LOCUS CONTROLLING BORDETELLA-PERTUSSIS-INDUCED HISTAMINE SENSITIZATION (BPHS), AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE-SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE, MAPS DISTAL TO T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA-CHAIN GENE ON MOUSE CHROMOSOME-6
Jd. Sudweeks et al., LOCUS CONTROLLING BORDETELLA-PERTUSSIS-INDUCED HISTAMINE SENSITIZATION (BPHS), AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE-SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE, MAPS DISTAL TO T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA-CHAIN GENE ON MOUSE CHROMOSOME-6, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Statesof America, 90(8), 1993, pp. 3700-3704
Pertussis toxin (PTX) is the primary component responsible for eliciti
ng the majority of biological activities associated with Bordetella pe
rtussis, including the induction of several tissue-adjuvant models of
organ-specific autoimmune disease. PTX, when administered in vivo, enh
ances vascular permeability, which is made manifest by a concomitant i
ncrease in sensitivity to a variety of agents and treatments affecting
the vascular bed. One such agent is histamine, and the response to PT
X, as measured by hypersensitivity following vasoactive amine challeng
e, is genetically controlled by the Bphs locus. Susceptibility to the
induction of both experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) and ex
perimental allergic orchitis (EAO) in mice is associated with, and in
the latter case linked to, a susceptible allele at this locus. We repo
rt here the mapping of the Bphs locus to mouse chromosome 6, telomeric
of Tcrb and centromeric of Prp (D6Nds8). This region also contains a
number of loci of immunologic relevance including Igk, Ly-2, Ly-3, Il-
5r, Ly-35, Ly-4, and Tnfr-2.