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The Journal of Immunology, 1998, 160: 4738-4746.
Copyright © 1998 by The American Association of Immunologists

A Critical Role for IL-18 in the Proliferation and Activation of NK1.1+CD3- Cells1

Michio Tomura*, Xu-Yu Zhou*, Seiji Maruo*, Hyun-Jong Ahn*, Toshiyuki Hamaoka*, Haruki Okamura{dagger}, Kenji Nakanishi{ddagger}, Tadao Tanimoto§, Masashi Kurimoto§ and Hiromi Fujiwara2,*

* Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University Medical School, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan; Departments of {dagger} Bacteriology and {ddagger} Immunology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan; and § Fujisaki Institute, Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Okayama, Japan

Like IL-12, IFN-{gamma}-inducing factor/IL-18 has been shown to stimulate T cells for IFN-{gamma} production and growth promotion. Considering the NK-stimulatory capacity of IL-12, we investigated the effect of IL-18 on NK lineage cells. A CD4-CD8-surface Ig-Ia- fraction of freshly prepared C57BL/6 spleen cells proliferated strikingly in response to combinations of IL-12 + IL-18 or IL-2 + IL-18, but not to the individual cytokines or IL-2 + IL-12. Cells proliferating in response to IL-2 + IL-18 were NK1.1+CD3-, whereas IL-12 + IL-18-responsive cells were NK1.1-CD3-. Restimulation of the former cells with IL-12 + IL-18 or the latter cells with IL-2 + IL-18 resulted in the generation of NK1.1-CD3- or NK1.1+CD3- cells, respectively. Moreover, a NK1.1+CD3-CD4-CD8-surface Ig-Ia- population isolated from spleen cells was found to form NK1.1+CD3- or NK1.1-CD3- blasts by stimulation with IL-2 + IL-18 or IL-12 + IL-18, respectively, and the NK1.1 positivity on these blasts was again reversed after restimulation with an alternative combined stimulus. Both types of blasts produced enormously large amounts of IFN-{gamma} in response to IL-12 + IL-18 and exhibited strikingly high levels of NK activity. These results indicate that IL-18 plays an obligatory role in inducing proliferation and activation of NK1.1+CD3-CD4-CD8- cells and that the expression of the NK1.1 marker is reversible, depending on the cytokine used for stimulation in combination with IL-18.




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