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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 165, 期 1, 页码 25-33出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.1.25
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI33993] Funding Source: Medline
Given the flexible nature of TCR specificity, deletion or permanent disabling of all T cells with the capacity to recognize self peptides would severely limit the diversity of the repertoire and the capacity to recognize foreign Ags, To address this, we have investigated the patterns of CD8(+) CTL reactivity to a naturally H-2K(b)-presented self peptide derived from the elongation factor 1 alpha (EF1 alpha). EF1 alpha occurs as two differentially expressed isoforms differing at one position of the relevant peptide. Low avidity CTLs could be raised against both variants of the EF1 alpha peptide. These CTLs required 100-fold more peptide-H-2K(b) complexes on the target cell compared with CTLs against a viral peptide, and did not recognize the naturally expressed levels of EF1 alpha peptides. Thus, low avidity T cells specific for these self peptides escape tolerance by deletion, despite expression of both EF1 alpha isoforms in dendritic cells known to mediate negative selection in the thymus, The low avidity in CTL recognition of these peptides correlated with low TCR affinity. However, self peptide-specific CTLs expressed elevated levels of CD8. Furthermore, CTLs generated against altered self peptide variants displayed intermediate avidity, indicating cross-reactivity in induction of tolerance. We interpret these data, together with results previously published by others, in an avidity pit model based on avidity thresholds for maintenance of both maximal diversity and optimal self tolerance in the CD8(+) T cell repertoire.
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