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Tcr binding kinetics measured with mhc class i tetramers reveal a positive selecting peptide with relatively high affinity for tcr

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authors

  • Holmberg, K.
  • Mariathasan, S.
  • Ohteki, T.
  • Ohashi, P. S.
  • Gascoigne, Nicholas

publication date

  • September 2003

journal

  • Journal of Immunology  Journal

abstract

  • The interaction between TCR and peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is crucial for the activation of T cells as well as for positive and negative selection in the thymus. The kinetics and affinity of this interaction and the densities of TCR and pMHC complexes on the cell surface are determining factors for different outcomes during thymic selection. In general, it is thought that agonist pMHC, which cause negative selection, have higher affinities and, in particular, slower off-rates than partial or weak agonists and antagonists, which cause positive selection. In this study, we have used pMHC tetramers to investigate the kinetics of TCR-pMHC interaction for agonist, weak agonist, and antagonist ligands of the anti-lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus P14 TCR. Kinetics determined on the cell surface may be biologically more relevant than methods using soluble proteins. We can distinguish between agonists and weak agonists or antagonists based on the half-life and the avidity of tetramer-TCR interaction. Furthermore, we show that a weak agonist self-peptide that positively selects P14 TCR(+) thymocytes has a tetramer half-life and avidity only slightly weaker than strong agonists. We show that, in fact, it can act as quite a strong agonist, but that its poor ability to stabilize MHC causes it instead to have a weak agonist phenotype.

subject areas

  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Animals
  • Antigen Presentation
  • Binding, Competitive
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Membrane
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
  • Down-Regulation
  • Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte
  • H-2 Antigens
  • Half-Life
  • Histocompatibility Antigen H-2D
  • Kinetics
  • Lymphocyte Activation
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Oligopeptides
  • Protein Binding
  • Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
  • T-Lymphocytes
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-1767

PubMed ID

  • 12928390
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 2427

end page

  • 2434

volume

  • 171

issue

  • 5

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