| First Author | Hildebrandt AL | Year | 1999 |
| Journal | Immunogenetics | Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 7-8 | Pages | 666-72 |
| PubMed ID | 10369925 | Mgi Jnum | J:56045 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:1339910 | Doi | 10.1007/s002510050663 |
| Citation | Hildebrandt AL, et al. (1999) The H-mshi antigen is conserved among standard BALB/cBy, C57BL/6J, and wild-derived CAST/Ei and SPRET/Ei inbred strains of mice. Immunogenetics 49(7-8):666-72 |
| abstractText | The recessive male sterility and histoincompatibility mutation (mshi) arose spontaneously in the standard inbred mouse strain BALB/cBy. In addition to generating sterility in homozygous males, mshi controls the loss of a minor histocompatibility antigen designated H-mshi. To determine whether the H-mshi antigen normally expressed by the BALB/ cBy strain (H-mshi(c)) is the same as or different from the antigen (H-mshi(x)) expressed by the standard inbred C57BL/6J strain or the wild-derived CAST/Ei and SPRET/Ei strains, animals heterozygous for the mutant antigen-loss allele (H-mshi(-)) and H-mshi(x) were grafted with tail skin from BALB/cBy mice. The long-term retention of grafts by these hosts indicates that the H-mshi antigen encoded by the BALB/cBy, C57BL/6J, CAST/Ei, and SPRET/Ei strains is histogenically identical. Conservation of this minor histocompatibility antigen among these evolutionarily diverse strains suggests that H-mshi encodes a functionally important cellular product(s). |
