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Positive Selection Is Limited by Available Peptide-Dependent MHC Conformations¹

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Recent data suggest that the diversity of self peptides presented in the thymus during development contributes to positive selection of a diverse T cell repertoire. We sought to determine whether a previously defined "hole in the immunological repertoire" could be explained by the absence of an appropriate selecting self peptide. The repertoire defect in question is the inability of bm8 mice to make an H-2K-restricted response to OVA. Like other OVA-specific, H-2K-restricted receptors, OT-I-transgenic T cells are not positively selected in bm8 mice. Using criteria we had previously established for identifying positive selection ligands, we found peptides that could restore positive selection of OT-I thymocytes in bm8 mice. Thus, the T cell repertoire can be limited by a requirement for specific self peptides during development. Data with MHC-specific Abs suggested that peptides might be able to force MHC residues to adopt different conformations in K^b vs K^bm8. This shows that peptides can potentially contribute to ligand diversity both directly (via variability in the solvent-exposed side chains) and indirectly (through their effect on the MHC conformation). Our data support a model where self peptide diversity allows selection of T cells specific for a broad range of MHC conformations.

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