PMID- 34638844 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211101 LR - 20211101 IS - 1422-0067 (Electronic) IS - 1422-0067 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 19 DP - 2021 Sep 29 TI - Acid Stripping after Infection Improves the Detection of Viral HLA Class I Natural Ligands Identified by Mass Spectrometry. LID - 10.3390/ijms221910503 [doi] LID - 10503 AB - Identification of a natural human leukocyte antigen (HLA) ligandome is a key element to understand the cellular immune response. Advanced high throughput mass spectrometry analyses identify a relevant, but not complete, fraction of the many tens of thousands of self-peptides generated by antigen processing in live cells. In infected cells, in addition to this complex HLA ligandome, a minority of peptides from degradation of the few proteins encoded by the viral genome are also bound to HLA class I molecules. In this study, the standard immunopeptidomics strategy was modified to include the classical acid stripping treatment after virus infection to enrich the HLA ligandome in virus ligands. Complexes of HLA-B*27:05-bound peptide pools were isolated from vaccinia virus (VACV)-infected cells treated with acid stripping after virus infection. The HLA class I ligandome was identified using high throughput mass spectrometry analyses, yielding 37 and 51 natural peptides processed and presented untreated and after acid stripping treatment VACV-infected human cells, respectively. Most of these virus ligands were identified in both conditions, but exclusive VACV ligands detected by mass spectrometry detected on acid stripping treatment doubled the number of those identified in the untreated VACV-infected condition. Theoretical binding affinity prediction of the VACV HLA-B*27:05 ligands and acute antiviral T cell response characterization in the HLA transgenic mice model showed no differences between HLA ligands identified under the two conditions: untreated and under acid stripping condition. These findings indicated that acid stripping treatment could be useful to identify HLA class I ligands from virus-infected cells. FAU - Lorente, Elena AU - Lorente E AD - Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Spain. FAU - Marcilla, Miguel AU - Marcilla M AD - Proteomics Unit, Spanish National Biotechnology Center (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain. FAU - de la Sota, Patricia G AU - de la Sota PG AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5281-2551 AD - Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Spain. FAU - Quijada-Freire, Adriana AU - Quijada-Freire A AD - Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Spain. FAU - Mir, Carmen AU - Mir C AD - Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Spain. FAU - Lopez, Daniel AU - Lopez D AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0268-5878 AD - Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Spain. LA - eng GR - SAF2014-58052/Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion/ GR - "Accion Estrategica en Salud" MPY 388/18/Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210929 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Mol Sci JT - International journal of molecular sciences JID - 101092791 RN - 0 (Acids) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Peptides) RN - 82115-62-6 (Interferon-gamma) SB - IM MH - Acids/chemistry MH - Animals MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology/metabolism/virology MH - Cell Line MH - HLA Antigens/genetics/*immunology/metabolism MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics/*immunology/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Interferon-gamma/immunology/metabolism MH - Ligands MH - Lymphocytes/*immunology/metabolism/virology MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Peptides/immunology/metabolism MH - Protein Binding MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Vaccinia virus/*immunology/physiology PMC - PMC8508920 OTO - NOTNLM OT - HLA class I OT - immunoproteomics OT - ligand OT - peptide OT - virus COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. EDAT- 2021/10/14 06:00 MHDA- 2021/11/03 06:00 PMCR- 2021/09/29 CRDT- 2021/10/13 01:03 PHST- 2021/08/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/09/23 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/09/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/10/13 01:03 [entrez] PHST- 2021/10/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/11/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/29 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijms221910503 [pii] AID - ijms-22-10503 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijms221910503 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Sep 29;22(19):10503. doi: 10.3390/ijms221910503.