title: Features of the in vitro established rat large granular lymphocyte leukaemia RNK-16.
abstract: A large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukaemia cell line from the Fisher/F344 rat strain called RNK-16 has been established in vitro, maintaining the same surface markers as tumour cell growing in vivo. The tumour has also maintained its specificity pattern and cytotoxic reactivity and serves as a suitable source of natural killer (NK)-like effector cells in vitro. The cells show no evidence of dependency on, or production of, interleukin 2 or interferons, nor is the cytotoxic capacity influenced by treatment with mitogens. The in vitro line does not produce natural killer cytotoxic factor (NKCF) in a constitutive manner, but can be induced to do so via coculture with tumour target cells. When the fine specificity patterns were analysed, the RNK-16 cells express species-preferential lysis of susceptible target cells and a highly discriminatory power to kill only 1 out of 5 rat erythroleukaemia cell lines. When testing normal target susceptibility patterns, RNK-16 kills lymphoblasts of B type better than T blasts, which is well in line with previous findings on normal NK cell specificity patterns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Axberg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nose
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wigzell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D055646:Killer Factors, Yeast; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D011506:Proteins; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D055646:Killer Factors, Yeast; D011506:Proteins