The Journal of Immunology, Vol 158, Issue 5 2156-2164, Copyright © 1997 by American Association of Immunologists

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Anti-human class I MHC antibodies induce apoptosis by a pathway that is distinct from the Fas antigen-mediated pathway

ES Woodle, DM Smith, JA Bluestone, WM Kirkman 3rd, DR Green and EW Skowronski
Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, IL 60637, USA.

5H7, an anti-human class I MHC mAb that recognizes a monomorphic determinant of the alpha3 domain, profoundly inhibits T lymphocyte activation. The present study was designed to determine the role of programmed cell death in 5H7-mediated immune suppression. Incubation of PBMC with 5H7 mAb induced a marked reduction in viable cell recovery (VCR) of T cells (<10% VCR), NK cells (<1% VCR), and B cells (<1% VCR). In addition, 5H7 inhibited proliferation and VCR of JY, DBS-521, and BevD tumor lines as well as cells transfected with HLA-B27. Morphologic changes characteristic of apoptosis were induced by 5H7, including cell membrane blebbing, cytoplasmic vacuolization, condensation of nuclear chromatin, and nuclear fragmentation. Furthermore, DNA fragmentation was demonstrated in 5H7-treated PBMC using a TdT-mediated end-labeling (TUNEL) technique. 5H7, but not anti-Fas mAb, induced apoptosis of cell lines derived from patients with Niemann-Pick disease that lack acidic sphingomyelinase activity. In addition, induction of cell death by 5H7 was not inhibited by IL-1beta-converting enzyme (ICE) inhibitors under conditions that fully suppressed Fas-mediated apoptosis. These findings suggest that signal transduction through "classical" human class I MHC molecules induces apoptosis by a Fas-independent pathway that does not require acidic sphingomyelinase, is independent of ICE protease, and may represent a unique pathway of cell death in human lymphocytes.

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