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Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; and
Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
Bacteroides fragilis, a Gram-negative colonic bacterium, induces the formation of abscesses associated with intra-abdominal sepsis in humans. The singular ability of this organism to modulate abscess formation in experimental rodent models resides in the structurally distinct and ionically charged capsular polysaccharides A (PS A) and B (PS B). The regulation of abscess formation in animals is dependent on T lymphocytes. However, the manner in which PS A interacts with T cells remains unknown. We therefore tested the T cell stimulatory capacity of purified PS A on mouse and rat lymphocytes in cellular proliferation assays and found that the PS A molecule possesses mitogenic characteristics distinguishable from those of the polyclonal B cell activator LPS, the T cell mitogen Con A, and staphylococcal enterotoxin A superantigen. Further, PS A stimulated proliferation of normal mouse and rat lymphocytes differentially. Mouse B cells responded to PS A in a fashion that did not require exogenous APC function, while rat T lymphocyte responses to PS A required APC function derived from autologous or xenogenic feeder cells. Cellular depletion experiments showed that the CD4+ subset of rat spleen cells was the primary responder cell type to PS A in vitro. The differential stimulatory effects of PS A on mouse and rat lymphocytes may reflect its ability to stimulate different lymphocyte subsets in vivo through the activities of receptor/counter-receptor pairs present on responder lymphocytes and cognate APC.
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