scholarly journals MHC Class I Bound to an Immunodominant Theileria parva Epitope Demonstrates Unconventional Presentation to T Cell Receptors

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. e1001149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel K. Macdonald ◽  
Maria Harkiolaki ◽  
Lawrence Hunt ◽  
Timothy Connelley ◽  
A. Victoria Carroll ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 432 (24) ◽  
pp. 166697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanan He ◽  
Pragati Agnihotri ◽  
Sneha Rangarajan ◽  
Yihong Chen ◽  
Melissa C. Kerzic ◽  
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Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 119 (15) ◽  
pp. 3373-3374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence L. Geiger

In this issue of Blood, Plesa et al demonstrate that human Foxp3+ regulatory T cells can be redirected using MHC class I–restricted T-cell receptors (TCRs), showing a surprising lack of correlation of TCR affinity and their suppressive potency.1


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Gambón-Deza

AbstractCetaceans correspond to mammals that have returned to the marine environment. Adaptive changes are very significant with the conversion of the limbs into flippers. It is studied the changes that have occurred in immunoglobulins, MHC class I and II and T cell receptors genes. Constant regions of immunoglobulins are similar to those of the rest of mammals. An exception is the IgD gene, which is composed of three CH domains but CH1 similar to CH1 of immunoglobulin M. In the IGHV locus, it exist a decrease in the number of VH genes with the absence of genes within Clan I. The number of Vλ genes is greater than that of Vκ. In the genes for T lymphocyte receptors, it exists a decrease in the number of Vα genes with loss of significant clades and subclades. In Vβ and Vγ, there is also the loss of clades. These declines of Vα, Vβ and Vγ are not present Artiodactyla, and they are specific to Cetaceans. In MHC present tree evolutive lines of class I genes. These species have DQ, DR, DO and DM genes, but they are no present DP genes.


1995 ◽  
Vol 160 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Imarai ◽  
Earl C. Goyarts ◽  
Grada M. Van Bleek ◽  
Stanley G. Nathenson

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 717-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zakia Djaoud ◽  
Peter Parham

In all human cells, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I glycoproteins assemble with a peptide and take it to the cell surface for surveillance by lymphocytes. These include natural killer (NK) cells and γδ T cells of innate immunity and αβ T cells of adaptive immunity. In healthy cells, the presented peptides derive from human proteins, to which lymphocytes are tolerant. In pathogen-infected cells, HLA class I expression is perturbed. Reduced HLA class I expression is detected by KIR and CD94:NKG2A receptors of NK cells. Almost any change in peptide presentation can be detected by αβ CD8+ T cells. In responding to extracellular pathogens, HLA class II glycoproteins, expressed by specialized antigen-presenting cells, present peptides to αβ CD4+ T cells. In comparison to the families of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I, MHC class II and αβ T cell receptors, the antigenic specificity of the γδ T cell receptors is incompletely understood.


1992 ◽  
Vol 176 (3) ◽  
pp. 903-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Crompton ◽  
H Pircher ◽  
H R MacDonald

During thymus development CD4+ CD8+ precursor cells differentiate into mature CD4+ and CD8+ T cells expressing T cell receptors (TCR) that recognize foreign antigens in association with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II or I molecules, respectively. Studies with TCR transgenic mice have shown that the accumulation of mature CD4+ and CD8+ thymocytes is strongly skewed by the MHC restriction specificity of the TCR, thus suggesting that commitment of CD4+ CD8+ precursors to the CD4 or CD8 lineage is a direct consequence of TCR/MHC interactions. However, we show here that CD4+ cells expressing an inappropriate (MHC class I-specific) TCR appear transiently in the neonatal thymus of TCR transgenic mice and can also be found in the periphery of adult TCR transgenic recombination-deficient SCID mice. These data argue that the early stages of CD4 and CD8 lineage development in the thymus are (at least in part) controlled by homeostatic mechanisms independent of appropriate TCR/MHC interactions.


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