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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-12-16
pubmed:abstractText
In a murine model of T cell-mediated autoimmune disease, experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE), 80% of all encephalitogenic T cell clones in H-2u mice use the V beta 8.2 TCR element. To induce EAE in susceptible strains of mice either heat-killed Bordetella pertussis organisms or Bordetella pertussis toxin (PT) must be injected in addition to Ag in CFA. We investigated the mechanisms by which PT facilitates the induction of EAE. Our data show, that PT interferes with the induction of Ag-induced peripheral T cell anergy. Furthermore it has a specific adjuvanticity for the autoantigen pAc1-11 in vivo and acts as a selective mitogen in vitro. We also tested the hypothesis that PT is a bacterial superantigen that specifically expands the V beta 8.2+ subset of T cells, thereby expanding the encephalitogenic T cell clones that are contained in this subset, so that the number of autoreactive T cells is brought over a critical threshold, necessary to induce autoimmune disease. Our data show that PT is not a superantigen. Staphylococcal enterotoxin B, a V beta 8.2-specific superantigen, does not enhance the immune response to the encephalitogenic peptide.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Adjuvants, Immunologic, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antigens, Bacterial, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Concanavalin A, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enterotoxins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Interleukin-2, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Myelin Basic Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Myoglobin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Pertussis Toxin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Virulence Factors, Bordetella, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/enterotoxin B, staphylococcal
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
147
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3296-302
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Adjuvants, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Antigens, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Concanavalin A, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Enterotoxins, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Immune Tolerance, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Interleukin-2, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Mice, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Myelin Basic Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Myoglobin, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Pertussis Toxin, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:1719074-Virulence Factors, Bordetella
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Pertussis toxin prevents the induction of peripheral T cell anergy and enhances the T cell response to an encephalitogenic peptide of myelin basic protein.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't