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Like B cells, T cells can be immortalized through hybridization with lymphoma cells, a technique that has been particularly useful in the study of the T cell receptors (TCR) for antigen. In T cell hybridizations, the AKR mouse strain-derived thymus lymphoma BW5147 is by far the most popular fusion line. However, the full potential of this technology had to await inactivation of the productively rearranged TCR-α and -β genes in the lymphoma. BWα-β-, the TCR-gene deficient variant of the original lymphoma, which has become the fusion line of choice for αβ T cells, is now available with numerous modifications, enabling the investigation of many aspects of TCR-mediated responses and TCR-structure. Unexpectedly, inactivating BW’s functional TCR-α gene also rendered the lymphoma more permissive for the expression of TCR-γδ, facilitating the study of γδ T cells, their TCRs, and their TCR-mediated reactivity.
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White, J., O’Brien, R.L. & Born, W.K. BW5147 and Derivatives for the Study of T Cells and their Antigen Receptors. Arch. Immunol. Ther. Exp. 68, 15 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00005-020-00579-1
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