Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 183, 1311-1321, Copyright © 1996 by Rockefeller University Press

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Endogenous altered peptide ligands can affect peripheral T cell responses

K Vidal, BL Hsu, CB Williams and PM Allen
Center for Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.

T cells potentially encounter a large number of endogenous self- peptide/MHC ligands in the thymus and the periphery. These endogenous ligands are critical to both positive and negative selection in the thymus; however, their effect on peripheral T cells has not been directly ascertained. Using the murine allelic Hbd (64-76)/I-Ek self- antigen model, we have previously identified altered peptide ligands (APLs) which are able to stimulate some but not all TCR-mediated effector functions. To determine directly the effect of endogenously synthesized APL/MHC complexes on peripheral T cells, we used a TCR transgenic mouse which had reversed our normal antigen system, with Ser69 peptide now being the agonist and Hbd(64-76) being the APL. In this report, we show that the constitutive level of endogenous Hbd(64- 76)/I-Ek complexes presented by APCs in vivo is too low to affect the response of Ser69 reactive T cells. However, by increasing the number of Hbd(64-76)/I-Ek complexes expressed by the APCs, TCR antagonism is observed for both primary T cells and T cell hybridomas. In addition, the level of the CD4 coreceptor expressed on T cells and T cell hybridomas. In addition, the level of the CD4 coreceptor expressed on T cells changes the response pattern to endogenously presented Hbd(64- 76)/I-Ek ligand. These findings demonstrate that T cells are selected to ignore the constitutive levels of endogenous complexes they encounter in the periphery. T cell responses can be affected by endogenous APLs in the periphery under limited but attainable circumstances which change the efficacy of the TCR/ligand interaction. Thus, endogenous APLs play a role in both the selection of T cells in the thymus and the responses of peripheral T cells.
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