Direct effect of interleukin 2 on the differentiation of human B cells which have not been preactivated in vitro.
Direct effect of interleukin 2 on the differentiation of human B cells which have not been preactivated in vitro.
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白细胞介素2对体外未预激活的人B细胞的分化有直接影响。
DOI:
10.1002/eji.1830151102
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Fauci,AS
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作者:
LethiBich-Thuy;Fauci,AS
Unfractionated as well as small and large human tonsillar B cells were found to differentiate in the presence of recombinant interleukin 2 (IL 2) without requiring anin vitropreactivation signal. These cell suspensions did not contain detectable T cells, monocytes or natural killer cells both at the initiation and the termination of cultures, and did not respond to the T cell‐dependent polyclonal B cell activator pokeweed mitogen. They contained very few Tac antigen‐bearing cells (less than 2.5%) at the beginning and at the termination of the cultures in the absence of IL 2. In the presence of IL 2, only a minimal increase in the number of Tac antigen‐bearing cells was noted. The observed differentiation was not due to the effects of contaminating T cells, since cultures purposely contaminated with up to 5% of T cells did not contain greater amounts of IgM, IgG or IgA than cultures without T cells added back. Furthermore, when T cells were present at a ratio of IT cell per 9 B cells, the production of IgM was decreased. Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that (a) B cell differentiation in response to IL 2 may occur in the absence ofin vitropreactivation, and in this case cannot be related to the expression of Tac antigen on the B cell surface; (b) it is not due to helper effects of very low numbers of T cells which might contaminate the B cell suspensions; and (c) it most likely results from a direct effect of IL 2 on B cells themselves. The data also point out the fact that, in the presence of IL 2, T cells may trigger inhibitory effects on IL2‐induced B cell differentiation rather than provide helper signals.