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Vol. 14, Issue 9, 3690-3698, September 2003

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Dislocation of a Type I Membrane Protein Requires Interactions between Membrane-spanning Segments within the Lipid Bilayer

Brendan N. Lilley, Domenico Tortorella ^*, and Hidde L. Ploegh 

Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Submitted March 31, 2003; Revised April 23, 2003; Accepted May 12, 2003
Monitoring Editor: Reid Gilmore

The human cytomegalovirus gene product US11 causes rapid degradation of class I major histocompatibility complex (MHCI) heavy chains by inducing their dislocation from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and subsequent degradation by the proteasome. This set of reactions resembles the endogenous cellular quality control pathway that removes misfolded or unassembled proteins from the ER. We show that the transmembrane domain (TMD) of US11 is essential for MHCI heavy chain dislocation, but dispensable for MHCI binding. A Gln residue at position 192 in the US11 TMD is crucial for the ubiquitination and degradation of MHCI heavy chains. Cells that express US11 TMD mutants allow formation of MHCI-₂m complexes, but their rate of egress from the ER is significantly impaired. Further mutagenesis data are consistent with the presence of an alpha-helical structure in the US11 TMD essential for MHCI heavy chain dislocation. The failure of US11 TMD mutants to catalyze dislocation is a unique instance in which a polar residue in the TMD of a type I membrane protein is required for that protein's function. Targeting of MHCI heavy chains for dislocation by US11 thus requires the formation of interhelical hydrogen bonds within the ER membrane.

Abbreviations used: ₂m, ₂-microglobulin; EndoH, endoglycosidase H; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; MHCI, class I major histocompatibility complex; TMD, transmembrane domain; Ubbio, biotinylated ubiquitin.

^* Present address: Department of Microbiology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029.

Corresponding author. E-mail address: ploegh{at}hms.harvard.edu.

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