Abstract
The specificity of bovine CD4+ T-cell responses to Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) has been examined by using a panel of seven T-cell clones and nested deletions of the ILTat 1.3 VSG gene expressed in Escherichia coli. All clones recognized the polymorphic N-terminal domain of the antigen, and the recognition sites of five of the clones were resolved to three areas with lengths of 14, 18, and 21 amino acids. Comparison of these regions with corresponding areas of other VSG molecules, including those derived from the same trypanosomal serodeme, has shown that the sites are not conserved. In the light of recent observations that VSG-specific T-cell responses are induced in mice infected with T. brucei, these results confirm with the belief that immune pressure from T cells may contribute to the generation of antigenic diversity on the surface of African trypanosomes.
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