PMID: 9558061Apr 29, 1998Paper

Predictable TCR antigen recognition based on peptide scans leads to the identification of agonist ligands with no sequence homology

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
B HemmerR Martin

Abstract

The potential of CD4+ T cells for cross-recognition of self and foreign Ags has important implications for the understanding of thymic selection, lymphocyte survival, and the occurrence of autoimmune diseases. Here, we define the extensive flexibility of Ag recognition for three human CD4+ autoreactive T cell clones (TCC) by using ligands with single and multiple amino acid (aa) substitutions. Our results demonstrate that the spectrum of tolerated ligands and the resulting stimulatory potency of peptides for a TCC can be predicted by the relative influence of each aa. Using this approach, we have identified stimulatory ligands not sharing a single aa in corresponding positions with the Ag used to establish the TCC. These results argue for an independent contribution of each aa in the peptide sequence to the affinity of the MHC/peptide complex to the TCR.

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