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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Liao L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2192839 | biostudies-other | 1996 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
The Journal of experimental medicine 19961001 4
Both superantigens (SAG) and many anti-TCR monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have specificity for the V beta region of the TCR encoded by TCRBV genes. For instance the bacterial SAG staphylococcal enterotoxin E (SEE), the retroviral SAG MTV-9 and the mAb OT145 each react with human T cells expressing BV6S7. This BV gene encodes two common alleles. We found that SEE and the mAb preferentially activate T cells expressing BV6S7*1 as opposed to BV6S7*2, but Mtv-9 activates T cells expressing either allele ...[more]