Roles of heat-shock proteins in innate and adaptive immunity

P Srivastava - Nature reviews immunology, 2002 - nature.com
Heat-shock proteins (HSPs) are the most abundant and ubiquitous soluble intracellular
proteins. In single-cell organisms, invertebrates and vertebrates, they perform a multitude of …

Proteasome and peptidase function in MHC-class-I-mediated antigen presentation

PM Kloetzel, F Ossendorp - Current opinion in immunology, 2004 - Elsevier
MHC-class-I-presented peptides are predominantly generated by the proteasome system.
IFN-γ strongly influences the processing efficiency by inducing immunoproteasome …

ERAAP customizes peptides for MHC class I molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum

T Serwold, F Gonzalez, J Kim, R Jacob, N Shastri - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
The ability of killer T cells carrying the CD8 antigen to detect tumours or intracellular
pathogens requires an extensive display of antigenic peptides by major histocompatibility …

An IFN-γ–induced aminopeptidase in the ER, ERAP1, trims precursors to MHC class I–presented peptides

T Saric, SC Chang, A Hattori, IA York, S Markant… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
Precursors to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I–presented peptides with extra
NH2-terminal residues can be efficiently trimmed to mature epitopes in the endoplasmic …

Concerted peptide trimming by human ERAP1 and ERAP2 aminopeptidase complexes in the endoplasmic reticulum

L Saveanu, O Carroll, V Lindo, M Del Val, D Lopez… - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
The generation of many HLA class I peptides entails a final trimming step in the endoplasmic
reticulum that, in humans, is accomplished by two'candidate'aminopeptidases. We show …

The ER aminopeptidase ERAP1 enhances or limits antigen presentation by trimming epitopes to 8–9 residues

IA York, SC Chang, T Saric, JA Keys, JM Favreau… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
Abstract Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) aminopeptidase 1 (ERAP1) appears to be specialized
to produce peptides presented on class I major histocompatibility complex molecules. We …

Association analyses identify six new psoriasis susceptibility loci in the Chinese population

LD Sun, H Cheng, ZX Wang, AP Zhang, PG Wang… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
We extended our previous genome-wide association study for psoriasis with a multistage
replication study including 8,312 individuals with psoriasis (cases) and 12,919 controls from …

Identifying MHC class I epitopes by predicting the TAP transport efficiency of epitope precursors

B Peters, S Bulik, R Tampe, PM Van Endert… - The Journal of …, 2003 - journals.aai.org
We are able to make reliable predictions of the efficiency with which peptides of arbitrary
lengths will be transported by TAP. The pressure exerted by TAP on Ag presentation thus …

The ER aminopeptidase, ERAP1, trims precursors to lengths of MHC class I peptides by a “molecular ruler” mechanism

SC Chang, F Momburg, N Bhutani… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 1 (ERAP1) is an IFN-γ-induced aminopeptidase in
the endoplasmic reticulum that trims longer precursors to the antigenic peptides presented …

Optimization of the MHC class I peptide cargo is dependent on tapasin

AP Williams, CA Peh, AW Purcell, J McCluskey, T Elliott - Immunity, 2002 - cell.com
The loading of MHC class I molecules with their peptide cargo is undertaken by a
multimolecular peptide loading complex within the endoplasmic reticulum. We show that …