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Clonal anergy induced in mature Vβ6+ T lymphocytes on immunizing Mls-1b mice with Mls-1a expressing cells

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TOLERANCE to self-antigens has been shown to develop during ontogeny as a result of the elonal deletion of self-reactive T cells1–4. Tolerance, or better 'nonresponsiveness', to specific antigens can also be induced in adult animals5–9 but the mechanism(s) involved are not well understood10. Most murine T-helper cells that express the Vβ6 T-cell receptor gene segment are specific for Mls-1a antigens3. We have therefore been able to use an anti-Vβ6 monoclonal antibody to follow the fate of Mls-1a specific T cells in adult Mls-1b mice made specifically unresponsive to Mls-1a. We show that the induced unresponsiveness is not due to elonal deletion, but rather to elonal anergy. The anergic Vβ6 T-helper cells express IL-2 receptors and undergo limited blastogenesis in vitro upon stimulation, but do not produce IL-2, in marked contrast to Vβ6 cells from naive mice. Our data appear to represent an in vivo correlate for the induction of anergy that has been observed in T-cell lines in vitrol l–15.

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Rammensee, HG., Kroschewski, R. & Frangoulis, B. Clonal anergy induced in mature Vβ6+ T lymphocytes on immunizing Mls-1b mice with Mls-1a expressing cells. Nature 339, 541–544 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/339541a0

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