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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 147, Issue 8 2706-2712, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists

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Murine T cell-stimulatory peptides from the 19-kDa antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Epitope-restricted homology with the 28-kDa protein of Mycobacterium leprae

DP Harris, HM Vordermeier, E Roman, R Lathigra, SJ Brett, C Moreno and J Ivanyi
MRC Tuberculosis and Related Infections Unit, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, UK.

Fifteen overlapping synthetic peptides, spanning the entire amino acid sequence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis 19-kDa protein, were used to identify epitopes recognized by murine T cells. Five of the 15 peptides tested were able to elicit in vitro lymph node T cell proliferative responses in C57BL/10 mice primed by footpad inoculation with homologous peptide. Analysis in congenic strains of mice revealed H-2 restriction in the response to four peptides. However, one peptide, 19.7 (residues 61 to 80), induced T cell responses in all four haplotypes tested. This peptide was also unique in being able to stimulate lymph node cells from C57BL/10 mice immunized with recombinant 19-kDa protein, killed M. tuberculosis, or live bacillus Calmette Guerin infection. T cell lines specific for peptide 19.7 were of the CD4 phenotype. Significantly, sequence analysis revealed that residues 61 to 80 of the 19-kDa protein exhibited considerable homology with a single 20-amino acid sequence (residues 120 to 140), but not with any other region of the 28-kDa protein expressed in Mycobacterium leprae. This finding is the first evidence of epitope-restricted homology between otherwise structurally unrelated microbial Ag.


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