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Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 172, 1857-1860, Copyright © 1990 by Rockefeller University Press
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W Jarjour, LA Mizzen, WJ Welch, S Denning, M Shaw, T Mimura, BF Haynes and JB Winfield
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514.
Rabbit antibodies to hsp58 (P1), the human homologue of the Escherichia coli stress protein groEL, react specifically in indirect immunofluorescence and complement-dependent microcytoxicity experiments with a cell surface antigen expressed constitutively by T cell lines bearing gamma/delta receptors. This anti-hsp58-reactive antigen is not demonstrable on T cells that express alpha/beta receptors or on various cells that lack T cell receptors. Certain evidence was obtained to suggest that the target antigen on the surface of gamma/delta T cells is a approximately 77-kD protein distinct from intracellular hsp58 and known members of the hsp70 stress protein family. While the exact nature and significance of this anti-hsp58-reactive protein remain to be determined, these data may help to clarify the roles of groEL- related stress proteins and gamma/delta cells that recognize groEL homologous in immunologic defense against infection and in autoimmune disease.
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