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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 139, Issue 12 4088-4095, Copyright © 1987 by American Association of Immunologists

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The augmentation of surface Ly-6A/E molecules in activated T cells is mediated by endogenous interferon-gamma

FJ Dumont and RC Boltz
Department of Immunology Research, Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065.

The murine Ly-6A.2 and Ly-6E.1 antigens, which can transduce triggering signals in T cells, have been shown to become highly expressed after mitogenic stimulation. It has recently been found that enhanced expression of Ly-6A/E antigens is also induced by interferon-gamma (IFN- gamma) in resting T cells. Here, the possibility is investigated that Ly-6A/E induction on activated T cells may be due to the IFN-gamma known to be secreted by these cells. A potent neutralizing anti-IFN- gamma monoclonal antibody (mAb) (H-22.10) was used. This mAb was found to abrogate the augmentation of Ly-6A/E antigens produced in resting T cells by supernatants from T cells stimulated with concanavalin A. When added directly into cultures of T cells stimulated with concanavalin A or by the combination of ionomycin with the protein kinase C activator phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), the H-22.10 mAb inhibited Ly-6A/E enhancement without affecting the blastogenesis or the emergence of interleukin 2 receptors and transferrin receptors. Such a selective effect of the anti-IFN-gamma mAb indicated that IFN-gamma is involved in the up-regulation of Ly-6A/E antigens during T cell activation. In determining whether other activation signals, in addition to IFN-gamma receptor occupancy, may contribute to Ly-6A/E enhancement, it was found that suboptimal stimulation of BALB/c T cells provided by a 3-hr pulse with ionomycin plus PMA or by culture with PMA alone potentiated by about twofold the increase of Ly-6E.1 induced by exogenous IFN-gamma. Therefore, Ly-6A/E augmentation in activated T cells reflects primarily an action of endogenous IFN-gamma that is amplified (in BALB/c mice) by a protein kinase C-dependent step.


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