Bone marrow cell transplants involving intra-H-2 recombinant inbred mouse strains. Evidence that hemopoietic histocompatibility-1 (Hh-1) genes are distinct from H-2D or H-2L.

Hemopoietic histocompatibility (Hh) Ag are noncodominantly expressed on bone marrow stem cells and other normal and neoplastic cells of hemopoietic origin. H-2/Hh-1 allogeneic or parental-strain bone marrow grafts are eliminated in a determinant specific manner by NK cells. In inbred mouse strains, seven Hh-1 alleles representing combinations of five different Hh-1 antigenic determinants are described. Each Hh-1 allele maps in the vicinity of H-2D, and the genes that map to Hh-1 are transacting regulatory genes. The expression of a particular determinant depends on the absence of the regulatory gene and the presence of the appropriate structural gene. The primary focus of this study is to ascertain whether the Hh-1 phenotype and the serologic H-2DL typing are always correlated or whether recombinant can separate the two. To achieve this, we used a panel of irradiated hosts that are able to recognize the different Hh-1 determinants on the bone marrow cells of congenic intra-H-2 recombinant donors. We report: 1) the majority of strains show a correlation between Hh-1 and H-2DL: 2) B10.RQDB and B10.WB strains dissociate Hh-1 from Lb: 3) nine H-2S/D interval recombinant strains exhibit no correlation between the H-2DL type and Hh-1 phenotype; and 4) in two strains from this group, B10.D2 (R106) and B10.RSF5, H-2S/D crossovers occurred within Hh-1r, (Hh-1 regulatory). We conclude that Hh-1r is a distinct regulatory locus mapping telomeric of H-2S and centromeric of, although probably closer to, H-2D.