, Kwok S., Reijneveld, Josephine F., Cheng, Tan-Yun, Ladell, Kristin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9856-2938, Uldrich, Adam P., Le Nours, Jérôme, Miners, Kelly L., McLaren, James E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7021-5934, Grant, Emma J., Haigh, Oscar L., Watkins, Thomas S., Suliman, Sara, Iwany, Sarah, Jimenez, Judith, Calderon, Roger, Tamara, Kattya L., Leon, Segundo R., Murray, Megan B., Mayfield, Jacob A., Altman, John D., Purcell, Anthony W., Miles, John J., Godfrey, Dale I., Gras, Stephanie, Price, David A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9416-2737, Van Rhijn, Ildiko, Moody, D. Branch and Rossjohn, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2020-7522 2018. T cell autoreactivity directed toward CD1c itself rather than toward carried self lipids. Nature Immunology 19 , pp. 397-406. 10.1038/s41590-018-0065-7

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Abstract

The hallmark function of αβ T cell antigen receptors (TCRs) involves the highly specific co-recognition of a major histocompatibility complex molecule and its carried peptide. However, the molecular basis of the interactions of TCRs with the lipid antigen–presenting molecule CD1c is unknown. We identified frequent staining of human T cells with CD1c tetramers across numerous subjects. Whereas TCRs typically show high specificity for antigen, both tetramer binding and autoreactivity occurred with CD1c in complex with numerous, chemically diverse self lipids. Such extreme polyspecificity was attributable to binding of the TCR over the closed surface of CD1c, with the TCR covering the portal where lipids normally protrude. The TCR essentially failed to contact lipids because they were fully seated within CD1c. These data demonstrate the sequestration of lipids within CD1c as a mechanism of autoreactivity and point to small lipid size as a determinant of autoreactive T cell responses.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	1529-2908
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 July 2018
Date of Acceptance:	5 February 2018
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 17:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110426

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