title: The role of antigen-presenting B cells in T cell priming in vivo. Studies of B cell-deficient mice.
abstract: Mice rendered B cell deficient by treatment with rabbit anti-mouse IgM (anti-mu) antibodies from birth fail to respond when primed with soluble protein antigens in CFA, as measured by T cell proliferation when challenged with antigen in vitro. The role of B cells in T cell priming in vivo was examined by adoptively transferring hapten-specific B cells into anti-mu mice, followed by immunization with haptenated Ag in CFA. The T cell proliferative response to OVA of anti-mu BALB/c mice was partially restored by the administration of TNP or FITC-specific B cells and immunization with TNP-OVA or FITC-OVA, respectively. This reconstitution was Ag-specific, inasmuch as hapten-binding B cells restored the T cell responses to OVA in mice immunized with the same hapten coupled to OVA. The mechanism of B cell reconstitution of T cell priming in anti-mu mice was addressed using parental to F1 B cell transfers. The Ia restriction pattern of the activated T cells from these mice indicated that both direct presentation of Ag by transferred B cells and antibody-mediated enhancement of Ag presentation by non-B, host Ag-presenting cells occurred. Thus, Ag-specific B lymphocytes play a critical role in priming of T cells in vivo.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000008:administration & dosage; D000938:Antigen-Presenting Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology* / Q000637:transplantation; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology; D006241:Haptens / Q000276:immunology; D007116:Immunization, Passive; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000276:immunology; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000276:immunology*; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D051379:Mice; D008805:Mice, Inbred A; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D000939:Epitopes; D006241:Haptens; D007075:Immunoglobulin M; C044203:anti-IgM