REJECTION OF CLASS-I MHC-DEFICIENT HEMATOPOIETIC-CELLS BY IRRADIATED MHC-MATCHED MICE
REJECTION OF CLASS-I MHC-DEFICIENT HEMATOPOIETIC-CELLS BY IRRADIATED MHC-MATCHED MICE
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DOI:
10.1038/349329a0
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发表时间:
1991-01-24
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
RAULET, D
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作者:
BIX, M;LIAO, NS;RAULET, D
IRRADIATED MHC-heterozygous mice often reject bone marrow cells transplanted from one of the homozygous parental strains, a phenomenon ('hybrid resistance') that appears to violate the laws of transplantation 1,2. Rejection of parental and allogeneic marrow cells also differs from conventional T cell-mediated rejection mechanisms as it is effected by NK1.1+ cells 3-5. To account for the unusual specificity of bone marrow rejection, it has been proposed that NK1.1+ cells destroy marrow cells that fail to express the full complement of self MHC class I (MHC-I) molecules 5. We show here that NK1.1+ cells in normal mice reject haemopoietic transplants from mice that are deficient for normal cell-surface MHC-I expression because of a targeted mutation in the beta-2-microglobulin gene 6-9. These findings demonstrate that deficient expression of MHC-I molecules renders marrow cells susceptible to rejection.