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Bone Marrow Transplantation Section, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Surgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129
Remarkably normal immune function and specific T cell tolerance to discordant xenogeneic donors can be achieved by grafting fetal pig thymus and liver (FP THY/LIV) tissue to T cell and NK cell-depleted, thymectomized (ATX) mice. To determine whether or not host class II MHC molecules participate in the positive selection of mouse CD4+ T cells in FP THY/LIV grafts, we compared their development in ATX "AND" TCR-transgenic mice with positive selecting or nonselecting host MHC genotypes. Mouse TCR-transgenic CD4 single positive T cells repopulated the periphery significantly and to a similar extent in both T/NK cell-depleted, ATX AND mice with positive-selecting or nonselecting MHC backgrounds after grafting with FP THY/LIV. Therefore, MHC molecules from a widely disparate xenogeneic species can positively select T cells bearing a host class II MHC-restricted TCR without a contribution from the host MHC. These results, in combination with previous studies performed in this model, suggest that the T cell repertoire that is generated by the combination of positive selection on xenogeneic MHC and negative selection on both recipient and xenogeneic porcine MHC is tolerant of both donor and recipient and has sufficient cross-reactivity with host MHC/foreign peptide complexes to confer a high level of immunocompetence. The results have implications for the potential clinical applicability of xenogeneic thymic transplantation and also suggest a predominant role for the TCR recognition of species-conserved MHC residues in positive selection.
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