Murine transfer factor. IV. Studies with genetically regulated immune responses.
Transfer factor-containing dialysates from mice that were either high or low responders to GAT10, GLA5, or ovalbumin were assayed for their ability to transfer delayed hypersensitivity to murine recipients of either high or low responder phenotype. Dialysates from high responder strains contained transfer factor that would transfer delayed hypersensitivity to both high and low responder recipients. These transfers were not restricted by disparities at the MHC or Igh loci. Identically prepared materials from low responder donors contained little or no transfer factor activity and would not transfer delayed hypersensitivity to either high or low responder recipients. Thus, administration of transfer factor transfers the high responder phenotype to low responder recipients. The data also suggest that production of transfer factor is regulated by Ir genes but that the immunologic activities of transfer factor are not.
Rozzo
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Conrad D. Stephenson Laboratory, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado 80206.
Merryman
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Kirkpatrick
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D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D003956:Dialysis; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000235:genetics; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D010455:Peptides / Q000276:immunology; D011108:Polymers; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000276:immunology; D013045:Species Specificity; D014165:Transfer Factor / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics
D002352:Carrier Proteins; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D010455:Peptides; D011108:Polymers; D014165:Transfer Factor; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine; C044187:glutamic acid-lysine-alanine polymer; C020749:GAT