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- Document 0640
- DOCN M9620640
- TI Quantitation of endogenous mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen
- expression by lymphocyte subsets.
- DT 9602
- AU Waanders GA; Lees RK; Held W; MacDonald HR; Ludwig Institute for Cancer
- Research, Lausanne Branch, University; of Lausanne, Epalinges,
- Switzerland.
- SO Eur J Immunol. 1995 Sep;25(9):2632-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96011878
- AB Superantigens (SAg) encoded by endogenous mouse mammary tumor viruses
- (Mtv) interact with the V beta domain of the T cell receptor (TcR-V
- beta). Presentation of Mtv SAg can lead to stimulation and/or deletion
- of the reactive T cells, but little is known about the quantitative
- aspects of SAg presentation. Although monoclonal antibodies have been
- raised against Mtv SAg, they have not been useful in quantitating SAg
- protein, which is present in very low amounts in normal cells.
- Alternative attempts to quantitate Mtv SAg mRNA expression are
- complicated by the fact that Mtv transcription occurs from multiple loci
- and in different overlapping reading frames. In this report we describe
- a novel competitive polymerase chain reaction assay which allows the
- locus-specific quantitation of SAg expression at the mRNA level in
- lymphocyte subsets from mouse strains with multiple endogenous Mtv loci.
- In B cells as well as T cells (CD4+ or CD8+), Mtv-6 SAg is expressed at
- the highest levels, followed by Mtv-7 SAg and (to a much lesser extent)
- Mtv-8,9. Consistent with functional Mtv-7 SAg presentation studies, we
- find that Mtv-7 SAg expression is higher in B cells than in CD8+ T cells
- and very low in the CD4+ subset. The overall hierarchy in Mtv SAg
- expression (i.e. Mtv-6 > Mtv-7 > Mtv 8,9) was also observed for mRNA
- isolated from neonatal thymus. Furthermore, the kinetics of intrathymic
- deletion of the corresponding TcR-V beta domains during ontogeny
- correlated with the levels of Mtv SAg expression. Collectively our data
- suggest that T cell responses to Mtv SAg are largely controlled by SAg
- expression levels on presenting cells.
- DE Animal Antigen Presentation B-Lymphocytes/*IMMUNOLOGY Base Sequence
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*IMMUNOLOGY CD8-Positive
- T-Lymphocytes/*IMMUNOLOGY Mammary Tumor Viruses, Mouse/*IMMUNOLOGY
- Mice Molecular Sequence Data Polymerase Chain Reaction RNA,
- Messenger/ANALYSIS Superantigens/*IMMUNOLOGY T-Lymphocyte
- Subsets/IMMUNOLOGY Thymus Gland/IMMUNOLOGY/METABOLISM Transcription,
- Genetic JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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