title: Serological and biological cross-reactivity of class II antigens between mice and humans in antigen-specific T-cell proliferative responses.
abstract: Many studies have already been reported with regard to the serological cross-reactivities between the polymorphic determinants of murine Ia antigens and human HLA-DR antigens. In this paper, we examined the biological cross-reactivity of the polymorphism of Class II antigens in the xenogeneic antigen-presenting cell (APC)-T-cell interaction. The data indicate that purified protein derivative (PPD)-specific human T cells were not stimulated by PPD-pulsed murine APC from B10.S(9R) which possess I-As and I-Ek molecules serologically cross-reacting with human Class II antigens. On the contrary, B10.S(9R) T cells primed to PPD were stimulated by PPD-pulsed human APC. The failure of the murine APC-human T-cell interaction was not caused by the suppressive effect in culture with ongoing xenogeneic mixed lymphocyte reactions (MLR) or other cell culture conditions. Thus, a hierarchy of antigen-presenting ability in the xenogeneic APC-T-cell interaction was shown to exist.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003429:Cross Reactions; D005260:Female; D006684:HLA-DR Antigens; D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007518:Isoantibodies; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008222:Lymphokines / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D014373:Tuberculin / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D006684:HLA-DR Antigens; D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II; D007518:Isoantibodies; D008222:Lymphokines; D014373:Tuberculin