title: Analysis of deficiencies in IFN-gamma-mediated priming for tumor cytotoxicity in peritoneal macrophages from A/J mice.
abstract: The functional and biochemical responses of macrophages derived from the A/J mouse strain to IFN-gamma have been studied. As compared to macrophages obtained from C57BL/6 strain mice, cells from mice of the A/J strain are deficient in their response to IFN-gamma for acquisition of tumoricidal competence. This deficiency was not due to reduced expression of surface receptors for IFN-gamma or to altered affinity of the receptor for its ligand. IFN-gamma recently has been shown to enhance the potential activity of protein kinase C (PKc) and to modulate the efflux of intracellular Ca2+ in macrophages from C57BL/6 mice. Neither of these two biochemical changes were induced in macrophages derived from A/J mice. Functional competence could, however, be pharmacologically induced in both C57BL/6- and A/J-derived macrophages by combined treatment with an ionophore plus phorbol myristic acetate, which increase intracellular Ca2+ and stimulate PKc, respectively. Although the exact nature of the deficit in A/J strain mice has not been defined, the present findings indicate that it lies between the expression of receptor and the modulation of PKc activity and Ca2+ levels. Furthermore, the data provide support for the notion that these molecular changes are important components of the stimulus-response coupling process in IFN-gamma-mediated activation of macrophages.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001202:Ascitic Fluid / Q000166:cytology; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000276:immunology*; D008262:Macrophage Activation; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008805:Mice, Inbred A / Q000276:immunology*; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL / Q000276:immunology; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000276:immunology; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D007371:Interferon-gamma; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D002118:Calcium