title: Adaptive differentiation of murine lymphocytes. III. T and B lymphocytes display reciprocal preference for one another to develop optimal interacting partner cell sets.
abstract: Responses to the synthetic terpolymer L-glutanmic acid, L-lysine, L-phenylalanine (GLphi) and hapten derivatives thereof are controlled by two complementing H-2 linked Ir genes in the mouse. F1 hybrids derived from two different nonresponder strains (one of which possesses the alpha and the other beta Ir-GLphi gene) are phenotypic responders to GLphi and 2,4-dinitrophenyl (DNP)-GLphi. Moreover, spleen cells from DNP-GLphi-primed F1 mice can adoptively transfer secondary anti-DNP antibody responses to irradiate been challenged with DNP-GLphi. When, however, GLphi-primed F1 helper T cells are transfered together with the DNP-specific F1 B cells that had been primed in separate mice altogether by DNP coupled to an unrelated protein carrier, such mixtures failed to develop adequate adoptive secondary anti-DNP responses to DNP-GLphi. This contrasted with the ability of the same GLphi-primed F1 T cells to provide helper activity for DNP-primed B cells from responder recombinant B10.A (5R) mice. More important, the apparent defect of GLphi-primed F1 T cells in providing help for DNP-primed F1 B cells (primed to a DNP-protein conjugate) could be readily overcome by using DNP-primed B cells from donor F1 mice primed with DNP-GLphi. As discussed herein, these results suggest that interacting T and B lymphocytes pair off into partner cell sets, any pair of which interact optimally when a "best fit" reciprocal self-recognition occurs between them.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D002469:Cell Separation; D003165:Complement System Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D004136:Dinitrobenzenes / Q000276:immunology; D005802:Genes, MHC Class II; D005971:Glutamates / Q000276:immunology; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000235:genetics; D007116:Immunization, Passive; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D013154:Spleen / Q000276:immunology; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D004136:Dinitrobenzenes; D005971:Glutamates; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D003165:Complement System Proteins