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A Vallé1, J P Aubry, I Durand

  • 1Schering-Plough, Laboratory for Immunological Research, Dardilly, France.

International Immunology
|March 1, 1991
PubMed

We recently generated mAb 104 which is specific for the B cell activation antigen Ag B7. With this we studied the regulation of Ag B7 expression on normal tonsillar B lymphocytes as well as the activities of B7+ and B7- activated B cells. SAC and to a lesser extent anti-IgM antibody upregulated Ag B7 and this was further enhanced by IL-2 and most notably IL-4. Ag B7 was expressed on virtually all sIgG+ and sIgA+ B cells and approximately half of the sIgD+ and sIgM+ B cells. SAC-stimulated B7+ B cells proliferated and produced IgM, IgG and IgA in response to IL-2 and IgM and IgG in response to IL-4. SAC-stimulated B7- B cells proliferated and produced only IgM in response to IL-2 and IL-4. Considering that Ag B7 has recently been shown to be the counterstructure of the T cell CD28 and that CD28 triggering strongly enhances cytokine production by T cells, it is likely that the CD28/B7 interaction represents an important amplification phenomenon in T-B cell interaction leading to humoral immune responses. The preferential expression of Ag B7 on IgG and IgA committed cells suggests that CD28/B7 interaction may be more specific to secondary antibody responses provided by memory T and B cells.

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