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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
The regulation of human IgE production in vitro by soluble T cell factors was examined. T cells were isolated from the peripheral blood of 2 patients with the hyper-IgE syndrome on the basis of their expression of Fc receptors for human IgE (Fc epsilon R). The T cells were incubated with human myeloma IgE (10 micrograms/ml), washed, reacted with immunosorbent-purified goat anti-human IgE conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate, and then separated into Fc epsilon R+ and Fc epsilon R- T cells on the fluorescence-activated cell sorter. Fc epsilon R+ T cells and Fc epsilon R- T cells were propagated in culture using supernatants of phytohemagglutinin-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and irradiated autologous PBMC. Supernatants of Fc epsilon R+ T cell lines but not of Fc epsilon R- T cell lines selectively enhanced IgE synthesis in cultures of B cells obtained from patients with allergic rhinitis but not from normal nonallergic subjects. The surface phenotype of the Fc epsilon R+ T cell line was predominantly T3+, T4+, Ia+ with few (15%) T8+ cells. Two T cell clones were grown from the Fc epsilon R+ T cell line by limiting dilution (0.3 cells/well). These clones possessed the T4+ helper/inducer phenotype and secreted IgE-enhancing factor(s). The IgE-enhancing factor(s) which had affinity for insolubilized human IgE was sensitive to treatment with trypsin and neuraminidase, and had as its target an IgE-bearing B cell. These results suggest that a subset of human T cells bearing an Fc epsilon R secretes an IgE-binding glycoprotein which selectively enhances IgE synthesis by IgE-bearing B cells.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0014-2980
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
871-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Production of IgE-potentiating factor in man by T cell lines bearing Fc receptors for IgE.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't