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Cellular Immunology

Volume 116, Issue 2, 15 October 1988, Pages 308-319
Cellular Immunology

The interaction of CD2 with its LFA-3 ligand expressed by autologous erythrocytes results in enhancement of B cell responses

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Abstract

The addition of autologous erythrocytes to unfractionated human mononuclear cell cultures results in enhancement of B cell responses to antigens and mitogens. This costimulating effect of red cells is abrogated by their preincubation with anti-LFA-3 monoclonal antibody. Preincubation of mononuclear cells with anti-CD2 monoclonal antibodies (anti-Leu 5b, OKT11, used singly) has a down-regulating effect on B cell activation and no enhancement of B cell responses is seen when red cells are added to anti-CD2-treated cultures. These results demonstrate a functional effect on B cells of the interaction between the CD2 molecule on T lymphocytes and its natural ligand, LFA-3. The precise mechanism by which this costimulating effect on B lymphocytes takes place is unclear. The study of T cell populations and T cell activation markers shows that the addition of erythrocytes causes a small but reproducible increase in the number of cells expressing the IL-2 receptor and the addition of IL-2 enhances the response of mononuclear cells to antigenic stimulation in the presence of erythrocytes. However, the supernatants of mononuclear cell cultures stimulated with pokeweed mitogen in the presence of autologous erythrocytes show decreased levels of IL-2, compared to supernatants of cells stimulated with pokeweed mitogen alone. The same supernatants show increased levels of interferon-γ, but the addition of this lymphokine to cultures stimulated with pokeweed mitogen has no potentiating effect. It is possible that the effect of erythrocytes is mediated by other growth and/or differentiation factors, and additional studies will be required to clarify this point.

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