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Recognition of Epidermal Transglutaminase by IgA and Tissue Transglutaminase 2 Antibodies in a Rare Case of Rhesus Dermatitis
Published on: December 15, 2011
[HTLV-I and retinal antigen recognized by T cells]
A Fukushima1, H Ueno, S Fujimoto
1Department of Ophthalmology, Kochi Medical School, Japan.
Abstract:
MT-2 immune but not naive murine (B10.BR) spleen cells responded not only to HTLV-I-infected cell lines but also to retinal antigens of various species by antigen-induced cell proliferation. The phenotype of the responding cells against HTLV-I-infected cell lines as well as retinal antigens was Thy-1.2+, CD4+ and CD8-. The antigen-induced cell proliferation against both HTLV-I-infected cell lines and retinal antigens was clearly inhibited by monoclonal antibodies to CD3, CD4, and MHC class II (I-AK). These data indicate that an epitope of HTLV-I-infected cell lines recognized by the CD4+ T cell is crossreactive to that of retinal antigens.
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