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. 1991 Oct 15;88(20):9243–9247. doi: 10.1073/pnas.88.20.9243

Suppression of H-2b-associated resistance to Friend erythroleukemia virus by a class I gene from the H-2d major histocompatibility complex haplotype.

D Polsky 1, F Lilly 1
PMCID: PMC52690  PMID: 1924388

Abstract

Mice homozygous for the H-2d haplotype at the major histocompatibility complex are markedly more susceptible to erythroleukemia induction by the Friend isolate of murine leukemia retrovirus (FV) than are congenic mice homozygous for the H-2b haplotype. The resistance conferred by the H-2b haplotype is recessive in this cross, since heterozygous F1 mice are as susceptible as parental strain H-2d homozygotes. However, H-2b-associated resistance is not an intrinsically recessive trait, since H-2b/H-2dm1 heterozygotes resemble H-2b homozygotes in their relative resistance to FV; the mutant H-2dm1 haplotype lacks the entire D region of the parental haplotype except for a single class I gene formed by the fusion of its terminal D-region genes to produce a class I gene differing from both parental genes, and thus this finding indicates that one or more D-region genes of the H-2d haplotype can actively suppress H-2b-associated resistance. Unlike H-2dm1, the mutant H-2dm2 haplotype, which retains only the class IDd gene in the D region of the H-2d haplotype, strongly suppresses resistance in H-2b/H-2dm2 heterozygotes, and the presence of Dd as a transgene significantly reduces the resistance of H-2b homozygotes. Since H-2b-associated resistance to FV appears to be due mainly to the capacity of Lb (also called Db), the only class I molecule encoded in the D region of the H-2b haplotype, to present viral epitopes for recognition by FV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes, suppression of resistance to FV by the Dd molecule implies that the presence of one class I molecule of the major histocompatibility complex can interfere with either the presentation of viral epitopes by another class I molecule or the generation of T cells that recognize viral epitopes so presented.

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