Alternative pathway of complement activation by stimulated T lymphocytes. II. Elevation of cytotoxic potential against complement receptor-carrying cell lines
✍ Scribed by Oscar F. Ramos; Gabriella Sármay; Gösta Eggertsen; Bo Nilsson; Eva Klein; János Gergely
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 487 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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✦ Synopsis
Alternative pathway of complement activation by stimulated T lymphocytes 11. Elevation of cytotoxic potential against complement receptor-carrying cell lines*
Exposure of lectin-stimulated (concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin and pokeweed mitogen) blood lymphocytes to human serum or to purified C3 increased their cytotoxic capacity towards complement receptor positive targets such as Raji and Daudi cells. The lysis of complement receptor-negative lymphoblastoid cell lines was not influenced. The lytic capacity of lymphocytes exposed to 12-0-tetradecanoylphor-boll3-acetate was not elevated by human serum. Lectin-stimulated lymphocytes were previously shown to activate and bind C3. The results using lymphocytes activated in different ways and targets with or without complement receptor expression suggest that the C3b deposited on lymphocytes binds to the complement receptor on the targets. This contact elevates the avidity between the two cells as indicated also by the increased frequency of the lymphocyte-target conjugates. On the basis of immune adherence the C3 fragment bound on the lymphocytes was identified as C3b. The increase of the conjugate formation and cytotoxicity was abrogated when the target cells, Raji, were pre-exposed to purified C3d which occupy the CR2 receptor. The majority of lymphocytes responsible for the cytotoxicity were CD8'.