Diversity and structure of human T-cell receptor beta-chain variable region genes.
AUTOR(ES)
Concannon, P
RESUMO
The nucleotide sequences of 27 T-cell receptor beta cDNA clones isolated from a human peripheral lymphocyte library were determined and compared to five additional published sequences. These cDNA clones represent 22 distinct T-cell receptor beta-chain variable region (V beta) gene segment sequences, which fall into 15 different V beta gene subfamilies, each containing six or fewer members. From this analysis, we estimate that the repertoire of expressed human V beta genes is less than 59, apparently much smaller than the immunoglobulin heavy chain and light chain variable region (VH and VL) repertoires. Variability plots comparing these human V beta regions with each other and with published mouse V beta regions provide evidence for only four hypervariable regions homologous to those seen in comparisons of immunoglobulin V regions. Somatic hypermutation appears to be used infrequently, if at all, in these V beta genes.
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