Genetic Analysis of the Non-H-2-linked Ir Genes Controlling the Cytotoxic T-cell Response to H-Y in H-2d Mice

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Journal Immunogenetics

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
Genetics

Date 1982 Jan 1

PMID 6820791

Citations 14

Authors

W Fierz

G A Farmer

J H Sheena

E Simpson

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Abstract

The T-cell mediated immune responses to the male specific minor histocompatibility antigen H-Y in mice have been studied extensively as a model for immune responses to other weak antigens like tumor antigens or autoantigens. In a recent analysis of the strain distribution of the cytotoxic T-cell (Tc-cell) responsiveness to H-Y, it has been found that genes both within and outside the H-2 complex exert an interactive control. Whereas the H-2b strains all are high responders, independent of their non-H-2 background, other H-2 haplotypes (d, k, and s) only allow for a response if they are combined with certain non-H-2 genes. The H-2-linked immune response genes (Ir-genes) have been previously mapped to the I and K or D region of the H-2 complex, but the mapping of the non-H-2 genes has not yet been established. In this study evidence is presented, using recombinant inbred strains and immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) congenic strains of mice, to show that there is more than one non-H-2 Ir-gene involved, that the main controlling genes are not linked to the Igh complex, and that at least one non-H-2 Ir-gene is linked to the H-3 region on chromosome 2. This region includes genes for beta-2-microglobulin (beta 2m), the Ly-m11 alloantigen a polymorphic cell surface glycoprotein (Pgp-1), a B-cell specific antigen Ly-4, a transplantation antigen H-3, and genes (Ir-2) controlling the immune response to Ea-1 and H-13.

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