The inability to process a self-peptide allows autoreactive T cells to escape tolerance

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The inability to process a self-peptide allows autoreactive T cells to escape tolerance

MJ Mamula
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.

It is now clear that antigen presenting cells (APCs) do not present all the possible peptides of self-proteins to the immune system. When then, is the fate of T cells specific for those self-peptides that escape processing? In this study, the COOH-terminal peptide (residues 81-104) of self cytochrome c (cyt c) elicited strong autoimmune T cells, as well as autoantibodies specific for this immunogen. These T cells did not respond to stimulation with the whole self cyt c molecule, demonstrating that APCs cannot process and present the self 81-104 peptide. Whereas mice were unresponsive to immunization with the whole mouse cyt c molecule, the mouse 81-104 fragment together with the whole self-molecule induced and amplified the autoimmune T cell response to sites within the 1-80 peptide. T cells that never contact the relevant self-peptide are functionally ignorant. They do not become tolerized or deleted, nor do they normally participate in immune responses to the native whole self-protein, since APCs cannot present the 81-104 peptide.
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