Preferential expansion of Vγ9 Vδ2 T cells following stimulation of peripheral blood lymphocytes with extracts of Plasmodium falciparum
Preferential expansion of Vγ9 Vδ2 T cells following stimulation of peripheral blood lymphocytes with extracts of Plasmodium falciparum
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用恶性疟原虫提取物刺激外周血淋巴细胞后 Vγ9 Vδ2 T 细胞优先扩增
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1992
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P. Dubois
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C. Behr;P. Dubois
A Plasmodium falciparum schizont lysate has been previously described as being a powerful inducer of proliferation for human peripheral T lymphocytes. In this report we study the phenotype of cycling T cells from unexposed donors and examine how the P. falciparum lysate compares with the conventional T cell mitogen phytohemagglutinin (PHA), a known superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), and a classical antigen pure protein derivative (PPD). We show that for this lymphoproliferative activity interaction with the MHC class II molecule is required and that in the presence of P. falciparum the great majority of the cycling cells at day 6 are gamma delta T cells, all of them bearing V gamma 9 V delta 2. Our results suggest that P. falciparum induces a T cell proliferative response that resembles a response of human peripheral blood gamma delta T cells to superantigen. This observation is in agreement with the elevated level of peripheral gamma delta lymphocytes observed during and after malaria acute infection.