The invariant chains of mouse class II antigens: biochemical properties and molecular relationship
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 14 (6), 511-517
- https://doi.org/10.1002/eji.1830140606
Abstract
The proteins p40 (Mr = 40000), p32 (Mr = 32000), p28 (Mr = 28000), p20 (Mr = 20000) and p10 (Mr = 10000) are described which occur in noncovalent association with the polymorphic α,β heterodimer of class II antigens. They were investigated with respect to their molecular characteristics and their mutual structural relationship. p32, the predominant species of this group corresponds to the invariant chain γ (Ii). In contrast to the polymorphic subunits α and β, proteins p40, p28, p20 and p10 migrated like γ in electrophoretically constant positions, when class II molecules of different subregions and different alleles were assessed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis [1st dimension, isoelectric focusing; 2nd dimension, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis]. Analogous to γ, they are therefore designated invariant chains. The low Mr species of this group do not arise from higher Mr forms as preparation artefacts. Short-term pulse-chase analysis and cell-free translation of sucrose gradient-fractionated mRNA in conjunction with specific immunoprecipitation rendered the possibility unlikely that individual components of this set of proteins existed in a precursor-product relationship within the cell. Comparative enzymatic fragmentation on SDS polyacrylamide gels as well as tryptic peptide map comparisons by high performance liquid chromatography revealed a high structural relatedness among all members of this group of invariant proteins.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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