immune system
• in splenic and lymph node cells in mutants, T cells are hypoproliferative; anti-CD3 stimulation +/- CD28 costimulation induced hyperproliferation in contrast to wild-type cells which do not proliferate as strongly
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• after stimulation with anti-CD3 and CTLA-4, wild-type T cells become anergic and produce very little IL-2, but mutant cells produce more IL-2
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• in mice injected with staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), a superantigen, which makes Vbeta8+ T cells refractory to restimulation with the antigen, mutant T cells retain the ability to produce IL-2 and to proliferate upon SEB restimulation while wild-type cells show anergy and exhibit blunted proliferation and little cytokine response
• treatment with anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 which induces anergy in wild-type T cells does not affect mutant T cells which can still grow and produce IL-2
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hematopoietic system
• in splenic and lymph node cells in mutants, T cells are hypoproliferative; anti-CD3 stimulation +/- CD28 costimulation induced hyperproliferation in contrast to wild-type cells which do not proliferate as strongly
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