Abstract
Previously, we reported that a strain of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice, namely SCID-bg, spontaneously develop CD4+CD8+ double positive (DP) thymocytes despite their scid mutation. In the present study, we intend to further characterize the DP thymocyte population in SCID-bg mice with Southern hybridization and flow cytometry. Southern hybridization analyses of sorted DP thymocytes in SCID-bg mice showed rearrangement of T cell receptor (TCR) beta and TCR gamma gene segments, although the expression of TCR beta and gamma delta TCR molecules was absent. The phenotype of the DP thymocytes in SCID-bg mice was CD44- heat-stable antigen (HSA)+CD25-, and they did not express CD69. Interestingly, the expression of thymus leukaemia (TL) antigen was observed in the DP thymocytes of SCID-bg mice but not in their CD4-CD8- double negative (DN) fraction. Fas expression was higher and bcl-2 expression was down-regulated in the DP thymocytes as compared to the DN thymocytes in SCID-bg mice, suggesting that they are not immortalized cells having escaped from apoptosis. Taken together, these results show that the phenotype of the DP thymocytes in SCID-bg mice is similar to that of the earliest phase of the DP thymocytes in normal m...Continue Reading
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