Cellular interactions of L-glutamic acid60-L-alanine30-L-tyrosine10 (GAT)-specific suppressor factors. I. Inhibition of the activity of GAT-specific helper T cell clones by monoclonal GAT-specific suppressor T cell factors.
Considerable information concerning the serology and biochemistry of antigen-specific, T cell-derived suppressor factors has been obtained with the use of T cell hybridomas as a source of homogeneous material. Similarly, knowledge of helper T cell products and receptors is accumulating from studies of helper T cell clones and hybridomas. Our strategy for studying the mechanisms by which suppressor factors inhibit responses was to determine whether monoclonal suppressor factors could inhibit antibody responses specific for L-glutamic acid60-L-alanine30-L-tyrosine10 (GAT) in cultures containing unprimed splenic B cells, macrophages, and GAT-specific T cell clones as a source of helper activity. The MHC-restricted, two chain suppressor factors, GAT-TsF2, inhibited these responses if the helper T cell clones and suppressor factor were derived from H-2-compatible mice. Furthermore, responses were inhibited by briefly pulsing T cell clones with GAT-TsF2 in the presence of GAT, indicating that suppressor factors need not be present continuously. In addition, helper T cell clones adsorbed syngeneic, but not allogeneic, GAT-TsF2 in the presence of GAT. Adsorption also requires a shared antigenic specificity between the H-2b-derived helper T cells and TsF2 factor. Thus, helper T cells can serve as the cellular target of antigen-specific, MHC-restricted GAT-TsF2, and cloned helper T cells can be used as a homogeneous target population for analysis of the molecular mechanisms of T cell suppression.
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D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D006462:Hemolytic Plaque Technique; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D010455:Peptides / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D011108:Polymers; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology; D013491:Suppressor Factors, Immunologic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D006377:T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism
D000939:Epitopes; D010455:Peptides; D011108:Polymers; D013491:Suppressor Factors, Immunologic; C020749:GAT