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Cutting Edge: Induction of Antigen-Specific Hyporesponsiveness by Transplantation of Hemopoietic Cells Containing an MHC Class I Transgene Regulated by a Lymphocyte-Specific Promoter

Susan A. Hansal^*, Diane I. Morris^*, Joan M. G. Sechler^*, Paul E. Love and Amy S. Rosenberg^1,*

^* Laboratory of Immunology, Division of Hematologic Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892; and Laboratory of Mammalian Genes and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892

We explored a novel approach to tolerance induction by the transplantation of bone marrow (BM) cells (BMCs) that themselves do not express a foreign histocompatibility Ag, but which give rise to mature lymphocytes that do so. Lines of transgenic (FVB) mice were generated that contained an MHC class I D^d cDNA regulated by a CD2 promoter. Because the CD2 promoter is lymphocyte-specific and activated relatively late in lymphocyte ontogeny, D^d is expressed on most mature lymphocytes in the periphery but only on developing B cells in the BM of transgenic mice. Transgenic BMCs are tolerogenic and reproducibly engraft in nontransgenic mice using a conditioning regimen that is nonpermissive for the engraftment of conventional (MHC promoter) D^d-transgenic BMCs. Engrafted BMCs generate transgene-expressing lymphocytes and confer a state of Ag-specific hyporesponsiveness on the host that is primarily attributable to a peripheral mechanism. The strategies by which tolerance can be optimized in this system are discussed.

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