Title

Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Escape Variants, Induced Mutations, and Synthetic Peptides Define a Dominant H-2KB-Restricted Determinant in Simian Virus 40 Tumor Antigen

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Article

Publication Date

1995

Abstract

Immunization of C57BL/6 mice with syngeneic cells transformed by simian virus 40 large T antigen (SV40 T ag) induces the generation of T antigen- specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) which are restricted by the major histocompatibility class I antigens H-2Db and H-2Kb. Previous studies have shown that the H-2Db-restricted CTL response is directed to at least three distinct epitopes (I, II/III, and V) in the SV40 T antigen which have been precisely mapped using deletion mutagenesis and overlapping synthetic peptides. Although in vivo the CTL response to SV40 T antigen is dominated by the H-2Kb class I antigen, the precise location of the H-2Kb-restricted epitope(s) was not known, and whether there was multiplicity of H-2Kb- restricted epitopes remained unclear. In this study, we have defined the minimal recognition epitope for the SV40-specific H-2Kb-restricted CTL clone Y-4 as T antigen residues 404-411 by using T antigen deletion and point mutants and synthetic peptides. DNA sequence analysis of the region encoding residues 404-411 from the T antigens expressed in three independently isolated CTL clone Y-4 escape variants identified inactivating mutations capable of abrogating CTL recognition. Estimation of CTL precursor (CTLp) frequencies by limiting dilution analysis revealed that CTLp specific for epitope IV represent a large percentage of the total CTL response elicited by the intact T antigen in H-2b mice. Immunization of B6 mice with cells expressing a T antigen derivative deleted of residues 404-411 revealed that site IV represents the only immunodominant H-2Kb-restricted epitope within T antigen. © 1995 Academic Press, Inc.

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Mylin, L. M., Deckhut, A. M., Bonneau, R. H., Kierstead, T. D., Tevethia, M. J., Simmons, D. T., & Tevethia, S. S. (1995). Cytotoxic t lymphocyte escape variants, induced mutations, and synthetic peptides define a dominant h-2kb-restricted determinant in simian virus 40 tumor antigen. Virology, 208(1), 159–172. https://doi.org/10.1006/viro.1995.1139

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