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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 157, Issue 6 2291-2298, Copyright © 1996 by American Association of Immunologists
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BL Hsu, DL Donermeyer and PM Allen
Washington University School of Medicine, Center for Immunology, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
To identify the structural basis of Ag fine specificity, TCR sequences from a panel of Hb(64-76)/I-Ek-specific T cells were compared and found to be restricted in variable (V) gene usage, predominantly using BV1 or BV15 and AV4 or AV10 genes. TCRA and TCRB junctional sequences were extremely diverse. No conservation of length or position was found, which distinguishes this response from others, but correlates with the range of fine specificities that these T cells display. A remarkable subtlety in the recognition of Hb(64-76) was revealed from the study of the response to the D73 variant of Hb(64-76), which contains a conservative change in an MHC anchor residue not affecting the binding affinity to I-Ek. To one group of T cells this determinant was non- cross-reacting with Hb(64-76), whereas another recognized both Ags. Interesting, they all used a different constellation of TCRBV genes than that found in Hb(64-76) recognition. To limit the variability in the anti-Hb(64-76) TCR repertoire, transgenic mice expressing a fixed TCRB rearrangement from a Hb(64-76)-specific T cell were used. In Hb(64- 76)-specific TCR from these mice, the endogenous alpha-chains pairing with the transgenic beta-chain were highly restricted in their AV gene usage. A comparison of two pairs of closely related T cells of these endogenous TCR variants, one differing by a single, conservative substitution in the complementarity-determining region 3 and the other containing a positional switch of two amino acids, revealed dramatically different fine specificities. Overall, these findings highlight the exquisite sensitivity of the TCR- peptide/MHC interaction to subtle alterations in any of the components.
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