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Volume 272, Number 31, Issue of August 1, 1997 pp. 19261-19268
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

The Listeria monocytogenes-secreted p60 Protein Is an N-end Rule Substrate in the Cytosol of Infected Cells
IMPLICATIONS FOR MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS I ANTIGEN PROCESSING OF BACTERIAL PROTEINS

(Received for publication, December 9, 1996, and in revised form, April 1, 1997)

From the Sections of Infectious Diseases and Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Cytosolic antigen degradation is an initial step in the generation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-associated cytolytic T lymphocyte epitopes. Intracellular Listeria monocytogenes secretes p60, a murein hydrolase, into the host cell cytosol, where it is degraded by proteasomes. Roughly 3% of degraded p60 gives rise to p60 217-225, a nonamer peptide that is bound by H-2K^d MHC class I molecules. Herein, we introduce targeted deletions throughout the p60 gene to identify potential proteolytic signals within p60. Degradation of mutant forms of p60 was investigated in macrophages infected with recombinant L. monocytogenes. We found that deletions within the amino-terminal two-thirds of p60 enhanced cytosolic degradation. In contrast, truncation of the C terminus resulted in modest stabilization of p60 in the host cell cytosol. Because a protein's N-terminal amino acid can determine its rate of degradation, we mutagenized this residue in p60 into known stabilizing and destabilizing residues. Valine substitution dramatically stabilized cytosolic p60 molecules, while substitution with aspartic acid resulted in rapid degradation. The number of p60 217-225 epitopes isolated from infected cells directly correlated with the rates of p60 degradation. Our data, therefore, indicate that the N-terminal amino acid and multiple internal regions of p60 influence its stability in the cytosol of infected cells. Antigen degradation and epitope generation are linked, and different degradation signals can channel bacterial proteins into the MHC class I antigen processing pathway.

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