Self-reactive T cells can escape clonal deletion in T-cell receptor V beta 8.1 transgenic mice.
AUTOR(ES)
Yui, K
RESUMO
To study the mechanisms of tolerance in detail, we have constructed transgenic mice expressing a V beta 8.1-D beta 2-J beta 2.3-C beta 2 T-cell receptor (TCR) gene. Since expression of V beta 8.1 is known to correlate with reactivity of CD4+CD8- T cells to minor lymphocyte-stimulating locus 1a (Mls-1a), we expected to induce tolerance in most CD4+CD8- T cells in V beta 8.1 transgenic mice of the Mls-1a allele. In one line of Mls-1b V beta 8.1 transgenic mice, the V beta 8.1 TCR was expressed on greater than 98% of mature T cells and their response to Mls-1a was highly enriched. In Mls-1a V beta 8.1 transgenic mice, CD4+CD8- T cells in these mice were severely reduced among both peripheral T cells and thymocytes. However, the deletion of these cells was not complete, and most of the residual CD4+CD8- mature T cells still expressed normal densities of V beta 8.1 TCR. The residual CD4+CD8- T cells did not respond to Mls-1a but were still able to proliferate in response to other stimuli via the TCR. Interestingly, CD4+CD8- V beta 8.1+ T-cell clones isolated from Mls-1a V beta 8.1 transgenic mice could respond to Mls-1a. We suggest that these types of T cells escape clonal deletion in the thymus.
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