Abstract
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a T-cell regulated autoimmune disease. A peptide representing a sequence of the human acetylcholine receptor alpha-subunit (p195-212) was previously shown to stimulate proliferative responses of peripheral blood lymphocytes from MG patients and to be an immunodominant and myasthenogenic T-cell epitope in SJL mice. The authors generated a panel of analogues of p195-212 that contain single amino acid substitutions. Three of the analogues (203PHE, 204GLY and 207ALA) triggered low to no proliferative responses of a p195-212-specific T-cell line designated TCSJL195-212. Two of these analogues were able to stimulate the line to produce interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IL-4 (203PHE and 204GLY), whereas one analogue, 207ALA, did not stimulate the line to produce these cytokines. Binding assays revealed that the binding affinity of an altered peptide for a given major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule is not sufficient to determine whether it will be stimulatory or inhibitory to a native peptide-specific T-cell line. Two of the analogues, 204GLY and 207ALA, inhibited proliferative responses of cells of the TCSJL195-212 line when co-cultured with p195-212 and syngeneic antigen presenting cells (APC). The two inh...Continue Reading
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