Characterization of accessory cell costimulation of Th1 cytokine synthesis.
We studied the capacity of macrophage and B cell lines to provide a costimulatory signal that enhances synthesis of IFN-gamma and IL-2 by mouse Th1 clones stimulated with suboptimal doses of immobilized anti-CD3 antibody. The J774 macrophage line and the CH27 B lymphoma line had the greatest costimulatory activity and routinely increased IL-2 production by 10-fold to 100-fold. Other macrophage and B cell lines had less activity and T cell lines were unable to costimulate. The J774 and CH27 lines did not costimulate IL-4 production by a Th2 clone and had only a small effect on IL-2 production by T cell hybridomas. The process of costimulation was fixation-sensitive, contact-dependent and did not involve stable cytokines present in the T cell/accessory cell conditioned media. Neutralizing antibodies for IL-1, IL-6, and TNF failed to inhibit costimulation. Antibodies to the LFA-1/ICAM-1 pair of adhesion molecules also failed to inhibit. Costimulation of IL-2 production by accessory cells was found to have a unidirectional species restriction: mouse accessory cells costimulated mouse and human IL-2-producing T cells, but human U937 cells induced with PMA were effective only for human T cells. The results indicate that accessory cells can significantly regulate Th1 effector function at the level of cytokine production.
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Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
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D000818:Animals; D000938:Antigen-Presenting Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D016207:Cytokines / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D018799:Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D008211:Lymphocyte Cooperation; D016169:Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1 / Q000502:physiology; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D012995:Solubility; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology*; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000276:immunology*
D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D016207:Cytokines; D016169:Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1; D018799:Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1