title: Mechanism of target cell lysis by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) employing RSV-induced H-2 congenic and recombinant mouse tumor cells: demonstration of soluble mediators released from H-2-restricted CTL clones.
abstract: The secretion and the specificity of cytotoxic mediators from H-2-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) were examined using non-virus-producing target tumor cells induced by the Schmidt-Ruppin strain of Rous sarcoma virus (SR-RSV) in B10 congenic and recombinant mice. By using rat concanavalin A supernatant, two H-2-restricted CTL clones were established from cytotoxic effector cells of B10.A(5R) mice primed with SR-RSV-induced syngeneic tumor Cell-free supernatants from the H-2-restricted CTL clones cocultured with syngeneic tumor cells had selectively high cytotoxic activity for syngeneic and H-2-compatible tumor cells, but not for H-2-incompatible tumor cells. YAC-1 cells, and B10.A(5R) blasts as defined in the 5-hr 51Cr-release assay. The cytotoxic activity was detected in the cell-free supernatants from the CTL clones cocultured with the CTL-sensitive syngeneic and H-2-compatible tumor cells, but not with the CTL-insensitive tumor cells and YAC-1 cells. The cytotoxic activity of the cell-free supernatant could be adsorbed by the syngeneic tumor cells, but not by YAC-1 and L(s) cells. Thus, the H-2-restricted CTL clones against SR-RSV-induced tumor cells were capable of releasing cytotoxic mediators by coculturing with syngeneic or H-2-compatible tumor cells, and the cytotoxic mediators showed a certain H-2-restricted manner in killing the target cells. These results suggest that the lysis of RSV-induced tumor cells by H-2-restricted CTL can at least in part be mediated by cytotoxic factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haraguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuo
authors.forename: T O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D001358:Avian Sarcoma Viruses / Q000502:physiology*; D002450:Cell Communication; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D003603:Cytotoxins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D003603:Cytotoxins; D006183:H-2 Antigens