Identification of an immunodominant type‐II collagen peptide recognized by T cells in H‐2^q mice: self tolerance at the level of determinant selection

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The T cell recognition of type-II collagen (CII) in H-2q mice, susceptible to CII-induced arthritis, was analyzed. With the use of T cell hybridomas derived from rat CII-immunized mice, a peptide corresponding to amino acids 245-270 on chick CII was found to harbor a T cell epitope which is present on heterologous CII (chick, rat, human, and bovine CII) but not on autologous CII. It was shown that this epitope...

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