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Antibody responses to most antigens are dependent on the cooperative interaction of two distinct populations of lymphocytes. B lymphocytes are the precursors to antibody forming cells; their ability to produce antibody is dependent on helper T lymphocytes (Th). In classical studies of helper T cell function, B cells specific for haptens have been stimulated with hapten-protein conjugates, and the role of protein carrier-primed helper T cells measured (1). In such studies, the hapten must be physically linked to the carrier protein (1,2), and the helper T cell specifically primed to the carrier used for secondary immunization (1,2). Using this system, Katz and coworkers (3) made the surprising discovery that Th and B lymphocytes needed to be identical in the I region of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in order to cooperate effectively. Subsequent studies by a number of investigators have demonstrated that Th cells are selected during their development for the ability to recognize particular MHC encoded antigens as self, and that such Th cells will not respond to antigen except in the context of the MHC encoded antigen for which they are specific (4). This phenomenon has been termed MHC restriction.
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Janeway, C.A. et al. (1982). Helper T Cells Specific for Protein Antigens: Role of Self Major Histocompatibility Complex and Immunoglobulin Gene Products. In: Atassi, M.Z. (eds) Immunobiology of Proteins and Peptides—II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 150. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4331-8_4
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