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2011-09-06

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0028-0836

1476-4687

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2011-04-19

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Animals ; Autoimmunity/*drug effects/immunology ; Cell Differentiation/*drug effects ; Drug Inverse Agonism ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Interleukin-17/biosynthesis/immunology ; Interleukins/biosynthesis/immunology ; Ligands ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Models, Molecular ; Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 1/antagonists & ; inhibitors/genetics/metabolism ; Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 3/antagonists & ; Sulfonamides/*pharmacology ; Th17 Cells/*cytology/drug effects/*immunology/secretion ; Thiazoles/*pharmacology

1365-3083

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Proteins in their native form are incapable of stimulating antigen (Ag)-specific T cells, which can only recognize major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-bound peptides that have been generated by intracellular processing within antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Here, we show that APCs can trigger MHC class I-restricted T-cell responses after presenting proteins without conventional intracellular processing, provided the immunostimulatory MHC class I-binding peptide sequence is incorporated at the carboxy-terminal position. Such MHC-bound proteins do not stimulate T cells directly, because the contact between MHC/peptide complex and its cognate ligand is sterically hindered by the amino-terminal bulk of the protein. Removal of the latter via an extracellular Ag proteolysis by the T-cell- and/or APC-derived enzymes is required for effective T-cell stimulation. Our data challenge the established concept that only small peptides can bind to the MHC class I molecules.

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1365-3083

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

The Lyt-l + (high) Lyt-2± (low) primary cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) specific for A(AαAβ) molecules and the Lyt-l +Lyt-2+ primary E(EαEβ)-specific CTL are both shown to become Lyt-l− Lyt-2 + effector cells after secondary in vitro stimulation. Thus CTL specific for class II major histocompatibility complex molecules exhibit the same Lyt-phenotype shift as class-I-specific CTL do. The data suggest that either both class-I-specific and class-II-specific CTL follow the same differentiation pathway or regulatory cellular interactions allow only Lyt-l −Lyt-2+ cells to differentiate to secondary CTL.

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1432-1211

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Biology

Medicine

Abstract  Mutant mice generated by disrupting the H2-Aa b major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) gene are demonstrated here to express Aβb chains in the absence of α chains. These mice possess a CD4+ helper T cell (Th) repertoire that uses predominantly the Vβ7 T-cell antigen receptor (Tcr) segment for recognition of any protein antigen presented by the α-free Aβ molecule. As an alloantigen, the Aα-free Aβ molecule is recognized very poorly by T cells from a series of class II disparate mouse strains, indicating that it is grossly different from normal α/β heterodimers. Indeed, molecular modeling suggests a β/β homodimer arrangement with an altered geometry of the Tcr contact area. Interestingly, the mutant mice exhibit normal alloreactivity, without a restricted Vβ usage, toward a series of foreign α/β class II heterodimers, although their T cells developed in the absence of such heterodimers. Thus, the complementarity of Tcr to normal α/β heterodimers, and thereby also alloreactivity, appears to be an ontogeny independent (i. e., germline-encoded) feature.

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