T-lymphocyte heterogeneity in the rat: separation of functional subpopulations using a monoclonal antibody
T-lymphocyte heterogeneity in the rat: separation of functional subpopulations using a monoclonal antibody
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大鼠 T 淋巴细胞异质性:使用单克隆抗体分离功能亚群
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
15.3
通讯作者:
C. Milstein
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作者:
R. White;D. Mason;A. Williams;G. Galfrè;C. Milstein
W3/25 antibody is the monoclonal product of a hybrid cell resulting from the fusion of a mouse myeloma cell line with spleen cells from a mouse immunized with rat thymocytes. Pure clones have been derived, and segregants free of parental myeloma chains have been isolated. Previous studies have shown that this antibody recognizes a subpopulation of T cells among rat thoracic duct lymphocytes. In the work reported here, three T-cell functions were assayed after separating rat thoracic duct lymphocytes on the fluorescence-activated cell sorter on the basis of labeling with W3/25 antibody. Two of the functional activities appeared to be completely segregated by this procedure. Thus, helper cell activity for an anti-hapten plaque-forming cell response was confined to the labeled population, whereas the allogeneic suppressive effect produced in a parental vector F1 adoptive transfer was mediated by cells in the unlabeled fraction. The third function, graft-versus-host activity, was almost entirely contained within the labeled subpopulation. It is concluded that the antigenic determinant recognized by the monoclonal antibody W3/25 is a differentiation marker for T-cell functional subpopulations.