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Virginia Mason Research Center, Seattle, WA 98101;
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; and
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Hopital Necker, Paris, France
Glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65) is one of the major autoantigens in type 1 diabetes. We investigated whether there is variation in the processing of GAD65 epitopes between individuals with similar HLA backgrounds and whether the processing characteristics of certain immunogenic epitopes are different in distinct APC subpopulations. Using DR401-restricted T cell hybridomas specific for two immunogenic GAD65 epitopes (115–127 and 274–286), we demonstrate an epitope-specific presentation pattern in human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (B-LCL). When pulsed with the GAD protein, some DRB1*0401-positive B-LCL, which presented GAD65 274–286 epitope efficiently, were unable to present the GAD65 115–127 epitope. However, all B-LCL presented synthetic peptides corresponding to either GAD epitope. In addition, when pulsed with human serum albumin, all cell lines gave equal stimulation of a DR4-restricted human serum albumin-specific T hybridoma. GAD65-transfected cell lines displayed the same presentation phenotype, showing that lack of the presentation of the 115–127 epitope was not due to inefficient uptake of the protein. Blood mononuclear adherent cells, B cells, or dendritic cells derived from the same individual displayed the same presentation pattern as observed in B cell lines, suggesting that the defect most likely is genetically determined. Therefore, individual differences in Ag processing may result in the presentation of distinct set of peptides derived from an autoantigen such as GAD65. This may be an important mechanism for the deviation of the immune response either into a regulatory pathway or into an inflammatory autoimmune reactivity.
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