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50. Peptides of a major histocompatibility complex class I (Kb) molecule cause prolongation of skin graft survival and induce specific down-regulatory T cells demonstrable in the mixed lymphocyte reaction

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Brondz, B D, Kazansky, D B, Chernyshova, A D, and Ivanov, V S

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Male, T-Lymphocytes, Graft Survival, Molecular Sequence Data, H-2 Antigens, Down-Regulation, chemical and pharmacologic phenomena, Mice, Inbred Strains, Skin Transplantation, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Animals, Female, Amino Acid Sequence, Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed, Peptides, Research Article
Abstract

Six individual peptides of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecule H-2Kb were synthesized. Intravenous injection of peptide 6 into mice prolonged the survival of Kb (BL/6 or B10.MBR) skin grafts on allogeneic R101 and B10.AKM mice, respectively. This was specific, as control skin grafts from Kk (B10.BR) or Kd (DBA/2) donors, respectively, were rejected at the same time in both control and peptide-treated mice. The optimal doses for peptide 6, which is from the alpha 2 domain, were defined. The test system was the inhibition of proliferation in vitro of naive lymph node cells by syngeneic mitomycin c-treated spleen cells from R101 mice preimmunized with irradiated stimulator splenocytes of Kb (BL/6) origin. Down-regulation was specific, as proliferation in response to third-party allogeneic stimulator Kk (B10.BR) splenocytes was not inhibited. Of the six peptides of H-2Kb tested, potent down-regulatory cells were induced by peptides 2 (alpha 1 domain) and 5 and 6 (alpha 2 domain). The greatest down-regulatory activity was obtained by giving peptide 2 to mice that had already been immunized against H-2Kb by injecting EL4 cells. Under the same conditions, injecting peptide 2 did not induce any cytotoxic T cells. In contrast, specific cytotoxic lymphocytes (CTL) were induced when cells from primed mice were incubated for 4 days with heated stimulator cells from BL/6 mice. The data suggest that peptides from MHC class I molecules activate precursors of down-regulatory T cells, but not of CTL, and this may explain their ability to prolong skin allograft survival.

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1995

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