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- Title
Editing of CD1d-bound lipid antigens by endosomal lipid transfer proteins.
- Authors
Zhou, Dapeng; Cantu, Carlos, 3rd; Sagiv, Yuval; Schrantz, Nicolas; Kulkarni, Ashok B; Qi, Xiaoyang; Mahuran, Don J; Morales, Carlos R; Grabowski, Gregory A; Benlagha, Kamel; Savage, Paul; Bendelac, Albert; Teyton, Luc
- Abstract
It is now established that CD1 molecules present lipid antigens to T cells, although it is not clear how the exchange of lipids between membrane compartments and the CD1 binding groove is assisted. We report that mice deficient in prosaposin, the precursor to a family of endosomal lipid transfer proteins (LTP), exhibit specific defects in CD1d-mediated antigen presentation and lack Valpha14 NKT cells. In vitro, saposins extracted monomeric lipids from membranes and from CD1, thereby promoting the loading as well as the editing of lipids on CD1. Transient complexes between CD1, lipid, and LTP suggested a "tug-of-war" model in which lipid exchange between CD1 and LTP is on the basis of their respective affinities for lipids. LTPs constitute a previously unknown link between lipid metabolism and immunity and are likely to exert a profound influence on the repertoire of self, tumor, and microbial lipid antigens.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2004, Vol 303, Issue 5657, p523
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1092009