Clonal expansion of T cells: a cytotoxic T-cell response in vivo that involves precursor cell proliferation.

AUTOR(ES)

Denizot, F

RESUMO

The response of peritoneal exudate lymphocytes to allogeneic tumor cells was used to determine whether the in vivo generation of cytotoxic T cells (CTL) involved the proliferation of precursor cells. Ten days post-injection, both cytotoxic activity and the formation of conjugates between lymphocytes and target cells were shown to be specific for the immunizing tumor alloantigens and to be effected by Ly-2+ cells. A cell-sorting-based procedure was developed to isolate specific conjugates between red-fluorescence-tagged CTL and blue-fluorescence-tagged tumor target cells. When [3H]thymidine was administered during the response, almost all isolated conjugate-forming CTL were 3H-labeled on autoradiography. Thus, the CTL were clearly products of dividing cells, a result that contradicts published data. Reassessment of a previously studied system, which suggested that CTL were not products of cell division, indicated that in that system many of the conjugate-forming cytotoxic cells studied were Ly-2- and nonspecific, and thus perhaps not T cells. We conclude that the clonal selection model is applicable to at least one in vivo T-cell response.

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