PMID- 2445816 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19880112 LR - 20191210 IS - 0022-1767 (Print) IS - 0022-1767 (Linking) VI - 139 IP - 11 DP - 1987 Dec 1 TI - The ability of cytotoxic T cells to recognize HLA-A2.1 or HLA-B7 antigens expressed on murine cells correlates with their epitope specificity. PG - 3614-21 AB - Two groups of human and murine cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) clones specific for human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2 or -B7 can be distinguished based on their ability to kill murine transfectants expressing these molecules. The clones which do not recognize murine transfectants exhibited greatly reduced conjugate formation with these cells, indicating that the inability to lyse these cells occurs in recognition and binding. No systematic differences in inhibitory titer between the two types of CTL clones were seen with anti-CD8 (Lyt-2), anti-LFA-1, or monoclonal antibodies against HLA class I molecules. However, blocking with anti-HLA class I monoclonal antibodies suggested that different CTL clones recognized spatially separate epitopes on HLA-A2 and -B7. In addition, a correlation between the inability to recognize murine transfectants and fine specificity was seen. Eight of nine clones which did not lyse murine transfectants also failed to recognize human cells expressing HLA-A2.2 or -A2.3. In contrast only 5 of 12 clones which lysed transfectants failed to recognize the variant molecules. Analogous data were obtained with human CTL clones raised against HLA-A2.1. These findings suggest that CTL clones that do not lyse murine cells expressing appropriate antigens recognize epitopes that have been altered or lost as a consequence of expression on the murine cell surface. It is suggested that the loss of HLA-associated epitopes on the murine cell surface may be due to differences between mouse and human cells in the processing or presentation of class I-associated peptides. FAU - Bernhard, E J AU - Bernhard EJ AD - Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908. FAU - Le, A X AU - Le AX FAU - Yannelli, J R AU - Yannelli JR FAU - Holterman, M J AU - Holterman MJ FAU - Hogan, K T AU - Hogan KT FAU - Parham, P AU - Parham P FAU - Engelhard, V H AU - Engelhard VH LA - eng GR - AI20963/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - AI21393/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - CA00835/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - etc. PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Immunol JT - Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) JID - 2985117R RN - 0 (Epitopes) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-A2 Antigen) RN - 0 (HLA-B27 Antigen) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - 0 (beta 2-Microglobulin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Clone Cells/immunology MH - Epitopes/immunology MH - HLA Antigens/*immunology MH - HLA-A2 Antigen MH - HLA-B27 Antigen MH - L Cells/immunology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL/immunology MH - Recombinant Proteins/immunology MH - T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology MH - Transfection MH - beta 2-Microglobulin/immunology EDAT- 1987/12/01 00:00 MHDA- 1987/12/01 00:01 CRDT- 1987/12/01 00:00 PHST- 1987/12/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1987/12/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1987/12/01 00:00 [entrez] PST - ppublish SO - J Immunol. 1987 Dec 1;139(11):3614-21.