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Enhanced pathogenicity of diabetogenic T cells escaping a non-MHC gene-controlled near death experience.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Sept 2004
Choisy-Rossi Caroline-Morgane, Holl Thomas M, Pierce Melissa A, Chapman Harold D, Serreze David V
Abstract excerpt
For unknown reasons, the common MHC class I variants encoded by the H2g7 haplotype (Kd, Db) aberrantly elicit autoreactive CD8 T cell responses essential to type 1 diabetes development when expressed in NOD mice, but not other strains. In this study, we show that interactive non-MHC genes allow a NOD-derived diabetogenic CD8 T cell clonotype (AI4) to be negatively selected at far greater efficiency in C57BL/6...
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