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We have characterized a cytolytic T-cell clone, isolated from a A.TH anti-A.TL mixed lymphocyte culture, which recognized a private determinant of the I-Ak molecule. This specificity has been confirmed by inhibition of effector-target cell interaction by anti-I-Ak monoclonal antibody (mAb). Comparison of the inhibitory capacity of various mAb and the spatial arrangement of their epitopes (defined in previous studies by antibody-binding competition) indicated that the antigenic site recognized by this cytolytic T-cell clone was topologically related to one of the major polymorphic domains of the Ak molecule. This clone expressed the Thy-1.2+, Lyt-1.+, Lyt-1.2+low and I-As- cell surface phenotype. Testing of several rat mAb, screened for their ability to inhibit H-2K/D-specific cytolysis at the level of the effector cells, revealed that two anti-p94, 180 mAb but not various anti-Lyt-2 mAb inhibited the lytic function of this anti-I-Ak T-cell clone.
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PMID:Characterization of an Lyt-1+ cytolytic T-cell clone specific for a polymorphic domain of the I-Ak molecule. 618 58

The allospecific T cell recognition of the I-Ek molecule was assessed by using eight A. TH anti-A. TL proliferative T cell clones, all of which expressed the Thy-1-2+, Lyt-1+, Lyt-2-, Ia-, and p94,180+ cell surface phenotype. The use of panels of stimulating cells from homozygous of F1 hybrid strains indicated each T cell clone exhibited specificity for distinct alloactivating determinants including: i) a private E beta k-controlled determinant expressed in cis- or trans-complementing E beta kE alpha strains; ii) an apparently nonpolymorphic E alpha determinant resembling the serologic specificity Ia.7, i.e., present in all strains carrying E alpha and E beta expressor alleles; and iii) a series of conformational I-E determinants, the expression of which required a precisely defined combinatorial association of E beta plus E alpha chains. Two clones were found to be reactivated by cis- but not trans-complementing E beta k E alpha k strains, and another recognized an allodeterminant shared by the I-Ab molecule. Various I-Ek-reactive monoclonal antibodies (mAb) directed to epitopes presumably expressed on either E alpha (epitope clusters I and II) or E beta (epitope cluster III) chains inhibited the proliferative responses of seven clones recognizing private E beta k or unique E beta E alpha conformational activating determinants. By contrast, the restimulation of the clone directed to a nonpolymorphic E alpha determinant was selectively blocked by anti-Ia.7 mAb defining epitopes on the E alpha chains but not by those directed to the E beta chain. On the basis of these data, it was concluded that the recognition sites of most anti-I-Ek proliferative T cells were expressed on the E beta chain or the E beta plus E alpha interaction products, and that a minority of such alloreactive T cells could be activated through recognition of the E alpha chain per se.
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PMID:Clonal analysis of B and T cell responses to Ia antigens. IV. Proliferative T cell clones recognizing E beta and/or E alpha allodeterminants. 618 75