High-affinity binding of staphylococcal enterotoxins A and B to HLA-DR.
Staphylococcal enterotoxins A-E (refs 1-3), toxic shock toxin (TST-1) (ref. 1), a product of Mycoplasma arthritidis and the Mls antigens provoke dramatic T-cell responses. All are extremely potent polyclonal mitogens stimulating a large proportion of both murine and human CD4+ and CD8+T cells although activity is tightly restricted by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II antigens. The murine T-cell response to staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) has recently been shown to involve only those T cells expressing T-cell receptor V beta 3, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 domains, a situation which closely mimics the response to Mls antigens. This paper examines the initial events in SEA and SEB T-cell activation and shows that MHC restriction results from a direct high affinity binding by intact SEA and SEB to the same site on MHC class II HLA-DR antigens.[1]References
- High-affinity binding of staphylococcal enterotoxins A and B to HLA-DR. Fraser, J.D. Nature (1989) [Pubmed]
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