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Department of Immunology, St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38101; and
Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Memphis, TN 38163
Th cells recognize protein Ags as short peptides bound to MHC class II molecules. Altered peptide ligands can antagonize (inhibit) T cell responses to stimulatory peptides. Peptides generated by APC may contain peptide flanking residues (PFR), which lie outside the minimal binding epitope and can be recognized by the TCR. Our data show that PFR-dependent T cells were found to be potently antagonized by peptides that lack PFR and responded poorly to native protein or the immunogenic epitope delivered by a recombinant influenza virus. These data provide the first evidence that Ag processing generates both stimulatory and antagonist peptides from a single immunogenic epitope, an observation that may have important implications for T cell immunoregulation and autoimmunity.
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