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The Journal of Immunology, 1975, 114: 206-210.
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Inhibition of Proliferation of Lymphoma Cells and T Lymphocytes by Suppressor Cells from Spleens of Tumor-Bearing Mice

Holger Kirchner1, Andrew V. Muchmore, Thomas M. Chused, Howard T. Holden2 and Ronald B. Herberman

National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Abstract

We have recently demonstrated suppressor cells in spleens of mice bearing tumors induced by Moloney murine sarcoma virus (MSV) which were non-T cells and inhibited phytohemagglutinin Moloney (PHA)-induced DNA synthesis of syngeneic normal spleen cells. From the present study, the suppressor cells appeared to be macrophages since they were radioresistant, inactivated by carrageenan, and removed by adherence columns and an iron/magnet technique. We have also found that suppressor cells were still fully active when added 16 hr after the mitogen, thus indicating that early mitogen-induced changes were not the target of suppressive action. It appeared that suppressor cells inhibited metabolic events related to the initiation of DNA synthesis and that they had a selective effect on proliferation-dependent lymphocyte effector functions. PHA-induced cytotoxic reactivity which in our system is largely independent of DNA synthesis was not depressed but actually enhanced in MSV spleens. Cytotoxicity of MSV spleen cells against syngeneic lymphoma cells was unaffected by suppressor cells whereas lymphocyte stimulation by mitomycin C-treated syngeneic lymphoma cells was inhibited. MSV spleen cells also inhibited DNA synthesis of cultured murine lymphoma cells. This function was only slightly diminished after treatment with anti-{theta} serum plus guinea pig complement. Furthermore, spleen cells from MSV tumor-bearing nude mice were as effective as spleen cells from their heterozygous littermates, thus suggesting that T lymphocytes are not the main effector cells of inhibition of lymphoma cell DNA synthesis. The inhibitor cells were radioresistant, inactivated by carrageenan, and removed by adherence columns and the iron/magnet technique. These data strongly suggest that the inhibitor cells of lymphoma cell DNA synthesis are macrophages and that they belong to the same group of cells as the suppressor cells of PHA-induced lymphocyte proliferation.

Footnotes

1 Please send correspondence to Holger Kirchner, Building 8, Room 116, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.

2 Howard T. Holden is supported by National Institutes of Health Fellowship CA-55361 from the National Cancer Institute.






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