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. 1985 Feb;59(2):414–420.

I-A restricted activation by T cell lines of anti-tuberculosis activity in murine macrophages.

G A Rook, B R Champion, J Steele, A M Varey, J L Stanford
PMCID: PMC1577140  PMID: 3919979

Abstract

Tuberculosis and leprosy remain two of the world's most significant diseases. Immunity involves the activation of macrophages by lymphokines but the details are unknown because there has been no objective assay for the relevant effector function using human pathogens. We previously reported the use of tritiated-uracil uptake by surviving mycobacteria as a measure of the anti-mycobacterial effect of human monocytes. We describe here the use of a modification of this assay to measure control of the proliferation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in murine peritoneal macrophages. A bacteriostatic effect can be induced in macrophages infected with M. tuberculosis, by adding small numbers of Ly 1 +2- T cells from in vitro lines derived from immunized mice. The phenomenon is dependent on compatibility at the I-A locus of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and mediated by soluble factors. Such T cells also recognise and activate macrophages infected with other mycobacterial pathogens. Thus, T cells recognising shared mycobacterial antigens are active. The findings have implications for MHC linked susceptibility to mycobacterioses and the hypothesized ability of cross-reactive environmental mycobacteria to abrogate or pre-empt the protective efficacy of subsequent BCG vaccination.

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