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Clonal heterogeneity of HLA‐B27 cellular allo‐recognition. Delineation of immunodominant sites
Author(s) -
Aparicio Pedro,
Jaraquemada Dolores,
Rojo Susana,
De Castro José A. López
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
european journal of immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.272
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1521-4141
pISSN - 0014-2980
DOI - 10.1002/eji.1830180204
Subject(s) - biology , epitope , ctl* , monoclonal antibody , lytic cycle , antigen , hla b27 , cd8 , human leukocyte antigen , amino acid , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , antibody , genetics , virus
Abstract The fine specificity of nine cytolytic T lymphocyte (CTL) clones obtained after stimulation of HLA‐B27 ‐ responder lymphocytes with B27.1 + lymphoblastoid cell lines has been analyzed. These clones defined three different reaction patterns when tested against a panel of target cells including those expressing all known HLA‐B27 subtypes: (a) specific recognition of HLA‐B27.1, B27.2 and B27d, (b) selective reactivity with B27.1, B27d and HLA‐B40 * and (c) selective recognition of B27.1, B27.2, B27d, B27f and B40 * . Representative clones within each group were analyzed in detail. Differences in lytic ability of the various susceptible targets within each group were established by cold target inhibition analyses and by blocking experiments with anti‐CD3 and anti‐CD8 monoclonal antibodies. When correlated with the known structure of the HLA‐B27 subtypes, these results demonstrate the critical relevance of amino acid changes within residues 77‐81 and at position 152 in modulating allospecific CTL recognition of HLA‐B27.1 and suggest that these residues could be involved in the structure of immunodominant regions of this antigen. The observed cross‐reactions with HLA‐B40 * , differing from B27.1 in 16 amino acid residues, suggest that the simultaneous occurrence of multiple amino acid changes could have mutually compensatory effects, so that a cross‐reactive epitope might result from various combinations of polymorphic residues.