Wang R, Nelson A, Kimachi K, Grey H M, Farr A G
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Division of Immunochemistry, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Mar 31;95(7):3804-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.7.3804.
A thymic epithelial cell line transfected with I-Ek was used in reaggregate cultures to study the role of peptides in positive selection of T cell receptor transgenic thymocytes. In this system, positive selection of CD4 SP cells occurred only after the addition of exogenous peptide. Analysis of antigen analogs indicated an inverse relationship between the antigenicity for peripheral T cells and the concentration of peptide required for positive selection. These data are most consistent with an avidity (rather than an affinity) model of positive selection, in which ligand density and the affinity of T cell receptor act in concert to determine the fate of developing thymocytes.
用转染了I-Ek的胸腺上皮细胞系进行重聚集培养,以研究肽在T细胞受体转基因胸腺细胞阳性选择中的作用。在该系统中,只有添加外源性肽后才会发生CD4单阳性细胞的阳性选择。对抗原类似物的分析表明,外周T细胞的抗原性与阳性选择所需的肽浓度之间呈反比关系。这些数据与阳性选择的亲和力(而非亲和力)模型最为一致,在该模型中,配体密度和T细胞受体的亲和力共同作用以决定发育中胸腺细胞的命运。