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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 159, Issue 2 748-756, Copyright © 1997 by American Association of Immunologists

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Deviated overexpression of TCR-beta, TCR-gamma, CD4, and CD8 on thymic lymphomas induced by 1-propyl-1-nitrosourea: destruction of the allelic exclusion of TCR-beta and expression of functional TCR-betagamma heterodimer on a lymphoma, cFTL53

M Kinebuchi, A Matsuura, T Ogiu and K Kikuchi
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Chuo-ku, Japan.

Thymic lymphomas (FTLs) induced by the chemical carcinogen 1-propyl-1- nitrosourea (PNU) in F344 rats showed deviated overexpression of TCR- beta, TCR-gamma, CD4, and CD8. Even though most FTLs were in the CD4+ CD8+ stage, all FTLs expressed TCR-beta mRNA with TCR-gamma mRNA, but without TCR-alpha mRNA or TCR-delta mRNA. One of the FTLs, cFTL53, expressed two kinds of TCR-beta mRNA and two kinds of TCR-gamma mRNA, but did not express any mRNA of TCR-alpha or TCR-delta. Both alleles of TCR-beta loci were rearranged on cFTL53. cDNA cloning and sequencing analysis showed that one TCR-gamma mRNA, Vgamma4-Jgamma1-Cgamma1, and both TCR-beta mRNA, Vbeta2-Dbeta2-Jbeta2.1 and Vbeta19-Dbeta2-Jbeta2.1- Cbeta2, on cFTL53 were in the productive form, while the other TCR- gamma mRNA, Vgamma1-Jgamma4-Cgamma4L, was not. Both TCR beta-chains and a TCR gamma-chain were expressed on cFTL53, making a novel set of TCR- betagamma heterodimer. Cross-linking of TCR-betagamma heterodimer on cFTL53 resulted in a calcium flux, indicating that TCR-betagamma works as a signal transduction receptor. Thus, there are four strange phenomena on FTLs; CD4 and CD8 are expressed without TCR-alphabeta or TCR-gammadelta, TCR-beta mRNA and TCR-gamma mRNA were expressed simultaneously without TCR-alpha and TCR-delta mRNA on FTLs, the allelic exclusion of TCR-beta was destroyed in cFTL53, and a novel set of functional TCR-betagamma heterodimer was expressed on cFTL53.


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