scholarly journals T-Cell Receptor Vα Usage by Effector CD4+Vβ11+ T Cells Mediating Graft-versus-Host Disease Directed to Minor Histocompatibility Antigens

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine G. DiRienzo ◽  
George F. Murphy ◽  
Thea M. Friedman ◽  
Robert Korngold

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bimalangshu Dey ◽  
Yong-Guang Yang ◽  
Frederic Preffer ◽  
Akira Shimizu ◽  
Kirsten Swenson ◽  
...  


2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 1306-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junichi Sugita ◽  
Noriaki Iwao ◽  
Junji Tanaka ◽  
Naoko Kato ◽  
Souichi Shiratori ◽  
...  


Blood ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 87 (7) ◽  
pp. 3032-3044 ◽  
Author(s):  
X Liu ◽  
V Chesnokova ◽  
SJ Forman ◽  
DJ Diamond

We have analyzed the T-cell receptor (TCR) V beta repertoire using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a cohort of eight patients receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from related and unrelated donors at the City of Hope. Results of PCR studies from graft-versus- host disease (GVHD) skin lesions show a bias in the usage of TCR V beta families, whereas examination of peripheral blood (PB) withdrawn at the same time did not reveal a similar phenomenon. In one such family, TCR V beta 2 is predominantly expressed in 7 of 7 biopsy specimens examined. V beta 2 TCR expression from these patients was analyzed more extensively using a combination of individual TCR gene cloning, followed by sequence analysis. We found evidence of oligoclonal expansion of single V beta 2-bearing TCRs in GVHD lesions, and in the PB of some patients after diagnosis of GVHD. In contrast, GVHD-negative biopsy samples showed no evidence for clonotypic TCR amplification. Sequence-specific TCR CDR3 region probes were derived from analysis of the predominant expressed TCR in GVHD lesions, and used to probe Southern blots of amplified V beta 2 TCR mRNA from PB and tissue from BMT recipients and their respective donors. In most cases the probes are highly specific in detecting TCR expression from GVHD lesions alone, although in several instances expression could be detected in PB after GVHD diagnosis. These data provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis that acute GVHD is associated with expansion of T-cell clones expressing antigen-specific TCRs that may contribute to the disease pathology.



1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich W. Beelen ◽  
Hans Grosse-Wilde ◽  
Ursula Ryschka ◽  
Klaus Quabeck ◽  
Herbert G. Sayer ◽  
...  


1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1167-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATSUO YAMANAKA ◽  
WILLIAM W. KWOK ◽  
ERIC M. MICKELSON ◽  
SUSAN MASEWICZ ◽  
FRANK SMITH ◽  
...  


Transfusion ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1184-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Wang ◽  
K Tadokoro ◽  
K Tokunaga ◽  
S Uchida ◽  
S Moriyama ◽  
...  


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