Highly efficient selection of CD4 and CD8 lineage thymocytes supports an instructive model of lineage commitment

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Itano, A [1 ]
Robey, E [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Mol & Cell Biol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80190-9
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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We undertook a kinetic analysis of the generation of mature T cells in TCR and coreceptor transgenic mice using BrdU labeling. We observed that the selection efficiency of mature CD4(-) CD8(+) and CD4(+)CD8(-) thymocytes could be as high as 40% and 90% of CD4(+)CD8(+) precursors, respectively. The surprisingly high efficiency of selection favors an instructional model of lineage commitment and is incompatible with a stochastic model in which the efficiency of selection would be no greater than 100% in both lineages combined.
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