The Journal of Immunology, Vol 137, Issue 9 2878-2885, Copyright © 1986 by American Association of Immunologists

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Production of BSF-1 during an in vivo, T-dependent immune response

FD Finkelman, J Ohara, DK Goroff, J Smith, N Villacreses, JJ Mond and WE Paul

BSF-1, a cytokine produced by some T lymphocyte tumors, has been shown to act with anti-Ig antibodies to stimulate B lymphocyte proliferation, to independently induce resting B lymphocytes to increase their expression of surface Ia antigen, and to induce some activated B lymphocytes to differentiate into IgG1- or IgE-secreting cells. To determine whether BSF-1 might be secreted by normal lymphoid cells in the course of a physiologic immune response, BALB/c mice were injected with an affinity-purified goat antibody to mouse IgD (GaM delta), which induces the generation of a large, polyclonal T-dependent IgG1 response; 4-hr culture supernatants of spleen cells from these mice were prepared, and these supernatants were assayed for BSF-1 activity by analyzing their ability to induce BALB/c nu/nu spleen cells to increase their expression of cell surface Ia in vitro. Culture supernatants of unfractionated spleen cells removed from mice 4 to 8 days after GaM delta antibody injection induced substantial increases in B lymphocyte surface Ia expression; these increases were blocked by a monoclonal anti-BSF-1 antibody. Culture supernatants of spleen cells from untreated BALB/c mice or from untreated or GaM delta antibody- treated BALB/c nu/nu mice induced small to moderate increases in B cell surface Ia expression, and GaM delta antibody itself induced large increases in B cell surface Ia expression; however, these increases were not significantly blocked by a monoclonal anti-BSF-1 antibody. A culture supernatant of T cell-enriched spleen cells from untreated mice induced small increases in B cell surface Ia expression that were inhibited by anti-BSF-1 antibody, as was the larger increase in B cell Ia expression induced by a culture supernatant of T cell-enriched spleen cells from mice sacrificed 3 days after GaM delta injection. On the other hand, T cell-depleted spleen cells from BALB/c mice injected with GaM delta antibody 7 days before sacrifice failed to generate culture supernatants with BSF-1 activity. Supernatants prepared from spleen cells taken from untreated mice or mice treated with GaM delta antibody 1 to 3 days before sacrifice did not block the ability of purified BSF-1 to induce an increase in B cell surface Ia expression, and thus did not contain inhibitors of BSF-1 activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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