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Phenotypic and Functional Analysis of Activated Regulatory T Cells Isolated from Chronic Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus-infected Mice
Published on: June 22, 2016
T lymphocytes mediate immunologic control of C3 gene expression
M B Goldman1, M A Knovich, J N Goldman
1Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey.
Abstract:
Immunologic control of C3 gene expression by tissue macrophages can be accomplished by treatment of spleen fragments with anti-C3 antibody. We now demonstrate that suppression of C3 requires participation of T lymphocytes of both the CD4+ and CD8+ phenotypes. Pretreatment of splenic tissue with anti-Thy-1.2 monoclonal antibody blocks the ability of the anti-C3 antibody to induce C3 suppression. Reduction in either the CD4+ or CD8+ subpopulations of T lymphocytes also abrogates C3 suppression demonstrating that both T cell subsets are required in addition to the inducing antibody. Artificially elevating intracellular levels of cAMP with cholera toxin can partially substitute for the effects mediated by T cells in this reaction. Therefore, normal expression of the C3 gene can be suppressed by a regulatory network that requires the presence of a specific inducing antibody and T lymphocytes of both the CD4+ and CD8+ subsets. This regulatory network has many similarities to regulatory networks that have been well documented in suppression of specific murine immunoglobulin allotypes.
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