Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2167064 | Cellular Immunology | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
HLA-G plays an important role in the induction of immune tolerance. Various attempts to produce good manufacturing practice levels of HLA-G as a therapeutic molecule have failed to date partly due to the complicated structure of full-length HLA-G1. Truncated HLA-G3 is simpler and easier to produce than HLA-G1 and contains the expected functional epitope in its only α1 monomorphic domain. In this study, we engineered the ER retrieval and retention signal on HLA-G3’s cytoplasmic tail by replacing its RKKSSD motif with RAASSD. We observed that mutated HLA-G3 was highly expressed on the cell surface of transduced K562 cells but did not inhibit cytotoxicity of natural killer cells.
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Authors
Longmei Zhao, Takele Teklemariam, Basil M. Hantash,