Targeting to static endosome is required for efficient cross-presentation of endoplasmic reticulum-resident oxygen-regulated protein 150-peptide complexes

G Kutomi, Y Tamura, K Okuya, T Yamamoto… - The Journal of …, 2009 - journals.aai.org
G Kutomi, Y Tamura, K Okuya, T Yamamoto, Y Hirohashi, K Kamiguchi, J Oura, K Saito…
The Journal of Immunology, 2009journals.aai.org
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) such as Hsp70, gp96, and Hsp90 have been shown to elicit
intriguing, efficient CTL responses by cross-presentation via an as yet entirely unknown
mechanism. Oxygen-regulated protein 150 (ORP150), also known as grp170, is an
endoplasmic reticulum-resident HSP and is up-regulated by hypoxia. It has been
demonstrated that ORP150 binds tumor-associated Ag peptides within cancer cells.
Immunization with an ORP150-tumor Ag complex has been shown to generate tumor …
Abstract
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) such as Hsp70, gp96, and Hsp90 have been shown to elicit intriguing, efficient CTL responses by cross-presentation via an as yet entirely unknown mechanism. Oxygen-regulated protein 150 (ORP150), also known as grp170, is an endoplasmic reticulum-resident HSP and is up-regulated by hypoxia. It has been demonstrated that ORP150 binds tumor-associated Ag peptides within cancer cells. Immunization with an ORP150-tumor Ag complex has been shown to generate tumor-specific CTLs. Most recently, it has been shown that exogenous ORP150 induces cross-presentation of a chaperoned Ag, thereby stimulating Ag-specific CTLs. However, the mechanism underlying this efficient cross-presentation is still unsolved. In this study, we show that the ORP150-precursor peptide complex can elicit CTL response through cross-presentation as well as the CD4+ T cell response by dendritic cells. Furthermore, we observed that the internalized ORP150-peptide complex, but not OVA protein, which was not cross-presented, was sorted to the Rab5+, EEA1+ static early endosome, followed by translocation to a recycling endosome, where the ORP150-chaperoned peptide was processed and bound to MHC class I molecules. Moreover, we observed that immunization of mice with ORP150-peptide complexes elicited strong peptide-specific CTLs and antitumor effects in vivo. Our data indicate that targeting of the Ag to a “static” early endosme by ORP150 is required for the efficient cross-presentation.
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