About: New strategies applied in the treatment of experimental autoimmune disease models involve blocking or modulation of MHC–peptide–TCR interactions either at the level of peptide–MHC interaction or, alternatively, at the level of T cell recognition. In order to identify useful competitor peptldes one must be able to assess peptide–MHC interactions. Several well described autoimmune disease models exist in the Lewis rat and thus this particular rat strain provides a good model system to study the effect of competitor peptldes. So far no information has been available on the peptide binding characteristics of the Lewis rat MHC class II RT1.B(I) molecule. We have now developed a biochemical binding assay which enables competition studies in which the relative MHC binding affinity of a set of non-labelled peptldes can be assessed while employing detection of blotlnylated marker peptides by chemllumlnescence. The assay is sensitive and specific. We have used this assay to determine the binding characteristics of several disease associated T cell determinants and their sequence analogues in the Lewis rat. Notably, most of the autoimmune disease associated peptide sequences tested were found to be intermediate to poor binders. Single amino acid substitutions at defined positions were sufficient to turn certain peptldes into good binders. These results are relevant to the design of competitor peptldes in the treatment of experimental autoimmune diseases.   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

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  • New strategies applied in the treatment of experimental autoimmune disease models involve blocking or modulation of MHC–peptide–TCR interactions either at the level of peptide–MHC interaction or, alternatively, at the level of T cell recognition. In order to identify useful competitor peptldes one must be able to assess peptide–MHC interactions. Several well described autoimmune disease models exist in the Lewis rat and thus this particular rat strain provides a good model system to study the effect of competitor peptldes. So far no information has been available on the peptide binding characteristics of the Lewis rat MHC class II RT1.B(I) molecule. We have now developed a biochemical binding assay which enables competition studies in which the relative MHC binding affinity of a set of non-labelled peptldes can be assessed while employing detection of blotlnylated marker peptides by chemllumlnescence. The assay is sensitive and specific. We have used this assay to determine the binding characteristics of several disease associated T cell determinants and their sequence analogues in the Lewis rat. Notably, most of the autoimmune disease associated peptide sequences tested were found to be intermediate to poor binders. Single amino acid substitutions at defined positions were sufficient to turn certain peptldes into good binders. These results are relevant to the design of competitor peptldes in the treatment of experimental autoimmune diseases.
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  • Autoimmune diseases
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  • Glycoproteins
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