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. 1989 May;86(10):3758–3762. doi: 10.1073/pnas.86.10.3758

Specific inhibition of cell-surface T-cell receptor expression by antisense oligodeoxynucleotides and its effect on the production of an antigen-specific regulatory T-cell factor.

H Zheng 1, B M Sahai 1, P Kilgannon 1, A Fotedar 1, D R Green 1
PMCID: PMC287219  PMID: 2524832

Abstract

We have used antisense oligodeoxynucleotides corresponding to genes encoding the variable (V) region of the T-cell receptor (TCR) alpha and beta chains (V alpha and V beta) to control TCR expression in T-cell hybridomas. Two hybridomas, A1.1 and B1.1, recognize a synthetic polypeptide antigen designated poly 18 (poly[Glu-Tyr-Lys-(Glu-Tyr-Ala)5]) together with I-Ad. We have found that TCR function (production of lymphokines in response to antigen) and T3 expression were removed after protease treatment of the cells and were fully recovered 48 hr later. However, when antisense oligodeoxynucleotides corresponding to the appropriate TCR V genes were present after protease treatment, little or no recovery of TCR function or T3 expression was observed. This effect was specific for the TCR V genes utilized by the T cell: antisense oligodeoxynucleotides corresponding to the TCR V regions of A1.1 had no effect on TCR expression in B1.1 and vice versa. Thus, antisense oligodeoxynucleotides can be used to temporarily block expression of a TCR gene in a T-cell hybridoma. This technique was then applied to a paradoxical phenomenon in A1.1 cells. We had observed previously that A1.1 releases an antigen-specific immunoregulatory activity that shows the same antigenic fine specificity as is displayed by the TCR of A1.1. We now report that antisense oligodeoxynucleotides corresponding to the A1.1 V alpha gene blocked the production of this soluble antigen-specific activity by the cell. Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides corresponding to A1.1 V beta, on the other hand, had no effect on the production of this antigen-specific activity. We discuss these observations in the context of recent findings on the nature of T cell-derived antigen-specific regulatory factors.

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