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Roles for calreticulin and a novel glycoprotein, tapasin, in the interaction of MHC class I molecules with TAP.
Immunity - 1 Aug 1996
Sadasivan B, Lehner P J, Ortmann B, Spies T, Cresswell P
Abstract excerpt
Assembly of MHC class I-beta 2 microglobulin (beta 2m) dimers in the endoplasmic reticulum involves two chaperones. Calnexin has previously been shown to interact with free class I heavy chains. Here, we show that the related chaperone, calreticulin, binds human class I-beta 2m dimers prior to peptide loading. Calreticulin remains associated with at least a subset of class I molecules when they, in turn, bind to...
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