Adam, Jacqueline; Eriksson, Klara K; Schnyder, Benno; Fontana, Stefano; Pichler, Werner J; Yerly, Daniel (2012). Avidity determines T-cell reactivity in abacavir hypersensitivity. European journal of immunology, 42(7), pp. 1706-16. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 10.1002/eji.201142159
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The antiretroviral drug abacavir (abc) elicits severe drug hypersensitivity reactions in HLA-B*5701(+) individuals. To understand the abc-specific activation of CD8(+) T cells, we generated abc-specific T-cell clones (abc-TCCs). Abc reactivity could not be linked to the metabolism and/or processing of the drug, since abc metabolizing enzymes were not expressed in immune cells and inhibition of the proteasome in APCs did not affect TCC reactivity. Ca(2+) influx assays revealed different reactivity patterns of abc-TCCs. While all TCCs reacted to abc presented on HLA-B*5701 molecules, a minority also reacted immediately to abc in solution. Titration experiments showed that the ability to react immediately to abc correlated significantly with the TCR avidity of the T cells. Modifications of soluble abc concentrations revealed that the reactivity patterns of abc-TCCs were not fixed but dynamic. When TCCs with an intermediate TCR avidity were stimulated with increasing abc concentrations, they showed an accelerated activation kinetic. Thus, they reacted immediately to the drug, similar to the reaction of TCCs of high avidity. The observed immediate activation and the noninvolvement of the proteasome suggest that, in contrast to haptens, abc-specific T-cell stimulation does not require the formation of covalent bonds to produce a neo-antigenic determinant.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Dermatology, Urology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Osteoporosis (DURN) > Clinic of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Pichler, Werner Joseph, Yerly, Daniel |
ISSN: |
0014-2980 |
Publisher: |
Wiley-VCH |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Factscience Import |
Date Deposited: |
04 Oct 2013 14:40 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:12 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1002/eji.201142159 |
PubMed ID: |
22585534 |
Web of Science ID: |
000306493100008 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/16260 (FactScience: 223861) |
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