Complexity at the mouse minor histocompatibility locusH-4 |
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Authors: | Allan Peter Davis Derry C Roopenian |
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Institution: | (1) The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA |
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Abstract: | The fine immunogenetics of the chromosome 7 mouse minor histocompatibility (H) locusH-4 was investigated. Both class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and class II MHC-restricted helper T cells (TH) specifically reactive with H-4 antigens were isolated as clones and were used as genetic probes for classical backcross segregation analysis. Results of a four point cross indicated that theH-4 locus was actually comprised of two genes, that have been designatedH-46 andH-47. The former encodes antigens recognized by the TH and the latter encodes antigens recognized by the CTL. Moreover, these two genes could be separated from the gene pink-eyed dilution (p) which was found to be sandwiched between them. The functional significance of a minor H congenic strain differing by both TH-definedH-46 and CTL-definedH-47 was addressed using F1 complementation tests. Such studies indicated that immune responses against H-46 antigens was required for generation of H-47-specific CTL. Altogether, these results suggest selective presentation of different minor H gene products by class I or class II MHC proteins and that the minor H locus H-4 may have necessarily included both TH and CTL-defined genes because of requisite TH-CTL collaboration.
Address correspondence and offprint requests to: D. C. Roopenian. |
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