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Department of Pathology and Center for Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110; and
Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale/ULP, Strasbourg, France
KRN TCR transgenic T cells recognize two self-MHC molecules: a foreign peptide, bovine RNase 4256, on I-Ak and an autoantigen, glucose-6-phosphate isomerase 282294, on I-Ag7. Because the latter recognition event initiates a disease closely resembling human rheumatoid arthritis, we investigated the structural basis of this pathogenic TCRs dual specificity. While peptide recognition is altered to a minor degree between the MHC molecules, we show that the receptors cross-reactivity critically depends upon a TCR contact residue completely conserved in the foreign and self peptides. Further, the altered recognition of peptide derives from discrete differences on the MHC recognition surfaces and not the disparate binding grooves. This work provides a detailed structural comparison of an autoreactive TCRs interactions with naturally occurring peptides on distinct MHC molecules. The capacity to interact with multiple self-MHCs in this manner increases the number of potentially pathogenic self-interactions available to a T cell.
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