Highly enriched populations of B lymphoblasts have been isolated after culture with anti-Ig-Sepharose and compared with dendritic cells as stimulators of CD4+ T cells in the murine MLR. The two populations clearly differed in phenotype; anti-Ig blasts were FcR+, B220+, 33D1-, while dendritic cells were FcR-, B220-, 33D1+. However, as MLR stimulators, they shared many common features. Both cells (a) expressed comparable levels of class II MHC products; (b) independently stimulated the primary MLR and the production of several T derived lymphokines including IL-2 and IL-4; and (c) were comparable in stimulating freshly sensitized T cells. However, the relative potencies of dendritic cells and anti-Ig blasts as primary MLR stimulators varied in a strain-dependent fashion. Only anti-Ig blasts could stimulate across an Mls barrier, being at least 100 times more active in stimulating Mls-mismatched, MHC-matched T cells, relative to syngeneic T cells. In contrast, dendritic cells were 10-30 times more potent than anti-Ig blasts when stimulating across an MHC barrier and were likewise more effective in binding MHC-disparate T cells to form the clusters in which the MLR was generated. Dendritic cell-T cell clustering was resistant to anti-LFA-1 mAb, while B blast-T cell clustering was totally blocked. Thus, anti-Ig B lymphoblasts and dendritic cells, two cell types which differ markedly in phenotype, also differ in efficiency and mechanism for initiating responses in allogeneic T cells.
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January 01 1989
Distinct features of dendritic cells and anti-Ig activated B cells as stimulators of the primary mixed leukocyte reaction.
J P Metlay,
J P Metlay
Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
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E Puré,
E Puré
Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
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R M Steinman
R M Steinman
Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
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J P Metlay
Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
E Puré
Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
R M Steinman
Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1989) 169 (1): 239–254.
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J P Metlay, E Puré, R M Steinman; Distinct features of dendritic cells and anti-Ig activated B cells as stimulators of the primary mixed leukocyte reaction.. J Exp Med 1 January 1989; 169 (1): 239–254. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.169.1.239
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