title: Skin graft rejection and delayed-type hypersensitivity responses to H-Y in an I-Ab mutant.
abstract: Based on graft rejection in C57BL/6 and B10.A(4R), but not in B10.A mice, skin graft rejection and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses to the male HY antigen were considered to be under the control of the "IBb" gene in the mouse H-2 complex. These two phenomena were re-examined in the B6.C-H-2bm12 mutant strain [mutation in the A beta gene in IA leading to an alteration in Iab serologically detected specificities and the inability to generate cytotoxic T (Tc) cells to H-Y]. In this study the bm12 mutant was shown to produce weak DTH responses to H-Y. By contrast, bm12 female mice were unable to reject male skin grafts unless they had received prior footpad priming of male spleen cells, when graft rejection occurred, albeit slowly. In C57BL/6 mice the response to the HY antigen therefore appears to be solely under the control of the IAb gene. In other strains, response/nonresponse is presumably dictated by the ability of IA/IE interactions to produce T-helper responses.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005802:Genes, MHC Class II; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006182:H-Y Antigen / Q000276:immunology*; D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II / Q000276:immunology*; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000276:immunology*; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009154:Mutation; D012867:Skin / Q000276:immunology; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D006182:H-Y Antigen; D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II