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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-8-5
pubmed:abstractText
We have investigated the level of TCR occupancy required to elicit different biological responses in human CTL clones specific for an influenza matrix peptide. Specific cytotoxicity could be detected at extremely low peptide concentrations (10(-12) to 10(-15) M). However, IFN-gamma production, responsiveness to IL-2 and Ca++ fluxes were observed only at peptide concentrations > 10(-9) M, while autonomous proliferation required even higher peptide concentrations. In parallel experiments we measured TCR downregulation to estimate the number of TCRs triggered. We observed that at low peptide concentrations, where only cytotoxicity is triggered, TCR downregulation was hardly detectable. Conversely, induction of IFN-gamma production and proliferation required triggering of at least 20-50% of TCRs. Taken together these results indicate that a single CTL can graduate different biological responses as a function of antigen concentration and that killing of the specific target does not necessarily result in full activation.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-1007
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
183
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1917-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Different responses are elicited in cytotoxic T lymphocytes by different levels of T cell receptor occupancy.
pubmed:affiliation
Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't