International Immunology, Vol. 13, No. 7, 941-950,
July 2001
© 2001 Japanese Society for Immunology
The flexibility of the TCR allows recognition of a large set of naturally occurring epitope variants by HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Correspondence to: F. Buseyne
Pathogens attempt to evade immune recognition by expressing mutated antigens. The present study shows that two mechanisms happen in vivo during the course of HIV infection to limit the escape of antigenic variants from cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) recognition: recognition of several epitope variants by the same TCR and generation of several CTL populations specific for a single epitope but recognizing different variant sequences. We have studied two CTL populations directed towards the HIV-p24gag amino acids 176–184 QASQEVKNW epitope, presented by HLA-B5301. Both CTL populations were derived from a long-term asymptomatic HIV-infected child and they express different TCR. Each of the two CTL recognizes five of the 10 naturally occurring variants. These variants are distinct for both CTL and thus a total of eight variants are recognized. Thus, polyclonality of CTL specific for the same epitope but differing in variant sequences recognized may improve the control of variant viruses' replication in vivo. In addition to cross-recognition of several variant epitopes, promiscuous recognition of exogenous peptides complexed to allogeneic HLA-B molecules occurs, showing that the TCR can tolerate amino acid changes on both the peptide and the MHC molecule. This flexibility of the TCR is probably of great importance for control of viruses with high genetic variability, such as HIV.
Keywords: cytotoxic T lymphocyte, HIV, HLA molecules, human
Transmitting editor: A. Fisher
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