Synergistic effects of antigen and soluble T-cell factors in B-lymphocyte activation.
Synergistic effects of antigen and soluble T-cell factors in B-lymphocyte activation.
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抗原和可溶性 T 细胞因子在 B 淋巴细胞激活中的协同作用。
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发表时间:
1984
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
S. Pierce
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作者:
M. L. Jelachich;M. Grusby;D. Clark;D. Tasch;E. Margoliash;S. Pierce
Supernatants from phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-activated cultures of the mouse EL4 thymoma, or of several mouse T-cell hybridomas stimulated either by their specific antigen or by concanavalin A, induced primary splenic B cells to proliferate and differentiate to antibody-secreting cells. This effect was not due to interleukin 2 and did not require the presence of macrophages. The antibody response was polyclonal, including antibodies specific for 2,4-dinitrophenyl and pigeon cytochrome c, present in amounts of 1% or less of the total immunoglobulin produced. The addition of either of these antigens increased the amount of the corresponding specific antibody. At very high concentrations of dinitrophenyl-hemocyanin the specific response could be depressed. These observations were taken to demonstrate that soluble T-cell factors are sufficient to activate a portion of naive B cells to antibody secretion and that under these conditions in vitro the presence of antigen merely enhances the specific response.