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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 157, Issue 10 4436-4441, Copyright © 1996 by American Association of Immunologists
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A Asmuss, K Hofmann, T Hochgrebe, G Giegerich, T Hunig and T Herrmann
Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wurzburg, Germany.
This study addresses the molecular basis of a Tcrb-V polymorphism in the reactivity to the superantigens staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB) and the mtv-7 sag (MIs1a) of T cells recognized by the mAb R78, which reacts with the T cell receptor beta-chain variable segment 8.2 (Tcrb- V8.2) of Lewis (LEW) rats. Tcrb-V8.2-like sequences were isolated from liver DNA of the responder strain LEW (I) and the nonresponder strain DA (a) and alleles of the Tcrb-V8.2 and the highly homologous Tcrb-V8.4 were identified. Their expression was analyzed by RNase protection studies and cDNA clones were characterized. A comparison of thymocytes, activated R78+ cells, Con A-stimulated and SEB-stimulated cells allows the following conclusions: the newly identified Lewis allele of Tcrb- V8.4 (Trcb-V8.4I) is nonfunctional due to a frame shift induced by deletion of one nucleotide. The R78 epitope is expressed by Tcrb-V8.2I and Tcrb-V8.4a but not by Tcrb-V8.2a. The implication of this finding for mapping of the R78 epitope and the study of V region usage in experimental autoimmune encephalitis are discussed. Finally, the expression of both Tcrb-V8.2 alleles but not of Tcrb-V8.4a in SEB- stimulated cells defines a polymorphism of the CDR2 and/or CDR4 as the molecular basis of the differential superantigen reactivity.
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