EVIDENCE FOR A SIMILAR OR COMMON MECHANISM FOR NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVITY AND RESISTANCE TO HEMATOPOIETIC GRAFTS
EVIDENCE FOR A SIMILAR OR COMMON MECHANISM FOR NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVITY AND RESISTANCE TO HEMATOPOIETIC GRAFTS
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DOI:
10.1002/eji.1830070915
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
CUDKOWICZ, G
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作者:
KIESSLING, R;HOCHMAN, PS;CUDKOWICZ, G
Two types of host reactivities not requiring immunization in the mouse and not mediated by T [thymus derived] lymphocytes were compared: resistance of irradiated and nonirradiated F1 hybrids to accept parental grafts of normal or malignant hemopoietic cells (Hh system), and the natural killer cell activity against mouse lymphomas (NK system). The effects of 6 independent variables known to influence resistance to marrow grafts were investigated in the NK system using YAC-1 lymphoma cells as targets. The following properties were shared: maturation during the 4th wk of life; low sensitivity to acute total body irradiation; dependence on the integrity of bone marrow as demonstrated by reduced reactivity in 89Sr-treated mice; suppression by a single injection of the anti-macrophage agents silica and .iota. carrageenan; and suppression by multiple injections of parental spleen cells into F1 mice. These positive correlations are particularly significant because most of the variables have either opposing or no effect on conventional immunity. F1 mice rendered specifically unresponsive to parental marrow grafts retained NK cell activity, and genetically susceptible mice were rendered hyporeactive in terms of NK cells, indicating that the specificities of YAC-1 and Hh-1 incompatible targets were different. It is extremely unlikely that this remarkable parallelism is fortuitous. A very similar, or more likely a common mechanism, is operative in the 2 cell-mediated natural reactivities: effector cells in the NK and Hh systems do not bear B[bone marrow derived] or T lymphocyte markers but are endowed with specificity. They are dependent for generation in vivo (presumably by maturation or by recruitment) on the interaction with nonlymphoid accessory cells not endowed with specificity, capable of also interacting in vitro with Thy-1-positive F1 hybrid prekiller cells specific for parental targets. Because of thymus independence in vivo and apparent restriction to target cells of the hemopoietic system, these reactivities should be effective in the regulation of hemopoiesis and surveillance over leukemogenesis.