Suppressive effect of interferon-beta-activated natural killer cells on lipopolysaccharide-induced B cell differentiation of MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr mice |
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Authors: | S Arai T Kasho Y Tomita T Munakata H Inoue T Miyazaki |
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Institution: | Department of Microbiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka. |
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Abstract: | The suppressive effects of mouse recombinant interferon-beta (IFN-beta) on B cell differentiation of MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr (MRL/1) mouse, a model of autoimmune diseases, and C3H/H2 mice, a normal situation, were investigated. Spleen mononuclear cells were cultured in the presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and the suppressive effect of IFN-beta was examined on differentiation of B cells to plaque-forming cells (PFCs) by highly sensitive reversed hemolytic plaque assay. IFN-beta (5,000-10,000 units/ml) suppressed more than 50% of PFCs of both MRL/1 and C3H/H2 mice. This suppressive activity as well as the cytotoxicity of natural killer (NK) cells enhanced by IFN-beta was abrogated by treatment of the spleen cells with anti-asialo GM1 antibody in the presence of complement. This suppressive activity was also abrogated by intravenous administration of 20 microliter/mouse of anti-asialo GM1 12 hr before cultivation of spleen cells. These results suggest that NK cells activated by IFN might be responsible for the immunoregulation in autoimmune diseases. |
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