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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 10 5245-5254, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Effect of amino acid substitutions within the region 62-76 of I-A beta b on binding with and antigen presentation of Torpedo acetylcholine receptor alpha-chain peptide 146-162

M Oshima and MZ Atassi
Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Previous study has shown that reduced T cell response to peptide alpha 146-162 of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor (tAChR) in B6.C-H- 2bm12 (bm12) mice, a mutant of C57BL/6 (B6) mice, correlated with its nonsusceptiblity to experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis. There are three amino acid differences between the I-A beta b of the two strains (positions 67, 70, and 71). We synthesized peptides I-A beta b62-76 (peptide b6), I-A beta bm1262-76 (peptide bm), and three additional peptides, b6(67F), b6(70Q), and b6(71K), and determined their ability to bind peptide alpha 146-162 and the dissociation constants (Kd) of the binding. Peptide alpha 146-162 bound with a significantly higher affinity to peptide b6 than to peptides bm or b6(71K), suggesting that the lower affinity of peptide alpha 146-162 to I-Abm12 is a factor in the reduced response to this peptide by bm12 T cells. This was confirmed by measurement of the Kd values of the binding of peptide alpha 146-162 to the I-A molecules of B6 and bm12. Furthermore, APC of bm12 presented the peptide, or tAChR, poorly to peptide-specific or to tAChR-specific B6 T cells. The major effect is caused by the change of Thr-71 in I-A beta b to lysine in I-A beta bm12. However, APC of B6 also presented peptide alpha 146-162 much less efficiently to peptide-specific T cells of bm12. This demonstrated that these three amino acid changes also influence the T cell receptor recognition of peptide-MHC complex and that both B6 and bm12 T cells recognizing peptide alpha 146-162 or tAChR are under a high H-2 restriction.


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