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. 1982 Jul;49(1):176–184.

In vitro production of IgE by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. III. Demonstration of a circulating IgE-bearing cell involved in the spontaneous IgE biosynthesis.

S Romagnani, G Damiani, M G Giudizi, R Biagiotti, F Almerigogna, G F Delprete, E Maggi, A Bargellesi, M Ricci
PMCID: PMC1536654  PMID: 6181921

Abstract

The presence of surface membrane IgE (SmIgE)-bearing cells in the peripheral blood (PB) of atopic patients was investigated by the use of isotype-specific rosettes of human red blood cells coupled to immunosorbent-purified rabbit or monoclonal mouse antibodies against human IgE (R or M anti-epsilon-HRBC). After dissociation of cell bound IgE by treatment with acid buffer, 2.1 +/- 0.3% and 1.2 +/- 0.3% circulating non-T, non-phagocytic, cells from atopic patients were still capable of forming rosettes with R or M anti-epsilon-HRBC, respectively. IgE molecules detectable on cells after dissociation of cytophilic IgE were quite resistant, like surface membrane IgM (SmIgM), to treatment with proteolytic enzymes, but they were removed under capping conditions by soluble anti-IgE antisera. All SmIgE-bearing (IgE+) cells also bore DR determinants, but many of them lacked SmIgM. Depletion of IgE+ cells strongly reduced the ability of PB lymphocyte suspensions from atopic patients to produce spontaneously IgE protein in vitro. Likewise, depletion of cells bearing DR determinants (DR+ cells) resulted in a marked decrease of the spontaneous IgE biosynthesis, whereas depletion of SmIgM-bearing (IgM+) cells had no effect. These data suggest that cells mainly implicated in the spontaneous IgE production in vitro seen in atopic patients are DR+ IgE+ IgM- circulating lymphocytes.

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