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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 355, Issue 1400, Pages 1077-1084Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0645
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chicken; major histocompatibility complex; pathogen; vaccine
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In contrast to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of well-studied mammals such as humans and mice, the particular haplotype of the B-F/B-L region of the chicken B locus determines life and death in response to certain infectious pathogens as well as to certain vaccines. We found that the B-F/B-L region is much smaller and simpler than the typical mammalian MHC, with an important difference being the expression of a single class I gene at a high level of RNA and protein. The peptide-binding specificity of this dominantly expressed class I molecule in different haplotypes correlates with resistance to tumours caused by Rous sarcoma virus, while the cell-surface expression level correlates with susceptibility to tumours caused by Marek's disease virus. A similar story is developing with class II beta genes and response to killed viral vaccines. This apparently suicidal strategy of single dominantly expressed class I and class II molecules may be due to coevolution between genes within the compact chicken MHC.
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