Linsley P S, Peach R, Gladstone P, Bajorath J
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98121.
Protein Sci. 1994 Aug;3(8):1341-3. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560030820.
B7-1 and B7-2 are members of the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) and important regulators of T cell-mediated immune responses. Despite sharing only limited sequence identity, B7-1 and B7-2 bind common receptors, CD28 and CTLA-4, on T cells and have similar functional properties. We have found that the extracellular V (ariable)-like domains of B7-1 and B7-2 share significant sequence similarities with 3 major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded members of the IgSF: butyrophilin, myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein, and the chicken MHC molecule, B-G. This raises the question whether there is an evolutionary link between the MHC, which encodes molecules regulating the antigen specificity of T lymphocyte responses, and B7 molecules, which co-stimulate these responses in antigen-nonspecific fashion.
B7-1和B7-2是免疫球蛋白超家族(IgSF)的成员,也是T细胞介导的免疫反应的重要调节因子。尽管B7-1和B7-2仅具有有限的序列同一性,但它们能结合T细胞上的共同受体CD28和CTLA-4,并具有相似的功能特性。我们发现,B7-1和B7-2的细胞外类可变(V)结构域与免疫球蛋白超家族的3个主要组织相容性复合体(MHC)编码成员具有显著的序列相似性:嗜乳脂蛋白、髓磷脂/少突胶质细胞糖蛋白以及鸡的MHC分子B-G。这就提出了一个问题,即编码调节T淋巴细胞反应抗原特异性分子的MHC与以抗原非特异性方式共刺激这些反应的B7分子之间是否存在进化联系。