Table 1.
Frequency of murine TcR Vβ alleles following stimulation of C3H/HeJ mice with Con A, SEB, SEB-MBP, nΔ81SEB-MBP, or cΔ19SEB-MBP. Results are expressed as the percentage of T cells co-expressing CD25 and the respective TcR Vβ allele, and are the means (±SEM) of four independent experiments.
| Mitogen | % of Total T cells | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vβ6 | Vβ8.1 | Vβ8.2 | Vβ8.3 | Vβ7 | |
| Con A | 9.3 ± 0.7 | 6.4 ± 1.0 | 20.6 ± 3.3 | 6.0 ± 0.4 | 10.7 ± 2.3 |
| SEB | 4.8 ± 1.6 | 11.0 ± 0.6 | 41.7 ± 4.0 | 20.9 ± 4.1 | 15.0 ± 1.2 |
| SEB-MBP | 3.9 ± 2.2 | 11.9 ± 0.6 | 42.8 ± 2.8 | 20.2 ± 4.3 | 14.6 ± 0.5 |
| nΔ81SEB-MBP | 3.0 ± 2.6 | 13.1 ± 0.9 | 44.4 ± 3.9 | 23.5 ± 3.8 | 16.1 ± 2.4 |
| cΔ19SEB-MBP | 3.9 ± 2.9 | 13.9 ± 0.8 | 49.5 ± 9.3 | 22.4 ± 3.7 | 17.0 ± 2.1 |