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2001:
Peterson D A; DiPaolo R J; Kanagawa O; Unanue E R
Cutting edge: a single MHC anchor residue alters the conformation of a peptide-MHC complex inducing T cells that survive negative selection.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2001;
166(
10):.
We generated transgenic mice that expressed hen egg-white lysozyme (HEL) under a class II MHC promoter. The A7 line expressed HEL with a point mutation in the Asp(52) residue, the main anchor amino acid responsible for the selection of the chemically dominant family of peptides (52-60) by I-A(k) molecules. Mice expressing HEL with Ala(52) were completely unresponsive when immunized with the same protein, i.e., HEL A52. However, the same mice immunized with wild-type HEL elicited T cells that recognized a conformation of the 52-61 core sequence uniquely different between Asp(52) and Ala(52) containing peptides. Importantly, some T cells also recognized the HEL A52 peptide given exogenously but not the same peptide processed from HEL A52 protein. Thus, a core MHC anchor residue influences markedly the specificity of the T cells. We discuss the relevance of these findings to autoimmunity and vaccination with altered peptides.
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