title: Production of monoclonal antibodies specific to theophylline-treated lymphocytes.
abstract: The T11 molecule is reported to play a key role in T lymphocytes activation. Moreover, theophylline is known to modify the functional properties of T lymphocytes probably inducing early changes in T11 molecule during T cell activation. Aim of our work was to clarify the effect on T lymphocyte surface after in vitro treatment with theophylline. In this paper, we describe the production and the functional properties of several monoclonal antibodies obtained by immunizing Balb/c mice with theophylline treated cells. Some of the monoclonal antibodies reacted only with the theophylline-treated lymphocytes and showed a promitogenic activity, enhancing the expression of T activated cell antigen. These monoclonal antibodies seem to demonstrate the existence of a membrane molecule which appears on lymphocytes surface after a trigger signal occurring in the early stages of T cell activation likely related to the T11 dependent alternative pathway.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000276:immunology; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology*; D013806:Theophylline / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018127:Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily, Member 7
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D007376:Interleukin-2; D018127:Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily, Member 7; D013806:Theophylline