PMID: 6161958Mar 1, 1981Paper

Immune response gene control of determinant selection. III. Polypeptide fragments of insulin are differentially recognized by T but not by B cells in insulin immune guinea pigs

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
J W ThomasA S Rosenthal

Abstract

Synthetic polypeptides corresponding to restricted regions of the B chain of insulin were used to evaluate immune response gene control of guinea pigs immune to native insulin. The amino acids necessary for recall of immune memory were assessed at the level of the T cell by use of peptides 8 to 16 amino acids in length, representative of the amino terminus of the insulin B chain to induce antigen-specific proliferation and help for antibody formation. A single histidine residue in the 10th position of the B chain is critical for T cell activation. In addition, immune response genes operating in the macrophage discern the presence or absence of this residue and activate the appropriate T cell clones. Although receptor V region sharing may exist for T and B cells immune to globular proteins, it cannot be demonstrated by antigen specificity, since T proliferation and generation of T helper cells in response to intact insulin can be elicited by synthetic fragments that do not correspondingly induce antibodies that recognize the native molecule.

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