| Literature DB >> 53837 |
T J Romano, S P Lerman, S Bangasser, G J Thorbecke, A Nisonoff.
Abstract
Adoptive anti-trinitrophenyl (Tnp) responses were elicited from Tnp-hemocyanin (Tnp-KLH)-primed cells by challenge with an immune complex of KLH and a Tnp conjugate of the Fab fragment of rabbit anti-KLH. Removal of T cells by treatment with anti-Thy 1.2 (phi C3H) + complement abolished this effect. Tnp-KLH primed cells that had been incubated with a Tnp conjugate of pneumococcal polysaccharide type III (Tnp-SIII), and which were then unable to respond to Tnp-KLH, made an anti-Tnp response upon incubation with rabbit anti-Dnp when transferred together with cells primed with rabbit gamma globulin. Since Tnp-KLH was not added in these experiments, it would appear that the cells were triggered by immune complexes on their surfaces consisting of Tnp-SIII and rabbit anti-Dnp with the help of T cells primed with rabbit gamma globulin; the presence of free antigen was evidently not required. Therefore, antigen-antibody complexes, when bound to the surface of B cells, may mediate T-B cell cooperation in the humoral immune response.Entities:
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Year: 1975 PMID： 53837 PMCID： PMC388761 DOI： 10.1073/pnas.72.11.4555
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN： 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205