USE OF MULTIVALENT CHIMERIC PEPTIDE-LOADED, MHC/IG MOLECULES TO DETECT, ACTIVATE OR SUPPRESS ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELL-DEPENDENT IMMUNE RESPONSES

To increase the effective affinity of soluble analogs of peptide/MHC molecules for their cognate ligands, divalent peptide/MHC complexes were constructed. Using a recombinant DNA strategy, DNA encoding the MHC class I was ligated to DNA coding for murine Ig heavy chain. MHC/Ig complexes were exploit...

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Hauptverfasser: O'HERRIN, SEAN M, GRETEN, TIM, PARDOLLEW, SCHNECK, JONATHAN, SLANSKY, JILL
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Zusammenfassung:To increase the effective affinity of soluble analogs of peptide/MHC molecules for their cognate ligands, divalent peptide/MHC complexes were constructed. Using a recombinant DNA strategy, DNA encoding the MHC class I was ligated to DNA coding for murine Ig heavy chain. MHC/Ig complexes were exploited to homogeneously load with peptides of interest. The results of flow cytometry demonstrated that the pepMHC/Ig complexes bound specifically with high affinity to cells bearing their cognate receptors. pepMHC/Ig complexes are also useful in modulating effector functions of antigen-specific T cells. These pepMHC/Ig complexes are useful for studying TCR/MHC interactions and lymphocyte tracking and have uses as specific regulators of immune responses.