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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 147, Issue 11 3752-3760, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists

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Characterization of accessory cell costimulation of Th1 cytokine synthesis

IR Williams and ER Unanue
Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.

We studied the capacity of macrophage and B cell lines to provide a costimulatory signal that enhances synthesis of IFN-gamma and IL-2 by mouse Th1 clones stimulated with suboptimal doses of immobilized anti- CD3 antibody. The J774 macrophage line and the CH27 B lymphoma line had the greatest costimulatory activity and routinely increased IL-2 production by 10-fold to 100-fold. Other macrophage and B cell lines had less activity and T cell lines were unable to costimulate. The J774 and CH27 lines did not costimulate IL-4 production by a Th2 clone and had only a small effect on IL-2 production by T cell hybridomas. The process of costimulation was fixation-sensitive, contact-dependent and did not involve stable cytokines present in the T cell/accessory cell conditioned media. Neutralizing antibodies for IL-1, IL-6, and TNF failed to inhibit costimulation. Antibodies to the LFA-1/ICAM-1 pair of adhesion molecules also failed to inhibit. Costimulation of IL-2 production by accessory cells was found to have a unidirectional species restriction: mouse accessory cells costimulated mouse and human IL-2-producing T cells, but human U937 cells induced with PMA were effective only for human T cells. The results indicate that accessory cells can significantly regulate Th1 effector function at the level of cytokine production.


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