| First Author | Polsky D | Year | 1991 |
| Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 20 | Pages | 9243-7 |
| PubMed ID | 1924388 | Mgi Jnum | J:12709 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:60940 | Doi | 10.1073/pnas.88.20.9243 |
| Citation | Polsky D, et al. (1991) Suppression of H-2b-associated resistance to Friend erythroleukemia virus by a class I gene from the H-2d major histocompatibility complex haplotype. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 88(20):9243-7 |
| abstractText | Mice homozygous for the H-2d haplotype at the major histocompatibility complex are markedly more susceptible to erythroleukemia induction by the Friend isolate of murine leukemia retrovirus (FV) than are congenic mice homozygous for the H-2b haplotype. The resistance conferred by the H-2b haplotype is recessive in this cross, since heterozygous F1 mice are as susceptible as parental strain H-2d homozygotes. However, H-2b-associated resistance is not an intrinsically recessive trait, since H-2b/H-2dm1 heterozygotes resemble H-2b homozygotes in their relative resistance to FV; the mutant H-2dm1 haplotype lacks the entire D region of the parental haplotype except for a single class I gene formed by the fusion of its terminal D-region genes to produce a class I gene differing from both parental genes, and thus this finding indicates that one or more D-region genes of the H-2d haplotype can actively suppress H-2b-associated resistance. Unlike H-2dm1, the mutant H-2dm2 haplotype, which retains only the class IDd gene in the D region of the H-2d haplotype, strongly suppresses resistance in H-2b/H-2dm2 heterozygotes, and the presence of Dd as a transgene significantly reduces the resistance of H-2b homozygotes. Since H-2b-associated resistance to FV appears to be due mainly to the capacity of Lb (also called Db), the only class I molecule encoded in the D region of the H-2b haplotype, to present viral epitopes for recognition by FV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes, suppression of resistance to FV by the Dd molecule implies that the presence of one class I molecule of the major histocompatibility complex can interfere with either the presentation of viral epitopes by another class I molecule or the generation of T cells that recognize viral epitopes so presented. |
