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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 98, Issue 21, Pages 12150-12155Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.201407398
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We recently reported that the nonclassical HLA class I molecule HLA-G was expressed in the endomyocardial biopsies and sera of 16% of heart transplant patients studied. The aim of the present report is to identify cells that may be responsible for HLA-G protein expression during the allogeneic reaction. Carrying out mixed lymphocyte cultures in which the responder cell population was depleted either in CD4(+) or CD8(+) T cells, we found that soluble HLA-G5 protein but not the membrane-bound HLA-G isoform was secreted by allo-specific CD4(+) T cells from the responder population, which suppressed the allogeneic proliferative T cell response. This inhibition may be reversed by adding the anti-HLA-G 87G antibody to a mixed lymphocyte culture. That may indicate a previously uncharacterized regulatory mechanism of CD4(+) T cell proliferative response.
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