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PPD-Induced Immunoglobulin Production in Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes

I. Necessary Conditions for Inducing the Response¹

From the Department of Medicine, Chest Disease Research Institute, Kyoto University, and the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Abstract

The ability of PPD to induce Ig production in human PBL was investigated. PPD proved to be a good B cell activator for inducing polyclonal Ig production in PBL from healthy Japanese. Comparative studies of this response with PWM-induced Ig production showed that the cellular mechanisms involved in the two responses were different. First, PBL from an atypical individual with a deficient IgM production to PWM responded normally to PPD with IgM production as well as IgG production. Secondly, in IgG production, the effects of the two mitogens (PPD and PWM) were additive.

An analysis of the cellular requirements in PPD-induced Ig production clearly demonstrated that T cells played a role in this response as well as in the PWM-induced response. However, the head-to-head comparative study on the titration curves of helper T cells in the two responses showed that PWM-induced helper activity was 2 to 5 times more effective than PPD-induced helper activity. Moreover, PPD-induced helper activity was shown to be more sensitive to ionizing radiation than was PWM-induced helper activity. Thus, this system of PPD-induced Ig production may provide a useful tool for understanding the human antibody production system as well as the PWM-induced response.

Footnotes

¹ This work was supported by a research grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan.

² All communications and reprint requests to Shin-ichi Nishikawa, M.D.