The Journal of Immunology, Vol 141, Issue 8 2581-2584, Copyright © 1988 by American Association of Immunologists

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Individual class II-restricted antigenic determinants of the same protein exhibit distinct kinetics of appearance and persistence on antigen-presenting cells

LC Eisenlohr, W Gerhard and CJ Hackett
Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

The kinetics of presentation of class II-restricted T cell determinants of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) was investigated over a 48-h time course after pulsing of A20 B lymphoma APC with non-replicative virus or isolated HA. At intervals after Ag pulse, APC were fixed with paraformaldehyde to arrest Ag processing and to preserve the expression levels of the presented determinants. Expression of T cell sites at each time point was probed by a panel of BALC/c T hybridomas specific for the HA of influenza A/Puerto Rico/8/34 virus, recognizing either site 1 (residues 111 to 119), site 2 (126 to 138), or site 3 (302 to 313). Characteristic patterns of presentation were observed for each site: sites 2 and 3 achieved maximal expression by 8 h post pulse, but declined thereafter, whereas site 1 presentation continued to increase over time. The quantitative expression of each T cell site was affected by the proteolysis inhibitor leupeptin, resulting in partial inhibition of site 1, complete blocking of site 2, but enhancement of site 3. However, the expression kinetics of sites 1 and 3, which could be observed in the presence of the inhibitor, remained qualitatively unchanged. These observations indicate that some T cell determinants (e.g., HA site 1) may exhibit a greater longevity of expression on APC than other antigenic sites of the same protein. Differences in the persistence of surface expression of distinct T cell sites may be a factor in their relative immunodominance.

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