Davodeau F, Peyrat M A, Romagné F, Necker A, Hallet M M, Vié H, Bonneville M
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U211, Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France.
J Exp Med. 1995 Apr 1;181(4):1391-8. doi: 10.1084/jem.181.4.1391.
Allelic exclusion of lymphocyte antigen receptor chains has been hypothesized as a mechanism developed by the immune system to ensure efficient lymphocyte repertoire selection and tight control of lymphocyte specificity. It was effectively shown to be operative for both the immunoglobulin (Ig) and the T cell receptor (TCR) beta chain genes. Our present observations suggest that close to 1% of human T lymphocytes escape this allelic control, and express two surface TCR beta chains with distinct superantigenic reactivities. Since this high frequency of dual beta chain expressors did not result in any dramatic immune dysregulations, these results question the need for a mechanism ensuring clonal monospecificity through allelic exclusion.
淋巴细胞抗原受体链的等位基因排斥被假定为免疫系统发展出的一种机制,以确保有效的淋巴细胞库选择和对淋巴细胞特异性的严格控制。现已有效证明其对免疫球蛋白(Ig)和T细胞受体(TCR)β链基因均起作用。我们目前的观察结果表明,近1%的人类T淋巴细胞逃避了这种等位基因控制,并表达了两条具有不同超抗原反应性的表面TCRβ链。由于双β链表达细胞的这种高频率并未导致任何明显的免疫失调,这些结果对通过等位基因排斥确保克隆单特异性机制的必要性提出了质疑。