Nature Communications (May 2017)

HLA-DP84Gly constitutively presents endogenous peptides generated by the class I antigen processing pathway

  • Yuki Yamashita,
  • Mark Anczurowski,
  • Munehide Nakatsugawa,
  • Makito Tanaka,
  • Yuki Kagoya,
  • Ankit Sinha,
  • Kenji Chamoto,
  • Toshiki Ochi,
  • Tingxi Guo,
  • Kayoko Saso,
  • Marcus O. Butler,
  • Mark D. Minden,
  • Thomas Kislinger,
  • Naoto Hirano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15244
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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MHC class I and II molecules generally present endogenous and exogenous peptides, respectively, through distinct mechanisms. Here, the authors show that the class II molecule HLA-DP84Glyuses both class I and II mechanisms to constitutively present peptides.