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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 116, Issue 9, Pages 2385-2392Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI28330
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We describe a double-transgenic mouse strain ((o) under bar ptico (s) under bar pinal (E) under bar AE [OSE] mouse) that spontaneously develops an EAE-like neurological syndrome closely resembling a human variant of multiple sclerosis, Devic disease (also called neuromyelitis optica). Like in Devic disease, the inflammatory, demyelinating lesions were located in the optic nerve and spinal cord, sparing brain and cerebellum, and the murine lesions showed histological similarity with their human correlates. OSE mice have recombination-competent immune cells expressing a TCR-alpha beta specific for myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) as 35-55 peptide in the context of I-A(b) along with an Ig J region replaced by the recombined heavy chain of a monoclonal antibody binding to a conformational epitope on MOG. OSE mouse B cells bound even high dilutions of recombinant MOG, but not MOG peptide, and processed and presented it to autologous T cells. In addition, in OSE mice, but not in single-transgenic parental mice, anti-MOG antibodies were switched from IgM to IgG1.
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