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Analysis of autoreactive T cells associated with murine collagen-induced arthritis using peptide-MHC multimers.

Huang, Jason C. ; Vestberg, Mikael LU ; Minguela, Alfredo ; Holmdahl, Rikard LU and Ward, E. Sally (2004) In International Immunology 16(2). p.283-293
Abstract
CD4+ T cells that recognize residues 256–270 of type II collagen (CII) associated with the I-Aq (Aq) molecule play a central role in disease pathogenesis in murine collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Disease is most efficiently induced by immunization with heterologous CII, which elicits heterologous, e.g. bovine, CII256–270:I-Aq-specific T cells that only poorly cross-react with mouse CII. The self-epitope differs from heterologous CII256–270 by a conservative change of glutamic acid (heterologous) to aspartic acid (mouse) at position 266 which confers a lower affinity for binding to the I-Aq molecule. To date, characterization of the nature of T cell recognition in this model has been hindered by the lack of suitable, labeled multimeric... (More)
CD4+ T cells that recognize residues 256–270 of type II collagen (CII) associated with the I-Aq (Aq) molecule play a central role in disease pathogenesis in murine collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Disease is most efficiently induced by immunization with heterologous CII, which elicits heterologous, e.g. bovine, CII256–270:I-Aq-specific T cells that only poorly cross-react with mouse CII. The self-epitope differs from heterologous CII256–270 by a conservative change of glutamic acid (heterologous) to aspartic acid (mouse) at position 266 which confers a lower affinity for binding to the I-Aq molecule. To date, characterization of the nature of T cell recognition in this model has been hindered by the lack of suitable, labeled multimeric peptide–MHC class II complexes. Here, we describe the biochemical properties of both recombinant bovine CII256–270:I-Aq (bCII256–270:I-Aq) and mouse CII256–270:I-Aq (mCII256–270:I-Aq) complexes, and use these as fluorescently labeled multimers (tetramers) to characterize the specificity of CII-reactive T cells. Our analyses show that an unexpectedly high percentage of bCII256–270:I-Aq-specific T cells are cross-reactive with mCII256–270:I-Aq. Interestingly, one T cell clone which has a relatively high avidity for binding to self-CII256–270:I-Aq shows a marked increase in binding avidity at physiological temperature, indicating that this TCR has unusual thermodynamic properties. Taken together, our analyses suggest that the low affinity of mCII256–270 for I-Aq may lead to a state of ignorance which can be overcome by priming CII-specific T cells with heterologous CII. This has relevance to understanding the mechanism by which CIA is induced and provides an explanation for the low arthritogenicity of mouse CII. (Less)
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T lymphocyte, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmunity, MHC, TCR
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International Immunology
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16
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2
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283 - 293
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Oxford University Press
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1460-2377
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10.1093/intimm/dxh039
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English
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  author       = {{Huang, Jason C. and Vestberg, Mikael and Minguela, Alfredo and Holmdahl, Rikard and Ward, E. Sally}},
  issn         = {{1460-2377}},
  keywords     = {{T lymphocyte; rheumatoid arthritis; autoimmunity; MHC; TCR}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{283--293}},
  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  series       = {{International Immunology}},
  title        = {{Analysis of autoreactive T cells associated with murine collagen-induced arthritis using peptide-MHC multimers.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intimm/dxh039}},
  doi          = {{10.1093/intimm/dxh039}},
  volume       = {{16}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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