Human and viral membrane-associated E3 ubiquitin ligases MARCH1 and MIR2 recognize different features of CD86 to downregulate surface expression.

ABSTRACT: Immune-stimulatory ligands, such as major histocompatibility complex molecules and the T-cell costimulatory ligand CD86, are central to productive immunity. Endogenous mammalian membrane-associated RING-CHs (MARCH) act on these and other targets to regulate antigen presentation and activation of adaptive immunity, whereas virus-encoded homologs target the same molecules to evade immune responses. Substrate specificity is encoded in or near the membrane-embedded domains of MARCHs and the proteins they regulate, but the exact sequences that distinguish substrates from nonsubstrates are poorly understood. Here, we examined the requirements for recognition of the costimulatory ligand CD86 by two different MARCH-family proteins, human MARCH1 and Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus modulator of immune

SUBMITTER: Trenker R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8319528 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature