Placental Extravillous Cytotrophoblasts Persistently Express Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Molecules after Human Cytomegalovirus Infection
AUTOR(ES)
Terauchi, Masakazu
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) downregulates the class I major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs), HLA-A and -B, in infected fibroblasts to escape from antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. The HCMV genes responsible for the downregulation of MHCs are US2, US3, US6, and US11, which encode type I membrane proteins working at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). However, it is largely unknown whether HCMV downregulates the class I MHC molecules in placental extravillous cytotrophoblasts (EVT), which express HLA-C, -E, and -G to protect a semiallogenic fetus from maternal natural killer (NK) cells at the fetomaternal interface. Here, we report that differentiated EVT prepared from human first-trimester chorionic villi persistently express class I MHC molecules upon HCMV infection. When these US proteins were expressed in uninfected EVT, they were localized at the ER in the entire cytoplasm. However, subsequent HCMV infection resulted in dissociation of these US proteins from the ER, which relocated toward the cell membrane. In fibroblasts, these US proteins were localized at the ER before and after HCMV infection. These results suggest that the US gene products are not integrated into ER of HCMV-infected EVT and fail to downregulate class I MHC molecules.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=165235Documentos Relacionados
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