title: Monoclonal antibody analysis of Listeria monocytogenes-induced cytotoxic lymphocytes.
abstract: An immunizing infection with Listeria monocytogenes provides a potent stimulus for the formation of prekiller lymphocytes. Their cytolytic potential is revealed when the cells are restimulated in vitro by Listeria antigens. Listeria monocytogenes-induced cytotoxic lymphocytes and the prekiller cells from which they are derived were characterized in respect to their surface antigenic markers. Using monoclonal antibodies, B-cell depleted lymphocytes from the thoracic duct of Listeria immune rats were fractionated into subsets by a combination of panning and sorting techniques. Listeria monocytogenes-induced cytotoxic lymphocytes and their prekiller cell precursors were demonstrated to have the phenotype W3/25-, OX8+, OX4+, W3/13+ (high density), OX19+ (low density), RT6.1-. The OX8+, RT6.1- subset, which contained prekiller cells, constituted approximately 6% of lymph-borne T cells. The data indicate that these microbial antigen-induced cytotoxic lymphocytes belong to a minor subset of peripheral T cells whose surface antigenic properties distinguish them from natural killer cells.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen-Woan
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: McGregor
authors.forename: W V
authors.initials: WV
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Greiner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology*; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000032:analysis; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000276:immunology*; D008088:Listeriosis / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D000954:Antigens, Surface