High Frequency of Autoreactive Myelin Proteolipid Protein–Specific T Cells in the Periphery of Naive Mice
| Autor: | Kevin L. Legge, Habib Zaghouani, Ana C. Anderson, Vijay K. Kuchroo, Vadim Turchin, Lindsay B. Nicholson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Immunology
chemical and pharmacologic phenomena Immunodominance Major histocompatibility complex Epitope 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Immune system Antigen immune system diseases medicine Immunology and Allergy 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences biology Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis medicine.disease nervous system diseases 3. Good health Myelin proteolipid protein Cell biology biology.protein lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) Central tolerance 030215 immunology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Medicine. 191:761-770 |
| ISSN: | 1540-9538 0022-1007 |
| DOI: | 10.1084/jem.191.5.761 |
| Popis: | The autoreactive T cells that escape central tolerance and form the peripheral self-reactive repertoire determine both susceptibility to autoimmune disease and the epitope dominance of a specific autoantigen. SJL (H-2s) mice are highly susceptible to the induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) with myelin proteolipid protein (PLP). The two major encephalitogenic epitopes of PLP (PLP 139–151 and PLP 178–191) bind to IAs with similar affinity; however, the immune response to the PLP 139–151 epitope is always dominant. The immunodominance of the PLP 139–151 epitope in SJL mice appears to be due to the presence of expanded numbers of T cells (frequency of 1/20,000 CD4+ cells) reactive to PLP 139–151 in the peripheral repertoire of naive mice. Neither the PLP autoantigen nor infectious environmental agents appear to be responsible for this expanded repertoire, as endogenous PLP 139–151 reactivity is found in both PLP-deficient and germ-free mice. The high frequency of PLP 139–151-reactive T cells in SJL mice is partly due to lack of thymic deletion to PLP 139–151, as the DM20 isoform of PLP (which lacks residues 116–150) is more abundantly expressed in the thymus than full-length PLP. Reexpression of PLP 139–151 in the embryonic thymus results in a significant reduction of PLP 139–151-reactive precursors in naive mice. Thus, escape from central tolerance, combined with peripheral expansion by cross-reactive antigen(s), appears to be responsible for the high frequency of PLP 139–151-reactive T cells. |
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