Direct tolerance induction in mature B lymphocytes may resemble clonal anergy phenomenon.
Direct tolerance induction in mature B lymphocytes may resemble clonal anergy phenomenon.
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成熟 B 淋巴细胞中的直接耐受诱导可能类似于克隆无反应现象。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02918169
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发表时间:
1991
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Pratt,L
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作者:
Aldo-Benson,M;Pratt,L
Several mechanisms have been postulated for direct induction of B-cell tolerance in mature B cells, such as the Bretscher and Cohn [5] hypothesis which states that an antigenic signal to B cells without the ‘second signal’ provided by T cells or lymphokines produces unresponsiveness. A second explanation is that tolerogens which cross-link immunoglobulin and Fc receptors abort the biochemical activation of the B cell via the phosphatidyl inositol pathway. Results of our studies are not consistent with either of these hypotheses. We speculated that DNP-MGG induces immunoglobulin receptor capping and internalization in mature B cells, but a suppressive signal is given to the B cell when DNP-MGG is present at the time of antigen receptor reexpression in a fashion similar to clonal anergy. The studies reported here test this hypothesis as a possible additional mechanism of direct B-cell tolerance.When pure DNP-specific B cells were incubated for 6 h with DNP-MGG in the presence of lymphokine-rich EL-4 supernatant, an immune response was induced: but 48 h preincubation with DNP-MGG in the presence of lymphokines induced tolerance. If B-cell cultures were preincubated with DNP-MGG for 6 h followed by a 24-hour incubation without conjugate and DNP-MGG was then added for the third preineubation period of 18 h (at a time when receptors are being reexpressed), tolerance was induced. Substitution of DNP-Ficoll antigen for DNP-MGG in either the first or third time period did not result in tolerance induction but substituting DNP-KLH during either of these two periods did result in tolerance.