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. 1980 Jan;39(1):93–99.

Inhibition of the activity of cytotoxic murine T lymphocytes by antibodies to idiotypic determinants.

R Rabinowitz, M Schlesinger
PMCID: PMC1457787  PMID: 6155324

Abstract

The nature of the receptors on the surface of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), which enable these cells to recognize antigens on allogeneic targets, is still a matter of controversy. In the present study various mouse alloantisera were tested for their capacity to inhibit, in the absence of complement, the cytotoxic activity of sensitized peritoneal T lymphocytes. The only antiserum which, even after heat inactivation, consistently inhibited cytotoxic T lymphocytes was an antiserum elicited in (C3H X C57B1/6)F1 mice by immunization with AKR/Cum thymus cells. The serum inhibited the cytotoxic reaction of either AKR/J or AKR/Cum CTL on EL-4 target cells but had no inhibitory activity on the cytotoxic reaction of AKR/J cells against P-815 target cells. Thus the inhibitory activity of the serum could not be attributed to antibodies against Ly-3 determinants present in the serum. This conclusion was strengthened by the finding that the inhibitory activity of the serum could be removed by absorption, not only with AKR/J thymus cells but also with AKR/J bone-marrow cells, a procedure which did not affect the titre of Ly-3 antibodies. The serum failed to exert any inhibition on cytotoxic T lymphocytes of BALB/c and C3H mice reacting against EL-4 target cells, indicating that the inhibitory activity of the antiserum did not result from contamination by antibodies against C57B1 antigenic determinants. It was concluded that the inhibitory activity of the antiserum resulted from the presence of antibodies against idiotypic determinants expressed on AKR/Cum thymus cells reacting against the hybrid hosts. It seems, therefore, that idiotypic determinants expressed on the surface of cytotoxic T lymphocytes may be directly involved in their cytotoxic activity.

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