T lymphocyte recognition of a celiac disease-associated cis- or trans-encoded HLA-DQ alpha/beta-heterodimer
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K E Lundin1, L M Sollid, E Qvigstad
1Institute of Transplantation Immunology, National Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
The HLA-associated susceptibility to develop celiac disease may to a large extent be attributed to the combination of particular DQA1 and DQB1 genes, i.e., the DQA1*0501 and DBQB1*0201 alleles, located either in cis position (on the DR3DQw2 haplotype) or in trans position (DR5DQw7/DR7DQw2 heterozygous individuals). We report three alloreactive T lymphocyte clones that recognize an HLA-DQ alpha/beta heterodimer both when the DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles are located in cis or in trans position. Thus, the celiac disease associated DQA1 and DQB1 genes encode a functionally expressed DQ alpha/beta heterodimer.