Abstract
Culture supernatants containing macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) were obtained by incubating lymphocytes of guinea-pigs, immunized with Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA), with tuberculin PPD in vitro. Exposure of normal peritoneal macrophages to MIF-containing supernatants for 2 hours at 37° (pulse exposure), followed by suspension in culture medium and transfer to capillaries, resulted in inhibition of migration in vitro for the next 24 hours. No inhibition was seen when macrophages were incubated with MIF at 4°. On the other hand when exposure to MIF at 4° was followed by incubation of the cells for 2 hours at 37° in culture medium, in the absence of MIF, inhibition of migration was obtained. These results indicate that: (a) macrophages possess a specific receptor able to bind MIF at either 4° or 37°, and (b) inhibition of migration by receptor bound MIF requires a temperature-dependent active process, the nature of which remains unknown.
Passage of lymphocytes through columns of glass beads resulted in a population of cells with intact or heightened MIF-forming ability, as assessed by both conventional and pulse exposure techniques.
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