HISTOCOMPATIBILITY-LINKED IMMUNE-RESPONSE GENES
HISTOCOMPATIBILITY-LINKED IMMUNE-RESPONSE GENES
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DOI:
10.1126/science.175.4019.273
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
MCDEVITT, HO
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作者:
BENACERR.B;MCDEVITT, HO
H 2H-Ss Fig. 1. Diagram of the organization of the H-2 locus, with arrows indicating the ap-proximate position of crossovers resulting in recombinant H-2 alleles. The top arrows indicate a set of five reciprocal crossovers between H-2'and H-2b to give rise to H-2 and H-2'recombinant alleles. All five of these recombinant alleles localize Ir-l to the right of the crossover event. The three bottom arrows indicate a set of three reciprocal crossovers between H-2d and H-2k, giving rise to H-2a-Ssl, H-20-Ss', and H-2-Ssh. Once again, Ir-I is located to the right of these crossovers. H-2t-Ss' was derived from a crossover between H-2^-Ss' and H-2', and Ir-i is located to the left of this crossover. H-2'is derived from a crossover between H-2'and H-2q, and in this crossover event there was an outside marker (brachyury, T) which established that the crossover was a single crossover event. Ir-i was also localized to the left of this crossover. Since Ir-1 is to the left of the last two crossovers, and the crossovers are known to be to the right of the serum substance (Ss) locus, these results definitely localize Ir-I between the Ss locus and the K region H-2 antigenic specificities. trast with the distribution of the GA and PLL genes (9). The immune response of guinea pigs to the antigens, the recognition of which is under the control of the PLL, GA, and GT genes, is characterized by cellular immunity and the synthesis of significant levels of specific antibody. Animals lacking the genes never develop cellular immunity and do not produce significant levels of antibodies under usual conditions of immunization. The activity of these immune re-sponse genes is therefore responsible for clear-cut qualitative differences be-tween responder and nonresponder animals, particularly as concerns cellular immunity and carrier function. A signal experimental advantage that the genetic systems discovered in guinea pigs have over the ones identified in mice is the fact that the same genes detected in inbred strains are also found in a significant proportion of random-bred Hartley guinea pigs (8, 9). The genes controlling immune re-sponsiveness to GA, GT, and PLL are not inherited independently. As would be expected, the GA gene and the PLL gene are linked in strain-2 guinea pigs. Responsiveness to GA and PLL are also linked in most Hartley responder guinea pigs. However, there is a small proportion of Hartley guinea pigs that respond to GA but not to PLL or that respond to PLL but not to GA. The very existence of these animals that may result from a crossover between