The Journal of Immunology, Vol 144, Issue 6 2197-2204, Copyright © 1990 by American Association of Immunologists

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Regulation of B lymphocyte responses to IL-4 and IFN-gamma by activation through Ly-6A/E molecules

EK Codias and TR Malek
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101.

The Ly-6 family of cell surface molecules has previously been shown to participate in T cell activation. We show that Ly-6A/E proteins also modulated the response of normal B lymphocytes in three separate in vitro assays. First, unfractionated or small resting B cells proliferated when cultured with IFN-gamma, IL-4, and an anti-Ly-6A/E mAb. Second, this anti-Ly-6A/E mAb restored B cell proliferation responses that were inhibited when coculturing the B cells in IFN- gamma, IL-4, and anti-IgM. Third, anti-Ly-6A/E specifically up- regulated the cell surface expression of its own Ag, and this response was dependent upon co-stimulation with IFN-gamma. Mixing of T and B cells in culture suggested that T cells did not contribute substantially to the B cell proliferative response. Moreover, up- regulation of Ly-6A/E was observed for one B cell lymphoma, WEHI-231. Therefore, it appeared that modulation of B cell function by anti-Ly- 6A/E was due to a direct effect of the mAb binding to the B cells. Taken together, these data suggest Ly-6A/E proteins are functional on B cells and may play a regulatory role in B cell activation.

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