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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M505641200 on August 22, 2005
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 43, 35868-35880, October 28, 2005
Two HLA-B14 Subtypes (B*1402 and B*1403) Differentially Associated with Ankylosing Spondylitis Differ Substantially in Peptide Specificity but Have Limited Peptide and T-cell Epitope Sharing with HLA-B27*
Elena Merino,
Verónica Montserrat,
Alberto Paradela, and
José A.López de Castro1
From the
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma, 28049 Madrid, Spain
The peptide specificity of HLA-B*1403, an allotype associated with ankylosing spondylitis (Lopez-Larrea, C., Mijiyawa, M., Gonzalez, S., Fernandez-Morera, J. L., Blanco-Gelaz, M. A., Martinez-Borra, J., and Lopez-Vazquez, A. (2002) Arthritis Rheum. 46, 29682971) was compared with those of the non-associated B*1402 and the prototypic disease-associated B*2705 allotypes. Although differing by a single residue (L156R), B*1402 and B*1403 shared only 3235% of their peptide repertoires. Subtype-related differences observed in multiple peptide positions, including P3 and P7, were largely explained by a direct effect of the L156R change on peptide specificity. The HLA-B14 subtypes shared only 3% of their peptide repertoires with B*2705. This was due to distinct residue usage at most positions, as revealed by statistical comparison of B*1402, B*1403, and B*2705-bound nonamers. Nevertheless, shared ligands between B*2705 and B*1403 were formally identified, although ligands common to B*2705 and B*1403, but absent from B*1402, were not found. Alloreactive T-cells were used as a tool to analyze epitope sharing among B*1402, B*1403, and B*2705. The percentage of cross-reactive T-cell clones closely paralleled peptide overlap, suggesting that shared ligands tend to maintain their antigenic features when bound to the different allotypes. Our results indicate that B*1403 and B*2705 can present common peptides. However, both the disparity of their peptide repertoires and the lack of binding features shared by these two allotypes, but not B*1402, argue against, although do not exclude, a mechanism of spondyloarthritis mediated by specific ligands of B*2705 and B*1403.
Received for publication, May 23, 2005
, and in revised form, August 8, 2005.
* This work was supported by Grants SAF2002/00125 and SAF2003-02213 from the Ministry of Science and Technology, 08.3/0005/2001.1 from the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, and an institutional grant of the Fundación Ramón Areces to the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 34-91-497-8050; Fax: 34-91-497-8087; E-mail: aldecastro{at}cbm.uam.es.

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