title: Role of a genetic region on chromosome 4 in the regulation of natural killer cell activity in mice.
abstract: Natural killer cell (NK) activity is regulated by both the H-2 and non-H-2 genes. Using bilineal congenic HW26C and HW13 mice which differ from the background strain C57BL/6By (B6) in a region of chromosome 4, we investigated the role played by a gene/genes in a segment of chromosome 4 of BALB/cBy on NK cell activity. Percoll separated low density spleen cells from young HW26C and HW13 mice showed a 3.5 fold higher NK activity than the B6. We also observed that the increase in NK activity of HW26C was not due to an increase in the number of NK cells. Using five other bilineal congenics containing different regions of chromosome 4 of BALB/cBy, we observed that the putative gene(s) regulating NK activity may be located between b and IFN-alpha/beta genes of chromosome 4. The level of NK activity of (B6xHW26C)F1 ranked between the HW26C and B6 suggesting that the gene product described is inherited in an incompletely dominant fashion.
authors.affiliation: Division of Immunogenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Dubey
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Mirza
authors.forename: B I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Zaharian
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Yunis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000276:immunology; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D007125:Immunogenetics; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D010641:Phenotype