title: Characterization of brain-isolated rat encephalitogenic T cell lines.
abstract: In the present study, we have isolated and characterized five myelin basic protein (MBP)-reactive T cell lines directly from the brains of Lewis rats during the early paralytic phase of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Each T cell line responded to the dominant encephalitogenic epitope spanning residues 68-88, and did not react against the conserved encephalitogenic epitope [MBP(87-99)] or the nonencephalitogenic MBP epitope [MBP(50-69)]. We determined the T cell receptor (TcR) beta chain usage by polymerase chain reaction, DNA sequencing analysis and by generation of MBP-reactive hybridomas from one of the T cell lines (BT74). The results revealed that brain-infiltrating, MBP-reactive T cells freshly isolated early in the course of the disease exhibit TcR diversity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38101.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: X Z
authors.initials: XZ
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Le
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Swanborg
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D002460:Cell Line; D002469:Cell Separation; D004681:Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental / Q000276:immunology*; D006825:Hybridomas; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D004676:Myelin Basic Protein / Q000276:immunology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta / Q000235:genetics; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology* / Q000637:transplantation
chemical_list: D004676:Myelin Basic Protein; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta