PMID: 2477449Oct 15, 1989Paper

Analysis of a monoclonal rat antibody directed to the alpha-chain variable region (V alpha 3) of the mouse T cell antigen receptor.

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
Y UtsunomiyaO Kanagawa

Abstract

Three rat mAb, RR3-15, RR3-16, and RR3-18, were established by fusing spleen cells from a rat immunized with the male Ag-specific cytolytic T cell clone, OH6, to mouse myeloma cells. The mAb was identified by their capacity to focus the cytolytic activity of the OH6 CTL clone on nonspecific target cells via FcR-FcR interaction. That all three mAb recognized the OH6 TCR was confirmed by immunoprecipitation studies in which each antibody precipitated a 90 kDa disulfide-linked heterodimer characteristic of the TCR. Surface immunofluorescence staining of a panel of T cell lines and splenic T cell populations showed that RR3-16 reacted not only to the OH6 T cell clone but also to a minor fraction of normal T cells. This reactivity was found to be due to the expression of a gene in the V alpha 3 family. However, RR3-16 did not react with all T cell lines and clones known to express genes from the V alpha 3 family. cDNA sequences of three independent RR3-16+ T cell hybridomas analyzed by polymerase chain reaction were identical to the previously published V alpha 3 sequence of the CTL clone C9. Thus, the mAb RR3-16 is specific for a single member of the TCR V alpha 3 gene family. Analysis of the expression of RR3-16+ TCR in CD4+ and C...Continue Reading

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