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BLOCKING AND REDISTRIBUTION ("CAPPING") OF ANTIGEN RECEPTORS ON T AND B LYMPHOCYTES BY ANTI-IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY

BLOCKING AND REDISTRIBUTION ("CAPPING") OF ANTIGEN RECEPTORS ON T AND B LYMPHOCYTES BY... Antigen-binding T and B lymphocytes were studied by combined autoradiography and immunofluorescence; mouse spleen lymphocytes binding the antigens, 125 IMSH or 125 ITIGAL, were incubated with rhodamine-labeled anti-Ig reagents or with a rhodamine-labeled IgG fraction of anti-θ serum. B cells were identified as Ig+ or θ-, T cells as Ig- or θ+. It was found that: ( a ) 20% (1–2 mo after priming) to 30% (3.5–4 mo after priming) of the antigen-binding cells were T cells. ( b ) The range of antigen molecules bound by B and T cells was similar. ( c ) Binding of antigen to B and T cells was inhibited by polyvalent anti-Ig, anti-µ, or anti-L reagents. Binding to T cells was more readily inhibited than to B cells. Normal rabbit serum, antimouse lymphocyte serum, or anti-θ did not inhibit antigen binding. ( d ) When Ig at the surface of B cells was induced, by noninhibiting concentrations of anti-Ig reagents, to redistribute into polar caps and the cells subsequently exposed to 125 I)antigen under noncapping conditions, the 125 Iantigen silver grains were distributed in caps superimposed on the Ig fluorescent cap. Of crucial importance, antigen was found in cap in the same proportion of T cells as B cells. Significant capping of antigen receptors was not induced in B or T cells with normal rabbit serum or by anti-Ig reagents absorbed with mouse Ig. The main conclusions of this series of experiments using direct visualization of antigen-binding B and T lymphocytes is that T cells have antigen-specific receptors, probably of IgM nature, and that the number of these receptors appears to range in the order of thousands. Footnotes Submitted: 28 December 1972 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Experimental Medicine Rockefeller University Press

BLOCKING AND REDISTRIBUTION ("CAPPING") OF ANTIGEN RECEPTORS ON T AND B LYMPHOCYTES BY ANTI-IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY

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Publisher
Rockefeller University Press
Copyright
© 1973 Rockefeller University Press
ISSN
0022-1007
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1540-9538
DOI
10.1084/jem.137.4.1060
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Abstract

Antigen-binding T and B lymphocytes were studied by combined autoradiography and immunofluorescence; mouse spleen lymphocytes binding the antigens, 125 IMSH or 125 ITIGAL, were incubated with rhodamine-labeled anti-Ig reagents or with a rhodamine-labeled IgG fraction of anti-θ serum. B cells were identified as Ig+ or θ-, T cells as Ig- or θ+. It was found that: ( a ) 20% (1–2 mo after priming) to 30% (3.5–4 mo after priming) of the antigen-binding cells were T cells. ( b ) The range of antigen molecules bound by B and T cells was similar. ( c ) Binding of antigen to B and T cells was inhibited by polyvalent anti-Ig, anti-µ, or anti-L reagents. Binding to T cells was more readily inhibited than to B cells. Normal rabbit serum, antimouse lymphocyte serum, or anti-θ did not inhibit antigen binding. ( d ) When Ig at the surface of B cells was induced, by noninhibiting concentrations of anti-Ig reagents, to redistribute into polar caps and the cells subsequently exposed to 125 I)antigen under noncapping conditions, the 125 Iantigen silver grains were distributed in caps superimposed on the Ig fluorescent cap. Of crucial importance, antigen was found in cap in the same proportion of T cells as B cells. Significant capping of antigen receptors was not induced in B or T cells with normal rabbit serum or by anti-Ig reagents absorbed with mouse Ig. The main conclusions of this series of experiments using direct visualization of antigen-binding B and T lymphocytes is that T cells have antigen-specific receptors, probably of IgM nature, and that the number of these receptors appears to range in the order of thousands. Footnotes Submitted: 28 December 1972

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The Journal of Experimental MedicineRockefeller University Press

Published: Apr 1, 1973

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