MULTIPLE HLA CLASS-I-DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITIES CONSTITUTE THE NON-HLA-RESTRICTED RESPONSE IN INFECTIOUS-MONONUCLEOSIS
MULTIPLE HLA CLASS-I-DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITIES CONSTITUTE THE NON-HLA-RESTRICTED RESPONSE IN INFECTIOUS-MONONUCLEOSIS
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DOI:
10.1002/eji.1830170717
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发表时间:
1987-07-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
RICKINSON, AB
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作者:
STRANG, G;RICKINSON, AB
Primary Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, when manifest as infectious mononucleosis (IM), induces a broad-ranging and apparently non-HLA-restricted cytotoxic response whose nature has not been resolved. In the present experiments the ability to cryo-preserve IM mononuclear cell preparations, after depletion of CD16+ natural killer cells, has allowed detailed analysis of the response to appropriately constructed target cell panels. The results show that IM effector preparations are polyclonal with separate HLA class I antigen-dependent reactivities against (a) the autologous EBV-transformed lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) and (b) particular HLA class I-mismatched LCLs. The autologous LCL-directed response shows the hallmarks of immunologically specific T cell cytotoxicity; only EBV+ B cell blasts are recognized and the interaction can be blocked by monoclonal antibodies to CD3 and CD8 on the effector cell surface and to HLA class I antigens on the target cell. Such findings demonstrate, for the first time, that the primary cytotoxic response to EBV infection includes a virus-specific HLA-restricted component like that found in the T cell memory of persistently infected individuals. Separate components of the response are preferentially active against some (but not all) HLA-mismatched LCLs, the patterns of reactivity being distinct for each individual IM patient and reproducible on repeated testing. Monoclonal antibody blocking experiments show that these HLA-mismatched interactions also involve CD3 and CD8 antigens on the effector cell and HLA class I antigens on the target cell. Where tested, such lysis affected both EBV+ and EBV- B cell blasts from the relevant HLA-mismatched donors. We postulate that a widespread primary infection of the B cell system by EBV leads to a generalized expansion not just of the virus-specific response but also of other T cell responses coincidentally activae at the time. The unusual activity of IM effector preparations against HLA-mismatched LCLs arises from fortuitous cross-recognition of allogeneic cells by immunologically specific cytoctoxic T cell clones coincidentally expanded in vivo alongside the EBV-specific response.