Glycosylation of a Synthetic Peptide Representing a T-Cell Determinant of Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin Results in Loss of Recognition by CD4 + T-Cell Clones

Synthetic glycopeptides were used to study possible mechanisms for the reduction observed in the response of influenza virus-specific CD4 + T-cells to strains of virus in which amino acid substitution in the hemagglutinin has led to attachment of a carbohydrate side chain. The peptide NCTLIDALLGDPH...

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Veröffentlicht in:Virology (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 1994-03, Vol.199 (2), p.422-430
Hauptverfasser: Jackson, David C., Drummer, Heidi E., Urge, Laszlo, Otvos, Laszlo, Brown, Lorena E.
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Zusammenfassung:Synthetic glycopeptides were used to study possible mechanisms for the reduction observed in the response of influenza virus-specific CD4 + T-cells to strains of virus in which amino acid substitution in the hemagglutinin has led to attachment of a carbohydrate side chain. The peptide NCTLIDALLGDPH stimulates vigorous proliferation of hemagglutinin-specific T-cell clones F1-36 and F1-40 but addition of a heptasaccharide, which approaches the size of natural carbohydrate antennae, eliminated the stimulatory capacity of the peptide. This occurs even though the site of carbohydrate attachment at the N-terminal asparagine lies outside the T-cell determinants encompassed by this sequence. A glycopeptide with only two sugar units was stimulatory for F1-36 but not F1-40, suggesting that peptides with a carbohydrate side chain are able to bind to MHC molecules but that approach of the T-cell receptor of certain clones to the glycopeptide MHC complex is hindered. Loss of T-cell recognition following attachment of a long carbohydrate side-chain to T-cell determinants is not a general finding because attachment of six carbohydrate units to the peptide, NKYVKQNTLKLA, had little or no effect on the stimulation of a T-cell clone specific for this sequence.
ISSN:0042-6822
1096-0341
DOI:10.1006/viro.1994.1140