| Literature DB >> 9005856 |
N Nakano1, R Rooke, C Benoist, D Mathis.
Abstract
The relation between an antigenic peptide that can stimulate a mature T cell and the natural peptide that promoted selection of this cell in the thymus is still unknown. An experimental system was devised to address this issue in vivo-mice expressing neopeptides in thymic stromal cells after adenovirus-mediated delivery of invariant chain-peptide fusion proteins. In this system, selection of T cells capable of responding to a given antigenic peptide could be promoted by the peptide itself, by closely related analogs lacking agonist and antagonist activity, or by ostensibly unrelated peptides. However, the precise repertoire of T cells selected was dictated by the particular neopeptide expressed.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9005856 DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5300.678
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728