title: T cell receptors in an IL-10-secreting amino acid copolymer-specific regulatory T cell line that mediates bystander immunosuppression.
abstract: The T cell receptors from the regulatory IL-10-secreting T cell line induced by the random amino acid copolymers poly(F,Y,A,K,)n in SJL mice (H-2(s)) have been characterized, cloned, sequenced and expressed both in 293T cells and in 2 different TCR alpha(-)/beta(-) T cell hybridomas. The usage of TCR alpha and beta V regions in the cell line was oligoclonal. Four TCR alpha/beta pairs cloned from single cells of the T cell line were inserted into a retrovirus vector linked by an oligonucleotide encoding the 2A peptide that spontaneously cleaves in vivo. After cotransfection of this vector with a CD3 vector into the 293T cells, the TCR were surface expressed. Moreover, after transduction into the 2 T cell hybridomas, all 4 were functional as evidenced by their response to stimulation by poly(F,Y,A,K)n. All 4 pairs were Valpha3.2(3.5)/Vbeta14, a prominent clonotype found in the poly(F,Y,A,K)n-specific T cell line. These V regions are identical to those recently found in a regulatory T cell line that secretes both IL-4 and IL-10 induced in B10.PL mice with a different MHC hapotype (H-2(u)) by a small peptide obtained from an autoimmune TCR of that strain. These data lead to a hypothesis regarding the origin of the epigenetic modifications that lead to selective cytokine secretion in T cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. hzhang@mcb.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Joel N H
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: Jack L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Strominger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D024201:Bystander Effect; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005260:Female; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D016753:Interleukin-10 / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000276:immunology; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D050378:T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D010455:Peptides; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell; D016753:Interleukin-10