ArticleJournal of virology2001
Free major histocompatibility complex class I heavy chain is preferentially targeted for degradation by human T-cell leukemia/lymphotropic virus type 1 p12(I) protein.
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- Mechanisms of Innate Immune Sensing of HTLV-1 and Viral Immune Evasion.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- HTLV-1 p12 modulates the levels of prion protein (PrPFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Hijacking Host Immunity by the Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type-1: Implications for Therapeutic and Preventive Vaccines.Viruses · 2022Review
- NK cells and monocytes modulate primary HTLV-1 infection.PLoS pathogens · 2022Article
- Transient Viral Activation in Human T Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1-Infected Macaques Treated With Pomalidomide.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- HTLV-1 infection of myeloid cells: from transmission to immune alterations.Retrovirology · 2019Review
- Role of HTLV-1 orf-I encoded proteins in viral transmission and persistence.Retrovirology · 2019Review
- Influence of Immunogenetic Biomarkers in the Clinical Outcome of HTLV-1 Infected Persons.Viruses · 2019Review
- Essential Role of Human T Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1Journal of virology · 2019Article
- Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 and Zika virus: tale of two reemerging viruses with neuropathological sequelae of public health concern.Journal of neurovirology · 2019Review
- Non-Structural Proteins from Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 in Cellular Membranes-Mechanisms for Viral Survivability and Proliferation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
- Detection of Tax-specific CTLs in lymph nodes of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma patients and its association with Foxp3 positivity of regulatory T-cell function.Oncology letters · 2017Article
- Cell type-specific properties and environment shape tissue specificity of cancer genes.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) establishes a persistent infection in the host despite a vigorous virus-specific immune response. Here we demonstrate that an HTLV-1-encoded protein, p12(I), resides in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi and physically binds to the free human major histocompatibility complex class I heavy chains (MHC-I-Hc) encoded by the HLA-A2, -B7, and -Cw4 alleles. As a result of this interaction, the newly synthesized MHC-I-Hc fails to associate with beta(2)-microglobulin and is retrotranslocated to the cytosol, where it is degraded by the proteasome complex. Targeting of the free MHC-I-Hc, and not the MHC-I-Hc-beta(2)-microglobulin complex, by p12(I) represents a novel mechanism of viral interference and disrupts the intracellular trafficking of MHC-I, which results in a significant decrease in surface levels of MHC-I on human T-cells. These findings suggest that the interaction of p12(I) with MHC-1-Hc may interfere with antigen presentation in vivo and facilitate escape of HTLV-1-infected cells from immune recognition.
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