TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural requirements for peptides that stimulate a subset of γδ T cells
AU - Fu, Yang Xin
AU - Vollmer, Michaelann
AU - Kalataradi, Harshan
AU - Heyborne, Kent
AU - Reardon, Christopher
AU - Miles, Craig
AU - O'Brien, Rebecca
AU - Born, Willi
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1994/2/15
Y1 - 1994/2/15
N2 - Hybridomas representing the Vγ1-positive subset of murine γδ T cells secrete lymphokines in response to synthetic peptides representing a short segment of the mycobacterial 60-kDa heat shock protein (HSP-60). Here we show the TCR dependency of this response by transfection of productively rearranged TCR genes derived from an HSP-60 reactive γδ T cell hybridoma. We also have defined structural requirements for the stimulatory peptide. The smallest HSP-60 peptide capable of stimulating these hybridomas is seven amino acids long, representing positions 181-187, and having the sequence FGLQLEL. Amino acid-substituted derivatives of this peptide, and another containing the same core, p180-190, revealed amino acids essential for stimulatory activity. Phenylalanine in position 181 and leucine in position 183 seem to be required for stimulation of all HSP-60 reactive cells, whereas others are only required by some. Clonal differences in the responses to these peptides provide indirect evidence for cognate TCR-peptide interactions. The smallest stimulatory peptide, p181-187, represents an area not well conserved among HSP-60 molecules of other species, and stimulates a mycobacteria-specific response unlike the earlier observed cross-reactive responses of the same hybridomas with longer HSP-60 peptides derived from mycobacteria and other species (our manuscript in preparation). We propose that the TCR-dependent multiclonal γδ T cell response to HSP-60 peptides and derivatives, which in some ways resembles superantigen responses and in other ways resembles responses to conventional Ag, may be a separate, third type of Ag response by T cells.
AB - Hybridomas representing the Vγ1-positive subset of murine γδ T cells secrete lymphokines in response to synthetic peptides representing a short segment of the mycobacterial 60-kDa heat shock protein (HSP-60). Here we show the TCR dependency of this response by transfection of productively rearranged TCR genes derived from an HSP-60 reactive γδ T cell hybridoma. We also have defined structural requirements for the stimulatory peptide. The smallest HSP-60 peptide capable of stimulating these hybridomas is seven amino acids long, representing positions 181-187, and having the sequence FGLQLEL. Amino acid-substituted derivatives of this peptide, and another containing the same core, p180-190, revealed amino acids essential for stimulatory activity. Phenylalanine in position 181 and leucine in position 183 seem to be required for stimulation of all HSP-60 reactive cells, whereas others are only required by some. Clonal differences in the responses to these peptides provide indirect evidence for cognate TCR-peptide interactions. The smallest stimulatory peptide, p181-187, represents an area not well conserved among HSP-60 molecules of other species, and stimulates a mycobacteria-specific response unlike the earlier observed cross-reactive responses of the same hybridomas with longer HSP-60 peptides derived from mycobacteria and other species (our manuscript in preparation). We propose that the TCR-dependent multiclonal γδ T cell response to HSP-60 peptides and derivatives, which in some ways resembles superantigen responses and in other ways resembles responses to conventional Ag, may be a separate, third type of Ag response by T cells.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 8120371
AN - SCOPUS:0028328757
SN - 0022-1767
VL - 152
SP - 1578
EP - 1588
JO - Journal of Immunology
JF - Journal of Immunology
IS - 4
ER -