A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION OF NORMAL RESTING B-CELLS ARE INDUCED TO SECRETE IMMUNOGLOBULIN THROUGH CONTACT WITH ANTI-RECEPTOR ANTIBODY-ACTIVATED HELPER T-CELLS IN CLONAL CULTURES
A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION OF NORMAL RESTING B-CELLS ARE INDUCED TO SECRETE IMMUNOGLOBULIN THROUGH CONTACT WITH ANTI-RECEPTOR ANTIBODY-ACTIVATED HELPER T-CELLS IN CLONAL CULTURES
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DOI:
10.1002/eji.1830180313
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发表时间:
1988-03-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
NOSSAL, GJV
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作者:
RIEDEL, C;OWENS, T;NOSSAL, GJV
This report describes single-cell techniques to address the nature of a cellular interaction in which activated T lymphocytes stimulate small resting B cells to develop into antibody-forming cell clones in the absence of any surface immunoglobulin ligand or an antigen bridge. The cloned T helper cell line E9.D4 was stimulated with the anti-V.beta.8 antibody F23.1 bound to the plastic of Teraski 10-.mu.l culture wells. When an excess of T helper lymphocytes was used (1000 X-irridated or 600 unirradiated, stimulated E9.D4 cells), 10-25% of B cells responded by antibody formation as judged by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay performed after 5 days of culture. When one or a very small number of B cells were present, the rate-limiting step to antibody-forming cell formation was the number of T cells present. Far fewer T cells sufficed for stimulation when culture trays were tilted to force T and B cells into proximity at the sulcus formed at the botton edge of culture wells. When T cell numbers were limiting, unirradiated T cells out-performed irradiated T cells. Some cell clones held for 7 days switched to IgG antibody production. E9.D4 supernatants were virtually ineffective in causing B cell stimulation, even when 3T3 filler cells were added to support cultures. The result suggest that cell contact, and perhaps conjugate formation, with a strongly activated T cell can cause changes in the adjacent resting B cells akin to those of Ig receptor cross-linking, following which a lymphokine flux (even one not involving IL 4 and 5) promotes antibody-forming cell development.