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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 172, Issue 4, Pages 2324-2331Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.4.2324
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TCRs possess considerable cross-reactivity toward structurally related Ags. Because the signaling threshold for negative selection is lower than that required for activation of mature T cells, the question arises as to which extent thymic deletion of self-specific T cells affects T cell responsiveness toward foreign peptides. In this study we show, in three different mouse models systems, that the polyclonal CD8(+) T cell repertoire has a marked ability to react against the majority of Ags related to self despite self-tolerance, even in cases where self and foreign differ only marginally at a single TCR-contact residue. Thus, while individual T cells are markedly cross-reactive, the ability to distinguish between closely related Ags is introduced at the polyclonal T cell level.
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