title: T cell responses to Mls determinants are restricted by cross-reactive MHC determinants.
abstract: The studies presented here investigated the relationship between T cell recognition of MHC-encoded products and non-MHC-linked Mls determinants. The first aspect addressed whether Mls-reactive T cells recognize Mls-encoded products alone or in association with MHC-encoded determinants. Initial studies used Mlsa-specific T cell clones that were generated by repeated stimulation of C57BL/6 or B10.A(5R) spleen cells with DBA/2 lymphoid cells. These clones recognized Mlsa on cells expressing MHC products of the H-2b, H-2d, and H-2k haplotypes, but not the H-2q haplotype. Thus, these cloned T cells were found to recognize Mlsa products in association with public but demonstrably polymorphic H-2 determinants. The question of whether T cell clones that were specific for self-H-2 determinants (autoreactive) or soluble antigen plus syngeneic H-2 (antigen-specific) could also be stimulated by Mlsa determinants was also addressed. A substantial proportion of the antigen-specific or autoreactive T cell clones tested were stimulated by Mlsa determinants. Furthermore, stimulation of these clones by Mlsa was H-2 restricted. The pattern of H-2-restricted recognition of Mlsa by these clones was not distinguishable from that observed in the Mlsa-specific T cell clones, nor was it influenced by the primary specificity or H-2 restriction pattern of a given clone. Although these findings provide a means of explaining the observation that Mls-reactive T cells exist at extremely high precursor frequencies, they also raise questions regarding the nature of the receptor structures which are used by a single T cell in the recognition of two or more apparently distinct stimuli.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Gress
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Needleman
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hodes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000276:immunology; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000276:immunology; D003429:Cross Reactions; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D005802:Genes, MHC Class II; D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D007959:Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed; D051379:Mice; D008806:Mice, Inbred AKR; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000954:Antigens, Surface; D000939:Epitopes; D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens