The Journal of Immunology, Vol 150, Issue 4 1413-1421, Copyright © 1993 by American Association of Immunologists

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The cell-mediated response to schistosomal antigens at the clonal level. III. Identification of soluble egg antigens recognized by cloned specific granulomagenic murine CD4+ Th1-type lymphocytes

SM Chikunguwo, JJ Quinn, DA Harn and MJ Stadecker
Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.

Granulomatous inflammation in schistosomiasis is a consequence of T cell-mediated hypersensitivity to parasite egg Ag. In the present study we used three consecutive independent chromatographic procedures to fractionate and identify the soluble egg Ag recognized by schistosome- specific, cloned, murine, CD4+ Th1-type lymphocytes, which had been shown previously to be capable of mediating granuloma formation in vivo when adoptively transferred to normal syngeneic hosts challenged with an i.v. injection of eggs. The stimulatory activity resided in two acidic egg molecules, with apparent molecular masses of 64 to 68 kDa and 38 to 42 kDa, each of which ran as a single band on SDS-PAGE after purification. Fast performance liquid chromatography and SDS-PAGE performed under reducing conditions suggested that the two molecules are related and that the 38- to 42-kDa molecule is a subunit of the 64- to 68-kDa molecule. Polyclonal lymphoid cells from schistosome-infected mice were similarly stimulated by the purified 64- to 68-kDa and 38- to 42-kDa molecules, implying that these are sensitizing Ag in the natural disease.

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