Self Antigen in Wild-Type Mice the T Cell Repertoire against This Circulating How the Self-Determinant Hierarchy Shapes Mouse Lysozyme-M Knockout Mice Reveal
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Mouse lysozyme-M knockout mice reveal how the self-determinant hierarchy shapes the T cell repertoire against this circulating self antigen in wild-type mice.
We have studied T cell tolerance to defined determinants within ML-M using wild-type (WT; ML-M(+/+)) and LysMcre (ML-M(-/-)) C3H (H-2(k)) mice to determine the relative contribution of ML-M-derived epitopes vs those from other self Ags in selection of the ML-M-specific T cell repertoire. ML-M was totally nonimmunogenic in WT mice, but was rendered immunogenic in LysMcre mice. Most of the respon...
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