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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 148, Issue 3 702-709, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Autoreactivity of low but not of high CD4 variants of an antigen- specific, I-A-restricted mouse T cell clone

MK Saizawa, E Hug, S Haque, P Portoles, S Suzuki and K Eichmann
Max-Planck Institut fur Immunobiologie, Freiburg, FRG.

Variant lines expressing high and low surface densities of the accessory molecule CD4 have been developed by repeated preparative flow cytometric cell sortings from the murine Th cell clone D10.G4.1 (D10). The high CD4 variant line (D10H) fully maintained the original I-Ak restricted specificity for conalbumin of wild-type D10 cells. In contrast, the low CD4 variant line (D10L) showed a strong autoreactivity to I-Ak carrying stimulator cells alone which was only slightly augmented by addition of conalbumin. Cell surface molecules other than CD4, including TCR, CD3, CD11a, CD2, CD45, CD44, and MHC class I, remained identical on D10H and D10L sublines as on D10 wild- type cells. The possibility that D10L cells had suffered alterations of their TCR-alpha beta was excluded by demonstrating their reactivity with a panel of eight different anti-clonotypic mAb specific for various epitopes of the D10 TCR. By limiting dilution analysis we show that the majority of responding cells of D10L sublines were autoreactive. Although the reactivity for allogeneic I-A also increased as compared with D10H cells, a clear preference for self-I-Ak was maintained so that a true autoreactive phenotype was evident. The results indicate that the surface concentration of CD4 has a decisive influence on self-non-self discrimination of MHC class II-restricted Th cells.


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