A synthetic decapeptide of influenza virus hemagglutinin elicits helper T cells with the same fine recognition specificities as occur in response to whole virus.
The immunogenicity of an isolated murine helper T cell determinant was studied. Mice were immunized with a synthetic peptide corresponding to amino acid residues 111-120 of the influenza PR8 hemagglutinin (HA) heavy chain, a region previously identified as a major target of the helper T cell response to the HA molecule in virus-primed BALB/c mice. Lymph node T cells from these mice were fused with BW 5147 cells to produce T hybrids for clonal analysis of their recognition specificities. Three T cell hybridoma clones, obtained from two different mice, responded to the immunizing peptide when presented by syngeneic antigen-presenting cells. All of these clones responded also to antigen provided as intact wild-type PR8 virus. The fine specificity of the peptide-induced T cell hybridomas, in response to a panel of mutant and variant influenza viruses, was indistinguishable from the fine specificities of T cells to the corresponding region of the HA1 chain of the HA molecule which had been generated by priming of mice with intact wild-type virus. These results suggest that an immunogenic determinant is contained within the 111-120 sequence that is able to elicit anti-influenza virus T cells with a similar repertoire to those elicited by immunization with whole virus.
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Hackett
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Hurwitz
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Dietzschold
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Gerhard
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000276:immunology*; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000276:immunology*; D006825:Hybridomas / Q000276:immunology; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000276:immunology*; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000378:metabolism; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism
D000956:Antigens, Viral; D000939:Epitopes; D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral; D007376:Interleukin-2