WEAK HLA AND BETA-2-MICROGLOBULIN EXPRESSION OF NEURONAL CELL-LINES CAN BE MODULATED BY INTERFERON
WEAK HLA AND BETA-2-MICROGLOBULIN EXPRESSION OF NEURONAL CELL-LINES CAN BE MODULATED BY INTERFERON
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.81.20.6476
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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FISHER, CA
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LAMPSON, LA;FISHER, CA
Previous work showed that each of 4 human neuronal cell lines expresses .ltoreq. 0.5% of the HLA-A,B,C and .beta.2-microglobulin seen in glial, lymphoid and other cell types, and there is a corresponding weak expression in neuroblastoma tumor and adult brain. The genetic basis of this weak expression was probed. For each of 3 neuroblastoma cell lines, it was shown that HLA-A,B,C and .beta.2-microglobulin can be induced by interferon and that the induction occurs within every cell of the population. Class II (Ia) molecules are not detected. Microscopic assay and radioimmunoassay of intact cells suggest that the induced antigen appears to the cell surface as well as within each cell. Immunoblot analysis confirms that the induced proteins have the structure of class I molecules. Thus, the normal weak HLA and .beta.2-microglobulin expression of these cell lines appears to reflect a regulatory control rather than a primary genetic lesion. According to current theory, lack of HLA-A,B,C should protect transformed, infected or damage neurons, but also neurons in neural transplants, from T cell-mediated immunosurveillance. The possibility that neuronal HLA-A,B,C expression may be under regulatory control is of importance in this context.