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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 130, Issue 2 573-578, Copyright © 1983 by American Association of Immunologists

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Immune response to the p-azobenzenearsonate (ABA)-GAT conjugate. II. Hapten-specific T cells induced with ABA-GAT in GAT responder X nonresponder F1 hybrids are restricted to the nonresponder haplotype

D Regnier and M Seman

Immunization of mice with the ABA-GAT conjugate stimulates GAT-specific T helper cells in GAT-responder animals and ABA-specific helpers in nonresponders. Unexpectedly, immunization of (responder X nonresponder) F1 mice, which have the GAT-responder phenotype, leads to the recruitment of both ABA- and GAT-specific clones of T helper lymphocytes. The GAT-reactive population is restricted to the haplotype of the responder parent (Iak), whereas ABA-specific T cells are mostly restricted to the nonresponder one (Ias). This is demonstrated by the ability of monoclonal antibodies to parental la antigens to inhibit T cell proliferation to GAT or ABA-Tyr in vitro. Consistently, ABA-GAT- primed F1 T cells can only activate nonresponder B cells to proliferate in the presence of ABA-Tyr and responder B lymphocytes in the presence of GAT. Furthermore, F1 T cells seem to recognize both ABA and GAT epitopes only in association with molecules encoded by the I-A subregion. Analysis of ABA-specific F1 T cell lines generated by in vitro stimulation with ABA-Tyr or ABA-GAT demonstrates a competition between GAT- and ABA-specific T cells present in the hybrid T cell repertoire and restricted to the same parental I-Ak molecule. The results indicate that F1 macrophages can present both ABA and GAT epitopes to T cells in association with the two parental and hybrid Ia determinants. It seems unlikely that the absence of GAT-specific T cells restricted to the nonresponder I-A in the F1 is due to suppressor T cells. Thus, the competition model that we propose, to explain the selective F1 T cell response to ABA-GAT, leads us to believe that GAT nonresponder animals may lack clones capable of recognizing, with a high affinity, I-As + GAT.




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