The Journal of Immunology, Vol 150, Issue 9 3873-3881, Copyright © 1993 by American Association of Immunologists

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Study of activation of murine T cells with bacterial superantigens. In vitro induction of enhanced responses in CD4+ T cells and of anergy in CD8+ T cells

XJ Yan, XY Li, K Imanishi, Y Kumazawa and T Uchiyama
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan.

Primary and secondary responses of murine CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells upon stimulation with staphylococcal enterotoxin E (SEE) bearing superantigenic properties were examined. Both isolated C57BL/6 splenic CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells proliferated and produced IL-2 and IFN- gamma upon stimulation with SEE in substantial levels. The amounts of IL-2 were greater in CD4+ T cells and those of IFN-gamma were somewhat greater in CD8+ T cells. SEE-induced CD4+ T lymphoblasts, larger parts of which bore the V beta 11 element in their TCR, proliferated, produced IL-2 and IFN-gamma, and showed toxin-dependent cytotoxicity in substantial levels upon restimulation with SEE. By contrast, SEE- induced CD8+ T lymphoblasts, the larger part of which bore the V beta 11 element, did not show the first two of the three responses at all upon restimulation with SEE, whereas these cells showed greater cytotoxicity. The CD8+ T lymphoblasts did not suppress the reactivity of the CD4+ T lymphoblasts. Both SEE-induced CD4+ T lymphoblasts and CD8+ T lymphoblasts proliferated and produced IL-2 and IFN-gamma in comparable levels upon stimulation with rIL-2 or mAb to CD3 or V beta 11.

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