Differential recognition of peptide analogs by naive verses activated PLP 139-151-specific CD4+ T cells

Journal of Neuroimmunology
B L McRaeS D Miller

Abstract

CD4+ T cells specific for PLP 139-151 induce a relapsing-remitting form of EAE which is similar to the human demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis (MS) in both clinical course and histopathology. Conservative and nonconservative amino acid substitutions were introduced at three TcR or MHC contact residues within PLP 139-151 to identify fine specificity requirements, at the polyclonal level, for stimulating naive encephalitogenic T cells and for reactivating pre-primed autoreactive T cells as measured by T cell proliferation, cytokine induction, and functional encephalitogenic potential. The results indicate that peptides with substitutions at position 145 exhibited a significantly diminished ability to induce active disease, but these substitutions had little or no effect on the ability to activate PLP 139-151-primed T cells for proliferation or disease transfer. A conservative or a nonconservative substitution at position 144 ablated both encephalitogenic potential in active and adoptive EAE models and the ability to induce proliferative responses in T cells primed to the native peptide. A nonconservative lysine for glycine, but not a conservative serine substitution, at position 146 had similar effects. In contrast to thei...Continue Reading

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