T-cell specificity for H–2 and Ir gene phenotype correlates with the phenotype of thymic antigen-presenting cells
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 287 (5777), 44-46
- https://doi.org/10.1038/287044a0
Abstract
Experiments with chimaeric animals have demonstrated that the H-2 restriction specificity and immune response (Ir) gene phenotype of the T cell is acquired during development in the thymus. The mechanism by which this process occurs is unclear. One level of obligate expression of H-2 and Ir gene products is on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) which come from bone marrow precursors. We have now examined the turnover of APCs in the thymuses of F1 leads to parent (P) radiation-induced bone marrow chimaeras and found that APCs of donor phenotype appear at about 2 months after reconstitution. If the peripheral T-cell population is depleted after this time, new T cells emerging from the parental thymus (containing F1 APCs) behaving like F1 T cells, suggesting that cells from the bone marrow can influence thymic-directed T-cell differentiation. The thymic APC is an attractive condidate to play such a part in the development of the T-cell repertoire.Keywords
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