Publication Date:
2009-11-07
Description:
Pathogen recognition by T cells is dependent on their exquisite specificity for self-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules presenting a bound peptide. Although this specificity results from positive and negative selection of developing T cells in the thymus, the relative contribution of these two processes remains controversial. To address the relation between the selecting peptide-MHC complex and the specificity of mature T cells, we generated transgenic mice that express a single peptide-MHC class I complex. We demonstrate that positive selection of CD8 T cells in these mice results in an MHC-specific repertoire. Although selection on a single complex is peptide promiscuous, mature T cells are highly peptide specific. Thus, positive selection imparts MHC and peptide specificity on the peripheral CD8 T cell repertoire.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828816/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828816/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, Baomei -- Primeau, Tina M -- Myers, Nancy -- Rohrs, Henry W -- Gross, Michael L -- Lybarger, Lonnie -- Hansen, Ted H -- Connolly, Janet M -- 2P41RR000954/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- AI 027568/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI 055849/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P41 GM103422/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P41 RR000954/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- P41 RR000954-32S1/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI027568/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI027568-17/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI055849/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI055849-05/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Nov 6;326(5954):871-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1177627.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19892989" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*immunology
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Cross Reactions
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Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
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H-2 Antigens/genetics/*immunology
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Lymphocyte Activation
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Major Histocompatibility Complex/*immunology
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Mice
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Mice, Knockout
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Mice, Transgenic
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Ovalbumin/immunology
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Peptides/*immunology
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Protein Multimerization
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Spleen/cytology/immunology
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T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology
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Thymus Gland/cytology/immunology
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Vesiculovirus/immunology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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