The Journal of Immunology, Vol 140, Issue 11 3919-3927, Copyright © 1988 by American Association of Immunologists

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Assessment of IgE-receptor function through measurement of hydrolysis of membrane inositol phospholipids. New insights on the phenomena of biphasic antigen concentration-response curves and desensitization

K Maeyama, RJ Hohman, H Ali, JR Cunha-Melo and MA Beaven
Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20982.

Previous studies have shown that hydrolysis of membrane inositol phospholipids in rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2H3) cells depended on the rate and extent of the aggregation of receptors of IgE. This response was used as an experimental probe to study the role of IgE receptors in initiating stimulatory and inhibitory processes within the cell. The response was amplified markedly by increasing the concentration of external Ca2+ from 0 to 1 mM, but the concentration required to support half-maximal response varied from less than 0.1 mM for the most potent cross-linking reagent, DNP24BSA (24 molecules of DNP attached to 1 molecule of BSA) to 0.5 mM for the least potent reagent, aggregated OVA. The dependency of phosphoinositide hydrolysis on external Ca2+ was reduced to zero once hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids was underway but secretion of histamine remained totally dependent on the presence of 0.5 to 1 mM external Ca2+. The stimulatory response persisted as long as receptors remained aggregated but it was modulated by a biochemical process, possibly the activation of protein kinase C, that targeted specifically aggregated receptors, or an associated protein. For example, when cells had become desensitized to high concentrations of one Ag, a normal response could be evoked with a second Ag. Also cells that had become desensitized could be reactivated by permeabilizing the cells. Interestingly, bell-shaped Ag dose- response curves, which were characteristic for both the phosphoinositide and secretory responses, were transformed to sigmoid- shaped curves once cells were permeabilized and dialyzed.

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