The Journal of Immunology, Vol 136, Issue 3 984-987, Copyright © 1986 by American Association of Immunologists

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Expression of interleukin 2 receptors on interleukin 3-dependent cell lines

S Koyasu, J Yodoi, T Nikaido, Y Tagaya, Y Taniguchi, T Honjo and I Yahara

Several mouse IL 3-dependent cell lines, IC2, LT4, FDC-P2, and PB-3C, derived from spleen or bone marrow cells were shown to express low affinity receptors for IL 2 (Kd; 0.5 to 8 X 10(-8) M). High affinity receptors for IL 2 were not detected on the IL 3-dependent cells within the experimental limitation of this study. The clones did not respond to IL 2 at all at the concentration as high as 25 micrograms/ml. The number of the receptors expressed on those clones was estimated to be 0.2 to 2 X 10(5)/cell, which is comparable with the number of those on IL 2-dependent T cell clones. Expression of IL 2 receptor was confirmed in mRNA levels for both IC2 and LT4 cells. A relatively low level expression of one (4.5 Kb) of four IL 2 receptor mRNA species was observed with those IL 3-dependent clones compared with IL 2-dependent T cells. It seems that these low affinity receptors may be expressed on IL 3-dependent cells that undergo differentiation or maturation in mast cell and some myeloid cell lineages.

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