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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Recruiting ESCRT to single-chain heterotrimer peptide MHCI releases antigen-presenting vesicles that stimulate T cells selectively.

Blade A Olson, Kathryn E Huey-Tubman, Zhiyuan Mao, Magnus A G Hoffmann, Pamela J Bjorkman, Richard M Murray, Stephen L Mayo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Blade A OlsonDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Kathryn E Huey-TubmanDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Zhiyuan MaoDepartment of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Magnus A G HoffmannDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Pamela J BjorkmanDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0002-2277-3990
Richard M MurrayDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Stephen L MayoDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0002-9785-5018

Funding

cGMP Manufacture, Fill-Finish, Release, Analytical and Stability Testing and Stability Program of a Nanoparticle Based HIV Envelope Vaccine75N93022D00005 · NIAID · INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE · PI HASSELL, THOMAS · 2022 to 2025
$8.0M
Task Area A shall encompass annual follow-up of cohort members, clinical events investigations, study operations, and data analysis and manuscript writing. If implemented, Task A.1 will provide fundin75N92020D00005 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI WATSON, KAROL E · 2020 to 2025
$5.1M
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) 2023-332386DOD | USA | AFC | CCDC | ARO | Life Sciences Division, Army Research Office (Life Sciences Division ARO) W911NF-19-2-0026NHLBI NIH HHS 75N92020D00005NIAID NIH HHS 75N93022D00005NIAID NIH HHS 75N93023D00005NIDA NIH HHS 75N95020D00005ORFDO NIH HHS 75N99020D00005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune cells naturally secrete extracellular antigen-presenting vesicles (APVs) displaying peptide:MHC complexes to facilitate the initiation, expansion, maintenance, or silencing of immune responses. Previous work has sought to manufacture and purify these vesicles for cell-free immunotherapies. In this study, APV assembly and release is achieved in nonimmune cells by transfecting a single-chain heterotrimer (SCT) peptide major histocompatibility complex I (pMHCI) construct containing an ESCRT- and ALIX-binding region (EABR) sequence appended to the cytoplasmic tail; this EABR sequence recruits ESCRT proteins to induce the budding of APVs displaying SCT pMHCI. A comparison of multiple pMHCI constructs shows that inducing the release of APVs by the addition of an EABR sequence generalizes across SCT pMHCI constructs. Purified pMHCI/EABR APVs selectively stimulate IFN-γ release from T cells presenting their cognate T cell receptor, demonstrating the potential use of these vesicles as a form of cell-free immunotherapy.

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Antigen PresentationEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportExtracellular VesiclesHistocompatibility Antigens Class IT-LymphocytesAntigen-Presenting CellsCell EngineeringHEK293 CellsHumansImmunotherapyInterferon-gammaLeukocytes, MononuclearLymphocyte ActivationProtein BindingTransfectionEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportHistocompatibility Antigens Class IInterferon-gammaantigen-presenting vesiclesautoimmune diseasecell-free immunoregulationpeptide major histocompatibility complexes

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PMID41397133
PMCPMC12745732

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