Gamma interferon-mediated cytotoxicity related to murine Chlamydia trachomatis infection.
AUTOR(ES)
Byrne, G I
RESUMO
After infection with the mouse pneumonitis agent (MoPn; murine Chlamydia trachomatis), heterozygous (nu/+) but not nude athymic (nu/nu) mice produced enhanced amounts of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in vitro in response to MoPn antigen that exhibited cytotoxic activity when added to host cells already infected with chlamydiae. Antibody-complement lysis showed the cytotoxic activity to be dependent, at least in part, on L3T4+ T cells for production. The cytotoxic responses were directed primarily against Chlamydia-infected target cells, but a second type of toxicity was demonstrable against uninfected target cells after treatment of the generating cell population with anti-Lyt-2 antibody plus complement at certain time points after infection. This additional nonspecific cytotoxic activity was presumably due to a second factor (factor X) acting in concert with IFN-gamma. Lyt-2+ cells, however, also were shown to play a role in IFN-gamma production and cytotoxicity directed against infected targets at later time points after infection. Neutralization of IFN-gamma in the samples containing cytotoxic activity abrogated the cytotoxicity against both infected and uninfected targets, but cloned murine IFN-gamma exhibited toxicity in a dose-dependent manner only against infected target cells. The data provides evidence that cytotoxicity against infected targets is due to antigen-specific induction of IFN-gamma, but other cytokine activity, most demonstrable after removal of Lyt-2.2+ cells and cytotoxic to uninfected targets, also is present.
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