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标题：Class I MHC molecules on hematopoietic cells can support intrathymic positive selection of T cell receptor transgenic T cells
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作者：Jens Zerrahn ; Ariane Volkmann ; Mark C. Coles 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1999
卷号：96
期号：20
页码：11470-11475
DOI：10.1073/pnas.96.20.11470
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：The identity of cells that mediate positive selection of CD8+ T cells was investigated in two T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic systems. Irradiated {beta}2-microglobulin mutant mice or mice with mutations in both the Kb and Db genes were repopulated with fetal liver cells from class I+ TCR transgenic mice. In the case of the 2C TCR, mature transgene-expressing CD8+ T cells appeared in the thymuses of the chimeras and in larger numbers in the peripheral lymphoid organs. These CD8+ T cells were functional, exhibited a naive, resting phenotype, and were mostly thymus-dependent. Their development depended on donor cell class I expression. These results establish that thymic hematopoietic cells can direct positive selection of CD8+ T cells expressing a conventional TCR. In contrast, no significant development of HY (male antigen)-TCR+ CD8+ T cells was observed in class I+ into class I-deficient chimeras. These data suggest that successful positive selection directed by hematopoietic cells depends on specific properties of the TCR or its thymic ligands. The possibility that hematopoietic cell-induced, positive selection occurs only with TCRs that exhibit relatively high avidity interactions with selecting ligands in the thymus is discussed.