The Journal of Immunology, Vol 138, Issue 11 3654-3660, Copyright © 1987 by American Association of Immunologists

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Characterization of dual-reactive H-2Kb-restricted anti-vesicular stomatitus virus and alloreactive cytotoxic T cells

JM Sheil, MJ Bevan and L Lefrancois

Cross-reactive recognition of alloantigen by "self + X"-reactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) has been documented in a variety of systems. It has been shown previously that the H-2Kb-restricted CTL response of C57BL/6 (B6) mice to vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infection is partially cross-reactive on uninfected target cells expressing the H-2Kbm8 mutation. In this report, we describe the isolation and detailed characterization of such dual-reactive CTL. By employing EL4 tumor lines transfected with genes encoding various VSV proteins, we demonstrated that the majority of dual-reactive CTL recognize the internal N protein of VSV and are also reactive against uninfected bm8 targets. Although the response of normal B6 mice to bm8 stimulators shows no measurable cross-reactivity on VSV-infected targets, the response of VSV-primed B6 mice to bm8 stimulation is almost entirely cross-reactive, lysing VSV-B6 targets and uninfected bm8 targets roughly equally. Furthermore, about 70% of CTL clones isolated from such mice by bm8 stimulation are dual-reactive with respect to effector function. Analysis at the population and clonal levels with cold target competition and antibody blocking suggests that the bulk of dual-reactive CTL have a higher avidity for VSV-B6 targets than for bm8 targets. The extreme case of this is illustrated by a fraction of CTL clones, isolated and maintained on bm8 stimulators, which lyse VSV-B6 targets but do not lyse bm8 targets. One such CTL clone is shown to be specific for the bm8 antigen in proliferation assays. These results demonstrate that: the specificity of an alloreactive CTL response may be dramatically altered by previous antigenic encounters; and dual-reactive CTL display a significant difference in affinity of the CTL receptor-determinant interaction, depending on the target which is recognized.

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