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. 1988 Jun;81(6):1810–1818. doi: 10.1172/JCI113524

T cell receptor beta chain gene rearrangement shared by murine T cell lines derived from a site of autoimmune inflammation.

S J Padula 1, D C Sgroi 1, E G Lingenheld 1, J T Love Jr 1, C H Chou 1, R B Clark 1
PMCID: PMC442629  PMID: 2454949

Abstract

Advances in our understanding of the structure and molecular biology of the T lymphocyte antigen-receptor have now made it feasible to study human autoimmune diseases using new approaches. One such approach involves cloning of T cells from sites of autoimmune pathology followed by identification of putative disease-related T cell oligoclonality at the level of the T cell receptor gene rearrangements. We have now tested the feasibility of this approach in an animal model of autoimmunity, murine experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). Spinal cord-derived, self (murine) myelin basic protein (MBP)-reactive T cell lines and sublines were analyzed at the level of their receptor beta chain rearrangements using Southern blots. We now report that the MBP-reactive T cell lines and sublines derived from the spinal cords of four of five SJL/J mice with EAE share a 14.5-kb rearranged T cell receptor beta 1 band on Southern blots. A spinal cord-derived T cell line that was reactive to purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD), several lymph node-derived ovalbumin- and PPD-reactive T cell lines, as well as one MBP-reactive spinal cord-derived T cell line did not share this 14.5-kb rearranged beta 1 band. These results suggest that analysis of the antigen receptors used by T cells cloned from sites of inflammation may be a useful initial approach for identifying pathogenetically relevant T cells in the study of certain human autoimmune diseases.

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