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  • Title: Mutations in H-2Kb influence the specificity of alloreactive effector cells included in the repertoire of H-2Db-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes against Moloney leukemia virus.
    Author: Stukart MJ, Boes J, Melief CJ.
    Journal: Immunogenetics; 1983; 17(4):427-36. PubMed ID: 6601058.
    Abstract:
    Moloney leukemia virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), generated by secondary in vitro stimulation of spleen cells with syngeneic virus-infected cells, frequently lysed not only syngeneic virus-infected cells, but also noninfected allogeneic target cells. This phenomenon was studied with B6(H-2b) responder cells and a series of H-2Kb-mutant responder cells. Thus, B6 Moloney-specific CTL lysed noninfected Kb-mutant cells, but not B6 cells, whereas Kb-mutant Moloney-specific CTL lysed noninfected B6 cells and not noninfected cells of the same mutant. Cold-target-inhibition studies showed that the CTL reactions against different allogeneic cells were mediated by different subpopulations of virus-specific CTL: lysis of allogeneic target cells was fully inhibited only by the same allogeneic and by syngeneic virus-infected cells, but not by another allogeneic cell, also lysed by the same effector-cell population. Lysis of syngeneic virus-infected cells could not be inhibited by allogeneic target cells. These data imply that a minority of virus-specific CTL shows cross-reactivity with a given allogeneic target cell. It is concluded that limited amino acid substitutions in the Kb molecule alter the repertoire of Moloney virus-specific CTL, as reflected in alloreactive CTL populations, even though the virus-specific CTL response of B6 and all Kb mutants is mainly Db-restricted. Thus, the development of tolerance to self class-I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules affects the repertoire of self-restricted cytotoxic T cells.
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