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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 164, Issue 10, Pages 5466-5473Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.10.5466
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Natural development of diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice requires both CD4 and CD8 T cells. Transgenic NOD mice carrying alpha beta TCR genes from a class I MHC (K-d)-restricted, pancreatic beta cell Ag-specific T cell clone develop diabetes significantly faster than nontransgenic NOD mice. In these TCR transgenic mice, a large fraction of T cells express both transgene derived and endogenous TCR beta chains. Only T cells expressing two TCR showed reactivity to the islet Ag, Development of diabetogenic T cells is inhibited in mice with no endogenous TCR expression due to the SCID mutation. These results demonstrate that the expression of two TCRs is necessary for the autoreactive diabetogenic T cells to escape thymic negative selection in the NOD mouse. Further analysis with MHC congenic NOD mice revealed that diabetes development in the class I MHC-restricted islet Ag-specific TCR transgenic mice is still dependent on the presence of the homozygosity of the NOD MHC class II I-A(g7).
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