Affiliation:
1. Unité d’Immunité Cellulaire Antivirale, Département SIDA-Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Abstract
AbstractHomozygous HLA-A2.1 transgenic H-2Kb°Db° double knockout (KO) mice were created. Their potential to develop HLA-A2.1-restricted cytolytic responses was compared with that of their classical transgenic counterparts, which still express H-2Kb, Db molecules. On cell surfaces, both strains express similar amounts of chimeric (α1α2 domains of human, α3 cytoplasmic domains of mouse) HLA-A2.1 molecules in noncovalent association with mouse β2-microglobulin. Compared with mice that are totally deprived of histocompatibility class Ia molecules (H-2Kb°Db° double KO), the expression of HLA-A2.1 in transgenic/double KO mice resulted in sizeable increase in the periphery of CD8+ T cells with a normally diversified TCR repertoire. A biased education in favor of HLA-A2.1, ascribable to the absence of H-2 class Ia molecules, was evidenced in these transgenic/double KO mice by their improved capacity to mount HLA-restricted cytolytic responses, regardless of whether they were virally infected or injected with synthetic epitopic peptide. HLA class I transgenic, H-2 class Ia KO mice should represent useful animal models for the preclinical evaluation of vaccine formulations aiming at the induction of HLA class I-restricted CTL responses.
Publisher
The American Association of Immunologists
Subject
Immunology,Immunology and Allergy
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